Tonight’s meeting started about 8 minutes late. The leaders decided to wait until the scouts were quiet in their patrols before starting. Fiona F couldn’t make it tonight so Fiona L from the Beaver team joined us. The Raven patrol organised the first game and it was Chairball played outside. Even though we have played this game a number of times, some scouts could not figure out the rules or even the premis of the game. You have to pass the ball to your own goalie to score. D

The Jaguar Patrol had planned the first game for after our opening ceremony. Emma looked a bit confused when she was reminded, but after a short consultation with her patrol the light bulb went off and everyone was told to head outside to the basketball court. The game was Stuck in the Mud. Luke, Anthony, and Finn were chosen to be on. The game went on for a while with no apparent end in sight. Following Brendan’s mantra of “A quick game is a good game” he pulled everyone in

To start our meeting we had a minutes silence for the former chief scout Michael John Shinnick who recently passed away. We were very lucky to have him at our first investiture. He will be greatly missed. After that we played a group game. The aim was to get a tennis ball from one end of the room to the other using our heads. It was tricky at first but lots of fun! Check out a video below. We then split up into our groups and worked on our emergency badges. Half the group ar

Our Thursday night meeting was full of mixed emotions, as it was Ciarán’s last meeting until next year. It was a uniform week so we were inspected. We played a great game called 1,2,3 out on the basketball court. It was a patrol challenge this time with a patrol in each corner instead of playing individually. The last person to make it to the designated corner was eliminated and the winners was the patrol with the last members left. It was a great energy releasing game. We th