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I seem to have fixed the browser problem by going into New Post through Edit rather than selecting it on the dashboard... but I have been having blogger issues.

Selecting 'new post' has caused my browser to crash repeatedly.

Exciting News! (to me)

Our Brownie pack won the local annual competition to win a trophy!

Last year I think there was an art competition of some sort.  A few years prior to that we had a trip with the division to the bowling alley and the pack with the highest lane score won the trophy.

This year we organised a Basketball Tournament, with pom-pom making craft and cheerleading (taught by a dance instructor) plus some music and hot dogs.

It sounded fun, but I had to work!  My gig was good fun and in a place I love with people I like, but I'd been excited about the game - we'd discussed it at a meeting and it sounded like fun to me - and I felt guilty that I wasn't there as I'd been one of the people most keen on the idea.

My assistant guider took them with our YL and unit helper so we were well covered for numbers and I knew the girls were safe.

I helped a bit by doing a timetable (actually by tweaking a timetable our commissioner (boss Brownie leader) had done so it worked with the number of teams who had signed up).  It went like this...

BROWNIE BASKETBALL FUN DAY - GOOD LUCK!

BASKETBALL - LARGE HALL, DANCING - STAGE, CRAFT - SESSION ROOM UPSTAIRS, SNACK - FROM KITCHEN.
DURING EACH MATCH THE OTHER TEAMS PLAYING THE ROUND SHOULD GO ON STAGE TO LEARN CHEERLEADING
IF YOU ARE NOT PLAYING IN A ROUND, YOU WILL BE DOING CRAFT & MAY GET SNACK
13:00	MEET & GET ORGANISED - LARGE HALL
13:15	SHOP OPEN IN SMALL HALL
13:30	IMPORTANT!  ALL TEAMS TO LARGE HALL (TO HEAR RULES OF BASKETBALL COMPETITION)
13:40	ROUND 1 - LARGE HALL
			V			CRAFT - SESSION ROOM
			V			SNACK - KITCHEN
14:00	ROUND 2
			V			CRAFT - SESSION ROOM
			V			SNACK - KITCHEN
14:20	BREAK - LARGE HALL
14:30	ROUND 3
			V			CRAFT - SESSION ROOM
			V			SNACK - KITCHEN
14:50	ROUND 4
			V			SNACK - KITCHEN
			V			CRAFT - SESSION ROOM
15:10	ROUND 5
			V			SNACK - KITCHEN
			V			CRAFT - SESSION ROOM
15:30	TEAMS MAY VISIT SHOP OR TAKE A BREAK
15:45	ALL TEAMS PRIZEGIVING CEREMONY IN LARGE HALL
IN THE EVENT THAT THERE IS A TIE BETWEEN TEAMS (ONCE POINTS FOR ALL ACTIVITIES ARE ADDED UP) A TIE-BREAK SHOOT OUT WILL BE PLAYED I'm looking forward to hearing about it tomorrow night at our meeting.  We will get our trophy once our unit name has been engraved on it.

Pancake Day

Tonight my Brownies made pancakes on tin cans with candles underneath.

They were tiny little pancakes, and it was great fun making them.

Don't think it's an activity I'll be repeating though.... too much mess!

Nice People

I have that Friday feeling!  I know I'm working tomorrow as well, but I'll have a morning off and I am quite excited about that.

The week has perked up.  Yesterday I met my pit-partner (trumpeter) and his Mum during my lunch break, which was lovely.  We then met his mum after the show with my boyfriend (they had watched it together as you got 2 for 1 tickets), went to the pub... and met his Dad too.  We had some drinks (diet coke!) and chatted for a few hours after the show, and the wind down was lovely!  We laughed, joked, regaled each other with stories.

A lovely end to another busy day.

This week is Half A Sixpence

Working nights again this week.

I enjoy the playing part of work very much, but am very tired this morning.  My normal working week is the same on a gigging week, only you add gigs to it.

This means that last night I finished work at 10pm, then had to go and find a colleague to pay him for doing the Brownie night of the show last week (so I could go to the Science Centre with my pack).

Bed time was midnight, and I leave for work at 6.30am today.

I woke up this morning and felt like I'd been out on the piss last night.  I didn't have a drop.  Actually I had about 2 mouthfuls of wine when I got into the house before deciding I didn't really like the taste (Chardonnay Pinot Grigio) and discarding the rest of the glass.

This morning I feel horrible.

Hopefully I will be home by 4.30pm which will give me 1hr in the house before I teach then go back out to do a show.  I will use the hour to SLEEP!

I hope that my friends are well.  I will see them soon!