Cobden Cross the Atlantic

To celebrate Australia day our scouts have taken on the role of convicts trying to get across the Atlantic from England to Down Under.

All they have to do is take their kit and get across, without touching the floor obviously! . It’s taking a while…

Merry Christmas from the Kinder Leaders

Cobden get Fire Trained

Cobden Scouts are getting taught all about the fire triangle, putting fires out, and planning escape routes as part of their Fire Safety badge.

With thanks to former Cobden-boy Dan Fido Fidler (now a fireman) for teaching them well!

Tin Can Cooking

Cobden having a fun night of tin can cooking.

It might have taken practically the whole night to cook half a piece of bacon up to just-about-edible (certainly not crispy!), but its probably worth it!

Traffic Update

Looking more like a 16.30 arrival due to heavy traffic on the M6

One last fire

One last valiant / foolhardy attempt at lighting a fire…

Making it ourselves

It’s STILL raining!

With all the holiday-makers in town, unfortunately the bowling alley was fully booked until the evening, so we had to revert to Plan C!

We split them into three groups and set about making our dinner – homemade burgers followed by muffins and cookies. As you can imagine, the kitchen will take some tidying!

Its lucky we hired the hall too, as it gave us the option of putting on something to entertain the masses when it was absolutely rinsing it down!

Coasteering

We’re having internet errors out here in the hills which prevents us from uploading the videos from the two waterproof cameras we have, so they will have to wait (watch out for updates in the future!)

We spent the day jumping in from as high as 20 metres, with the scouts absolutely loving it! The leaders had no option but to jump, as the scouts generally went first and it would have put us to shame.

We were particularly happy with Coasteering because the instructors told us that our group was ‘lovely’ and a ‘credit to the group’. Well done boys – at least they can pretend to be well behaved!?

It was Sweet and Sour chicken for tea, followed by the PLs trifle, before Badworthy won the wide game. Midnight feasts followed for the scouts.

Street Dance Videos

Judge these efforts for yourself. The dance teacher reckoned that Badworthy’s effort (also featuring explorer Richard Cross) was best, which has won them 10 points towards the patrol competition!

And you thought they couldn’t dance….!

Kit inspection

The scouts’ efforts for kit inspection – not quite the military precision we were hoping for, but at least they seemed vaguely organized?!

And it’s a tearful train station farewell to Hoggy – have fun at Leeds Fest! The scouts are already missing your right-arm medium-fast swing bowling!?