big mervyn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 5:05 pm
justinr73 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 12:47 pm
big mervyn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:18 am
...do my duty to God and to the Queen
and obey the Cub Scout law (whatever that was)
I suspect the wording may have altered over the last 50 years.
To help other people fitted in somewhere too.
It actually hasn't changed at all. Hard luck if you're an atheist republican Cub.
I promise that I will do my best
to do my duty to God and to The Queen,
to help other people
and to keep the Cub Scout Law.
Any of you get your Sixer/Seconder stripes? I did 4 hard years in the cubs and commanded the Grey Six.
IIRC Merv is quoting the promise/oath thing that you took before you got the wee purple badge.
Lurgan Lad is quoting the wee rallying call done each night.
Was the law a list of 10 (???) including 'to help other people', 'to do a good deed every day', ...
Yes I was a sixer (yellow) - and then 2 of us (me and Robert from green six) were promoted to 'Senior Sixer' which I believe was an invention of our own pack - a sort of Sergeant Major/Warrant Officer role - where we weren't attached to a particular six - so we got to wear leather woggles and most importantly long trousers.
I did some googling re the badges and it seems the badges progressed from red to yellow to green. I recall having an armful of red and a couple of yellow, not sure if I ever got a green. Jack of all trades; master of none - story of my life.
What were the bronze/silver/gold arrows for? There was also a couple of other general achievement badges (link badge, ...???) There was some award I put in peril when I was suspended for punching someone's lights out one night. Personally I thought I deserved my boxing badge, but his ma didn't see it the same. The whole escapade probably did earn me my diplomacy badge though.
Most of my mates were BB, so, even with the oath to god and the queen - I was pretty much seen as an atheist.