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

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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 03/03/2009 21:57

Thought it might be nice to have a place to swap ideas and experiences. Shall we do introductions first?

My name's MadBad and I've been a Brownie guider for about 5 years.

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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 04/03/2009 19:59

To cross out, you have to do each word separately, with -- on each side of each word.

I love pack holidays but I've always done a joint holiday with a much more experienced Guider, who's now retired. Aargh!

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MaureenMLove · 04/03/2009 19:57

I go to camp as an extra, but I'm not keen on even more responsiblity and paper work to do my camp permit! I've got Rainbows anyway, so it seems an awful lot of work for only 23 hours away!

What's everyone got planned for Centenary then? I'm going (with the Brownies!) to Butlins in January. Is anyone else in LaZer region and going?

scienceteacher · 04/03/2009 19:56

I started with Brownies 18 months ago, and am doing my LQ.

MaureenMLove · 04/03/2009 19:55

Oh no, Don't like Brownies much! It's the age. I can't relate to them as well as I can 5 year olds and then teenagers! Suppose that's just the environment I've been in for so long. Childminder for 12 years, with littlies and then working in a secondary school with the oldies!

I am doing Brownies in a couple of weeks though. Brown Owl is on holiday and since DD is a young leader there, I've said I'll do it for her.

frasersmummy · 04/03/2009 19:55

best bit...is taking the kids away .. I love pack holiday. Its soo often the first time the girls go away from home apart from to grandparents its magical to be part of the experience

I have just taken on the role of divsion pack holiday advisor ...my chance to pass on the pack holiday bug!!

Cybermum · 04/03/2009 19:53

Aaaagrh can't do crossings out!

Cybermum · 04/03/2009 19:52

Hello! I'm a guide guider and for my sins have coped with teenage angst for almost 5 years. But it's fun and I enjoy it!

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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 04/03/2009 19:42

Really?? I've only ever 'done' Brownies but I find the Guides with all their teenage listlessness quite exasperating. Ours lollop in front of the Brownie cupboard while they're waiting for our meeting to finish and theirs to start and then seem taken by surprise when I ask them to move so I can cram all our junk vital equipment back in the cupboard.

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MaureenMLove · 04/03/2009 19:17

OH, I've just remembered I'm the District Secretary too! It's easy to forget, I don't do it very well!

Best bit? Not sure really. I love the Rainbowsd best. They are still innocent, but I like the Guides too, because you can have real deep girly chats with them. I just love kids tbh.

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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 04/03/2009 17:57

Ooh. Hello everyone. Lovely to meet you.

I'm barely keeping my head above water, running one pack. (Until recently I was sole Guider but have just found an assistant, hooray!). If Guiders still had hats, I would take mine off to those of you who have two units or wider responsibilities within the district/division!

OK, then, what for you is the best thing about being a Guider?

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pickledHAN · 04/03/2009 14:51

Hi, Another one guilty here - quite a long story which I will keep brief - have always been involved in guiding, I inherited it from my own mum! Am now a Guide and Senior Section Guider and have a dd at brownies. Also hold a couple of other roles within our local (and wider) structure, and work weekly to make my team at work undertsand why i do it, and why I dont need to be paid!

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 04/03/2009 14:27

Hi, I've helped at Rainbows and Brownies for a couple of years and became a Guider about six months ago.

mummyfantastico · 03/03/2009 22:08

Hello! I'm mummyfantastico and I've been a Brownie Guider for 4 years and I'm just about to help start up another Brownie pack too for some reason.

MaureenMLove · 03/03/2009 22:04

Ah. Customize! There it is.

As you were!

MaureenMLove · 03/03/2009 22:02

Evening. I'm Mo, obviously, and I've been a Rainbow Guider for 8 years, with a splattering of Assistant Guide Guider, since DD is there now. She is a young leader at Brownies too, so I think we cover all the bases!

I also have a small problem. I appear to have hidden extra-curricular activities from my viewing list and I can't work out how to get it back!

frasersmummy · 03/03/2009 22:00

Hi I'm frasersmummy and have been a brownie guider for 18 years now.

I was brown owl till I fell pregnant then I handed the reins over to younger fitter brownie guider and became barn owl