Paul (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fremantlebiz) wrote,@ 2008-05-01 09:02:00 |
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A new Cub Scout in our family
But first:
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
In forty years time
I'll be a hundred and three.
I'm on the downhill run. I've got to be good today - no growling at the kids for leaving lights on, or for leaving the fridge door open, or for leaving DVDs on the floor out of their cases.
Last night was investiture night for our nine year old Cub Scout daughter at the1st Fremantle Sea Scouts' Camp Waller. The investiture is when kids officially become part of the world wide Scouting movement. Amongst other things, they recite the Cub Scout promise:
Cub Scouts are loyal and obedient
Cub Scouts do not give in to themselves.
Hmmmm, I like that. I must have recited that to old man Dagg when I was invested at the Melville Cubs the early 1950s.
The other thing that invested Cubs are entitled is to receive their first badges for their mums to sew on their shirts. There are the formal badges of affiliation; and the badges earned by the completion of set tasks. There were a few of the latter handed out last night because the kids have been working on earning these while waiting for their investiture. Perhaps the most important ones for Sea Scouts are the swimming ones. Our daughter did hers from the jetty in front of the Scout Hall over a month ago.
Scouting in Australia is undergoing a resurgence. There were twenty kids invested last night. Possibly an all-time record. I gather this is a widespread social trend. Possibly a reaction by concerned parents about the burgeoning drug, alcohol and violence problems in the wider community. The older Scouting divisions are also thriving.
We've had a long affiliation with 1st Fremantle Sea Scouts. Last night I noticed several pictures of our older kids in former groups still pinned to the walls.
There's an essay of mine about the historical origins of this group which I put online at Fremantlebiz 29 February 2006. Also a few Scouty pictures from last night and some taken a few weeks ago in a gallery at my the Picasa site. Click the image below:
© MMVIII Paul R. Weaver.
Click here to visit 'dogandcatwatcher', my YouTube website.
Original still photographs are stored online in a cache at my Panoramio website or my Picasa site. Most of them have a brief description and a link back to a relevant essay. Images on Panoramio can usually be enlarged several times by clicking them.
About the writer
Click here to see our backyard.
Check out each month's subject index on the Calendar Page for my "common-man" monologues about survival in 21st century Australia – plus a little history occasionally. An original essay is added most days as part of an undertaking to write at least couple of million words. Zzzzzzzz!
But first:
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
In forty years time
I'll be a hundred and three.
I'm on the downhill run. I've got to be good today - no growling at the kids for leaving lights on, or for leaving the fridge door open, or for leaving DVDs on the floor out of their cases.
Last night was investiture night for our nine year old Cub Scout daughter at the1st Fremantle Sea Scouts' Camp Waller. The investiture is when kids officially become part of the world wide Scouting movement. Amongst other things, they recite the Cub Scout promise:
Cub Scouts are loyal and obedient
Cub Scouts do not give in to themselves.
Hmmmm, I like that. I must have recited that to old man Dagg when I was invested at the Melville Cubs the early 1950s.
The other thing that invested Cubs are entitled is to receive their first badges for their mums to sew on their shirts. There are the formal badges of affiliation; and the badges earned by the completion of set tasks. There were a few of the latter handed out last night because the kids have been working on earning these while waiting for their investiture. Perhaps the most important ones for Sea Scouts are the swimming ones. Our daughter did hers from the jetty in front of the Scout Hall over a month ago.
Scouting in Australia is undergoing a resurgence. There were twenty kids invested last night. Possibly an all-time record. I gather this is a widespread social trend. Possibly a reaction by concerned parents about the burgeoning drug, alcohol and violence problems in the wider community. The older Scouting divisions are also thriving.
We've had a long affiliation with 1st Fremantle Sea Scouts. Last night I noticed several pictures of our older kids in former groups still pinned to the walls.
There's an essay of mine about the historical origins of this group which I put online at Fremantlebiz 29 February 2006. Also a few Scouty pictures from last night and some taken a few weeks ago in a gallery at my the Picasa site. Click the image below:
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| 1st Fremantle Sea Scouts |
© MMVIII Paul R. Weaver.
Click here to visit 'dogandcatwatcher', my YouTube website.
Original still photographs are stored online in a cache at my Panoramio website or my Picasa site. Most of them have a brief description and a link back to a relevant essay. Images on Panoramio can usually be enlarged several times by clicking them.
About the writer
Click here to see our backyard.
Check out each month's subject index on the Calendar Page for my "common-man" monologues about survival in 21st century Australia – plus a little history occasionally. An original essay is added most days as part of an undertaking to write at least couple of million words. Zzzzzzzz!
