A prize. I won a prize

Yesterday some girl rang me up form Double Take- photographic studios. She said i had won their top prize of a champagne reception, hair stylist, makeover, photo session and screening. I was quite astounded. I have likened it to winning a hot air balloon repair kit. Only useful if you need it. Never mind i may choose to go and am allowed to take someone with me- place your bids now. I probably won't though, my time is more valuable than my hair :)

Thanks tho' to Vicke's sister Clara, or whoever it was that entered my name into the draw.

On a different note i'm off camping this weekend in Farnborough. Firstly i'll be on a mission to see if 1) i can find a scrap yard with my car in it and 2) if i can steal my car back.. I'm feeling pretty hopeless.

Regarding the camp i was looking back at how scout camps first began, i.e with Baden-Powell on Brownsea Island, but was interested to discover the founder of scouting got many of his ideas from Ernest Thompson Seton, a radical of the early 20th Century with great ideas for enjoying wildlife and with fun ways of holistically developing youngsters. Here's his ethos, which i generally live by anyway:

First, your fun must not be bought with money. Make your fun; Woodcraft shows you how.

Second, your fun must be enjoyed with due decorum. No one must be hurt in body, spirit or pocketbook.

Third, the best fun is that which appeals to the imagination. Physical fun has its place, but its zest is apt to pass with one's youth; joy in the realm of the imagination grows with one's years, and increases with each indulgence in it. At the end of a long life, it means more than at the beginning.

Legend.