The Essential Guide Magazine Culcheth July - August 2014 | Page 64

Essential Feature

Big Brownie Birthday
at Blackpool
On 14th June, 55 very excited Culcheth

m u c h

Brownies and 10 (equally excited) leaders

needed

climbed aboard a coach bound for

meal. And

Blackpool and its most famous landmark,

for afters?

the Tower. “That’s an epic Tower,”

A behind

exclaimed a Brownie as it came into view

the scenes

– and the rest of the trip lived up to this

tour of the circus to see

first pronouncement. We first watched

where the animals used to be kept!. We

the Tower Circus, where the performers

learnt some fascinating things, including

thrilled us all with their acrobatic skills

that the elephants used to walk across

and the clowns Mooky and Mr Boo

the road every day to bathe in the sea!

made us laugh out loud with their antics

Everyone agreed the animals were better

An energetic session at Jungle Jim’s was

off elsewhere. Finally, the Brownies

followed

by

a

settled down to sleep in the actual Circus
Ring – and sleep they did; in fact quite
a few needed some persuasion to wake
up for breakfast the next morning. It was
worth getting up though, because we
were whizzed up to the top of the Tower
to experience the Glass Floor – and many
brave girls were quite happy to lie down
and gaze down to the ground many
metres below. After the obligatory shop
visit for souvenirs, everyone piled back
on the coach for a somewhat quieter
journey home. It certainly was a Brownie
Birthday Party to remember!

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