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Memorables…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This page is dedicated to al those Beavers, Cubs Scouts, leaders or otherwise who make our lives simply wonderful!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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*****’* so posh, he doesn’t play “Duck, Duck, Goose” he plays “Pheasant, Pheasant, Quail”!!!<\/strong><\/div>\n
A poor unfortunate Scout getting a roasting from the others… All in good humour of course…<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
June 2025<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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“I find everything I want to take, then my mum turns my bag into the Tardis”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…said a Scout at Winter Camp 2023<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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“I can see a warehouse…”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Said a Scout when asked over the radio to give his location.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Expedition 2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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She’s 5’10 and sizzling<\/em> hot!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overheard by Scouts from a respectable looking passenger on a tube train in London 2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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“This is\u00a0 just full of mushy peas,” <\/strong>complains a Scout during Surfing 2019.<\/p>\n

“What is it you’ve got?” <\/b>asks the leader.<\/p>\n

“A pea fritter…”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surfing 2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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“They clearly didn’t have that much money…<\/strong><\/p>\n

…they couldn’t afford clothes for their statues.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scout at Osborne House IOW Summer Camp 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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“Nick’s preposterous choice of music!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Scout’s Summer Camp r<\/span><\/em>eport 2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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“How do I know if it’s cooked?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Eat it and wait 24 hours…”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probably not what you want to hear…<\/span><\/p>\n

Summer Camp IOW 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Quote of the decade:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“We’re 62nd, we don’t do knots!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Spoken by a Scout at Star City Trek Competition 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
“Voor rectal gebruick…”<\/p>\n

When buying Paracetamol in a foreign country read the packet very carefully!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Otherwise Scouts look very worried…<\/em><\/p>\n

Leader, Netherlands 2017<\/td>\n

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Get it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Got it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good.<\/span><\/p>\n

With thanks to Danny Kaye.<\/p>\n

Winter Camp 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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You’ll never outfox the fox.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also in homage to Danny Kaye and the wonderful film: The Court Jester. Winter Camp 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“Don’t jump Chris, just don’t jump…” ~ one Scout to another at the top of a perilously stacked pile of crates<\/span><\/p>\n

Winter Camp 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“Smells like chocolate” ~ Scout quote after getting off the minibus at Cadbury World<\/span><\/p>\n

Winter Camp 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Question asked to a Scout (an older one at that…) “Are you you scared of us leaders…?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Said with feeling, “Hell yes…”<\/span><\/p>\n

Pennwood 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“C’mon 62nd you should be able to win this one!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Shout of encouragement during Cub hockey final between 62nd ‘A’ & 62nd ‘B’<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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So, why did you join 62nd?<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the stuff you do looks amazing, Croatia sounded really good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Newish Scout to a leader 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“Even my pants are wet”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout Leader when taking down tents in the rain, Glenny Woods 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“The sound of the leader’s snoring was louder than the aeroplane engines”<\/span><\/p>\n

Jersey 2007 flight home<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“Stop picking flour out of your ear when on parade”<\/span><\/p>\n

Halloween night 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“I’m bored…”<\/span><\/p>\n

“BORED!<\/strong> In London, the capital city of the United Kingdom!?”<\/span> <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

London Trip 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“Where are you?”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m building cardboard caves.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Are you at the hut?”<\/span><\/p>\n

pause…<\/span> <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

“No, I’m doing it in my living room you pillock!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Phone conversation between two leaders, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Wind the bobbin up!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pennwood 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“I’m running out of snow”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout leader when cutting out ‘snow bricks’ from the field, full of snow, worst snow in 30 years in fact…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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So what’s making the noise on the roof at night?<\/span><\/p>\n

Big rats…<\/span><\/p>\n

Thump!<\/span><\/p>\n

In a conversation with a local Maltese chap.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thump you heard at the end is the district scouter falling off his chair, having fainted. Malta 2013<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“3rd time today actually… I was ostracised by some sheep earlier…”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout Cycle to Gloucester 2014<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“GET IN LINE! Left, right, left, right! What do you think this is a walk in the park!?!”<\/span><\/p>\n

A Scout leader to the Scouts when on parade in Royal Victoria Park, Bath, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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Super stoked!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Summer Camp 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“Blimey Charlie…”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“That’s c**p that is.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Summer Camp, Wareham 2000<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0“My Dad says thank you for the best Scout night ever!”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scout reporting back to a leader when asked to bring an empty beer can to Scouts…<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“Getting wet – in December!?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout upon finding out next weeks programme plan…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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Dan – great man of boat…<\/span><\/p>\n

When using an online translator a French conversion of ‘Dan, Dan, the big boat man’ translated back thus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“How long have we been travelling?”
\n“8 hours”
\n“8 hours! You can get to Canada in 8 hours.”
\n“Thank you George, I needed that.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuck on the M6 from Peak District, Summer Camp 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0“You don’t know what we’ve been through”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Said with an awful lot of feeling by a ten year old Scout upon return of Alternative Summer Camp 2012<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0It’s the game…<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

…the game we love to play.<\/span> <\/strong> <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Summer Camp 2014<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Conductor: …so anyone over the age of 40 will know exactly what piece is coming next.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout: What is it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout Leader: What!? I’m only 39!\u00a0Cheeky devil!<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

During a visit to see the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, February 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“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…!”<\/span><\/p>\n

A new leader<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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SL: I’m taking a little break for this term.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout: Are you on maternity leave!?<\/span><\/p>\n

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”Why are you throwing your rubbish in there?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Reply: ” Because it’s a bin.”<\/p>\n

Scout, Cycle Ride to Bath May 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“My life is complete, I’ve seen the large plug by Claes Oldenburg!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout, London 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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“Is that a dead mouse!? Ahem, no it’s a leaf, right lets move on to the next obstacle, hurry up…”<\/span><\/p>\n

Removed to protect the innocent!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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“Are we really getting taxis to the London Eye!?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout sitting at breakfast in North London, May 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Where are you now?<\/span><\/p>\n

Hilltop Farm<\/span><\/p>\n

That means nothing to me. What are you doing?<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m trying to find the other bus.<\/span><\/p>\n

I AM THE OTHER BUS! Let’s start again…<\/span><\/p>\n

One leader to another Surfing 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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It’s ten to 6 and I’m sooo<\/em> awake!<\/span> <\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly the other leaders in the tent weren’t, until then…<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I think they think you’re a Gromit…!”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Usher at a wedding which the Scouts tried to invade<\/span><\/p>\n

Gromopoly 2013<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0“That bridge is a death trap”<\/span> <\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Be careful of off-hand, passing\u00a0comments; other Scout leaders are unrelenting in their mockery…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chief Scout: “…keep trying…”<\/span><\/p>\n

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A little later<\/span> <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Leader: What did you think of the Chief Scout?<\/span><\/p>\n

Scout: Well, you’ve always told us to keep trying so it was all pointless really…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Avon Jamboree 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

(I still enjoyed his visit…)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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“I’ve got so much rice pudding in my ear I could feed three Scouts”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Specifically 3 Scouts…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The morning after a messy evening. 2018<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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“It’s easier than writing a script about yourself”<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Scout trying to scale a Jacob’s Ladder.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Memorables… This page is dedicated to al those Beavers, Cubs Scouts, leaders or otherwise who make our lives simply wonderful! *****’* so posh, he doesn’t play “Duck, Duck, Goose” he plays “Pheasant, Pheasant, Quail”!!! A poor unfortunate Scout getting a roasting from the others… All in good humour of course… June 2025 “I find everything … <\/p>\n

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