{"id":928,"date":"2009-08-30T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T14:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=928"},"modified":"2009-08-30T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T14:04:28","slug":"holidays-camping-and-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Holidays, Camping and Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:343,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lake-district.gov.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:344,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.truenorthscouting.com\\\/2009\\\/08\\\/true-north-show-11.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20101013060709\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.truenorthscouting.com:80\\\/2009\\\/08\\\/true-north-show-11.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 14:23:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 14:23:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">We\u2019ve just got back from our holiday in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lake-district.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lake District<\/a>. Of course, being the Lakes, it rained, but we weren\u2019t too bothered as we had our waterproofs with us so we were ready for anything!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As I now have a digital SLR camera, when we go away I take my laptop with me, so I can download my photos and view them properly at the end of the day. I also take my mobile broadband dongle as well so we can keep in touch with the world through the internet (and keep and eye on our bunny who has his own webcam!). However, there wasn\u2019t any signal where we were, so no interweb. We were disappointed \u2013 yes (couldn\u2019t keep an eye on the bunny for a start), was it a problem \u2013 no. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We did have our phones, the radio &amp; TV, so we weren\u2019t exactly cut off from the outside world, but it got me back to thinking about having all sorts of electronic goodies out when taking the Scouts etc. camping. This has been discussed a lot recently on PTC Media and Escouts and by coincidence SM Shawn is talking about the same subject on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truenorthscouting.com\/2009\/08\/true-north-show-11.html\" target=\"_blank\">True North Show number 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">When we go camping, we say at EVERY camp that electronic devices are banned, however the message seems to fail to get through. We do make sure everyone is aware that if things get broken or lost then we as Leaders are not responsible. Last Scout camp two mobile phones got lost in the river we were camping beside!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We put the blanket ban on gadgets and phones after we went camping in the Lakes one year and one Scout, unbeknown to the Leaders, was supposed to phone his Mum each day on his mobile. But, as we were in a field, surrounded by sheep and in the middle of nowhere there was no signal. Apparently Mum nearly had mountain rescue out looking for the Scout until she got through to one of the Leaders on their phone (different phone company).<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The difficulty is what do you allow and what do you ban? Personally, I think that mobile phones, MP3 and music players and electronic games consoles (PSP etc) are definite things that must stay at home, but cameras are ok. Although I realise a camera is an expensive item, it\u2019s good to be able to take photos to remember your time away but the same caveat applies, it is the Scout\u2019s own responsibility to look after the camera.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">These electronic items are great in their proper place! And camp isn&#8217;t that place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve just got back from our holiday in the Lake District. Of course, being the Lakes, it rained, but we weren\u2019t too bothered as we had our waterproofs with us so we were ready for anything! As I now have a digital SLR camera, when we go away I take my laptop with me, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holidays, Camping and Electronics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-eY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}