1st Melbourn Guides Taking our cue from the Rotary club, our Guide unit held a ‘Wild Nature’ photography competition. The girls went outside to snap close-ups of wild flowers and fungi, plus trees, woodland animals and beautiful landscapes. We had a total of 40 extremely impressive entries from sixteen girls; Kath Betts, Editor of Meldreth Matters kindly judged it and joined our Zoom meeting to give positive feedback and her top three choices. The winners were Laura with ‘Melbourn Sunrise’ and ‘Icy Hogweed’ (which are shown on the back cover of this month’s Meldreth Matters) and Izzy with ‘The Heart of Nature’. We kept the nature theme going for the rest of the evening, with a quiz and scavenger hunt and the girls made a wild bird feeder from a scooped out orange threaded with string (see example pictured). Burns Night is usually a celebration of Haggis and Whisky. Our Guide-appropriate event featured a quiz of obscure Scottish slang, an indoor golf competition and a live-action tutorial in the cooking of Scotch pancakes. The following week we explored communication old and new, starting with a quiz on the meaning of a range of emojis, then trying semaphore signalling. We finished with a lockdown-relevant Guide resource called ‘The Power of Positivity’: the girls chose a motivational message and created a poster to display at home or around the village. We finished this half term with a ‘Home Alone’ theme, covering various tasks which the girls should be able to do in the house. The girls learnt about different lightbulb fittings and how to change a lightbulb safely; they located their mains water stopcock and useful DIY tools and created a simple meal from store cupboard tinned food. We are hoping to start a Ranger unit for our small group of older Guides later this year, and would welcome another leader or helper. If you would like to know more about helping with Guides or Rangers, please contact me on (01763) 261443 or email melbournguides@gmail.com. You can also look on the girlguiding.org.uk website to find out more. Hilary Marsh 18
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