Guiders' staff room - tea, wine, chat and optional dancing around the toadstool

Thank you all, could you explain fruit salad , headgehogs and rainbows cross the woods Rue thank you x

Becles, I'll just have to move DH out of his office. Brownies is far more important than 'work'. I'm just waiting for DS 5.5 to get jealous as he can't start Beavers until January.

Lots of notes have been made from this thread for future meeting ideas too!

@cormoranstrike Have you had a look at the latest LASER video on YouTube? All instrumental, if I recall correctly.

@ Rhubarb welcome back, the little yellow people are epic. Have you cleared out your spare room and car boot yet?

@farmerslife Game suggestions that work well for us are: port and Starboard, ladders, traffic lights, cat and mouse, moving a ball in sixes down the line without using hands/between legs etc, sitting down football with balloons.

Nice ideas Rue.

farmerslife - mine play Hedgehogs, Fruit Salad, Corners, Rainbows cross the woods, Duck duck goose, in and out the dusty bluebells, and down in the jungle where nobody goes (which is horrible :o).

Shout if you need instructions for any.

A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action by Elvis vs JXL - I saw athat used as a conference opener a few years ago and there was a really good response from it.

I'll be there for you by the Rembrandts? (Friends theme tune)

Will keep thinking...

Lovely ladies need game inspiration for my rainbows seem to play the same few over and over so what are your favourites ?

Evening all, glad to have found you.

I am a relatively new county PA and am helping plan our county annual event this year, kind of like our AGM .

I have to prepáre a slideshow of some of our year's highlights in pictures with accompanying music. The music can be modern or old skool, but has to be respectable and suitable for young ears, with no subliminal message that does hold with our values.

I have not got a clue. HELP!!

I have always avoided the uniform blouse. I think it's changed a couple of times since I've been involved, but it's always some grim piece of corporate-wear!

Maud, I reckon that is a bylaw about jeans. Only heard when representing county or division we've to wear blouses and either trousers or a skirt.

I wouldn't be surprised if HQ do check on here now and again. I'd bet that they have some pretty sophisticated software to pull up any mention of Guiding in there's or elsewhere online.

I meant what do you think about the possibility (or not) of HQ reading this.

We're told locally that we can wear any navy trousers or skirt, but strictly speaking we're not supposed to wear jeans although even the most devoted and rule book abiding of my guiding colleagues do wear jeans. I now have a load of navy cord trousers from the bargain corner of the Land's End website.

I think these days it's Guiding top and your own black or navy skirt or trousers though am prepared to stand corrected.

I could put up with almost anything as long as it was possible to iron it to make it look neat and tidy, and not luck a sack of potatos.

Well, there was a skirt at the time I started and was kitting myself out. But the pockets were useless (as above) and it was too straight and wasn't good for movement, so I soon ditched it.

I'd quite like HQ to read this. What do you think ?

Is there a uniform skirt then?

Welcome back Rhubarb

Do you think HQ read this?

Evening all. I've refound and joined the tea room. It turns out I'm back in Guiding! Woo! I went to my first Brownie meeting tonight as a helper and it was fabulous! A lovely warm welcome and a great pack. I only meant to go as a helper (haha!) but there's going to be lots of retiring Brown Owls in our area soon so there's been heavy hinting at me. Plus the AL is leaving next month.

Having been a Brownie, Guide, Ranger and previous Guide helper, it really feels like coming home.

Ah, well. Now we're on a theme. I would settle for uniform that is the size it says on the label (the sizing seems so erratic that I would never buy online) and was of a decent quality (the first time I wore my uniform skirt, my bunch of Brown Owl keys tore a hole in the micron-thin pocket lining).

I'd settle for uniform that didn't shrink the instant you washed it. And that's without tumble drying!

Every time we go on parade, or do something else formal in public, I cringe. The cubs and scouts and their leaders always look so smart.

Oh, yes, the hoodies. The best I can say for mine is that it's warm.

The survey is closed now. It was on our Wilts North FB page.
It was for different variations of s bomber jacket style jacket. Not bad actually. Better that the scruffy hoodies.

If the survey results in a piece of uniform that looks as if it was designed for a woman rather than a man, I'll certainly vote!

Tyw, the link doesn't work because you've linked the end of your completed survey. Where did you find it?