February 22nd – Thinking Day

my youngest is in guides and they celebrated it last year, i think they are doing something tonight Fran..i'm off to the Gc in a short while just for a look, that's what i'm thinking about ;-)

lol, glad it's still going on - even if I couldn't find anything but Guides online, can still hope that Scouts are keeping it up, too

Have a great time at the GC - going for anything in particular?

I think the scouts do Fran but they refer to it as Founders Day as its the birthday of Lord Baden-Powell..

ah, right, I'll have to Google that

almost! "Scouts' Day" in Wiki
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/8047.shtml

and from the Scout Association:
http://scout.org/en/about_scouting/facts_figures/baden_powell

*s* and I'm not only thinking about, but working on the next phase of my worktabe reconstruction

Good one Fran , at this rate you`ll soon have all your working space set up and then you`ll be looking and thinking about the next project, make sure you leave enough space for your plants and shrubs and somewhere for you to relax and admire your hard work...

After I've finished the worktable (when!) I intend to build some seats/storage boxes in a corner by the step, with a taller one in the actual corner to use as a table for cups, wine glasses or a plant, or any combination.

I wantt o keep as much ground space free as I can; I'll need to be able to reach - and see! - the plants at the back. I've already got some tables, so I can have lower tiers in front, so long as I leave an access gap between them.

But that'll involve planning - these units were already assembled, so I just had to adapt them a bit. The next job will be from scratch.

Will be interesting to see what you come up with...

lol Lincs, to me too! I get brilliant ideas, at least they're brilliant till I try putting them on paper, much less actually start building - then there seems to be some kind of short-circuit and it goes off at right angles

only got a few things Fran, a ginger plant and a pinapple plant for the summer :-) i do like the sound of your plans it'll be great when it's done. :-)

wow, they sound good, Surrey.

lol I once bought a pineapple from a supermarket just to grow the top, as I'd read in a book; actually eating the fruit was a by-product of that intention. Didn't take, but at least I had a fruit salad to show for it.

lol i tried the same too :-)

My Hub has been in the scouts all his life Fran and has received his long service medal too. He is still involved with the fellowship who raise much needed funds for various reasons, not sure he does much thinking these days though lol.
I am thinking today about how to improve my front garden it is small and in need of a makeover!

I was a leader for 18+ years, GM, training as a Cub and then a Scout leader, getting my "beads" for both. I had to take some time off in the 90s to get my life sorted out, and when I felt ready to go back, my vision had started to go, so I thought I'd join the Fellowship and help out in the background. But in those years I'd had off, I'd finally come out as a Pagan, and I put that on my form. The response came at the speed of light: I had to be "kept away from the kids at all costs" - cos everyone knows that pagans are perverts. sigh.

awk, didn't mean to sound as if I have a down on Scouts - wouldn't have posted this blog if I had! great organisation, taught me lots and great fun mostly - lol we sued to say that the only problem with scouting was all these kids all over the palce.

I've long advocated an adult version - i mean for grownups, not "adult, hem-hem"! it'd do adults as much good to learn stuff as much as it does the kids, and thre's more of us than there is of them!

I was thinking how I might mix some packets of annuals and sew them about the garden, to have a colourful effect ..... and then Sarah Raven suggested the same thing on her prog lol ...... Great minds think alike :o)

My grandson has at last got his place in the scout group, starts tomorrow, he went to the cubs and really enjoyed it but there aren`t many places so he`s had to wait for 8mths for a place...

Hywel, great prog. wasnt it? I like her idea in fact I have learnt a lot especially about planting single flowers only and I also was trying to think where I could sprinkle some wild flowers too.
Fran, its funny that you were part of the fellowship too, Lincs glad you little lad has got a place now, think it is very good for them.

lol Hywel, but you had the idea before you heard it there, so you can still claim priority!

it should be a lovely patchwork effect, please get lots of pics of the "work in progress!

nods to Lincs, we had a full Cub Pack and a waiting list, but there was always room to spare in our Scouts, other things for kids to do at that age, that don't involve other kids laffin' at 'em for wearing Scout uniform down the street! At our training course, found out that sometimes two Cubs Packs share a Scout Troop, and that there's only enough people for one Venture Scout Group in a whole district ... shame, they start off young but it sort of tapers off a lot of the time - of course, inner-city scouting has its own problems; you can take Cubs for a day out but affording a week's camp more than once or twice a year for Scouts can be a bit of a prob, especially when a family has two or even three brothers in uniform!

I wrote a letter to the local church, literaly round the corner: it has a lot of ground around it, but I don't know how much of that actually goes with the church; I suggested a communcal gardening project: I've got packs of seeds that I can't use here, bee and butterly attracting, and it might get local kids involved, and they should help stop it being vandalised.

The vicar dropped in today and we had a chat; he's going to see what local itnerest there might be. with any luck, we might be able to turn a patch of grass into a wildflower garden.

lol GM, try guerilla gardening? bit of waste ground near yoiu, an underused bit of park or public space?