busy day

Yesterday Daniel was 15 !!

Happy Birthday Son x

I feel that can't be right ,where have those 15 years gone !

In the evening Harriet took part in a Young Voices concert at Birminghams NIA.

Hundreds of school children from around the midlands came together as One choir to perform together having spent months working on the songs at school beforehand.

Wow what a night the arena was packed and it was obvious the children were having the best time.We could see Harriet and her school mates from where we were all sitting but had taken binoculars just incase - it's a big place ! Sx

starting to feel christmassy

in the past week i have attended 2 christingle services ,first with my beaver scouts then with Harriets cub pack. I just love it when they turn down the lights and stand gazing at the candle flames.

I managed to capture this photo of Harriet .

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suited & booted

last weekend Dan's explorer scout unit (the rhinos) held a formal dinner as part of a camp weekend .Paul was also invited along as he has provided help for the unit over the past year.

Just had to blog this pic of them both ,cant believe how similar they look !

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busy couple of weeks...

I know being busy is not a good excuse not to blog ,but are days getting shorter or am I just getting slower ?!

Iwas lucky enough to get a weekend away with some great scrapping friends in a cottage near shrewsbury.What fun we had playing games ,eating loads,talking lots,dressing up and oh yes scrapping !

this house was so suitable for us,with plenty of bedrooms and great scrapping space too.

On serendipity sunday ,we all dressed up in our rainbow colours-mine was GOLD !! and managed a quick group shot before the heavens opened !

All I can say is roll on next year .

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Monsters from the alpha(bet) zone

Scrapagogo's november kit is so full of bright colours ,just what we need during these wet and windy evenings.Here are the lo's I made for the DT.

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A gift from Paul...

For getting my Nights away permit (see previous post ) Paul surprised me with a little gift.

Sorry for the poor photo !! This little silver troll bead is 2 cute mice on a piece of cheese.

Odd choice you may think but Paul always tells a story about when we first moved to this house and in the evenings I would see a mouse in our kitchen !! At this point I would point out we live opposite a farm !! Anyway to start with I was mad enough to think we only had ONE mouse,how wrong could i be !!We ended up getting proffessional help to sort out the problem.

So this is why he chose this bead.

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Beaver Sleepover

As you probably already know I am a Beaver Scout leader.Eventhough my own children have moved on to other sections of the Movement ,I have stayed with the Beavers.This age group (6-8 yrs) are so much fun and so eager to learn that it makes our meetings really enjoyable.

Well last weekend I organised a Sleepover for the Beavers at our local Scout campsite, which was held in a beautiful centrally heated log cabin ajoining a small field and surrounded by woodland.For some this was their first expirence of being away from home overnight.I great team of Leaders and friends assissted me to make this very special for all taking part.

We had a packed programme including tracking by day and by night ,rocket launching ,archery ,firework iced biscuits ,campfire....

We all had an amazing weekend and i was totally thrilled when my assessor visited us and granted me my indoor permit ,to enable me to take Beavers on sleepovers in the future as the Permit Holder.

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