100 years....

Wisebeard returns from celebrating 100 years of possibly the most important event of the 20th century... the birth of Scouting.... yes, thats right, the Beard has been spending the last four days in a tent, in the rain, with nearly 700 people of varying descriptions (and i do mean varying!!!) getting wet, cold, and thoroughly enjoying himself... 1oo years ago Baden-Powell, war hero and free thinker, started what was to become the worldwide family of scouts... and look at us now... but there we are... i was privileged to appear on stage thrice, once with the thougt for the day (a passage from The Subtle Knife, and a short piece on Trust), again for the Beaver visit, again on the subject of Trust, and then at the closing ceremony, as part of the Comedic sketch "The Four Old Scouters," adapted from the python by yours truly... But the greatest honour of all was to be present at the award of the Queens Scout Award to one of my ex scouts, now a leader, Jim Muller... he's worked so hard for it, that Wisebeard will, for once, inject no levity into the mention, save to say that he didn't get his hair cut.. we could do with more young people like Jim... as Baden Powell said, if everyone inthe world were a Scout, there would be no war... there would also be no anti social behaviour, no famine, no environmental problems... and wouldn't that be wonderful... until we can all be Jim Mullers, Wisebeard salutes you!!!!!!!!!!!!!