Guiders Staff Room Part 3

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Reconvening over here ladies.

Oh crystal 😢

We have a hearing dog in training coming tonight. Have printed out the activities. Bit worried disability awareness will take us too long.

Hi all, can I join? I've just started doing Rainbows again after a gap of just over three years which means apparently I have to do my Leadership Qualification again (for the third time!).

I noticed someone mentioning a FB group, would anyone mind sending me a PM with details?

Anyway, looking forward to the chat and sharing of ideas 😀

donnie you can just search for the Rainbow group on FB - GirlGuiding Rainbow Leader Support Group.

It's just not my blummin' week. Dd2 has chicken pox for the second time so there goes nipping into town tomorrow for supplies for next week :(

Will re-jig next week's plan tomorrow so I can get any bits we need locally.

Pancake day is going to be fun! I've got lots of ideas for that...mostly food related

Oh no! I was going to say "at least she can't get it again" but clearly she can.

I've just delegated some shopping to a unit team member who can't be at an event but I happen to know quite likes shopping (and works in a town centre shop so is there a lot anyway). Can you delegate at all? Even to a parent?

I'm not sure, dd2's friend's mum took dd1 to school this morning for me and probably would pop in Poundland/Home Bargains on her way to work on Monday so long as I give her a specific list.

My AL works in completely the wrong direction but there is a B&M or Poundstretcher out there so I could ask her to get bits for 'this' or 'that' and see what she comes back with. But I won't actually see her until Tuesday to know what she got.

I quite like nipping to town for a mooch for supplies too :(

I didn't think you could get c.p. more than once but they definitely are. She's like Balloo the bear scratching her back against door edges and frames . I'm hopeful the few (12 - we counted!) she has now, are it and they clear up quickly.

Oh no! Dd1 had it a second time, but she only had a few on her back, nowhere else.

Last Tues I enrolled our 3 newest, Wise Owl hid in the foyer with the other ones who were waiting their turn. Been a leader over a year, but the responsibility of enrolling still weighs, I love seeing the girls excitement and pride, and has a lovely email from a mum who was so proud of her daughter ding with with minimal support (mild SEN)

I've sent my email to book seats for the cinema, just hope they have enough for us, I've read some scary stories on fb about cinemas fully booked. Fingers crossed

thank you drspouse - have managed to find it and requested to join

I've just counted up how many hours I've been out my house Guiding this week... 11 hours, and my unit didn't even meet this week! This is not including the hours spent on pinterest and google planning which may have been far less hours if i wasn't so easily distracted

18 years ago my mum gave me the choice of helping her 'for an hour a week' or babysitting my siblings so Grandma could help. i should have gone with the babysitting

Dear leader at another unit, when I ask for Thinking Day numbers by 1st Feb, it wasn't for the good of my health. Your girls you told me about yesterday will have to take their chances with badges and I'm not telling them why.

Can I say hello, we re-started our rainbows group with a couple of friends last April and so far (apart from having a too full waiting list) everything is going well.
Our first girl leaves to go to Brownies at the end of the term.
I have to say all our parents are pretty good too, I only have one that doesn't pay on time, but even she had paid by the second week this term.

Oh look at this, some people who sort of understand that we don't go back I not a cupboard after the meeting.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2851008-to-think-Guides-should-be-able-to-make-cakes?msgid=66868532#66868532

Lots of previously hidden Guiders popping up

Hi,can I join you? I've been lurking a while. I do Guides and Senior Section (simultaneously!) Have done for about 18 months, was a Brownie leader in a previous life.
Finding it a bit of a struggle at the minute as I'm pregnant and not feeling great. The other Guide leader (in charge) is the most disorganised woman known to man but has somehow kept the unit going for 16 years. Despite me working twice as many hours as her, and us having a unit helper this year, it nearly always seems to fall to me to organise activities for both groups.

The Guides have been doing GFIs recently which is light on planning from my point of view so that is good, and the Rangers are quite keen to run some Guide nights themselves which helps. One has just done her peer educator training and is going to do Think Resilient with them. The Rangers were having a movie night this week, all the other leader had to do was dig out the projector. She came in and said "I hope you've got something planned for Guides, I've been sorting out the Seniors all week!"

Sorry, this has become a bit of a rant! I'm not normally this grumpy

Becles I saw that thread. Good to see some people understand the logistical difficulties. The most ambitious thing we've tried to cook is tin can pancakes

Saw that on Facebook before I saw it here. Mighty different tone to many other recent threads.

missis that sounds jolly frustrating!

I laughed when I saw that thread. All our Guides ever want to do is bake (seriously - why on earth is there a cake baking activity in the Football GFI) but they make such a terrible mess that we only do it about once a year. Demonstrating how to peel a carrot at a recent residential felt much more guide-y.

What do you think your girls would say is/has been their favourite activity?
My lot have said that they would do a night walk every week in winter as long as it isn't raining 'too hard'. We are really well placed, being semi-rural, to have a 4 mile round walk through woods and fields between villages so we can use our torches and also see the glow of the village streetlights and understand/visualise light pollution. I literally route march them round the circle, stopping a couple of times to talk about the lighting or if any bats whizz by. it's always freezing so it's good to keep moving! They just love it!
What are your groups' favourites?

My Rainbows really loved 'painting' all over the walls and car park in the summer, we gave them a bucket of water and a selection of old brushes and sponges. Anything that involves mud is always a success too, although always seems to involve them painting my face with it sooner or later.

I just asked DD her favourite thing at Brownies, she said international food nights because "Brown Owl is an amazing cook and gives us new things to try and teaches us cool recipes and we learn about the countries too"

When we first started our Guide unit they absolutely loved doing tunnels in the dark. So they'd line up all the tables in to a maze shape, cover all the sides with bin liners to make it a dark tunnel you had to crawl through and then they would put obstacles like toilet paper streamers inside & stick prizes inside like chocolate coins that you'd have to find (on a timer). But our current lot aren't that in to this game, they prefer going to pottery painting and cooking.

Sharpie tie dying has probably been the overall favourite activity though. We've done t-shirts twice & they just love it & make great stuff.

Once we did a leaflet drop around the village & they raved about it!

And of course, if they could they would go doing outdoor activities like abseiling every day!

Well, the missing money has turned up...somehow despite the Post Office putting the right sort code/account number in their system, it has ended up processed into the Rainbows account once it reached Lloyds! DC says I can split it between both units since Lloyds covered it for the Guides :)

I'm in the market for a new printer once subs are paid for both units. Mine went "ping" today and I can't get it to work now :( I'm thinking Epson this time, rather than HP, as they mostly seem to come with individual cartridges rather than tri-colour like the HP.

My new YL (to be) is enthusiastic...she's shopping for an activity for the Guides tomorrow and going to lead it.

My Guides have been invited star gazing with the local SS at the local Astrological Society. I've text round everyone to see what interest there is as I'll need a lift with the SS leader...NOT ONE PARENT HAS REPLIED ffs & they could do with an answer so it can be offered to another unit if not.

Do you mean Astronomical?

We have a Thinking Day event on Sat. Publicised by email and on our unit FB page. Reminded parents on FB of a minor need for help/junk that they could bring. No responses except one saying "I've only just heard about this".

Heh, I think I might

We don't send the emails for our own amusement

That sounds like a great trip lucysmam I hope you get enough interest to do it.

Ah but Ria, we must do ...at least you'd think so.

I've had two replies, out of 9. They can't make it. Not a clue about the rest.

I'll just go with dd1 if none of them want to.