100 candles

If girls can join the scouts these days can boys join the guides? And the junior branches of course...

I have made some great friends in the WI and make sure I avoid one or two of the old 'battle axes' who want to run things as they were run in the Dark Ages !

I am not very good at keeping to the rules. But I am good at volunteering to help.

My 32 year old DD has joined her local WI in East London and it sounds nothing like WIs I have ever heard of. Wish that had existed (as we say "in my day"!

Yes gagagran you still get bossed about in W.I.

I was a brownie, a guide, a guide leader and a ranger-guide leader and had some wonderful times in each. Now I go to WI and when my DGD (also a guide) asked me what WI was like, I told her "grown-up guides". And it is!

I did it. Then got up at 3am to check I'd blown it out!
I hadn't

Meriotgran it is a small flickering candle that is battery operated.

Nice idea, I was a guide in the 60s and had some very good times. Bet todays guides are very different!

Yes. A lovely idea but what's a lit candle that's not real?

What a lovely idea.