For as long as it takes ScoutLock-down Our Magazine for Isolated Scouts 12th April 2020 Issue No. 04 Free Feature project Windmill Plus New Story Lock-down Scout Contents Scouts and Covid-19 Camp-at-Home Beavers: Siren of the woods Cubs: Windmill Scouts: Fire- flint and steel Explorers: Magnetic bearing Thought for the week Idea from Amazing knots Northumberland Story: Part 2 Scouts. Boomerang See page 3 Recipe Match puzzle Guess where? Name the author Harpenden and Wheathampstead (+Kimpton) Scout District Lock-down Scout Let us echo the Queen’s message: “...that the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country”. want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying Iout essential roles, who selflessly continue Three things to remember:“ their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all. 1 School comes first. Organise your workplace and do the assignments. Together we are tackling this disease, and I want This is a priority. to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it. 2 Don’t get in the way of your parents working at home. They need space to succeed. As far as possible be self- I hope in the years to come everyone will be able sufficient. Share time when it is okay to to take pride in how they responded to this do so. challenge. And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as 3 You are a Scout. However young, any. That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet however old, you made a promise. Live good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still up to it! characterise this country. The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future. While we have faced challenges before, this one is different. This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us. We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again. A Cub’s personal challenge But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good 4th Harpenden, April 2009 wishes to you all. 2 Lock-down Scout “Here’s another Great idea! Visit the website. Get involved” Russell Brooks DC Northumberland Scouts presents… #CampAtHome VISIT https://www.campathome.org.uk/ Calling all young people from across Northumberland, the UK, and the Wider World. COVID-19 may have changed the way we do things, but it won’t stop Scouts camping! We’re organising a month-long Virtual Camp across April, from the 01/04- 30/04/20. Take up the challenge and let’s keep on; #VirtuallyCamping Here are the “Rules”. We’re asking you all Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, Network, Leaders, Parents, and all Young People interested in joining in the fun to: Pack a bag Build a den at home / pitch a tent in the garden/ hang up a hammock Sleep in your shelter of choice Build a ‘campfire’ (real or virtual) Take part in a “Scouty activity” Help with cooking a meal MOST IMPORTANTLY……. Each night you participate share a creative photo, video, blog, etc. to our social media with: But #CampAtHome Also Get ready for Virtual St. George via Zoom! I need your photos of any Scouting activities you have done at home. Your projects, serious or light-hearted, please send them to me, Russ at: [email protected]. Please send them as soon as possible but absolutely no later than Tuesday, 21st April. More next issue. My thanks to you all. Russ (DC) 3 Lock-down Scout Beavers 12th Harpenden Beavers Siren of the woods ere’s a way to make sound with only a blade of grass. Choose a strong blade and catch it Hbetween the heels of your thumbs one end and the tips at the other. Tighten the blade and blow through the gap between your thumbs. You will produce a reedy howl that will impress your family. Try it straightaway! nd yet another way. The original idea uses a tree leaf sandwiched between two strips of birch bark. AWith gentle pressure from your fingers to keep it flat, put it to your lips and blow through the gap. The sound will be deeper and distinctive. Two pieces of cardboard are likely to work as well as the bark. Illustrations from ‘Lonecraft’ by John Hargrave Did you know? Beaver Scouts were trialled in Scotland in and then introduced to to whole of the United Kingdom in October 1982. Today, there are 103,226 Beaver Scouts 4 103,226 Beaver Scouts, Lock-down Scout 4th Harpenden Cubs in London Cubs Build a simple Windmill YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHzBjhxQhwg his simple but very attractive windmill is Tsurprisingly effective even in gentle wind. The paper should ideally be 100g or 120g paper. (Standard printer paper is 80g). The pin in the middle is the tricky bit. Follow the design if you can but if you haven’t got a push- pin, glue a small disk of paper on the centre of the windmill (to strengthen it) and use a small nail or dressmaker’s pin. The pencil used for a handle can be changed for a thicker, longer dowel or even a tube of paper. Take care of the nail or needle point at the back by pressing a piece of cork or a blob of hot-melt glue. Be creative and find a way to keep it safe. Build to a high standard. Your finished windmill will spin amazingly fast Quality matters! with a gentle blow. Try it in the garden. Why not plant it among the flowers? Place a coin on your elbow and try to catch it with the same hand before it strikes the ground Check your answer with your parents 5 Lock-down Scout Fire-lighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxagchOOj84 Conventional SCOUTS Fire-lighting 1st Harpenden Scouts PART ONE: FLINT AND STEEL t camp, Scouts chop wood and prepare their fire. Usually, they strike a match and light some tinder Awhich catches the kindling that progresses to the fuel of the fire. But how can we start a fire if we don’t have a match? Make some char-cloth To make a piece of char-cloth, find a scrap of cotton that Before matches, people had tinder boxes that carried a is destined for the dump and cut a piece about A4 size. flint stone and a steel to strike it. This created sparks that Take it outside, put it on the end of a stick and set it were aimed at charred linen (char-cloth). A lucky spark alight. (Lots of care!) When it is mostly black let it fall the would set the char-cloth aglow and this would be used to ground (on an old board) and smother it with another ignite a ball of tinder. The user would hold the tinder in board. Snuff out any parts that smoulder. The black the hand, blow into it until it caught fire and then used the pieces are the char-cloth that should be collected up and flame much like we use a match today to light fire-wood. put in a poly-bag or tin. A tinder box that stowed Make some tinder flint and steel in one Before you throw sparks into the char-cloth, make some compartment and char-cloth tinder. Tease out a little cottonwool, shred some paper in the other very finely, or open out a little string into its fibres. Make a ball of tinder about the size of a tennis ball and set it aside. Make fire! In a safe place outside, put an old board down to protect This metal tinder the surface and place some char-cloth in the middle. box from the Boer war Take the flint and steel and strike sparks onto the char- kept the char-cloth dry. cloth. In only a few strikes, a spark will catch and the char-cloth will begin to glow. Place it in the middle of the We can find flint stones in practically every garden and ball of tinder in your hand and blow the tiny spark into a allotment in Harpenden and Wheathampstead so a fist- flame. When it is alight, drop it onto the board and snuff it sized flint should be easy to find. For a steel, an old file out. from the garage will serve nicely. (Note that soft steel won’t create sparks. It must be hard steel as in a file). You have made fire from a spark! Practice making a spark. Hold the flint in one hand and strike it downwards with a glancing blow with the file. Be careful of your fingers. Wear a tough glove if the flint is YouTube small. Turn the flint for best sparks. Enter ‘fire by flint and steel’ Many excellent tutorials available 6 Lock-down Scout EXPLORERS Play with a Explorers supporting Green Beret Nov 2006 frictionless magnetic bearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n3ZBGzIT8s agnetic bearings have no friction and Paralysed Finger so, as in the simple experiment above, Bend your middle finger Mthe flywheel of old batteries goes on like the picture on the left turning for ages.