Last weekend was the training camp for people completing their DofE expeditions by canoe. Camp started on Friday evening as we lugged barrels full of our personal kit down to Scout Park, ready to load onto the van. We also had the all-important food barrels (containing ridiculous amounts of sugar), and the group kit barrels. […]
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Surviving Snowdonia: Easter Camp 2016
We all knew it was coming. Really, we did. All the signs were there: the warnings from Marlon, the dismal weather forecast, and of course the sunny Friday evening that was too good to last. So we did know what was coming. But that didn’t mean we were ready for ‘Storm Katie’: non-stop rain and […]
Read more‘A Scout Takes Care of All Possessions and Property…’
After a wet and windy weekend in Snowdonia we returned on Monday night to the mammoth, and unenviable, task of drying out all of the patrol tents, jurte and mess tent. Luckily we were able to book the Sheridan Hall at Scout Park and we hung all of the wet canvases on chairs to dry […]
Read moreCoffee, Mud, and Camping: Patrol Leader Training Camp
PL Camp Day 1 (Saturday, as told by Dearbhla): Of course, my recall will not be completely accurate, as I overslept and started camp at 11am rather than 10am. The one thing I was not expecting – and quickly became aware of – was the mud. Soooo much mud, as I spent most of the […]
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Banff Mountain Film Festival
Sitting in a church for three and a half hours may not be most people’s idea of a fun night out, but when you spend that time watching awe-inspiring footage of people doing crazy things on mountains, the time seems to fly by. Last night, instead of the usual evening at Scout Park, WWESU Explorers […]
Read moreSouthern 50 2016
There’s nothing quite like a long, muddy hike to get you in the mood for February half-term. Last Saturday several WWESU teams took part in the Southern 50 challenge, which takes place in the Chiltern Hills: to walk either 30km, 50km, or 50 miles in 24 hours. The weekend started late on Friday night, as […]
Read morePancake Day: WWESU does ‘Matilda’
For some of our members, last night meant receiving their Jack Petchey awards. For the rest of us, however, it meant celebrating Pancake Day by attempting a remaking of the pancake scene from the film ‘Matilda’. Although our version may not be very true to the original, we definitely had fun making it. Watch the […]
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A Very British Weekend
There is nothing quite so British as the garden shed, so we must be a very British Unit…. as we now have two! Two big, spacious sheds! Is it weird to be this excited by sheds? Possibly. But we’re Scouts, and we are. Last weekend saw members of the Unit heading down to Scout Park […]
Read moreA Weekend in the Peak District
On the 22nd January, a combination of Wild Wolf ESU and Tottenham ESU Explorers drove up to the Peak District for a weekend of hiking and hosteling. There was lots of mud, lots of hills, and lots of cake. Here are some of the highlights:
Read moreLondon to Paris 2015: Life on Two Wheels
Written by the Explorer Scouts who cycled from London to Paris. It all started with a flyer in my inbox – did I want to cycle to Paris in half term? I’ve never even rode my bike to school! Anyway, I went to the meeting and got a kit list, and went on a short […]
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