Tag: Rainbows
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Rainbows Sleepover – The Stables, Gibside
I’m back in Brownie Pack Holiday planning mode for next Spring. Options include heading back to Cheviot View in Wooler, which we loved, or staying closer to home to save on the coach travel. So the decision hasn’t been made yet. When my fellow Rainbow leaders in the division Karen and Natalie were looking to…
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Pizza Express Party – Gosforth High Street
It’s the end of term-woo hoo! It must be time for the long anticipated Pizza Express Party. Wow can’t quite believe we have made it to the end of the school year with 8 weeks off from weekly Guiding meetings. I’m definitely ready for the break to recharge and have some exciting ideas for September.…
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Bee Hive visit at Stella House in Newburn
Bees’ Needs Week 9 – 17th July There seems to be a week for everything these days, some more bizarre than others, but it was a coincidence that as I was writing this guiding update that I received an email from The Wildlife Trust informing me that it was Bees’ Needs Week from the 9 –…
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Rainbows Sleepover – Pasture House, County Durham
A few months ago one of my local guide leader friends Natalie sent an instant message asking if I fancied coming along on a Rainbows sleepover in March. I did!!…….. but as I hadn’t been on a guiding overnight since my own Brownie pack holiday at Spennymoor, County Durham in the late 1980’s, I was…
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Girl guiding adventures…it’s only an hour a week!
Brownie Bells My journey with the Girl Guides started in the small church hall of St Marks church in Jarrow when I joined the brownies at 7. This church is now a boot camp gym – a reflection on dwindling church goers I guess! Oh and the fact half of the streets surrounding it were…