Guiders Staff Room Part 2

[Groovee]

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/extracurricularr_activities/715087-Guiders-39-staff-room-tea-wine-chat-and-optional-dancing

Part one above, new thread for when required x

I want to do a Ready Steady Cook type activity with my Guides for pancake toppings. Every single suggestion on the Guides Facebook page has been how to make pancakes - I don't want them to make pancakes! Any thoughts on collections of savoury ingredients to give them? Should be veggie too (but they are mainly OK eating proper veggies!)

Mushroom and cheese is my fav in a crepe style pancake.

Quick LQ question - I'm just updating our risk assessment so going to put a copy in the relevant part. It also says to explain or show how you'd carry out a fire drill in the meeting place - I'm not sure what sort of format to do it in...

Bullett point instructions? List of fire exits and extinguishers? & meeting point?

I'd rather do it in person but it's one of the things on my list for next time I see my mentor.

Do a fire drill with the girls and get one of them to sign it off.

I didn't realise they could sign it - thanks drspouse. I'll do that first week back after half term.

Just booked myself a trip to Pax Lodge, I am waay to excited about it, and no one at home understands why I would want to go "on brownie camp without the brownies"

Anyone can sign - girls, parents, man in supermarket when you take them to Farm to Fork. The girls love signing it!

Excellent, that makes my life much easier!

That's rather cool, I think there's a couple of bits my girls could sign in mine! Pancakes next week- Eek!

Spent the night at Glasgow Science Centre with another brownie group as their first aider. Really enjoyed it.

That sounds awesome groovee

We had a sleepover at the science museum in London last yea rand it was so much fun

I've done Deep Sea World and the Science Centre. Need to find more venues

Is anyone going to Spark?

I lost the thread for a bit - just popping back on to say hi!
Everyone sounds v busy!
I have two weeks until the final payment is due for our national jamboree. I am currently 6k short. I have 3k of damned cookies in inventory and no other option but to emotionally blackmail parents into getting their girls to sell the damned things...

sounds stressful mad, are you in the US?

Not going to Spark Becles, I couldn't get my head around it enough to decide if it was worth going or not.

We are doing Magic and Mayhem overnight in the summer though.

Pity. I did Celebrate! and that was great fun.

Would have offered M&M but there's a big region event that I am hoping to do instead.

We're not, it clashes with a district event. We've done the cup challenge- awesome! Got giant art attack and super stars lined up for the next half term. Then celebrate for just after Easter. Our one leaver will come back for a couple of meetings to finish it off.

Canada, Albus, hence the cookies. I did my maths homework and checked the bank balances and have about $1300 to raise in two weeks. Not quite as bad as I thought, but then we'll have to play catch-up to replenish the bank accounts... So, I'm off to the grocery store to sell cookies for 6 hours lol... I have other volunteers for tomorrow, but today it's just me and dd1 and 2 (who are thrilled. Not.) The joy of being a guider's kid. One of them isn't even going on the camp lol.
No meetings next week as it's half term here, so next meeting is Thinking Day .

And our parent meeting is set for 29th. I'm pretty sure I can raise the immediate money and use the balances to pay the bill by the due date, but I look forward to finding out on 29th how the parents think they might deign to raise the rest of the money...

Half term over.

Finishing off brownie traditions and doing Thinking Day this week.

I can pay my camp bill. You have no idea how relieved I am.
Oh, and quelle surprise, the parents of the twins that didn't bother to take part in our main fundraiser, leaving us $1200 short, can't make it to the parent meeting. I'm sure that can't be because every other parent wants them hung, right?
Thinking Day on Monday
Anyone looked at the WAGGGS fb page? Am I the only one fascinated by the Syrian Thinking Day pics? I have spent a fascinating hour fb stalking Syrian guiders with the translate button. Am well aware that's creepy, but it has given me a wildly different picture to the footage on the TV. I was pondering messaging one, as I can't help but feel this would be an amazing opportunity for my older girls, but I suspect every guider on the www will be doing just that.

Shattered after the district Thinking Day event. Started with 19 due to come, ended up with 14 attendees. Was fantastic fun.

We've only got 4 meetings left this term due to a clash with an event at the school. Trying out mouldable candles Tuesday

The parents meeting sounds... interesting! Good luck!

Was annoyed with our district thinking day event. Was given no information on the plan, turned up and 3 of the 5 activities are food based.

Have one girl with severe allergies. Who couldn't do any of them

Surprised anyone would plan that much food stuff without knowing the girls or checking with the guiders.

Even would have appreciated a heads up so I could provide an alternative

I'm early for brownies as dh had to drop me off. I've forgotten a candle to light

Happy Thinking Day week (but late)

3 Brownies announced that this was their last week as too busy with life. They were going to quit during half term but this week sounded too much fun. Oh, dear after census locked down and contributing to my £775 bill.

But they'll come back for Guides which they expect to start on x Date even though no word with me, join us or guide leaders. Fingers itched so badly