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MILBORNE MOVIES BERE REGIS SCOUT GROUP

Milborne Movies, May 10th: SPY
Explorer News

At Milborne St Andrew Village Hall,
The Explorers enjoyed a night dedicated to the
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Holi festival in March. It involved taking part in a
Doors and bar open, 7.00; film starts variety of craft projects using colours and shapes
to celebrate this popular ancient Hindu festival
7.30 which originated from India. An evening learning
Melissa McCarthy shines in this clever action- how to throw tomahawks and axes was organised
comedy showcase provided by writer and director at Buddens Scout Adventures centre. It proved
Paul Feig. She plays an unassuming, deskbound quite a tricky skill – particularly as the evening light
CIA analyst who is the unsung hero behind the began to fade and the Explorers just had spot
Agency’s most dangerous missions. When her lights to guide their aim. The final activity evening
partner (Jude Law) falls off the grid and another top agent (Jason Statham) is of the spring term involved a treasure hunt around
compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a Bere Regis answering a variety of quiz questions set
by Elliot. The winning team were promised
deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global disaster.
chocolate Easter eggs so we had a great turnout, and it was a great success,
Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham work wonderfully together in this fun spoof even though there were some quite obscure questions to answer!
of the spy film genre. McCarthy is hilarious, and Statham's deadpan delivery
never misses. Rose Byrne as a glamourous villain is also very good. Be warned, the The Explorers were invited to two
humour is quite broad at times – but there are lots of laughs and we all need very different camps at the start
those! of the Easter holidays. There was
a District Mountain Bike Camp
organised by the Explorer Scout
Unit in Swanage and a Bunnies
and Bivis Camp organised by
Bere Regis Scouts. The Kingsbere
Explorer Unit had participants at
both. The cyclists started their
route in Swanage and biked over
to Buddens via Old Harry rocks.
After camping and recovering overnight at Buddens,
they biked back to Swanage the following day –
enjoying some amazing
Dorset spring weather and
scenery.

The Bunnies and Bivis
camp with the Scouts also
took place at Buddens.
Julien instructed the young people to prepare
bunnies ready for the cooking pot and the Explorers
and Scouts slept under tarps in the woods after a
session around the campfire. Many thanks to Neal

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