Monday, April 26, 2010

Video message from Bear Grylls: so proud of this year's growth in member...

Phew! After a weekend of deprivation and camping out in the wilds with the 1st Offaly Scouts and other groups from Clara, Ballykilmurray,Cloghan,Portlaoise,Camross and Mountmellick it's highly appropriate that I should find the link to this in my mail box this morning:






I spent the weekend showing children, boys and girls aged eleven to fifteen how to make rope ladders! Our own group did just that the other day when we were on a practice camp in an adjacent field. No, they weren't practising for the challenge weekend, they were just a bunch of kids who wanted to make climbing in and out of their favourite tree more fun. If you look very carefully, you should just be able to see two of them sitting in their chairs in the middle of the tree...

This is the view from the tree looking down admiring their handy work, do bear in mind that I had to climb the rope ladder to take this pic!

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