you were a girl scout weren't you?

Bet she didn't get the yellow trefoil though 

night in here, us old uns need to relax a bit   

I think she did - she told me she got cream for that!

Sadly not.  One look at the regulation knickers and I knew it wasn't for me.

I couldn't tell my dib dibs from my dob dobs either.

Night dame, I think I'll hit the hay too shortly.

Na-night, darling 

Lightweight!

*Follows on to her own bed* 

According to Kaff, I've got the cream for it.

(What the heck are you two talking about?????) 

I'm off to a few star jumps before I go out on the razzle.

You'd know if you were a Brownie/Girl Guide 

don't kid us.. I just know you were the kind of girl who'd end up with a dose of the yellow trefoil....

*runs away to bed*

n'night ya nutters

LMAO!     all 

I turned 60 on Sunday, 2 kids, 5 grandchildren, love crosswor, reading and Spooks. I've been married three times and had a toyboy when I was 31. I like my own company, but, like Syd, I sometimes get irritated by me.

Off to dream about what I could have done, should have done, shuts eyes and remembers ............. .

Nite Nite  

I was a brownie and guide and I don't have a clue what that is...must have been one of the badges I didn't get.

So not only no badge, no cream either 

38 and 1 daughter 18

!  Nutters! ! 

I missed the aertex knicker party ! Sitting here catching up and laughing

 Troof!

47, married 24 years, 4 kids, no grandchildren (that I know of).

Asked politely not to come back to Brownies. 

Apparently, it 'wasn't really for me'.  

Who'd have thought?

After reading this thread through in the sober light of day...my main concern is that Suzy might have given herself a prolapse 

I recently turned 42, not married and have no kids.

I would probably at this stage of my life get loads of cats... but pets aren't allowed in my apartment building 

41, married for nearly 9 years, one son, two step daughters, one grandson and another grandchild on the way.  Two lovely hairy babies. Left the Brownies after announcing an unplanned pregnancy aged 6.

It's quite simple really:_

One parent of each family is cousin to the other - so the children are 2nd cousins.

However the other parent of each family are brother and sister, so the children are 1st cousins as well.

The paternal grandfather of Suzy's children is identical twin to one of the maternal grandparents of her brother's children.

Suzy's mother has at least 4 siblings, who are two sets of twins.

And finally Suzy has, or is due to have, twins herself.

Is it not one CHILD and three GRANDCHILDREN?

This thread is completely mad. Love it

I'm 52, been married for 31 years and have three sons.

I was a brownie AND a Girl Guide....and I have no idea.

I'm fine...really I'm fine (eeeeeish)

Bingo! That goodness for you Fluffs 

My brother is married to my husband's first cousin, and their fathers were identical twins. My sister-in-law's maiden name is my married name and vice-versa and our children have practically identical family trees on both sides. My mother is the fifth born but first singleton in her family and I have four year old twins 

Oh! Is that what it is? I never knew. It's a good thing I'm not involved with the movement anymore, I'd probably excommunicated or rusticated or de-dibbed of my dobber or whatever the brownie guide term is 

Sounds painful!

Oh that! I thought you were talking about a badge that you had to do a test for.

We didn't have a trefoil in my troupe. We were divided into groups of six, with a Sixer and a Seconder (two yellow horizontal stripes on your left sleeve for a Sixer and one for a Seconder). Each group was given a name and you sewed a badge onto your left breast pocket which depicted the name of your  group. Our groups were all types of sprites. Pixie, elf, imp, etc.

Now I think of it, we may have had a small trefoil pin on our ties. We had real ties in those days - which doubles as a bandage/ sling in an emergency.

Our guides were similar but the groups were all names of flowers.

I eventually stopped going to both the brownies and guides because they didn't seem to take things seriously  and I never got to advance. In the brownies I sat several proficiency badge tests several times, but never got any badges because they kept losing bits of what I had done and so I had to do them again, by which time they had lost another bit, and so on it went. I was there long enough to become the Seconder of my group, but they always forgot to bring me a stripe, so finally I gave up in frustration/disgust.

In the Guides we did drilling and inspections every week, but in the main part it was just faffing about.

So eventually I gave up on them too.