Tuesday's Tales

Tuesday dawned - hot and sunny! Bugler, erm - that looks wrong - bloke with trumpet type thing now not sounding until 7am, so all much better first thing in the morning!

Today's morning programme was Rubbish. Garbage. Actually, it was neither of those things - it was Trash. Yup - that was the actual title of the thing - we live in a kind of US English / French hybrid world here... The Explorers seemed to enjoy it - they had to build something from rubbish (thought to be Not Bad), make lots of noise with rubbish things (Very Good), answer a general knowledge quiz about rubbish (gosh, is that the time? Gotta go...).

And the afternoon's programme was Choice. A whole variety of activities, on which, unfortunately, your Intrepid correspondent is only able to comment on one, Energise, 'cause it's the only one he got to... Apologies for news gathering capabilities being a bit limited...

Anyhow, Energise. This is designed as an outlet for the Vast Amount of Energy Kids Have, assuming that a. they've not been on a camp for six days and b. it's not bleedin' warm... However, despite a. and b. those that went all had a go on activities as diverse as circus skills ("look at me! I can balance on a.... Ow!") and scuba diving, with BMXes, skateboards, half pipes, football, basketball, and a whole lot more all making an appearence. Needless to say, the Explorers are sleeping soundly at night...

Apart from that, what else to report? Tomorrow's programme is Scouting Sunrise, which requires us to all be in place in the Main Arena before 8am. Ouch. Which means we have to meet at 6:35am. Ouch, squared. Which means that we have to get up at 5:30am... Which is going to be exceedingly painful for many people! However, we should, hopefully, get some news coverage, so keep an eye out for some more coverage from the Jamboree. In a similar vein, our Young Spokespeople, Peter H and Vickie H should be live on BBC Radio Something at 10:40am tomorrow. Unfortunately, the details were given to Peter, who managed to forget the specifics inbetween his meeting with the UK Contingent Media people and getting back to the campsite... He has been dispatched to try and get the useful bit of information about which BBC radio station it's going to be, and as soon as we know this we'll post a quick note here!

Also in the media, hopefully, will be a picture of SolJam at tomorrow's Scouting Sunrise! Admittedly, it's only (hopefully) going to be in the Solihull News, but keep an eye out for it. Unfortunately, we lost out in the draw for a representative from SolJam to join others from Wadi (our sub-camp) who are going to be talking live to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday...

That's about it, apart from to add that we have a visit from Phil. P's family today, and that the Leaders all had a very nice meal in the German beer tent! More later!