Memorables

Quote of the decade:

“We’re 62nd, we don’t do knots!”

Spoken by a Scout at Star City Trek Competition 2008

Get it?

Got it.

Good.

With thanks to Danny Kaye.

Winter Camp 2013

You’ll never outfox the fox.

Also in homage to Danny Kaye and the wonderful film: The Court Jester. Winter Camp 2013

“Don’t jump Chris, just don’t jump…” ~ one Scout to another at the top of a perilously stacked pile of crates

Winter Camp 2007

“Smells like chocolate” ~ Scout quote after getting off the minibus at Cadbury World

Winter Camp 2007

Question asked to a Scout (an older one at that…) “Are you you scared of us leaders…?”

Said with feeling, “Hell yes…”

Pennwood 2009

“C’mon 62nd you should be able to win this one!”

Shout of encouragement during Cub hockey final between 62nd ‘A’ & 62nd ‘B’

“Even my pants are wet”

Scout Leader when taking down tents in the rain, Glenny Woods 2008

“The sound of the leader’s snoring was louder than the aeroplane engines”

Jersey 2007 flight home

“Stop picking flour out of your ear when on parade”

Halloween night 2005

“I’m bored…”

“BORED! In London, the capital city of the United Kingdom!?”

London Trip 2006

“Where are you?”

“I’m building cardboard caves.”

“Are you at the hut?”

pause…

“No, I’m doing it in my living room you pillock!”

Phone conversation between two leaders, 2009.

Wind the bobbin up!

Pennwood 2009

“I’m running out of snow”

Scout leader when cutting out ‘snow bricks’ from the field, full of snow, worst snow in 30 years in fact…

So what’s making the noise on the roof at night?

Big rats…

Thump!

In a conversation with a local Maltese chap.

The thump you heard at the end is the district scouter falling off his chair, having fainted. Malta 2013

“3rd time today actually… I was ostracised by some sheep earlier…”

Scout Cycle to Gloucester 2014

“GET IN LINE! Left, right, left, right! What do you think this is a walk in the park!?!”

A Scout leader to the Scouts when on parade in Royal Victoria Park, Bath, 2007

“Blimey Charlie…”

“That’s c**p that is.”

Summer Camp, Wareham 2000

 “My Dad says thank you for the best Scout night ever!”

Scout reporting back to a leader when asked to bring an empty beer can to Scouts…

“Getting wet – in December!?”

Scout upon finding out next weeks programme plan…

Dan – great man of boat…

When using an online translator a French conversion of ‘Dan, Dan, the big boat man’ translated back thus.

“How long have we been travelling?”
“8 hours”
“8 hours! You can get to Canada in 8 hours.”
“Thank you George, I needed that.”

Stuck on the M6 from Peak District, Summer Camp 2006

 “You don’t know what we’ve been through”

Said with an awful lot of feeling by a ten year old Scout upon return of Alternative Summer Camp 2012

 It’s the game…

…the game we love to play.

“I’ve trekked up mountains, travelled the world, survived all weathers, but I’ve never been so exhausted as spending a day with your Scouts…!”

A new leader

SL: I’m taking a little break for this term.

Scout: Are you on maternity leave!?

2009

”Why are you throwing your rubbish in there?”

Reply: ” Because it’s a bin.”

Scout, Cycle Ride to Bath May 2008

“Is that a dead mouse!? Ahem, no it’s a leaf, right lets move on to the next obstacle, hurry up…”

Removed to protect the innocent!

“Are we really getting taxis to the London Eye!?”

Scout sitting at breakfast in North London, May 2009.

It’s ten to 6 and I’m sooo awake!

Sadly the other leaders in the tent weren’t, until then…

Alternative Summer Camp 2012

“I think they think you’re a Gromit…!”

Usher at a wedding which the Scouts tried to invade

Gromopoly 2013

 “That bridge is a death trap”

Be careful of off-hand, passing comments; other Scout leaders are unrelenting in their mockery…

Summer Camp 2014

…

Chief Scout: “…keep trying…”

A little later

Leader: What did you think of the Chief Scout?

Scout: Well, you’ve always told us to keep trying so it was all pointless really…

Avon Jamboree 2016

(I still enjoyed his visit…)

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