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Any ex-Girl Guides on here?

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TriciaF Mon 09-Jan-17 16:54:30

Trying to get our log fire going today, I remembered my introduction to fire-lighting in the Girl guides. Make a pyramid, kindling first etc.
I think I got my fire-lighter's badge, but looked it up and it doesn't exist now, thought the Guides are still going strong, all around the world.
I do remember getting the thrift badge, by using only 2 matches to light the fire in our kitchen at home. It was in a black-leaded range with an oven at the side.
Any other ex- Guides here?

Stansgran Mon 16-Jan-17 09:54:25

I would have loved to have been a Brownie or a guide but my mother just had no interest in sending me although my broth became a Queen's Scout and went to Windsor Castle . Both my daughters were brownies and Guides and Venture Scouts. But their children no.

boggles Mon 16-Jan-17 12:24:42

When I went for my cookery badge I was asked - What would you do with left over food? I, quite truthfully, said 'give it to the cat' I got the badge, but I think the lady just wanted to get rid of me!

Galen Mon 16-Jan-17 13:14:25

Eiral
I visited that jamboree at Sutton Park. I was a guide in the 1st Lichfield group.

Pigglywiggly Mon 16-Jan-17 17:29:20

I broke a piece of China when I did my cook's badge. The tester (a man who was a chef) said it was irreplaceable. Why would you trust a 13 year old Guide with irreplaceable China? It was all very embarrassing.

annodomini Mon 16-Jan-17 18:49:20

I am left wondering how on earth I got my Child Nurse badge. I think my neighbour must have lent me a child for just long enough for her to survive my attention. I knew a girl from another company who made the national (well, Scottish) headlines for having gained every available proficiency badge as well as being a Queen's Guide. I never knew when she found the time!