Scribe, the logbook of the 37th Wolverhampton Sea Scouts from 1980 to 1985

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Wednesday 31st July. The programme included rise, wash and breakfast at 8:00am, flagbreak and inspection at 10:00am, a trip to Ravenglass at 10:30am, evening meal at 5:00pm, preparing sideshows at 7:00pm, flagdown at 9:00pm and a country fayre at 9:30pm with tuck shop and supper.

No.1 and Bosun let us have half an hour's lie in, but at 8:00am they came around as usual and woke us up to do breakfast. Breakfast was grapefruit, sausages, tomatoes and scrambled eggs. After breakfast we had flagbreak. Duties included Gannet toilets, Kingfisher rubbish, Seagull communications, Mallard flag, Redshank weather, Cormorant boots and Dunlin stores.

After flagbreak and inspection we all met at the flagpole in full uniform and got in the ambulance and some in Bob's Land Rover and drove off to Ravenglass. It took about thirty minutes to get there. Those of us who were in the ambulance had to sit among all the campfire scraps on the way. When we got there we parked at the miniature railway car park and Bosun gave us an hour to walk around the town. Ravenglass only had one shop and a chip shop.

When we got back to the vans we walked to the miniature railway. Bosun had tickets for us to go on a ride to the other end and back. It took about half an hour to get to the other side and the view was very picturesque. When we got there we had to wait twenty minutes for the next train back. When we got back we got in the vehicles and drove back to the campsite. When we got back it was about 4:30pm, so we had half an hour of free time. At 5:00pm we had our evening meal, which was mixed grill, stewed apples and custard.

At about 7:00pm, after tea, we had to prepare sideshows for the country fayre. We had two hours to prepare our sideshows. At 9:00pm we had flagdown, and at 9:30pm, when it was dark, all the patrols lit up their sideshows with tilly lamps and No.1 put background music on. The leaders came around and the patrols had to persuade them to have a go, paying Monopoly money.

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