I started Guiding may years ago as a guide in Halifax and gained my Queens Guide.  There were no Rangers where I was, so a group of us with our Guide leader started a Sea Rangers Unit. We went nowhere near water but liked the unifom!

I then became an Assistant Guider and in the mid 1970's became Guide Guider at 1st Northowram Guides.  Later I was also Camp Advisor and District Commissioner then Division Commissioner for Halifax North.

I have always loved the outdoors and international activities and Guiding has brought me so much.  A year wasn't complete without at least one Guide camp, and I took my unit a few times either camping or to Guide/Scout houses in Europe. Two highlights of my guiding were taking a UK group to Japan and a West Yorkshire West group to Virginia USA.

Not having any contact with water as a Sea Ranger must have been on my mind in the 1980's as I trained as a skipper for inland waterways. I was part of the group that thought of and raised funds for our County narrowboat.

My active Guiding days are now over, although I am still one of the County narrowboat skippers.

I was very honoured in 2008 when I was asked to be a County Vice President.