How can one day have so much rain??? Well, that was what it was like today at the Village at War in Stoke Bruerne. Very Serial seeing Winston Churchill casually walking around but other than that fundraising over for this rainy (apart from Saturday!) weekend… Tips for next year if [read on...]

Flitwick Scout Group were celebrating their 100 year anniversary this year, so it was great that so many of the Anomalous Unit could turn out to park cars. We have a constitutional arrangement with both Ampthill and Flitwick Scout Groups, and we try to support them both each year in [read on...]

The Movie highlights of summer camp. Sadly we were unable to take video while: hurtling downhill on mountain bikes in the pouring rain cantering across Exmoor on bouncy ponies kayaking on the sea in choppy waves crawling through pitch black tunnels However, we did get some nice movies of the [read on...]

Summer Camp 17 Explorers, 3 leaders, 2 adult helpers. Not all at the same time. (This is the leader’s version, and just a framework for our Unit members to add their own comments on) The photos are here on this site and here on flickr We started our journey down [read on...]

We are all home, alive, well and utterly, utterly tired out. My bus full was asleep within 7 minutes of hitting the road. We can almost forgive them, because the leaders were only held awake by much tea and coffee. The official coverage is here (but ours is at least [read on...]

well, we are all apparently still alive, even if horribly sleep deprived. This year, no swine flu and no major incidents or rain. By keeping to the shade and drinking lots of water, we avoided the worst effects of the scorching heat (30C+) and managed to take part in almost [read on...]

The Anomalous Unit are live at Gilwell 24, and it is HOT HOT HOT here today – hitting 30C or more – so we are all having to adapt to the heat and the lack of shade. Some are lazing under the brilliantly engineered sunshade that Sweyn has rigged. Some [read on...]

True to our Training Schedule, Mark, Sweyn and David got more practice in ahead of the Tanners Marathon in July. Also true to past form, they walked to the pub, only this time they also managed the “Toddington gallon” (all over 18!) Can you tell which is the outbound leg, [read on...]

We have some nice new Dutch Ovens, which we are learning to use. They may look dark and forboding, but they really are amazing things to cook in.

Examples of the normal evenings we have run for the first two terms of 2010 are below. Did you get to all of them? Which ones did you miss, and would like us to run in 2011? Thu 14-Jan-10 S50 and Planning Thu 21-Jan-10 navigation Thu 28-Jan-10 cooking with cheese [read on...]