Cub Camp

[securespark]

Went on Cub camp with my eldest this w/end. I was one of the camp cooks (no comments, please!)

There were 360 on that site, but we only catered for 60-70.

Grand scale stuff- 7.5 loaves of bread for toast, 96 rashers of bacon & 70 sausages, plus cereal & milk each morning. 90 rolls to be made up for each lunch, along with crisps, penguin biscuits & fruit, plus tea & squash., along with further gallons of tea, squash, & hundreds of biscuits in between meals. 4Kg of pasta, eight packs of mince & 10 cartons of passata for a spag bol dinner, along with a veggie bol & cottage pie.

Plus, all through the day serving drinks to various leaders that came and went throughout the day, along with treks to the far side of the site with trays of tea for those who could not return to the canteen.

Up at 6, in the kitchen for 6.30, start cooking at 7 for breakfast at 8.
Morning drinks at 10-11, lunch at 12-12.30, afternoon drinks at 3-4, dinner at 6-6.30. Supper at 10-11.

Washing up seemed constant - got through more than a litre of w-u-l, starting from Friday evening at 7.30 and finishing at 2pm today....

Can I have a rest now, please?

 

[RF Lighting]

Good lad

Without folk like you, the scouting association would be nothing.

I take it that it was a district event with numbers like that then?

 

[securespark]

From all over, yes. We're from 4th Bramhall. But there were guys there from Warrington, Birchwood & elsewhere in the district.

 

[toptec]

You must be mad..... But good on you anyway.

 

[mattylad]

Yes, good on you.

It's so hard these days to find someone to volunteer to help, usually the parents treated us as unpaid babysitters & for cheap camping holidays.

How many came without a decent sleeping bag, without cup, plate, cutlery etc
(usually get at least 1 )

 

[securespark]

None!

They were all given a strict list of what to bring and Bramhall being a fairly affluent suburb of Stockport, the parents did well.

The kids (including mine!) managed to lose a few items along the way... I found several boys things in unlikely places!

 

[gcol]

I found several boys things in unlikely places!

Oooo Matron.

 

[empip]

.... 7.5 loaves of bread for toast, 96 rashers of bacon & 70 sausages, plus cereal & milk each morning. 90 rolls to be made up for each lunch, along with crisps, penguin biscuits & fruit, plus tea & squash., along with further gallons of tea, squash, & hundreds of biscuits in between meals. 4Kg of pasta, eight packs of mince & 10 cartons of passata for a spag bol dinner, along with a veggie bol & cottage pie.....

Greedy devil, what about the kids then?

 

[gregers]

good for you my middle boy belongs to the cubs and his leader is screaming out for helpers,and as i work in a school put my name forward to help out filled out the crb form and had it checked by her superior(who was dealing with it)found out a couple of weeks ago the stupid sod aint sent it off,now there off on camp at the weekend when they needed extra help,so i politely told him to stick it,coz if he cant be bothered with the offer of help then i cant be bothered to help him out.

 

[gcol]

Nose, spite, face.

 

[RF Lighting]

I never fancied progressing down the leaders route when I left scouts as I have plenty of other commitments as it is, and with working away aswell (oh and the fact I don't like kids )

Instead I do the maintanence work on the local scouts and guides meeting hall to make my contribution to the movement.

Can I do a camp cook joke yet Simon? It's killing me

 

[daytona]

6th staines all the way

a good laugh and taught me loads of things i still carry today.

well done securespark,without people like you,my formative years would have been very different

 

[mattylad]

Last time I did cub camp I had all the tents etc in the back of my escort estate & the wishbone failed, wobbled all the way home

How many turned up with season 1-2 sleeping bags instead of S4 & froze in the night lol?
I always had them getting them from woolworths etc & they were only fit for use in a caravan.

Eee them were the days.....
You can have some fun with tug of war, tie one end of rope to a tree & bury it under grass, then get the leaders to challenge the kids to a compo, one by one the leader peel off leaving the smallest leader holding the rope.

WHat a larf

 

[securespark]

Can I do a camp cook joke yet Simon? It's killing me

Does it involve wearing a pink frilly apron?

.... 7.5 loaves of bread for toast, 96 rashers of bacon & 70 sausages, plus cereal & milk each morning. 90 rolls to be made up for each lunch, along with crisps, penguin biscuits & fruit, plus tea & squash., along with further gallons of tea, squash, & hundreds of biscuits in between meals. 4Kg of pasta, eight packs of mince & 10 cartons of passata for a spag bol dinner, along with a veggie bol & cottage pie.....

Greedy devil, what about the kids then?

......Burp!

How many turned up with season 1-2 sleeping bags instead of S4 & froze in the night lol?

As far as I was aware, they all had reasonable bags, having been asked to bring "all-season" bags. And they were asked to bring camp blankets too (cue Rob, lining up another camp joke!)

good for you my middle boy belongs to the cubs and his leader is screaming out for helpers,and as i work in a school put my name forward to help out filled out the crb form and had it checked by her superior(who was dealing with it)found out a couple of weeks ago the stupid s** aint sent it off,now there off on camp at the weekend when they needed extra help,so i politely told him to stick it,coz if he cant be bothered with the offer of help then i cant be bothered to help him out.

I have already been CRB'd by my employer, but the group leader wanted to do a more thorough check. When I applied to be CRB'd, he told me it would take ages, but that if I didn't get my cert. in time, it would not preclude me from joining the camp, just that I would not be allowed to be on my own with any minors.