O/T Health & Safety

[Q165]

Well intentioned it may be but in many regards it has gone over the top.

I see Scouts are being told not to eat their food sitting on the grass. In my experience you were never stupid enough to do this anyway. Unless you wanted a damp and very uncomfortable ar5e.

I was lucky enough to have had a really good time in the Scouts. I joined with my best mate and met some other really good long lasting friends.

I don't know what the H&S people would say about some of the things we did. All cooking done on open fires that we were left to prepare and operate. Digging the bogs. The most important task of all namely constructing the aerial runway from high in the trees. Climbing all over and along the railway bridge at Kinver (that was a bit risky). Canoeing in fast flowing rivers and the sea. Potholing (a bit hairy). Rock climbing with no safety attaching ropes. Going on night hikes in remote pitch black country. And so on.