6/8/09 - Visit to the Joey Scouts.

Prelude: Following a largely successful group night, Sam Ludinski caught up with Sue Barker (or, Kirra), the Joey Scout leader in order to arrange completion of another part of the SJW Rover Squires' training.

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Attendees: Stephen Endicott, Sam Ludinski, Iain Laing, Bill Alexander, and Jon Wilson.

The night started with a word search containing words related to the Joey section. Sam Ludinski gloriously finished the search several minutes before the 6/7-year-old Joeys and proceeded to help "Lachy" with his. It seemed almost as if we were expected to teach them English at the same time.

We then proceeded to opening parade, with Joey, "Jamie" being invested, and then the Joeys played a few more games with us.

The first game we played was Baloon Names. The game detailed a balloon being in the middle, and you had to hit the balloon and say another Joey (or Rover's) name. That person then ran to the balloon, hit it, and said another person's name. It was a good way to get to know some of the Joeys.

Following was "Joey scout in the pouch". The joeys "hop"ed around and when Warata said "drop" they had to drop to the ground and close their eyes. "Brumby" (Madeline Davie) then put a blanket over one of the joeys, and they had to guess which one was hidden. By this point in time, we got to know the joeys quite sufficiently.

Then it was their time to get to know us. We told the Joeys about how we went on hikes, how we did gang show, talked about our bash car, and talked about our leadership structure (in lameman's terms) (how good it was to have self-direction) . The joeys were also very impressed with the Rover Sword.

Other games of the night included "Catch the joey scout law" (when Sam aquired the nickname "Hobbit" from Warata), and H.O.P. (a jumping race).

All in all the night was a great success, we got to know what the joeys were like and they got to know us.

The Rovers then bid farewell to the Joeys and went downstairs to the Rover Den, where we commenced our Hard Business Meeting (see: Minutes - 6/8/09).

Thursday 16/07/2009 - Sam discusses Crew Logs from 70s and music from 80s.

This night was somewhat impromptu, with only squires Jon Wilson, Sam Ludinski, and Rover Advisor - Chris Goninon attending.

At 7:45pm, Sam Ludinski arrived at the Den, only to find departing Joeys in the carpark, and Sue Barker in the upper Den (the Joey Scout leader). For 10 minutes, Sam read the Rover Crew Log from 1974-1977 while waiting for fellow squire Jon Wilson to arrrive on bike. At which point, a casual game of cards occured between the two for approximately half an hour before Rover Advisor Chris Goninon arrived.

At this point in the night, the card game was halted and discussion of various eras of music occured, prompted by Chris turning the radio on, showing off the speakers Emile had installed since the latest flood, when our previous speakers had apparently been destroyed. Sam mistook Simple Minds for INXS (what a rookie error!), and proceeded to blab on about the history of Guns N' Roses, Faster Pussycat, Hollywood Rose, and L.A. Guns. Which decade are we living in again?!

After realising that they were quite off track, talking about music from Chris' youth, Chris and Sam proceeded to discuss the Crew Log. Topics were discussed such as the Charity Concert in '74, and the erection of the gate at the end of the carpark in '77. Though Sam successfully regurgitated events from '74, and '77, there seemed to be a blank spot between the two that was paid little attention to. Therefore Sam has only partially completed this part of his Squire Training.

Talk alternated between Crew History and Musical History for the remainder of the night, as well as discussion about fundraising ideas. Jon chimed in that Cadbury were holding a competition for every client that had fundraised between the start of the year and a month from now, so he is now looking at another round of chocolates being ordered (These will be sold, like the last round, at $1.20 a chocolate, and the Crew will gain half of the money earnt - the other half being returned to Cadbury).

At around 10:00pm all had had enough of the night and decided to depart.