GUIDES AND BROWNINES

Guides. The Company Camp this year was near the sea - Winchelsea, Sussex, where we had a very happy and successful week in glorious weather. Elizabeth Davy passed her camper's badge, and Carolyn Birch did extremely well, gaining her P.L.'s permit, the Bronze Medallion and Life Saver's Badge; she is the first member to pass these awards.

We are very grateful to Mrs. Nobel who is coming this term to teach art and lamp shade making. On October 3rd the Coy. are entering a team for the Gillingham divisional shield this in an outdoor competition, which is being arranged and judged this year by Scouters.

Brownies. The Pack is lively and keen and has grown so much that we are hoping to start a new Six! Unfortunately our wonderful Tawny, Mrs. Smith, has had to resign, for health reasons. We shall miss her very much indeed, and hope that she will come to see us sometimes. All the Brownies would like to join with me in thanking her very much for all she has done for the Pack.

I am delighted to report that we have nine Brownies who have passed their 1st Class tests - Linda Davies, Sharon Cork, Susan Pounds, Judith Melville, Stephanie Morris, Zena Causey, Jill Browne and Michaela Elwey-Jones. Congratulations to them all!

E.T.

Cricket Club

The season finished with one good victory and one defeat. The win over the Cement Works at Murston was achieved after what was, for various reasons, one of the most unusual games of cricket the writer has ever played in. The finishing touch came at the end when our opponents (their No. 11 batsmen "missing, gone home") extracted a guest from the wedding reception in the clubhouse, also our H.Q., and sent him out in his best suit in murky light to face our bowling, armed with one pad, a bat and plenty of champagne inside him!

Fortunately our last game produced some interesting, good cricket. High Halstow were a better-equipped team; in the face of some straight steady bowling we did quite well to total 120. Then, thanks in the main to a sustained spell of good bowling .... (cont)