December 7th- Village Christmas Fair

Another bit of divine intervention as far as the weather was concerned- a lovely clear night which bought loads of people out. Compared with the following day-wet, windy, revolting. Phew!


We had a bit of a buying frenzy shortly after setting up with the Chocolate Brownies selling like hot cakes ( or brownies..)
We could have sold twice the amount!
The baby owls went too along with half the bracelets so we have some stock for next summers fair at Newman Collard.


Some of the Brownies had practical maths lessons working out what change to give people! they all worked very hard when they were helping!
We took a very impressive £100!!! 


The Petersfield Herald took our photo so watch out for it in next weeks paper.
Here are some photos...

Thank you to everyone who baked brownies for our stall- you are stars!

I've got some other pics in a portrait format but cannot seem to rotate them!

These will have to do for now. if I suss it out I'll post them soon!

Have a great Christmas everyone and see you on 12th January.

The real 24th November!

First, a catch up from last week having failed to post anything at all!
Last week we enrolled 5 new Brownies!
Jessica, Emily, Amy, Louisa and Abigail. They all said their promises perfectly and although I made a 'pond' as part of the ceremony, I forgot to use it until a Brownie helpfully reminded me! So we 'twisted them and turned them' all at the end!

We made  a start on our bracelets that we will be trying to sell on the stall at the Liss Christmas Village fair next Weds.


This week- Thursday 1st December


We were joined by two lovely girls, Lucy and Emma from Bohunt School who are working towards their DOE awards. They'll be helping us each week from January for 3 months!


After a quick catch up with the Home Skills Badge because some of the girls were away when we did stuff a few weeks ago, we went on to making bracelets again to build up some actual stock- the Brownies wanted to BUY their own bracelets so we had to make more!

Christmas presents were handed out- some gorgeous handmade owls by Mrs Stemp, Abigails Mum. What about these then?!

I love them!

I promoted several Brownies to Sixers and Seconders for next term and presented the leavers, Anna, Molly and Kayleigh with a badge, certificate and a small gift to say goodbye.
In the chaos of all that excitement- we forgot to do Brownie Bells and say goodbye properly.
Goodbye!
I'll do a post next weekend with pics of the Christmas fair stall and let you know how much we raised.


Ps Thanks Mrs Park who helped out last night!

24th November

Tawny Owl was off sick with 'The Virus' ( evil and nasty) but luckily Jenny Edmondson helped out.
We had 4 'stations'- recycling, shoe polishing, Laundry care and buttons for the blind-all part of the 'Home-skills' badgework.
It was pretty full-on this week and I could have sworn it was a full moon or something as the girls were bouncing off the walls with energy.
As a result I didn't take any photos.
Bringing my camera to the meeting may have helped....


7 girls were off with various obligations here and there so we will be doing a 'catch-up' session this Thursday and then they can get their badges on our final meeting (1st Dec)


Next week we will be enrolling 5 Brownies and starting our bracelet making project a bit early which seems wise.
I'll be sending home plates and wrapping for Choc brownies on Thursday!
Get your recipes at the ready...

More Remembrance pics

13th November - Remembrance Day

Well, I wasn't expecting such incredible weather!
It was a beautiful, sunny day and warm too.
19 brownies attended this very special day in Liss which is a tremendous turn-out!
Molly and Kayleigh shared the job of 'standard bearers' and were part of the 'Colour Party' along with Anna who despite having a terrible cold, did a great job laying the wreath at the monument. They all did the job perfectly-Well done, girls!

I was very proud of our girls today, who sat through a long and at times tiring service in church!
If anyone has any good photos I'd love to see them and can put some on this blog.

10th November

This week we were finishing off work towards our Crime Prevention Badge.
The girls had to produce a poster to promote safeguarding our property and then act out some more scenes which is always lovely to see the budding actresses in the pack!
The Tweenies had a chat with Tawny Owl to prepare them for their promises in a few weeks.

Ella has learned to play 'Westminster Bells' on the piano which is our 'Brownie Bells' music. Despite the piano at the hut being desperately out of tune in places, she did very well and everyone clapped. She now wants to do it every week!
Lucy Mann received her 'Rider's Badge' and everyone got a Crime Prevention Badge (except our Tweenies, who can only get badges once enrolled.)
We were joined this week by Ella's grandmother visiting from Yorkshire (who used to be a Cub Leader some years ago) and Sue Munter. Thanks ladies!


Any Brownies that would like to go to the District Xmas party, please step forward this week! Time is running out and it seems there are places available.
Next week we will start our 'Home Skills Badge' so get the checklists back this Thursday along with a pair of shoes to polish please!

3rd November

I'm finding it hard to take photos during the meetings due to the amount of things I'm doing. Running around a bit like a headless chicken, I get to the end of the meeting and think-'oops! didn't take any photos!'
I might ask the other owls if they could help out with that.


Anyway, we had a 'bonfire theme' to the meeting tonight and miraculously the rain stopped so we could get outside.

The girls did a 'scratch art' project which they seemed to like and I saw some lovely pictures. Pesky pictures wont rotate tonight, sorry about that.
We then toasted marshmallows over tealights ( somewhat) and headed outside for a mini bonfire.
I took our bbq pan out to the woods behind the hut and stood there lighting the fire listening to the owls twoo-ing in the trees. I was joined by the Brownies and we lit sparklers and sang songs.
Debi Knight had made us a big plate of cakes which we devoured in a flash. Her cakes are SO good.


Next week we'll be finishing off our 'Crime Prevention Badge' and getting our Tweenies ready for their Promise Night in a few weeks.


Please, if your Brownie would like to attend the District Party in Alton on 10th Dec, you really need to get the form in next week or the week after.


Over and out.