Beavers Camp

Beavers and guardians

Saturday was a very exciting day.  BEAVERS SLEEP OVER!

First though was football training!  Tom did very very very well with his training today.  He was put in the second team and really really shone - we were so proud: he tackled, he attacked, he passed, fantastic team work.

Interesting head gear at the Folk Weekend

We brought him home, showered him and then delivered him to the park to meet up with the Beavers for their sleep over.  This was a 23 hour camp, lots of games in the morning which Tom missed, then navigation walk in the afternoon, camp fire & dinner in the evening, followed by a film and then sleeping in tents in the scout hut for the night.



Matt and I were on walking duty.  I can't say I was looking forward to it as I'm not great with other people's children, so I was very surprised to really enjoy myself.  The sleepover was with the Settle Beavers Colony as well.  The Ingleton and Settle Beavers got on really well, as if they were already best friends and the children were fun and interesting to be with.  The afternoon flew by.  We didn't actually walk far, the children had to navigate their way around the village which they did fine.  We ended up in the village square where there were a number of Morris Dancing Troops doing their stuff (it was Folk Weekend in the village) so we stopped and watched them for a while.

Returning Beaver

We were relieved of our duties when we got back to the scout hut and I was quite sorry to say goodbye, as I was enjoying myself.  Tom wasn't bothered to see us go though.  He was right in his element.

The deal was that we could leave them in the scout hut, but had to remain nearby just in case we were needed, so although Matt and I had an evening to ourselves, we had to stay in the village.  We ended up doing a pub crawl as it was Folk Weekend.  We started off with burgers and a couple of pints in the Marton Arms and then walked back to the village, had a round in the Wheatsheaf with the Bickerstaffs and then a night cap in The Old Post Office.

Sunday morning, we headed down to the scout hut for 9am pickup.  Everyone was buzzing, they had had a great time (apparently all asleep by 11pm).  Tom chose to sleep in a tent with a Beaver from Settle and a boy from Bentham - very proud that he didn't cling to people he knew.  He was a very happy bunny.

Beautiful morning at Ribblehead

Now, we didn't plan much for Sunday as we figured Tom would be tired.  It was a lovely day so in the morning we headed up to Ribblehead and did the Ribblehead walk.  We then had lunch in Inglesport. Matt then headed out on his bike, whilst Tom and I stayed at home and watched a film.  We didn't need to have a quiet day, Tom was fine, didn't show any signs of tiredness at all!  In fact he came home much cheerier than he's been for a while.  It was nice to have the old happy Tom back, we had been missing him.