Monday 23td May 2011

It wouldn’t be Centurions if it weren’t for the odd day or 2 out, away from the hut in the open air/the scary outdoors. This week the leaders had decided we should all go bouldering. No one had ever heard of this before but when we saw what we were facing, we were overjoyed! Massive rocks, some a storey high, that we could challenge ourselves on. We were let loose and everyone found the activity to be good exercise and great fun. It may not seem like much, but climbing up and over a few boulders sure does make an hour or 2 fly past. Whilst some puffed and panted others preferred to climb on to a boulder and relax for the hour and watch the world pass by. One thing that did shock us on the day though was the amount of midges and flies! The look on Pinto’s face when he saw thousands of them was magical, a mixture of shear shock and joy. All explorers agreed - it’s a day that should happen again in the future.

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Monday 18th April 2011

Now this night was one that got everyone excited (Although no one wanted to show it). It was the ART ATTACK NIGHT! For one night in our lives we could relive our childhood memories from the TV. Everyone thought that they were Neil Buchanan and the chosen material for our big art attack was salt. Everyone drafted out some rough ideas until we had 2 pictures worthy of being blown up to half the size of the hall. We then smothered both the floor and ourselves in chalk and salt to make the dream into reality! We ended up with 2 marvellous pieces of floor art – a cute duck in typical British weather *cough cough* and a really posh looking owl dressed in a scout uniform. Well done guys, well done.

Fluffy ducks basking in the sun and a slighty mangled owl...it's what Mr Buchanan would have wanted

Monday 28th February 2011

This night was truly a good ol’ gathering. 3 different explorer units all packed into the hut to design monsters. Everyone felt 8 years old again and we all sat in trepidation, waiting for the materials to be handed out. To everyone’s shock, teams were given some string, plastic bags, bin-liners and bits of old cardboard. Suddenly the teams didn’t seem as enthusiastic anymore, but all ploughed on until every group had a poor explorer coated in the sort of high end fashion accessories you might just find at your local dump. Overall the evening was a success with the winning team, from our own unit no less, having stood out to the judges, and so win the inter unit "Thing Trophy" for a very childish reason...

The fabled "Thing Trophy"

Monday 3rd January 2011

Well, it was business as usual for the 1st session of the year. Everyone turned up half an hour late and despite being told to dress for sports, we turned up done up to the nines with jeans and hoodies. Glenn’s face didn’t fill us with confidence. He looked far too happy to see us, and so our fears were confirmed…EXERCISE!

We instantly poked fun at the early 90s workout video that was shown to us and no one really knew what the hell was going on, however at the end of the night I think we all agreed, the exercise DVD was invented for women!

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