•18 Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, June 5th,2008
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We all celebrated our in style!
: At troop level, camps to, Waddecar and Sil-_; verdale were documented in the Clitheroe .
■ Advertiser, and several hardy Scouts more - than earned their Expedition Challenge badges : by hiking 32 miles over three days and camp ing two nights in the middle of December over)' the rainiest three days we have had for 10, years.
' Another year and now a new challenge for
me, as Group Scout Leader at St Mary Mag-: dalene Scout Group, Clitheroe. This was to be our first camp since I rejoined the group and there was plenty of preparation involved - ■
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buying the food, checking the tents, stoves, gas bottles, frying pans, utensils, kebab sticks, water canisters, altar fire, firelighters, matches,
. Brillo pads, washing up liquid and a thousand' other things. Parents arrive at Bowley, Great Harwood’s
International Scout Campsite, at 7-15 p.m. as requested, but no leader. Where is Chris? Well, I was stuck on the A59 with a puncture on the : trailer so carefully packed to bring all the stuff! I used a footpump to re-inf late the tyre every ' two to three miles. Arriving at 7-45,, we run down (literally) to site B4 on the lower field. We only have to share the vast space with one other group camped in the opposite corner. Within, the hour we have three of the five-
man (well five-Cub) tents pitched, a dining: shelter-cum-kitchen and an altar fire lit. Pal- ■ lets thoughtfully brought and positioned are lifted and built into tables, others are broken down for fuel. Hot dogs are served, followed by marshmallows toasted over the fires, some cake and then we begin to sing. Scouts of all ages, fresh air and singing. New
Cubs watch older Scouts sing with gusto. Eager to learn the words and tunes, songs are sung and re-sung, monologues, jokes and poems are dotted between the end of one song and the beginning of the next. All faces are ; eerily lit in the half-light as the sun fades, sets and the magic of the fire is cast over the ensemble.
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Then “Wide Games” - energetic games in r the wide outdoors.^ Scouts love wide games. We '
LAST year was a milestone for Scouting worldwide - 1 0 0 years of Scouting. The year’s celebrations were'marked through-: out the world with camps and a niyriad o f ;; events. Here in E ^ t Lancashire, and e spe - : cially in Glitheroe District, we made the. most of our opportunities. ■
B WITH the excitemeni of their centenary ^ byear still fresh in their minds. Cubs and . i ^ Scouts across the country are getting back to what they do best... Scouting!
kMjWitli the arrival of
better.weather,' that i; (f, inevitably means going to'camp, and that '
•iw. is just how a party of Cubs and Scouts*: i Fcfrom St Mary Magdalene Scout Group, i; ;-:sjn Clitheroe,'spent a weekend in May.') „ ' Here,' Group Scout Leader CHRIS ', ;'’ <'?'^PICKLES tells the story''
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•play Foxes and Hounds.:Foxes run off to hide as later the hounds are unleashed baying into the night, weird (but not yet weary) howling around the field. When the “foxes” are caught and brought back to the fire, questions asked of them in the flickering glow are eventually answered; “What is Prince Phillip’s first name?” or “Where was the Battle of Hast ings?” often draw blank looks and some heavy
-hints are required. When answered correctly the captured fox is released and the hunt begins again. ■ •
• Eventually all return, ruddy-faced, for hot sweet cocoa. Hands cup the warmth and eye lids begin to droop. Midnight comes and goes before the Cubs finally turn in, followed an hour later by the older Scouts and Explorers who slope a\vay. to their dormitory lair. The adults are last to go, wishing each other a good night’s sleep and knowing full well that not even a hardened gambler would take the odds of actually getting any sleep, but what the heck, you have to try!
: ; Daylight floods the canvas at 5-20, by 6 my watch tells me I’ve had two hours’ sleep. Unzip the bag, the inner and the outer tent uncurl into the dew-laden carpet and a wispy cotton wool blue sky. From the embers, last night’s fire is coaxed back to life. Oil is liberated into the frying pan and, when the carbon dulls. Cowman’s Welsh Fat Pork Sausages are added one by one - all 19. Sleepy heads appear as the aroma penetrates some slumbers, ears prick to the sizzle, hunger wrestles with the warm com fort of sleeping bags and more bodies appear. •; Plates and cups'are brought expectantly and bacon,’eggs,'sausages, Frdsties and cold milk
: are eagerly consumed. Volunteers wash up while two six-foot;Explorers fetch water. Dressed in Scout shirts and neckerchiefs we scuttle untidily: to the main field. Sorted by
height, shirts tucked and neckers re-tied, the flag is broken. We salute, fall out and return. ■ Day sacks are packed and filled with apples, bananas, oranges, biscuits and chocolate bars. Boots are tied and coats tucked away just in ' case. With blue sky above and the sun warm-
• ing our clothes and skin, we set off through the gate and across the field, watching as boys tumble, stumble and grumble. Boots are re tied, laces pulled and secured and on......
:: • We walk happily, chatting as we go and stop ping for a drink before striding confidently
■ past Read Hall and on over and down through ■ fields and farms populated only with horses. We wend our way along, now singing again
as a second wind brings calls for “Swing on a Star”, “Ilkley Moor” and “The Captains Ship”. Safely across the road, boys scurry away
• knmying that camp is just a few hundred yards that way.
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Jenny and Lexi have prepared the fires, din ner will be baked potatoes topped, cored and .
■ filled with baked beans, egg, tuna or cheese, with HP sauce or ketchup, mustard or mayon naise - oh my, tuna, cheese and mustard! All are oiled, double wrapped in foil and placed in the embers to cook. Once cooked and eaten (well some were),
some play while other wash pots. We wait and enjoy the weather before an hour of archery. Little hands struggle with bows and arrows, targets are aimed at, but rarely hit, tongues
: protrude with strained concentration. 1 ' All return and jobs are given, spuds to peel, carrots to cut, celery to slice, onions to cry over, garlic to crush. Lamb is browned as the potatoes and carrots are boiled in the stock. ‘Roman Lamb Stew” bubbles gently, spaghet
ti is timed and all are fed. ■ Energy restored, more games follow, as
adults. Leaders, Explorers, Scouts, Cubs and that one Beaver run, chase, scream, curse, pull, push and fall as the day gently dims. As the light fades, across the field our Scouting com rades start to sing. All listen for a while, but soon battle is joined! “Mighty, Mighty Clitheroe” booms across,
Matilda is waltzed, that troublesome kanga roo is tied down, we swing on a star, but the piece-de-resistance was the Explorers’ (Alex,
• Luke, Oli and Anna) glorious and totally awe some rendition of a pop song by ‘‘Electric Six” - oh I wish I had a camera. Our singing com panions are stunned into silence and we con tinue with jokes and tales, more songs old and
new. Ian Dury’s “Hit me with your Rhythm Stick” and Queen’s anthemic “We will rock you” are tried, tested and found wanting, but we will return at another camp better armed with lines learned! Some are tiring, but another hour of wide
games is followed by cocoa, marshmallows to toast and cake to eat. Then to bed, to sleep, perchance to dream.
Well for some. Thanks Matthew! In bed at 12, woken at 1-30, then again just before 4 .1 awake, not to sleep again, at 6 and up at 6-20. ■We raise the dead from their slumber, bully bodies to wash their hands and clean their teeth. We feed them, get them dressed once again for flag break before setting out again to walk to Whalley Banks, Painter Wood and back. Yesterday’s good weather deserts us, but
undaunted we are “singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, what a glorious feeling. I’m hap-hap-hap”... well maybe not! ■ Having returned to camp through hidden
lanes and long-lost passages, we all have to set to. This part of camp usually brings out the worst in me. Pitching camp is easy - enthusi asm abounds and many; hands make light work. Striking camp is a nightmare. No one wants to go, no one wants to pack
their bag, it will not fit, those are not my socks, “I’ve done my bit”. But add a few adults, a quorum of Explorers and wow'l Cubs are packed rucksacks are stowed, tents are dropped, boxes are put in cars and we are ready to roll. So we spend an hour on the air rifle range. Parents come at 6 and all are gone by 6-30. A
long shower, a cold beer and bed to sleep - maybe all day Bank Holiday Monday - bliss! As always, it is not possible Mthout the boys
(and girls) so a big “thank you” to Alex, Luke, Oli, Anna, Jacob, Josh, Matt, Paul, Jamie, Ruaridh, Charlie, Phillip, Oliver, Theo and Lexi. And even more heartfelt thanks to Jenny, Katy, Patrick and, of course, my ever-patient wife, Angela.
. • Heifer tops pedigree sale
TOPPING Gisburn Auction Mart’s first-ever pedigree sale at £2,600 was Garsby Chapter Irene 3. ■ ■ ’ From W. and G. Cornthwaite and
Son, of Clayton-on-Brock, the champi on and first-,prize heifer sold to Colin Middleton, of Whalley. Mr Middleton also picked up Tripleblue Scotty Cheeky at £2,260, from Gordon Beres- ford, of Halton West, Hellifield. Next best at £2,300, was the second
lactation cow, sired by Windy-Knoll- View Primetime PI ET, shown by the young Holstein Friesian breeder, Gillian
' Mares, of Blacksnape, which sold to John Plartley, of Bashall Eaves. ■ . : John Dodgson, of Bank Newton, was
a keen bidder, picking up two newly calved heifers from Lee Dokin, Copster Green, the first sired by Ladino Park Talent ET PI *TL *TV out of a pure imported family at £2,280, followed by a (irackholme Comestar Paymaster PI
*TL sired heifer at £2,000. Mr Dodgson also took home the late entry, Denham Dram-Penny from J. and P. A. Baldwin and Son, Brindle, at £2,260.
: . Alan Outram, Bury, picked up the second prize heifer, sired by Weeton Jackson PI ET-*RC, from Simon: Thompson, Longridge, at £2,100. The first prize cow in the pre-sale show from R. and E. Butterfield,’ Ben-
. tham, sired by Shoremar James PI *TV out of an excellent dam, giving 36 litres,;
Isold for £2,020 to Geoff Blezard, Ribchester. Heading up the in-calf sec tion at £1,900 was Peter Smith, Burn ley, with a heifer due for late June, tak ing her home was Richard Shuttle- worth, West M a r to n .' . ■ ' : -Average prices for newly calved heifers were £1,974; newly calved cows
£1,837. Pictured is the champion, Garsby Chapter Irene 3. (s)
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Dairy sale proves
popular
QUALITY, livestock in short sup ply, produced keeii trading when ■ Gisburn Auction Mart held its May Show and Sale of Dairy Cat-- tie.
’ A late spring did not deter buy
ers from turning up in force for the popular sale. Despite dairy cattle being in short supply, there was a good entry of pedigree newly- calved heifers meeting a strong demand from buyers. Local producer retailer Martin
Jennings, of Cowling, judged the pre-sale show and set out a class of. 12 newly-calved pedigree heifers. He awarded the championship to regular vendor Guy Pearson, of West Marton, for his Campogallo PG Tresor-sired heifer, which sold for the
top.price of the day oL £2,320 to'Mr Jennings. .- . The reserve champion rosette
went to Fred. Parkinson, of Chaigley, with a third lactation cow, 21-days-calved and giving 40 litres, which went on to sell for £1,900 to D. W. and B. L. Mattin- son, of Bracewell. ; Eric Armer, of Catforth, was
also in the money, with his second prize newly-calved heifer, which, was very much admired and pro duced fierce bidding to sell for £2,120, again to the pre-sale judge,:
MEMBERS of Clitheroe Lady Farmers’ social section held their lat est meeting at the Calf’s Head Hotel, Worston. Husbands and friends were wel
Lady Farmers enjoy an entertaining evening the Farm' Crisis Network and a for-
comed to the meeting, among them the chairman of Clitheroe NFU, Mr,
Paul Barnes, and his wife. Guest speaker was Mr Howard Petch, from Beverley, North Yorkshire.; Mr Petch is the vice-chairman of.
■ mer principal of Bishop Burton Col lege. He gave a very amusing and thought provoking talk about farm ing, w h ich everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Jessie Wrathall gave the vote of thanks. .■ . ■ The president thanked everyone for,
their help and support in making the Safari Supper such a successful evening, raising £950 for research into
Mr Jennings. A small entry of in- calf heifers were quickly snapped up by customers looking for July and August milk. Topping this sec tion was David Hall, of Coniston Cold, selling at £1,440 to G. H.
• Speak, of Eccleston. ■ The strong beef market under
pinned the second quality, cattle, with many older cows exceeding vendor expectations.
Moves on to change law
FARMERS and landowners who find waste, somkimes , hazardous, fly-tipped on their land often have to pay to take it to their local tip or to have it removed by spe cialists. Now moves are under
Multiple Sclerosis and diabetes. There MU be a committee meeting
at the Calf’s Head on June 9th at 7-30 p.m. The next'meeting is at Eaves Hall Country Club, in West Bradford; to play bowls (members planning to attend should ring Elizabeth to order their supper). The August meeting MU be held at Skipton Town Hall and names will also be required for this meeting.
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way to change that unfair law. In a meeting with the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), Govern ment Minister Joan Rud-- dock agreed to consider ways for farmers and landowners to have fly- tipped waste accepted at their local tips. ■Douglas Chalmers, the
CLA’s northern director, said: “The law as it stands is unfair to owners of land or property who may have already made every attempt to keep fly-tippers out.”
Averages were: Newly-calved
heifers £1,880; newly-calved cows £1,360; in-calf heifers £1,280. Auctioneers were Richard Turn
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