To suspect that Enid Blyton is not really dead but is alive and well and organising DD's Brownie Camp?

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I have namechanged in case La Blyton has got the internet and takes umbrage.

DD is away at Brownie Camp for two nights. DS1's list for a two night Cub camp was in large type on an A5 sheet. DD's is in microscopic type on a sheet of A4.

There are 58 items on the list. 58!

They include:

Sturdy walking shoes
potato peeler
tea towel
woolly hat (in July?)
Dessert spoon and tea spoon
Apron

Apron? I don't own an apron. My 77 year old Mum probably doesn't own an apron. What sort of eight year old has her own apron?

I think people have climbed Everest with less equipment.

And it says that "Homemade cakes are welcome"

AIBU to send shop bought cakes? Will DD be an outcast, seen as lower class and be forced to address the other girls as Miss Georgina and Miss Anne?

tortoise

A real life PMSL here at Tortoise!

Loving this thread.

When me and my sister were in the same Brownie Pack, we only had one 70s brown bobble had between us, we had to throw it to each other during sixer uniform inspections. Happy, happy days...

at tortoise

I was on teabreak at work and didnt have time to type a proper sentence clearly

hopefully you made sense of it

This thread (and the title) really made me laugh.

I don't even have a potato peeler!

I agree the attitude of some of the poster is disgusting.This woman is giving up her free time and taking on a massive responsibility in organising and taking your child away camping.From past experience she will no doubt have founed she needs to be very specific in itemising what is needed because some moronic parents have no common sense.
the attitude of some parents seems to be that they are doing the leaders some sort of favour by allowing their DDs to go!

And OP who did you think would be peeling potatatoes for your precious little bunny?

ROFL at this thread.

But indeed on my brownie camps (23yrs ago) we had to take aprons and a cup, plate, crockery etc, wolley hats blah blah.

Hat and big spoons atc were for playing games such as relay dress up, chocolate game, spoons for egg and sppons race etc.

We also had to help with chores and therefore peeler etc were useful.

Sounds like an old fahioned camp holiday but I'm sure dd will love it

its actually not that difficult to get yellow t shirts - ASDA 2 for £2.50 school polo shirts are ideal.

Brown clothes for girls aren't that hard to find but boys jersey shorts/trackies come in brown and are the same style as girls usually - again can be supermarket bought. Buy them big enough to do the whole year!!

WOW KatieStar I am so sorry to have disgusted you

I have no problem with DD peeling spuds. About time she did some work. It might even make the little madam eat them. My query was concerning every girl needing to being a peeler, which struck me as comically OTT. The reasons for this have been explained to me by many other posters and I appreciate the enlightenment!

I am grateful for the people taking my DD on camp, believe me. I was under the impression, however, that they are "volunteers," which means that they are doing this because they want to, and not having their annual leave wrenched from their grip by a battalion of selfish parents forcing them to take their children away.

As I said before, I was amused by the list of kit, not put out. And my comments were not based on my being a "moronic parent" (though I may well be one ) but by my being the parent of a boy who has been on FOUR cub camps so far, some lasting longer than this one, to which he has had to take a significantly smaller amount of stuff (nearly half the amount of items for a camp a day longer).

The analogy with Enid Blyton was also because DS did not have to take anything "housewifey" to any of his cub camps. Yet DD had to bring a potato peeler tea towel and an apron.

There could be a serious thread to be found in the comparison between the "Cub" activities and the "Brownie" activities (the Cubs cook but it is essentially barbequeing, ie stereotypical Man Cooking). But I didn't want to start a serious thread.

On the last point - Chil1234 - touche

Scouts/cubs do things a bit differently I think. I used to help out with the group that my brothers went to and IIRC lots of the cooking equipment, cutlery etc was owned by the scout group and got used at all camps so there wasn't the need for each child to take everything with them.