Poacher.. I'm here, and so is it......

So, here I am at Lincolnshires own International camp, melting, leaking, trying to stay hydrated and looking like a windchime.. of which more later.. I'm in the odd position now of actually sitting in a room with people tapping at a keyboard, something which is usually a very private moment... but I digress.. So far, I've been made very welcome by all here, who obviously are aware of my worldwide fame as the official unofficial voice of Scouting.. or possibly it could just be that camps such as this are very welcoming places anyway.. food has so far been good, companyt fantastic (well, mostly...) and our Joe, a young ASL who has attempted to plan this whole week for us, has so far done a very good job.. but then he is bigger than me... Several of our scouts have ignored warnings about sunscreen, and have suffered the consequences (let this be a warning to all....) and but there we go.... but all are enjoying themselves, which is the main thing.... welcome is a word much used in Scouting and Guiding, and I hope that we are all aware that it is more than just a word.. Scouts are after all memebers of a worldwide family, and families in my experience support and welcome even long lost relatives who only show up when they think there's money being handed out.. but I digress.... families are strange entities.. we cannot choose them (except in certain circumstances, and even then we can't guarantee we get what we want...) but we attempt to love them.. we may not always get on with them, but even so, they are family... in the current heat tempers will fray, and we must try even harder to do our best to remember that we are family.. no matter where in the world we come from... so.. with more international malarkey on the cards, I must sign off... hope your summer camps go as well as ours, and keep Scouting!!!!!!!!!!!!