arlene

we were all having this discussion last night about cubs and brownies, it appears in the early 70's they were grooming us girls for housewife status

why because the badges we got were for cleaning, cooking, sewing, blacking the grate and looking after babies

what did the lads do.... learn how to light fires, camp out and how to fix and make things

i think i know who had the better time and it wasnt me

arlene

Pollster

That discrepancy was entirely the reason I got thrown out of the Guides - we had been sent off to find 10 wildflowers to pick and then arrange for a supper table - I took my patrol off down the scout hut where we caught a fish and cooked it on an open fire with the boys.

Returning to the Guide hut about 1/2 hour late, stinking of wood smoke and fish guts amd in response to the inevitable inquiry saying that picking wildflowers was a 'girlie waste of time' saw my time in the blue uniform at a premature end.

The Guider told my Dad when he came to collect me what had happened and that I had always been a 'troubling influence' on the other girls and he said he couldn;t have been happier about the way his daughter was turning out and took me down the pub for half a shandy (at 13) to celebrate!

artep

Good on ya Poll!!!!

These days at least girls are now allowed to join cubs and scouts. When my lad was in cubs there were more girls than boys!

When I was a kid I was in the brownies and my brother was in cubs....and he always got to have loads more fun than me!! ....sniff I also remember on parade days the cubs and scouts used to always take the p*ss out of us brownies because we had such a poxy small flag to carry. The scouts/cubs and guides always had huge flags compared to ours

Phoenixuk2oz

Got thrown out too. Too namby pamby for me anyway.

Parents wouldn't let me leave [had spent too much on new uniform].......... so I wasn't bovvered that I'd been asked to leave

Fink I like your dad. Will he adopt me...... pleeeeeeeeease

Phoenixuk2oz

bondipom

Pollster

So does that means you aren't going to organise any tupperware parties?

sky

I did the brownies and then the girl guides but then I went on to do venture scouts ... different kettle of fish entirely ... we did kayaking, climbing up scarfell and parascending loved every minute

lauralollipop

Arlene,

Ha,ha, just wondering what happened to me then?? I went to Brownies and guides, got all my badges and was made a sixer of the elves????? (what a saint)

But as for me being able to cook,sew and clean.......i think they failed miserabley on that one (or so my other half would say)


love laura
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Pollster

Prob not (although all the free stuff you get makes it tempting!)

I was thinking of a survivor party - go up into the bush, build a shelter, catch and kill a rabbit, skin and gut it, light a fire and cook it, a few beers, an uncomfortable night in the rain and cold - what could be better?

So whose coming? anyone? hello? Hevs? Polly? hello?

Brian & Lou

Sounds just like me, I did the whole Brownies and Guides thing(even got my Queen's Guide award) but was always pushing for more interesting activities, which I finally got in Ventures - loved every second of it. They even encouraged me to apply for (and be accepted on) Operation Raleigh - but thats another story. Still enjoy scouting and am now a leader, but would never even consider Brownies or Guides!

Larissa

Well, I was a lucky girlie coz my dad was Baloo (cub leader), so I got to do all the fun stuff and hang out with the boys. I went to Brownies, but couldn't stick it out for more than a few days!
I like the survivor element, but I don't like having to go along with all the authority stuff Would love to go on a survivor weekend with Pollster, so long as we stick to fish and don't kill any furry animals!

Pollyana

OMG!! Thats two of us!!! And I've still got the Elf badge too!
Must admit i was happier climbing trees with the boys though

artep

I would go on a survivor weekend as long as I had a nice comfy bed...lots of red wine....few munchies (gotta soak up the wine somehow) oh and a hunky man

BTW - I was a sixer of the sprites

lauralollipop

oh yea, i remember the sprites, i liked them, i was gutted to be in the elves cos the sprites always seemed more of a good name, and the badge looked better..........

cant believe you still have your elves badge, it might be a collectors item by now

When I were a lassss........sad eh...

laura
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artep

The brownie uniforms were awful tho........dresses with a brown belt and a yellow cross-over tie thing.....but the ABSOLUTE worst bit about my uniform was the brown bobble hat I had to wear!!!!!

lauralollipop

Bet your head was warm tho!!

"i promise that i will do my best to do my duty to God......blah blah"

and you had to have pencil paper and ten pence in your pocket...oh and some string etc.....


blast from the past or what.......

laura
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