100 Years

On My Honour, I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to God and to the Queen,
To help other people
And to keep the Scout Law

Well, better late than never.

100 years ago yesterday, a military hero started an experiment to see if the idea he had to produce a training scheme for boys was any good or not. When he found that even mixing boys from different ends of the social scale it worked he set to work compiling a book (which was actually issued in instalments) which went on to become a best seller.

Oh, and led to the formation of an international movement.

Personally I hope that from all the publicity we also find more adults who can give time and skills to scouting. It doesn’t even have to be the proverbially “2 hours a week”

Having finished Harry Potter, I really ought to finish Scouting for Boys. Its a bizzare read. It doesn’t read like all those self improvement books we have now-a-days which are more narrative, its much more like listening to B.P. in a series of lectures, or more accurately chats around a campfire.

But like Ian Hislop recently said, its still relevant today, even 100 years on. Many of the basic issues that people see with society are still the same.