#ScoutingUK Last night was our first session back after Easter. A lone wandering Cub who had been cast out of his pack for being too old found his way to our meeting place where we welcomed him with a flying up ceremony and a renewal of his promise. After flag break we went over UK knife law, doing the classic table of objects asking whether a given item was legal, illegal, or a grey area. We went over safe knife usage and techniques before giving the Scours a 30cm length of squarish pine after booking out knives to the Scouts they were tasked to round one end down to a point. Once they had done that our YL taught them how to carve a mushroom on the other end. Of course I took every opportunity to lift the pointy sticks while commenting I was raising the stakes, or holding them in the air and informing them that the stakes are high. It was a pretty chill session. Most Scouts (even the newer ones) enjoyed it more than last year (when we did basically the same thing) Bodes well for a greenfield camp activity.