Dib Dib - new Scout leader

[Churchill]

It was 'DYB DYB DYB' followed by 'DOB DOB DOB' (Do Your Best, Do Our Best)

Dib dib dib
Dob Dob Dob
Where's Akela?
In the pub!

[lightng]

"I was a seconder in the cubs."

Thats my stock answer to the question "Do you have any previous managerial experience?".

[OwlHoot]

Was in a Wolf Cub troop in South Africa which was based in the stables of Baden-Powells' house there which is in Modderfontein and just round the corner was the largest dynamite factory in the world, which used to occasionally emit loud explosions followed by a lot of sirens.

Crikey, it would be safer if the sirens preceded the explosions. Seems like closing the stable door after the horse has been blown to smithereens!

Still, I guess elf 'n safety wasn't exactly a prime concern in Seth Efrica before majority rule. Someone here related how they worked there in a diamond mine back in those days. The pit entrance then was simply a large hole in the ground with no fence, and workers regularly fell in and plummeted thousands of feet to their death.

[darmstadt]

Crikey, it would be safer if the sirens preceded the explosions. Seems like closing the stable door after the horse has been blown to smithereens!

Still, I guess elf 'n safety wasn't exactly a prime concern in Seth Efrica before majority rule. Someone here related how they worked there in a diamond mine back in those days. The pit entrance then was simply a large hole in the ground with no fence, and workers regularly fell in and plummeted thousands of feet to their death.

Well the sirens were basically after the dynamite had exploded. You could feel it in our house which was a few miles away although that used to shake every now and then due to the gold mines running below it.

I remember visiting some Dutch friends in Rhodesia who had bought a load of gold mines for some reason. These were also just holes in the ground and you had to be pretty careful when walking around although that wasn't as bad as the makeshift loo. This was a hole about 6' by 3' and about 6' deep with just 2 planks over it for you to stand on to do the business. The highlight was visiting the Wankie National Park...

[EternalOptimist]

Never been to SA, but Cooba Pedi in Oz was pretty impressive. Millions of little pyramids of spoil stretching away across the desert

we got some cheap opals there