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Scouting & Guiding

On Adventure and Silver Awards

As County Commissioner of Solihull I am often asked to present awards and speak at County events. In the early days I would fly by the seat of my pants quickly learning that good public speaking needs a clearer message than can be delivered through the medium of umm’s and stagnant pauses as I think about what to say next and I now plan in advance.

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Adventure & Outdoors Lifeblog

Spring Microadventure

It had been awhile since we’d trundled off with hammocks and bicycles for a single night micro adventure under the stars and given that the weather forecast was looking good and the fact my roof rack complete with large desktop had launched itself from the roof of the car (while driving down the M5) on Friday night we decided a trip down the towpath was in order.

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Lifeblog

On any given Sunday