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Melksham Scouts

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2010-04-25 16:49:47 - Graham Ellis

St George's Day... and an excellent excuse for the Scouts, Cubs and Beavers of Melksham to hold a Jamboree. Here's the scene at 13:30 today, Sunday, as they marched past Well House Manor, band in the lead, to assemble at... the Assembly Hall.


I'm rather suspecting that we had more that just Melksham's Scouts in town - this was a seriously large group, with the roads shut by the police, and no fewer than four St. Johns Ambulance paramedics accompanying the procession. I noted one dog, interestingly being carried in the arms of its owner in spite of the fact that it appeared to have four perfectly serviceable legs.


Meanwhile, back at Well House Manor our delegates were having lunch, and this was the first weekend where we could sit outside on the patio. I have enjoyed giving the first of our Intermediate PHP for the leisure user courses - it's been great fun and we have covered what we projected, plus some major stuff on log file analysis, geoinformation through Maxmind, and RSS feeds, since those were subjects which were of particular interest to this group of delegates.