My first Girl Guide badge!

It's a hundred years since they started the Girl Guides and one of the first ever guiding groups was here in Berkshire - at Pinkneys Green. In fact, it was set up by Robert Baden-Powell's sister, Agnes, who came and camped with the gals several times in its first few years.

In those days, you could get a badge for cobbling! Nowadays, they've evolved with the times and you're more likely to strive for a badge in environmental studies.

For some reason, I don't really quite know why, I never joined the Brownies or the Guides - so I've never ever earned a badge. But today I got my first - a centenary badge.

It was presented to me by two lovely ladies, Jane Bingham who's centenary champion for the Girl Guides in Berkshire, and Tracy Gillingham who's a Rainbow leader. Rainbows are the littl'uns, aged 5-7. Then there's the Brownies, then the Guides and then something else I'd never heard of before - a Trefoil Guild which caters for older Guides.

In fact, in Reading, there's a 95 year old lady called Evelyn who's still a staunch member of the Guides. Astonishing. That makes her nearly as old as the movement itself!