To ask if you were a brownie or a guide?

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Apparently 1/3 of British women have been at one point

I LOVED Brownies

So many of my adult life skills are thanks to those badges

I was a Brownie ,Guide and Ranger!

I was a brownie.

didn’t get in with guides

I loved Brownies but hated Guides, especially all the camping.

Brownie, there wasn't a Guides locally at the time.

I was indeed.
Daffodil Patrol leader 1981.

I peaked too soon .
Never lead anything else since.

Absolutely...... fantastic times.😃

I thoroughly recommend the Scouting movement as a way of getting children to interact, see & do things they otherwise may not.

I was a Brownie and a Guide (although British Guiding Overseas). My mother was both and my daughter is currently a Brownie.

Nope, my dad is Irish, we weren’t swearing allegiance to the Queen. I went to Woodcraft Folk.

Very proud to be a Sixer of the gnomes. Happy times singing in the church hall, playing games, doing badges, going on revels.

I was a guide. Never did Brownies.

There was a Queens Guide at my school. Arm stiff with badges. Very impressive. I had about six badges, five of which were for things I could do already, and the sixth one was for something I was so useless at my Guider ended up doing it for me. I went on Guide Camp twice and loathed almost every minute with white hot passion (there was one fireside singsong I enjoyed, plus I did the Nature Observer badge which required me to sit in a field blissfully alone for 30 minutes).

I do remember how to run Scout’s Pace and that has been useful all my life, plus I did learn how to use a Silva compass, which I later forgot again.

There wasn’t much to do in my village but I would have been happy enough reading. I guess it’s good to be taken out of your comfort zone a bit.

I was both and loved it.
now as a parent of a 10 year old guide, I hate it.
i feel there is so much work to be done at home.
plus they don’t get inspection the way we did in the 80s/90s

Rainbows allthe way Brownies, guides, rangers, to adult leader for a bit.

Now a Scouting leader instead because I thought the programme was better.

Brownie, Sixer of the Gnomes checking in.

Also a Guide, but much less keen on that.

I was a, Brownie, Guide and later on I became 'Summer' (Rainbow leader) and Brown Owl running both groups.

Yes but wanted to be a cub as more exciting. DD did cubs

I remember we were allowed to take 7p for the tuck shop (circa 1988) you could buy loads with it!

Yes both, but can't say they taught me anything useful in life.

I was a Brownie. After two years my Brown Owl suggested that I wasn’t a good fit due to my “unladylike behaviour”. brown Owl was a very kind lady, but all we did was hostess skills, flower arranging, cooking and nature walks.
She wasn’t very impressed when I was up a tree first chance I got during free time on one nature walk. I didn’t realise that when we were told to explore, she actually wanted us to collect wildflowers to take them back to do flower pressing.

my brother was a cub and he seemed to have more exciting sessions than we did at the time.
To be fair this is well over 35 years ago!

Yes, my mother made me go. I was never allowed to choose my own clubs or hobbies.

I did like the Brownie Annuals, but there never seemed to be the promised adventures on a Tuesday night when I was schlepped to the Church Hall. It was all a bit dull.

There admit there were some nice bonding times with my Auntie - she was very good at crafts and a good organiser. If I stayed at her place I left with a badge, basically.

Remember Hostess Badge? I served scones to sheep shearers for that!

I was a guide
I hated brownies, went once and it wasnt for me. School friends persuaded me to try guides a few years later and I loved it. I only left as I joined the air cadets.

I quite liked brownies

Got booted out of guides

At least when I was little the scouts seemed to have A LOT more fun

Omg the hostess badge. We had to make a cake and serve it to family members in church hall while we put a show on.

Brownie and Guide. Also lucky enough to go on camps with the French guides (éclaireuses). So many great experiences, really built my self confidence and independence.

I was a Brownie, Guide, Ranger Guide, Queens Guide, and a Guider for a short while when at university. I loved all of it, learned lots of life skills and had a lot of freedom ( a lot more than nowadays I suspect, this was in the 70s). We climbed mountains, camped, and met people from all over the country. It taught us real resilience and I made friends for life. Met up with 2 of them a few weeks ago for a short break with our husbands, about 50 years since we first met at guide camp!

Yes. A bad one - ha ha! I was a Pixie in Brownies and had lots of badges, but I hated Guides. I think they suggested I leave eventually - as I refused to go on camp and had no interest in any badges! I am now 47.