Morals

Situation:

Your child has crashed your car.
The damage is noticable but not massive.
You have a £500 excess if the damage was done by an under 21 year old - but zero otherwise.
The repairs will cost less than £500.

What would you do?

1. Claim on insurance knowing they wouldn't pay anything and potentially impacting your's and your child's no-claims discount
2. Pay for it yourself.
3. Get your child to pay (probably over a couple of years or through a series of chores).
4. Say it was you and get the insurance company to pay.
5. Not bother doing anything at all unless the damage makes the car illegal or unusable in some way.

Easy choice? What would you do?

Hello Autumn

For me the first weekend of November marks the height of autumn; the trees are usually colourful with autumn leaves, the weather turns crisp and the fireworks mark my birthday, or that is what I like to think. This year was different, though, as I spent the weekend in Vienna. Vienna is beautiful, walkable, the cakes are fabulous but it is very expensive with the exchange rate as it is. The highlight of the weekend was a four course meal and concert of Strauss and Mozart. OK it was a bit touristy but absolutely great. I didn't think about Guides at all.
When I got back, three days later, I was allowed to open my presents and there was a cake....pretty good, eh?

Surrey West Influential Folk Team

SWIFT is the possible acronym for the VIP Hit Squad we got together last night. Recognising that the Centenary year gives us excellent opportunities at County, Division and District level to promote Guiding to people with influence, we felt that we needed to be able to do it to the best of our ability. So last night Julia, our Centenary Champion helped by Lesley, former Lady Mayor of Guildford so has been a VIP; Cindy, my predecessor as CC; Rachel and Natalie, Chairs of M&I, met a group of young and enthusiastic girls and Leaders to talk about what was required. We got them to think about how to make people welcome, what they could say, how they should act and so on.

Their first outing is the County Service on the 22nd and we are confident this aspect will now be well looked after.

There are a couple of carrots for them too;

1. the Lord Lieutenant has asked us to provide her with a Cadet next year. This is a real honour as it means accompanying her on visits in Surrey including meeting royalty (she is their representative). Open to 15-18 year olds, we will be looking for candidates in the next few weeks.
2. CHQ have offered Counties the opportunity for five people to be trained as Media Spokespeople. The SWIFTs would be ideal for this.

If you read this and you know a 15-18 year old who would be suitable as the LL Cadet helping Mrs Goad with her bag, make polite conversation etc then please let me know. Details will be on the Weekly News.