| 8th March 2002 | Boys v's Dads Night
Tonight we held our 3rd annual boys vs. dads night. We had a fun night including an information scavenger hunt, and Orkney quiz and the usual newspaper activity. This year we challenged teams of boys & dads to construct a fancy dress costume out of a single newspaper (and some sellotape). The results were very interesting. Examples included a skeleton, a clown and a gladiator. It's a shame no-one had a camera handy - or maybe not ! We finished off with a game of Pictionary and some tea & coffee. The scores at the end of the night meant the dads won taking them into a 2:1 lead overall. Better luck next year lads.
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| 4th February 2002 | 5-a-side Results
Today saw the 44th Intermediate team grab 3rd overall in the Battalion indoor 5-a-side football competition. Last week our Junior team was knocked out after the league stage.
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| 11th January 2002 | New Year Awards
Tonight saw all the boys receiving awards, badges & credits for the work they have done so far this session. Well done to you all.
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| 1st January 2002 | Happy New Year
We'd like to wish all our web site visitors a Happy New Year.
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| 21st December 2001 | Christmas Party
Tonight was our annual Christamas party. As usual there were some quizzes, some fun stuff including the famous balloon bursting game. Also we had a codebreaker quiz, Dingbats game and a paper tower building competition. The final tower was an amazing height, well over 3m high. We had the usual party food and some wicked pizzas. Merry Christmas everyone.
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| 11th November 2001 | Remembrance Parade
Today was our annual parade to Mannofield on Rembrance Sunday. Two of our newly promoted NCO's took the Company Colours and were joined in church by 16 of the Company Section boys. A brilliant turnout to mark an important day.
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| 6th November 2001 | Swimming Champions !
Tonight we became Battallion swimming chamopions as we swept the board at the annual Battallion gala. Our team of 7 swan so well to acheive individual Junior & Intermediate age group champions. Or 4 man relay team won the relay after a controversial disqualification but we were well clear winning by 6 clear points. So well done to all our swimmers and champions. All we have to do now is find a home for the GMB Sheild, and its BIG !!
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| 26th October 2001 | Camp 2002 is Announced
We have announced our intention to return to Orkney for next Summer's camp. We last visited the islands in 1999 and hope to have a similarily great time next year. Exact details were issued to all the boys and at the same time we launched our fundraising campaign called Orkney Miles which aims to raise £1000 before next July. This will match exactly the mileage from last camp of one of our minibusses. You can find out all about our last camp by following this Orkney link or the one from the main page.
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| 5th October 2001 | New NCO's
Tonight we promoted five boys to create 3 new NCO's. They were presented with their stripes and certificates along with Company NCO guidelines. The first task of these new NCO's will be to programme and run a BB night in November. So we look forward to that but in the meantime congratulations to you all.
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| 7th September 2001 | Badge Classes
Tonight we started our first round of badge classes. The recruits are working toward Target 1, with other including Mountaineering, Crime Prevention & the senior group preparing for the annual chess tournament, arranging matches and getting ready to train those need a bit of practise before the competition starts.
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| 2nd September 2001 | Company BBQ
We had a great day at Drumoak today at the annual barbecue. Eleven boys came along for ribs, burgers, sausages, football, rounders and for some a dip in the River Dee. The water was freezing and most just paddled but 2 hardy types had a full swim, albeit a very short one.
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| 24th August 2001 | BB's Restart
Back to normal after the summer break. We restart with a likely roll of 21 boys. Tonight was just a fun night with games, a sound effects quiz. We also introduced Stuart, the church's new youth worker to the Boys.
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| 10-12th August 2001 | Summer Camp
This years camp was at the Guide Association campsite at Ladenford Den, near Forfar. We decided on a weekend canvas camp for a change this year. There were 9 boys & 3 staff who travelled the 60 miles to the campsite in, at times torrential rain. Fortunately there were clear skies above Forfar and the tents were pitched in the dry. It was a late night for some with the usual chattering until the early hours.
The good weather deserted us on Saturday but the cover of the trees gave the boys some help while cooking their breakfasts outside and during the shelter building competition. Sadly neither shelter was really waterproof as 2 large pots of water showed :-) It was still raining after lunch and the 'Police Report' ( a game involving having to describe team members), we headed off for the Olympia swimming pool in the afternoon. Pizza for tea and a late 'BBQ' on the brazier to toast marshmallows. The wide games in the dark proved a good laugh too except for the cheating going on with torches and it all came to a premature end with an ankle injury when someone's foot became stuck in an unseen rabbit hole.
Sunday brought improved weather and we were able to have a stretcher race and a kick about with some footballs. The tents came down dry and we were able to clean & tidy up everything without getting wet. So a good weekend was had by all - even the chattering at 2am on Saturday morning seemed to have been forgotten and we headed home tired but happy.
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| 22nd June 2001 | Abselling
Our annual session at the Souter Head cliff near Cove. This year the weather held and we had a dry night. There were 7 boys who took part and because of the numbers some were able to climb back up the pitch after dropping down.
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| 1st June 2001 | Athletics Competition
Tonight the boys took part in the annual Battalion athletics competition. Despite rainy weather we had a team of nine. There were 6 events :- 100m, 400m, 4x 100 relay, shot, long jump & obstical race. These were the highlights.
- 2nd Jnr shot
- 3rd Int 100m
- 3rd Int obstical
- 4th Int 400m
- 4th Jnr obstical
The team came 4th overall and 3rd in the intermediate class. Well done to all involved.
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| 18th May 2001 | Football Training
Tonight the boys were put through their paces by the Mr Drew Jarvie, youth team coach at Aberdeen Fottball Club. He brought along four of the U-18 team. First there was a warm-up the practise skills in passing, heading and then shooting. Our goalie managed to keep most of the shots out. We ended the night off with a short game. Our thanks go to Drew and his lads for a very enjoyable and interesting evening.
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| 11th May 2001 | Open Night 2001
Our annual parents Open Night. The evening went very well and was well received. Our inspecting officer was our own Session Clerk, Mr Nicol Geddes and we had 19 Boys on parade, very smartly turned out. During the 3 hours parents and friends were treated to a display of drill, 'kids capers', horse & bars routines and this year we performed our now famous BB Shadowvision - this is a mock surgical operation done entirley in shadow.. The evening finished off with the usual prize giving. The hightlight being the presentation of the first Queens Man for a long time. We were delighted to welcome back Mr Alex Forbes, one the the 44th's first Queens Men to present Cpl. Alex Bertram with his Queens Badge & certificate. After many stayed on for tea & coffee and a chance to relax after a busy but enjoyable night. Read the 'net' version of the Captain's Report as given on the night.
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| April 2001 | Hey - its gone quiet!
Things are very quiet - we're all on holiday for most of this month.
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| 31st March 2001 | Another Web Award
Tonight we picked up another web award after being voted best overall BB site by the 18th Wigan Lads. We came in top out of the 18 sites reviewed.
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| 30th March 2001 | Boys v's Dads Night
Tonight we had the annual Boys v's Dads competition. There was a game of Quadrants, the newspaper ransom notes, make a 'Mummy' out of your 'Daddy' corner skills games and Family Fortunes. Overall the Dads came through on top so well done to them. Thanks to all the Dads who came along and enthuiastically took part.
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| 16th March 2001 | Red Nose Night
Tonight we raised the sum of £37.57 for Comic Relief. The boys paid for the 'privilage' of not wearing uniform, wearing red noses and outrageous pants on their heads. The roll call involved blowing a raspberry and saying "Here, your Majesty" To raise awareness on some of the issues Comic Relief are connected with we had a 'Rights Runaround' on childrens rights and a quiz on the plight of refugees.
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| 2nd March 2001 | Dark Theme Night
Tonight we had a very sucessful 'Dark Theme' night. All games involved paying in the dark or by torchlight. There was a tuck shop treasure hunt in the dark, torchlight football, chalk circles and 'The Shoe Bundle'. This was great, although smelly, fun. All the boys trainers were put in a big pile in the middle of the hall and the lights swiched off. The winner was the first to get both of his own trainers back on. Someone did manage surprisingly.
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| 1st March 2001 | Featured Themes
Due to staff changes and the extra workload on existing staff the monthly web site themes page has been put on hold. Hopefully it will be back soon.
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| 23rd February 2001 | Staff changes.
We announce that due to changes in his personal circumstances following a difficult period Jonathan Bailey has left the Company. We'd like to wish him well for the future. |
| 12th January 2001 | Awards & promotions night.
Tonight we had an awards presentation where the rewards from all the badge classes to date were presented. We were lucky to have our Chaplain with us and he presented the recruits with their Target 1 badges and the rest of the Company with various credits & badges. Tonight was special for two of our boys in that having taken on more leadership and responsibility in the Company they were both promotd to Lance Corporals. Well done to them both.
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