A Fun Packed Term

We may only meet every other week, but we've still managed to pack a lot of fun into the term. 

This term, we've done: 

Bingo, planning, chocolate fondue, board games evening, bake sale planning, music evening, joining in the Guide bonfire, planning our performance for the Christmas carol service, a stress relief and relaxation evening (including burning all our worries!), the Christmas concert, a trip to London and we STILL have time for one more meeting, a massive Christmas party with food, visiting 13+ Guides and all the games we used to love as little kids, like musical chairs, pass the parcel, and pin the nose on the snowman! 

Here's to an even more exciting term after Christmas! 

    

Walking In A Winter Wonder London

It was the first Saturday in December, and appropriately cold as we assembled early in the morning for our Winter Wonderland trip up to London.  We'd wrapped up warm, brought spare socks along, and checked our bags for important essentials (money, tickets, strawberry liquorice laces).  Later on we'd realise that we'd forgotten some more important items like drinks and, in the author's case, normal glasses (as opposed to prescription sunglasses) but hey ho!

A fortuitously chosen fast train landed us in Central London and we made our way straight over the the Natural History Museum for our first adventure - ice skating.  The rink at the Museum is great - fairly big and with a Christmas Tree in the middle - the skating session lasted 50 minutes and everyone had great fun getting gradually more and more confident on the ice. 

Next stop was Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, so we jumped on the number 74 bus, complete with super fast, slightly scary bus driver, and headed up past Harrods and House of Fraser to Hyde Park Corner. 
Winter Wonderland is a big festival in Hyde Park with food stalls, a Christmas market, fairground rides, Santa's Grotto, and Ice Rink, a Circus and an Ice Sculpture walk.  We headed in to the crowds, with the first aim of finding food.  Typically we all wanted food from different stalls, so we waited while we all ate.  And then ate some more.  Crepes, burgers, steak sandwiches, chips, sweets, candy floss and pretzels.  That was between five of us, but even so! 

We wandered through the market area, which was very long and extremely busy.  It was also really cold on Saturday, and despite us being well wrapped up, we reached a point where it was too busy, we were too cold, and suddenly the idea of going somewhere warm where we could sit down was rather appealing.  So we decided to carry on with the Christmas theme at the cinema and go and see Nativity 2 at the cinema! Which of course meant popcorn and fizzy drinks....

After the cinema we completed the Christmas-sy-ness by popping our heads very quickly into Regent Street to see the lights there (and take some mandatory blurry photos) before heading back to the station to consume the remainder of the candy floss and sweets on the train!

It was a great day, and I think we're all up for a London 2013 trip!

New Term, new plans!

So, we're back for the new term, with three new Rangers, and lots of Guides visiting us most weeks.  We had a great first meeting this week:  getting to know you ice breakers, programme planning, a very tense game of  bingo and chocolate fondue! 

We've come up with a great programme for this term including: 

A trip to London
Bonfire Party
"Dealing with stress" evening
Helping at the food bank
"Music that means something" evening
Christmas Meal
Board Games meeting

We're certainly going from strength to strength at the moment - here's to it continuing!

New Guiding Year

It's nearly the start of the new Guiding year, and there are exciting times ahead for Princes Risborough Rangers.  We've got two new Rangers starting this term, and hopefully more as the year goes on.  We're looking forward to putting together a really interesting and exciting programme, so watch this space for more details!

Gig In A Field 2012

On Saturday July 14th, a group of seven of us went to Anglia's Gig In A Field 2012 for the day.

We got the proper "festival" atmosphere (rain, more rain, mud, more mud!) but that didn't dampen our spirits and we had a great day.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Having lots of giggles playing with the Water Wars water balloons and catapults (we got more wet from our own balloons than from our opposition's!)
• Practising being monkeys on the Coconut Tree Climb. 
• Racing to the top of the climbing wall
• Challenging our fears of heights on Rope-A-Phobia
• Going on the GoKarts
• Chilling in the cinema tent with our pix and mix sweets
• Watching the bands in the mud

And most exciting of all, the meets and greets with the bands after they'd performed. Between us, we met the Special Ks, Depth, and Paperplane, and got Tshirts, posters, CDs and bags signed!

It was a brilliant day, and maybe next year we'll be able to go for the whole weekend. 

Thanks to Girl Guiding Anglia and the Gig In A Field crew for putting on an amazing event!

HIgh Wycombe Gang Show

On March 29^th, we went to see the first night performance of the High Wycombe Scout and Guide Gang Show.  A Gang Show is a theatrical performance involving members of Scouting and Guiding of all ages.  The Princes Risborough Ranger leaders used to *be* in the Gang Show, once upon a (very) long ago!) time,  but the Rangers were all newcomers to it.  We were in the very top row of the theatre, which was a bit vertigo inducing, but we soon settled in to our seats and sat back for the show. 

We were treated to a whole variety of numbers, including a wonderful version of Take That’s “Hold Up A Light” as the opening number, some amusing sketches, a wedding themed number and a pirate themed one, a great rock and roll “hop” medley, complete with twirly rock and roll skirts.  The whole show was finished off with a medley of songs from the show, ending with “Crest of a Wave”, the traditional Gang Show songs, complete with the High Wycombe Gang Show moves to it, which the PR Ranger Leaders performed with gusto, thoroughly embarrassing the Rangers!

Well done to all the cast, it was a great achievement and a really enjoyable show!

Happy Thinking Day

Today, February 22nd, in World Thinking Day.  Thinking Day, the birthday of Lorda Baden Powell and Lady Olave Baden-Powell, his wife, is a day for us to think about Guiding accross the world, and all our sisters in Guiding in the UK and everywhere else. 

WAAGGS, the World Association Of Girls Guides and Girl Scouts, chose a theme every year. The theme for 2012 is "Girls Save Our Planet" and is about supporting environmental causes and all being able to make small steps to help our environment.  We've not planned any meetings around this theme yet, but maybe it's something that we will look into at a future meeting?  

So Happy World Thinking Day to everyone out there, and remember, Girls Can Save Our Planet.