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FOX-BREAK 1 Fox-Breaks are helping Foxlease, the Guide Training Centre in the New Forest, by booking up those empty weekdays. Three members of Gloucestershire West Trefoil Guild (Tessa McLusky, Beryl Jarvis and Sarah Norton) attended the very first Fox-Break from 7 th to 10th November and really enjoyed it. Sessions ranged from silver ring making, genealogy, graphology, and sugar craft, through to walking in the forest and independent exploration. There was something for everyone, and every minute was busy if you wanted it that way. As always with a Guiding event there was much fun and friendship, with tears of laughter running faces on more than one occasion.If you think you might enjoy a Fox-Break, contact France Parrett - frances.parrett@blueyonder.co.ukSarah Norton - Gloucestershire West Trefoil Guild Chairman At Bishop's Cleeve Trefoil Guild meeting we spent the afternoon filling shoeboxes with gifts for the Samaritans Purse Christmas Boxes. We do this each year and members are very generous with their gifts for the boxes. This year, with the help of friends, we filled 19 boxes and were also able to send a bag of knitted hats and blankets. Each box contains toiletries, toys, stationery, sweets, and anything else we can fit in that is permitted. Vera Goodhind TREFOIL GUILD CAMP 2012 - Monday 18th to Thursday 22nd June 2012 at Campwood House, Macaroni. Cost for the whole time will be £45. Most accommodation is on bunk beds, but only one person will be allocated to each double bunk unless two give their consent to share. There is room for members to pitch their own tents. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Day visitors will be welcome on Tuesday and Thursday for £4 per meal, booked in advance. Guiders will be most welcome to camp or visit. There is no form, just write a.s.a.p. to Carol tipper. 25 Kingsway. Dursley. GL11 4DJ. 01453 548852 (after 2.00pm) by 1st June. Include a cheque made payable to „los TG Camp‟Further information will be available nearer the time, but do consider joining in this enjoyable event. If you have any queries, contact Mallory Merrett. 2 Woodland Green. Upton St Leonards.GL4 8BE 01452 610691 (evenings or weekends).WESTMINSTER ABBEY It was in June that some members of Girlguiding Gloucestershire and the County Trefoil Guilds were amazed to receive a letter from Gill Slocombe, the Chief Guide, inviting them to attend a Girlguiding UK Thanks and Recognition Event arranged in partnership with the Scout Association, in Westminster Abbey on Saturday 5 th November. The event was a way of acknowledging and thanking members for the volunteer time and effort which had been contributed to Guiding and Scouting over very many years.Having accepted this surprise invitation, the day dawned, and together with about 2,000 other members of Girlguiding UK and the Scout Association they travelled to London, and joined the long queue of friendly faces lining up in beautiful sunshine at the west door of the Abbey. At 10.45am the doors opened and the uniformed queue gradually moved into the Abbey where everyone was shown to their seats by local members of the two Movements. There was much excited chattering as old acquaintances were renewed and new friends made, and at 12noon the service began. It was a wonderful event, the singing was uplifting, Promises were renewed, and two inspirational Queen‟s Guides and two Queen‟s Scouts spoke about how their Leaders had helped and encouraged them to achieve their full potential through Guiding and Scouting. It was their opportunity to say „thank you‟ and for the Leaders to realise the difference they had made to the lives of those four young people. All too soon the hour ended, and amidst further hubbub and happy chatter the Abbey slowly emptied. Outside cameras were clicking as photographs of groups and individuals were taken, to help remember the occasion and the friends re-united. Hopefully this was just the first of many such events, so that others will be invited to share a similar memorable experience in the future, in recognition of their long service to Girlguiding
Antarctica
Experience Well, we did it!!! A party of eight Trefoil Guild
members from Gloucestershire, After a fifteen hour flight we landed in Next was a four hour flight to Ushuaia, the
southern most city of the world, and a tour of the Luckily the crossing of the Drake’s Passage was
relatively calm, and after our mandatory lecture on Antarctic ‘etiquette’,
we were ready to make our first landing on Half Moon Island. This was the first
of our many landings on islands and also on the Antarctic mainland. We walked
over rocks and boulders and sometimes were knee deep in snow, no easy task when
wearing all the gear - thermals, waterproofs, hats, scarves, gloves, wellington
boots and lifejackets, but what we saw made it all worthwhile. We visited
Argentinian, British and American bases, including Port Lockroy which has the
only Post Office and shop in Watching Humpbacked whales feeding, seals on ice
flows, rockeries of penguins and the nesting sites of cormorants, gave us a
really wonderful insight into the life of these creatures. Crossing the Antarctic Circle, where King Neptune
was evident with ice cubes christening the necks of those who volunteered, and
cruising down to 68degs.14mins.south, in On our return crossing of the Drake’s Passage we
made a detour to see On board, between the excitement of the landings
and cruises, we attended fascinating lectures on all aspects of Antarctic
history, wildlife and exploration, and of course enjoyed splendid food and
service. This was a trip of a lifetime, and no written words
can adequately convey the vastness and beauty of this wonderful area of snow,
ice and rock, and the emotions we felt during our trip.
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