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Thinking Day



Greetings to all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts past and present! 100 years of Girl Guiding this year; they must be doing something right.
The photo is a newspaper clipping showing me as the youngest Brownie in the pack with our mascot doll, nearly as big. I don't expect today's Brownies dance around a giant toadstool singing,

'We're the ever helpful Imps,
Quick and quiet as any shrimps.'

More Guide posts here.
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Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 at 05:23 pm | | Leave a comment | 15 comments |

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land_girl

How lovely! You were very pretty.
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 05:25 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

callmemadam

Ha ha ha! I certainly had chubby knees in those days.
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 05:51 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

cornflowerbooks

You can't have been very big, but the doll - for a doll - must have been huge! And is she called Constance? (if so, what good taste, as that's my mother's name!).
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 05:42 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

callmemadam

The doll was called Constance! And she was enormous. I wonder what happened to her?
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 05:53 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

hartleyhare

Oh wow! That's a lovely picture. I was a Kelpie, but I'm not sure I have any photographs.
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 06:40 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

callmemadam

Goodness, Kelpies sound exotic! We had Gnomes (who helped their mothers in their homes), Sprites and another I can't remember.
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 07:34 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

huskyteer

Was it Elves, helping others not themselves?
Posted on Feb. 23rd, 2010 10:37 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

callmemadam

Y'know, I think it was and the Sprites were a figment of my imagination. I've been told off for forgetting the Pixies. Did they help people out of fixes, perchance? These days I can only think of Pixy Frou-frou.
Posted on Feb. 23rd, 2010 11:36 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

scarletts_web

Our pack has a giant toadstool. We had a nice Thinking Day service at church yesterday with lots of stories from the older leaders. That is a lovely photo.
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 06:51 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

callmemadam

Oh, I'm so glad to know that! I can't think what ours was made of but it was spotted.
Glad you like the ancient pic.
Posted on Feb. 22nd, 2010 07:36 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply
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callmemadam

Oh, a good trun is lovely! But YFM was unkind to laugh.
Posted on Feb. 23rd, 2010 07:52 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

lurpak

aw, very sweet! I was a Pixie. Somewhere I have a newspaper clipping of me with my Brownie Pack too.
Posted on Feb. 23rd, 2010 02:19 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

callmemadam

More shame on me for forgetting the Pixies! Brownies are photogenic; they're often in our free magazine.
Posted on Feb. 23rd, 2010 02:57 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Oh what memories! I loved Brownies and refused to 'fly up' to Guides. In fact I left it alone for years till I became a Brown Owl, which was fun. And now my elder granddaughter is a Sixer and the younger one is starting Rainbows. I love the continuity of it all.

Nicky Slade
www.nicolaslade.com
Posted on Feb. 24th, 2010 07:19 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

callmemadam

I flew up with my Brownie Wings and how silly I felt!

I love the continuity of it all.
Absolutely.
Posted on Feb. 24th, 2010 07:28 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply