It has been brought to my attention today that there are really people out there, existing among us who have a computer and a working email address but only check their inbox on a once a week basis. Yes that’s right people, ONCE A WEEK!
Now you or I can hardly comprehend such carelessness I know, why it would be as foolhardy as having a credit card and just spending on it willy-nilly without giving a thought to whether you were nearing your credit limit or in a position to pay it back wouldn’t it? It would be like having perfectly good, free education and childcare rolled into one available but choosing to educated your children at home instead. Like I say, crazy!
Anyway, these people all seem to the ones who run local youth type organisations such as Badgers, Beavers and other small mammals (thinking of calling the possible new HE group by a mammals name actually to be inkeeping – what do you think to SHREW – Some Home Residing Educators in Worthing) so emailing them for details about their groups is unlikely to get a speedy reply.
So this morning I got back on the websites for both and ring round a sucession of regional and local phone numbers for people called Marion and Keith and the like before finally getting to the right person for each.
Keith (not his really name 😉 ) from the Beavers tells me that yes there is a Beaver group on a Monday at the church literally round the corner from us, but at the moment it has no leader. Infact says Keith sounding really quite Eureka! about the whole idea ‘Do *you* know anything about scouting? Perhaps….’ I cut off what has probably been Keith’s biggest flash of inspiration of his life to date rather hastily ;-). So Beavers is out for now, they are fairly categoric about them being 6 anyway but at least his name is now on their waiting list and Keith assures me they will be in touch ‘in due course’.
Marion from Badgers was slightly less able to help with specific details like cost and uniform (although being a SJA lady I imagine if I’d needed guidance with the correct way to wind a bandage or deal with a minor scalding incident she would have been invaluable!) but she did confirm that Badgers locally to us runs on a Monday evening in a youth centre not too far from us and that the best thing to do is to go along next week with Davies and speak to the Badgerette or Badger Queen or whatever the leaderlady is called.
So that’s what we’ll do.
LOL (literally) at SHREW!
Head of Set perhaps, for Badgers?
Comment by Merry — 07 March 2006 @ 1:56 pm
MOLES (Mothers of little educatees)
ANTS (alternative, no teachers)
Comment by Joyce — 07 March 2006 @ 1:59 pm
The Queen Badger is called Badgerella and is a strange hybrid of Barbarella and a Badger – not childcare appropriate on many grounds, e.g. sharp teeth and porno clothing.
You could be: Simply Home Educating – Worthing Outreach Local Families (She-Wolf)? Not very good at this am I?
Comment by Ali — 07 March 2006 @ 5:11 pm
They don’t make phonecalls very often either …. still waiting ….
Comment by Paul McCartney — 07 March 2006 @ 7:01 pm
WEASELS (Worthing Excluding School Educators Locally Socialising)
SKUNKS (Sussex Kids Unite Not Knowing Schools)
Comment by Nic — 07 March 2006 @ 7:20 pm
getting hold of the local contact for Rainbows was somehwat like communing with the dead so you have my sympathies!
Comment by Katy — 07 March 2006 @ 8:15 pm
What you on about Paul?
Comment by Nic — 07 March 2006 @ 9:46 pm
I like skunks.
C sang ‘Jesus is my friend & he’s wicked’ to me in bed this morning – don’t you just love Girls’ Brigade.
Comment by layla — 08 March 2006 @ 10:00 am
*sits back and admires Nic’s ability to make group names from small mammals*
Comment by Ali — 08 March 2006 @ 10:27 am