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Photos from a week in Finland (and a day in Sweden)

ByJohn May September 6, 2008July 8, 2026

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Feeling appreciated…
ByJohn May July 2, 2011July 8, 2026
I had a call from a friend last night. She was in floods of tears. She had just got home from her weeklyvolunteering commitment as a Cub Scout Leader, working with 30 inquisitive,demanding and boisterous boys and girls. Last night, a parent of one of the children had arrived forty minutes lateto pick up her daughter. …
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The World Scout Committee meets…
ByJohn May November 10, 2008July 8, 2026
The new World Scout Committee held its first meeting over the weekend, (my first, of course) and it was also the first of its kind under the new Committee structure that was established at the recent 38th World Scout Conference in Korea. There are still twelve elected members with voting rights, of which I am…
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Presenting our findings
ByJohn May March 28, 2007July 8, 2026
We used the analogy of fireflies in the dark as the basis of our presentation, describing each of the community entrepreneurs that we met as a different firefly. Each member of the team presented and we used video footage as well as photographs to illustrate what we’d seen. We ended the presentation with a poem…
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St Albans 10k
ByJohn May May 11, 2008July 8, 2026
What a terrific course! It was described as ‘gently undulating’ and I suppose it was. There were no really difficult hills and most of the trail went along traffic free country lanes. The start was a bit narrow, being a pavement by a relatively major road, but otherwise it was a very jolly run, well…
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We are the people we’ve been waiting for
ByJohn May October 30, 2015July 8, 2026
My address to delegates of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Forum 2015 in Toronto, Canada Your Royal Highness, Honourable ministers, Chairman, My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen Good morning. We are the people we’ve been waiting for. I was in the office of a ‘master of the universe’ the other day. Or at least that’s…
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A Night with Oxfordshire Scouts
ByJohn May October 24, 2025July 8, 2026
This evening, I had the enormous pleasure of joining Oxfordshire Scouts for their annual Adult Awards Dinner, held at the beautifully appointed Bicester Hotel and Spa. Nestled just outside Chesterton, it’s a rather lovely setting – part country retreat, part hive of activity – and it proved the perfect venue for a night of celebration,…
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