Love this one Carolyn!
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| Author: | Advent Drabblers [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:19 am ] |
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Guide Outdoor Safety and Rescue Badge On camp, in the unit or with friends, do all clauses. You may act as a team, ensuring each person takes an equal part. 1. Be able to spot the difference between a hole in the ground and the earth swallowing someone up. Demonstrate this difference to your Captain. 2. Demonstrate how to wipe tears away without the use of a handkerchief. 3. Leave any companions who may be injured and run for safety, ensuring a good amount of in-coherence before your story can be told. 4. Following necessary safety precautions, be able to: • shower leaves down on anyone trapped. (This will keep them warm) • Insult your Captain twice. (Telling her to stop maundering and use her wits is a preferred option) • Once rescued tell the unit what they did wrong and call your Captain an idiot. 5. Survive and repeat the story on every possible occasion. Once all clauses are complete the Outdoor Safety and Rescue badge may be awarded. The Advanced badge may be awarded if a Guide demonstrates the ability to insult or otherwise suppress her Captain during an accident indoors. | |
| Author: | Lesley [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:26 am ] |
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Love this one Carolyn!
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| Author: | Sarah [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:14 pm ] |
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I like it! | |
| Author: | Smile :) [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:54 pm ] |
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Yes, I like that one very much. | |
| Author: | Advent Drabblers [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:31 pm ] |
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The Historian’s tale Historian? I suppose so, though I work for the local museum rather than writing learned tomes. Anyway, I was asked to go up to the Baumersee to look at some things that were found in a hole in the ground by a group of English Guides who were camping there. They’d found a package in rather unusual circumstances that dated from the time of Andreas Hofer. It was quite a convoluted story, but this is apparently what happened. Some of the Guides had gone off hunting for wood for their fire, as they were cooking everything on a camp fire. One of them inadvertently fell into a hole that had been covered by debris for something over a hundred years. I was told the ground had opened up and swallowed her, so there can’t have been any warning. The tale gets a bit confusing at this point, as if the family (descendents of the lad who’d left the things) had been hearing the story from more than one person. The girl was a bit shaken by her sudden fall, and shouted for help - which took a little time to come as the younger girl who had been with her had raced off for help without checking to see if her friend was OK. Anyway, one of the Leaders arrived and asked if she was all right. The girl, whose name was Jo I think, didn’t know who was asking and called her an idiot, and I don’t know what else. I suspect it’ll take a bit of time for her to live that one down, especially as the Leader in question was also one of the teachers at the school. They hauled her out by brute force - the hole was about ten feet deep - and thought no more about it. That should have been the end if two of the girls hadn’t decided to play a trick on this Jo. She was a fan of Napoleon for some reason or other. I mean, the man was a tyrant, a Dictator who made himself an Emperor, and who can find anything to admire about that? Anyway, they made up this spoof package and hid it in the hole, then innocently suggested a party to go and explore it. I bet they had a shock when two packages were found! The biter bit, as they say! Anyway, they took both finds back to their camp, and the first one opened was the spoof. The second contained the interesting stuff. Letters between a girl and her sweetheart written when Hofer was fighting Napoleon for the freedom of Austria. The letters to her had been returned to the lad as she’d died from an illness. He was then shot in a battle, and came home to die. A note in the bundle said that he was burying them in the hole he had dug as a child, and that was the last time they saw the light of day till the girls found them. They managed to track down the family - or the adults did anyway - and the family asked me to go and look at them to verify the date. There was no problem with that, everything was authentic. It’s always satisfying when a piece of history like that comes to light. It makes it more real to so many people. | |
| Author: | PaulineS [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:42 pm ] |
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A better way of keeping history alive than acting out Indians and Americans in Oberamagau!!! Gladthe letters were authenicated. | |
| Author: | Alison H [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:02 pm ] |
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I always get quite excited when they find those letters
.And I don't know why Joey was so obsessed with Napoleon either - I like it when Eustacia actually says that to her .
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| Author: | Miriam [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:19 pm ] |
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Thank you for this, and for adding the names - it makes it clearer.
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| Author: | Advent Drabblers [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:04 pm ] |
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Letter from Miss Hilda Annersley (Tiernsee) to Miss Helena Wilson (Baumersee), Really Nell, what on Earth are you doing to those poor children? First of all I receive a missive from Con saying that on your first night you had an intruder trying to steal food from your commissariat-tent, then Joey (of course) manages not only to fall down a pit and disappear from view, roundly insulting you in the bargain. Then, the following day, so I understand from Grace, Joey, Juliet and Grizel go fishing and manage to catch a body! I thought Guiding was supposed to be a good activity for girls? Now Con tells me, that you have managed to cut your wrist quite badly trying to chop wood and cannot write at the moment. I'm sorry Nell, but if this was your attempt to cause me to re-think becoming involved with Guiding it's not working. Yours affectionately, Hilda (In a warm, dry building where meals are provided, rooms are cleaned and there is absolutely no possibility of my having to sleep on the ground!) Letter from Miss Helena Wilson (Baumersee) to Miss Hilda Annersley (Tiernsee) Stop giggling Nan - don't trouble to deny it I can sense your chuckles through your letter! The camp is going wonderfully and is not the chapter of accidents that you seem to think it is. Our intruder was only a small dog and Joey's Rufus chased him away and the body turned out to be an artist's mannikin and a very unhealthy dose of imagination. As for Joey and that pit - now that was funny - for once Joey was relatively blameless - at least as far as falling in was concerned. Apparently Vanna had walked across the exact same spot only seconds before so when Joey literally disappeared from view she (Vanna) panicked and ran. Joey was trapped ten feet down in a pit which, although dry, had crumbling walls and was unable to get out. When I finally managed to reach the hole Joey was in a tearing temper and, she says, didn't recognise my voice - at least she called me both an ass and an idiot. I must admit, when she found out it was me it was most amusing - at least it was for me! As for my wrist - that's fine now - it was only a very slight cut and has almost healed now. And I will get you camping one day - that's a promise, my dear. With love Nell | |
| Author: | Sugar [ Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:23 pm ] |
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Thanks AD's. Those were great! | |
| Author: | Kathy_S [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:50 am ] |
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Oh, yes, Hilda should come camping. 
Thank you, ADs. | |
| Author: | Karoline [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:49 am ] |
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Thanks AD's | |
| Author: | Vick [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:36 pm ] |
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Lovely, thanks ADs
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| Author: | Susan [ Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:38 pm ] |
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Lovely specially the letters. | |
| Author: | Cath V-P [ Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:30 am ] |
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Loved the letters and I'm with Hilda on the camping, although Nell did finally manage it. It took her a few years, but she did it.... | |
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