The weekend was spent on the Crew of Bramhope Scout Camp's 70th Anniversary event. 140 Cubs and Scouts turned up along with a handful of Explorers on crew and in associated units.
It's been 10 years since my first visit to Bramhope, yet there are still corners of the site I am unfamiliar with. I now know the field to the North of the site is called "Field 93", but am not clear as to why. I also now know where the assault course and climbing tower are; Nicola spent most of Saturday helping to supervise climbing, and gaining some experience in supervising and belaying on a climbing wall, with a view to becoming authorized.
My main activity on the Saturday was spent supervising the assault course, the times for cubs to complete and I had to re-jig the score sheet. Unfortunately I had not understood the scoring conventions for the event, but managed to fix things when we got the event "passports" back.
Sunday morning I stayed in bed til 8:45, perhaps I was already suffering from the pollen and outdoors. I wasn't involved too greatly in the morning activities, but helped where I could. In the afternoon I had to referee two 20-a-side football matches, not an easy task without a whistle- maybe I should buy myself one.
I ended up a little bit sunburnt having failed to apply any suncream during the day.
Today I am feeling a bit under the weather, my eyes are sore and my nose feels like I've been underwater. All that fresh air and outdoor living can't have been good for me!
posted by Simon @ 08:30:00
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From a referees point of view a Fox 40 or acme thunderer should be considered. The Fox 40 is very loud used for Premier league, and a single full blast will down seagulls at 100 yards. Acme Thunderers are much cheaper, are pea-less (all the loudest ones are) and somtimes require a double blast to get the seagulls to fall. Stick to plastic, as very few people use metal now and plus they are terrible in the cold.
Martin
In answer to a few thingies...
1. Field 93 is named as such due to its land registry number. Thats what they told me when I asked at the very same camp.
2. For sheer humour purposes, LifeSystems do a very loud (apparently 1000 db) whistle which is supposedly for emergency purposes yet doubles up most satisfactorially as a referees whistle. They come in a variety of colours (ok now I am being silly!) and are perfect for deafening little kids whilst refereeing 20-a-side football matches. Allegedly...
You can floor someone with a Fox 40. I have done it. Also for some reason the sound does not get around to your ears properly.
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