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NanKate Wed 26-Feb-14 21:39:51

We are staying in Sussex helping looking after our grandchildren whilst our DIL is at work this week and our son is away on tour.

On our Daily To do list she asked if we would put a lit candle (not real) in the front window at 6.00 pm. One hundred people had been asked to do this to mark 100 years tonight of the starting of the Girl Guides in their South Downs village, which is still going strong today.

I wonder what the guides of 1914 would make of our 2014 guides and in reverse.

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Grannyknot Wed 26-Feb-14 22:40:14

What a lovely idea.

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merlotgran Wed 26-Feb-14 22:45:57

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

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mollie Thu 27-Feb-14 09:32:48

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

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NanKate Thu 27-Feb-14 10:13:34

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

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Galen Thu 27-Feb-14 10:26:35

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

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Gagagran Thu 27-Feb-14 11:14:24

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! smile

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rosesarered Thu 27-Feb-14 11:25:47

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

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Soutra Thu 27-Feb-14 11:31:07

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"!

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NanKate Thu 27-Feb-14 15:20:20

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. smile

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mollie Thu 27-Feb-14 15:23:52

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

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