Forget about the girls....

....these are my challenges for the next year

Look up High - Climbing, growing and getting to the top
1. Top of the Tower
Visit a well-known tower (10 points) Not done yet  but there’s the potential of a day trip somewhere fairly local at some point in the spring (I'll tell you all about it when we've been there!)
2. Upside Down
Ride a rollercoaster (10 points)  We’ve got a County trip to Paultons Park in May so I have no doubt that I’ll be going on a rollercoaster then
4. Grow Tall
Watch something grow. Plant a herb or sensory garden (15 points) I've been meaning to plant a herb garden for ages so perhaps this'll give me an incentive

7. Jump Up High

Play jumping beans, hopscotch, leapfrog or kangaroos (5 points)  Played hopscotch and “elastic” games with the Brownies

In the Dark - Adventures, sleeping and exploring at night time.

5. Disco Music - Music and sounds are amplified in the dark

Carols (5 points)  Carols by candlelight

7. Play in the Dark

Wide games in the dark (5 points)  Dark meeting at Christmas

Wet & Wild - Getting around on water and getting wet.
4. In the Surf
Kayaking (10 points)  Get back into kayaking
                   

What a Performance! - Singing, dancing, acting and mime.

4. Live Theatre

Go and see ‘live theatre’. (10 points)  Radio play of HHGttG at Hitchcon09, various local shows, Pantomime, anything else I end up seeing

Look to the Future - What will you do and be?
1. Grow Guiding.  This of ways to recruit new members into our movement.
Use materials available from Girlguiding UK’s Project 50K and display in your local area.(5 points)  okay then.......
10. What Next for Me ?
Find about employment opportunities in your local area, or what the entry requirements are for the local college. (10 points)  OU course?

Ice Cool - Freezing activities and being chilled out.
6. Ice
An adventure on ice – skating, skiing or sledging (5 points) 

8. Wrap up Warm

Try knitting a scarf to keep warm (5 points)  Knitting is not my thing but I do consider teaching the Brownies to knot fleece together into scarves as being worth 5 points!

Share the Adventure - Taking part in Centenary adventures.

1. Centenary Launch Parties (10 points)  done

10. Finale
At 20:10 on 20 October 2010 all members will be meeting to kick off the next 100 years of guiding! We will also be renewing our Promise, so be part of this exciting moment! (10 points)

Moving - All kinds of travel explored.
2. Bike Rides
 Know how to mend a puncture and undertake a cycling proficiency course. (10 points) show Brownies how to look after their bikes?
5. How Fast Can You Go ?
Quad biking (10 points)

Wacky 100 - Crazy ideas around the number 100.
3. 100 Miles
Travel 100 miles and keep a record of all you see on the way (20 points)   sounds fun!  Ooh, how about walking 100 miles of the SW coast path over the summer?
10. Centenary Moments
Perhaps make a scrapbook or stick them in the Greatest Adventure (20 points)  Centenary blog

Flashback - Looking at the decades.
9. 1990s: WWW

Use technology to tell people about guiding (20 points) Create a unit webpage

I haven't forgotten about this blog!

Honestly I haven't.  We went all Christmassy for a few weeks while we made stuff for the bazaar and then we had a party in the dark.  Oh yeah, that was an Adventure 100 challenge, wasn't it?

For reasons that I'm still mildly unsure of, my fiancé had a tube full of those glow necklace things and I wanted a decent excuse to wear my sparkly neckerchief (it's got flashing LEDs!) so the last Brownie meeting of the term was a "dark meeting".  After issuing all the girls and leaders with necklaces and giving them a brief rundown of the rules, we got on with the rest of the meeting.  Games in the dark - check!  Brownie Ring in the dark - check!  Register in the dark - ummm, perhaps not.  The girls were pretty much in the dark but the lights above the leaders' table were still on so I went back there to call the names.  Overall, it wasn't that dark.  We left the lights on on the Christmas tree and the hall has skylights so there was quite a lot of light coming in from outside.  We played musical statues and only stopped when the lights came on, not when the music stopped which was absolutely nothing to do with there being no power sockets for the stereo within arm's reach of the light switches.  I then hid a ticking clock and my iPod which was playing very quietly around the room and the girls had to find them.  I think the Brownies enjoyed the meeting but after Pack Holiday the previous weekend, I was still shattered so it was a lot of work to keep the girls from running riot during the meeting.