BALA BUGLE Edition 1 Saturday 28th July Editor: Paul The Official Newsletter of Reporters: Olly, Dan, Summer Camp 2018 Tash.

Welcome to Activities Points Camp Leaders Chat Camp There are nearly 50 people on Points are awarded for a Camp leaders Rich & Dave camp. So in order to make variety of things, the main will have things to say Welcome to Summer Camp sure everybody experiences ones are:- during the camp, this is their here at Frongoch near Bala as many activities as possible • Morning inspection:- first article. all attendees have a Tent and Shelter; Evening Meals By now you will have programme of where they Personal Kit; Personal Just a reminder to PLs; pitched your tents and Hygiene; Site; need to be at any one time. It Evening meals MUST be started to feel at home. Fire & Woodpile; Pots is important that you are cooked quickly and washing & Pans. PUNCTUAL and know where up done and boxes returned Newsletter • Inspection of returned you need to be all the time. as soon as possible after the This newsletter will be Food Box; meal, so we can get to Most activities are split Either produced daily to provide • Challenge & Compo evening activities on time. AM-morning Or PM- you with various bits of Meal (Thursday) afternoon, except Geocache Tuck Shop information. It relies on you • Giving a Camp Leader a hike and Duty Patrol, which Tuck shop will be open to provide our reporters freshly made cake. are AM and PM. every evening, so long as with gossip and comments there is no litter left around. to fill its pages and make it So each day I will remind you Ask yourself, are you IF sweet papers are found interesting. of what activities are helping to get maximum littering the site. Tuck shop patrol points? It is planned to publish eight occurring the following day. will not open again. It’s in OR Are you losing points for editions (one for each day of Please check your own your best interests to pick doing something wrong? camp). These will be programmes. up any litter, even if you distributed during each On Sunday the activities are haven’t dropped it. evening . • Geocaching Hike Under the spotlight Key camp times • High Wire Here we will feature In order for us to cram in as Copies will be limited to 2/3 • Bushcraft ‘Today’s Patrols much excitement as we can, per patrol. However if there • Kayaking under the spotlight’ we need to work to a is a demand the number of • Duty Patrol (Chef’s timetable, these are the key copies will be increased. Badge) Today it’s –Falcons camp times :- As well as Camp gossip, the And during Sunday Evening:- • 0700 – Wake Duty Patrol newsletter will contain • Town Trail Robyn Seabright – PL • Tanya Torkoniak – APL 0730 – Wake Camp information about who is on • Other • Ben Griffiths 0800 (approx) – Breakfast camp. On the front page will • EA1 • Billy Wainwright 0845 – Inspection be Scouts and on the back • Games ? • Josh Waters 0915 – Flag Break page Leaders and Explorers. 1000 – AM Activities Competitions Did you Know? Look out in tomorrows start (some groups might There will be lots of On 16 June 2016, Bala's name ‘Newsletter to see if your have already left) competitions and quizzes in was changed to Bale Patrol is next. 1300 – Lunch Time the newsletter for you to temporarily in honour of Real 1400 – PM Activities enjoy. Give your answers (in Madrid forward Gareth Bale. Fly on the wall. 1700 – Food boxes out. writing) to Paul, Olly, Tash This was only for the duration 1930 – Evening Activities of UEFA Euro 2016. or Dan before the next This is the place for all the edition is published. latest camp gossip - if Weather Tomorrow

You must be Joking you’ve got any, let Paul, There will be some !!! Camp Facts 1 Q: What sound does a nut Olly, Dan or Tash or any Hopefully it will be nice and 1. How many pegs used make when it sneezes? Leader know so we can sunny, however we will take on this camp? A: Cashew! all share it. whatever comes – remember to be prepared. 2. How many bread rolls? I went to buy some Memories are made of camouflage trousers the other 3. How many ‘sets’ of this. siblings? day. I couldn't find any.

Edition 1 Saturday 28th July 2018

Who’s Who—Leaders + YLs Did you know? Roger’s Riddles As you will see during the week, The village of Frongoch is located Roger has set a series of riddles for the Scouting runs in many families:- in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies close to week to keep your brain working during Jacky; Scouting Role: ASL @ the market town of Bala, on the A4212 the week, here is the first. Churchdown; Responsibilities at road in . Camp; Badges; Breakfast; Duty By the late 1800s, Frongoch was the Q: Two Scouts went down to a river. Scouter; Catering activities; Hobbies; main centre for whisky production in There was a boat that could only carry Camping; Music; Shopping; Likes; Wales. The distillery was bought by one person at a time. They both crossed Reading Dislikes; People who spit Scottish whisky companies and closed the river. How can this be? Beth; Scouting Role; Occasional in 1910 when they were attempting to Answer tomorrow. Helper@ Churchdown; establish brands in England. Responsibilities at Camp; First Aid, It was the home of the Frongoch Dingbats Points, Assisting Duty Scouter, internment camp, used to Can you decode the 2 Dingbats below? Evening Drinks; Hobbies; Horse hold German prisoners-of- riding, Hockey; Likes; Holidays, Gin; war during First World War, and Dislikes; Nick’s punctuality then Irish Republican prisoners from the 1916 Rising. Nick; Scouting Role; Leader @ Frongoch railway station was on Churchdown; Responsibilities @ the Bala Line. It closed to ……. Camp; Duty Scouter; Activity passenger services on 2 January 1960 Na fish Assistant; Kayak Assistant; Hobbies; and freight services on 27 January Na fish Mountain Bikes, Kayaking, 1961. The station building and signal Answers tomorrow Badminton Likes; Japanese Cars box are now in use as a private

Dislikes; Rain, Hangovers residence. It was converted to a holiday home during the early 1970s. Roger’s Puzzles How do you get an astronaut baby The main station had a small extension 1. Matchstick Sum to sleep? Rocket added to the end to house a bathroom Move ONE match to make a sum and the large warehouse was which is correct. What should an astronaut do when demolished to make way for several he gets dirty? Take a meteor shower homes. The Welsh Calvinistic What did the astronaut think of the methodist chapel at Cwmtirmynach, restaurant on the moon? He thought lies on the B4501, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) the food was fine but there wasn't north of Frongoch. It was built in 1826 Answer tomorrow. much atmosphere and rebuilt in 1880. Source Wikipedia Doodle space Answers to Quizzes( will appear here in next edition.) Quiz 1. Quiz1 (cont) 1.What was Baden-Powell's (BP) 5.In 1916, Baden-Powell started a Sudoku Christian name? special Section for boys aged Easier one? A: Robert, Richard OR Rupert between eight and eleven. What 2.What was the name of the town in was it called? 7 4 5 South Africa BP saved whilst in the A: Young Scouts, Boy Cubs OR Wolf 6 4 9 1 Army? Cubs A: Mafeking, Mafeprince OR 6.What major change affected 2 Mafequeen Beavers, Cubs and Scouts in 1990? 3.On his return to England, BP wrote a A: Headgear was abandoned, Girls 9 6 8 book about training in the Army. were allowed to join OR New 1 6 5 9 What was it called? uniforms were introduced A: Scout About, Scout Training in the 7.What is the Scout Motto? 4 7 Army OR Scouting for Boys A: Be Happy, Be Prepared OR Be 4.In which year was the first Loyal 2 4 3 experimental camp at Brownsea 8.With which hand to Scouts shake 9 2 3 5 4 Island? hands with? A: 1906, 1907 OR 1908 A: Left, Right OR Doesn't Matter 5 1 9 6