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| Busby I didn't go to Guides as a girl because we lived on a farm. I started in Guiding when my two older girls were Pippins. I was a mother help and when they went up to Brownies the Brownie leaders left and I got talked into being a Brownie leader and never looked back. My youngest daughter (that's Camel) was really funny because she would come along to Brownies too, then when she was old enough she started Pippins and then later came back to Brownies. Later I became a Guide Leader - after my first Guide Camp at Tawharanui in 1990. I just loved the camping side – tents, tramping and campfires, and later did my Boating Certificate and got involved with Boat Centre and I’m still involved there, becoming part of Auckland’s Outdoor Team, which organises many of Auckland Region’s outdoor activities – Regional Camps, Mystery WalksCookouts, Team Days, Pikelet Competitions – and runs the Boat Centre. I work as a bus driver, and am known to most of Auckland Guiding as “B. the Bus Driver” because I drive buses for Pippinics, Camps, Guides Owns, Mystery Walks and other Guide high days and holidays. In 1998 Agoo had the lovely idea of setting up a “Sea” Ranger Unit making use of the Boat Centre. I said “Please, please can I help” and in 1999 we put it into action. We started with four Rangers, one of whom was Camel, who had left Guides a short while earlier. I’ve had lots of fun doing Rangers, some of the crazier things have included: * Tubing down a suburban stream, trying to copy Agoo when she balanced her tube upright, and falling out * Taking a full size luxury bus with TV and video machine for eight people to go to Goat Island * And taking a bus for to Parakai for the weekend with just five people – because I had a job with it on Sunday *painting the roof at Boat Centre *tree planting when the most enthusiastic ranger was the one who had just had her appendix out and wasn’t supposed to do any work “step away from the spade” *going to strange international Film Festival films – especially the first one (because Agoo didn’t warn us it had subtitles) *sewing a second futuristic uniform for Thinking Day Dawn Service on someone else’s machine the night before, then getting 20 helium balloons, a car battery, 2 flagpoles, and six rangers in assorted uniforms up Mt Eden in the morning. |
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