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♡Pizza Hut and many, many Hares: A Stalham District Ranger sleepover - June 2018♡

Dear Reader, 
This year, Norwich, and the surrounding areas of Norfolk, play host to a total of 68 beautifully decorated GoGoHares. This time around, there are 2 different trails: the City Trail consisting of 50 hare sculptures, and a County Trail made up of 18 special 'Moongazer' hare sculptures, placed in scenic spots around Norfolk such as Cromer and Holt. In addition there are 164 Leverates (baby hares) designed by local schools, colleges and community groups, placed around the county. 

More information available at https://www.gogohares.co.uk/

And get sneak peaks of the gorgeous hares on the official Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gogohares_2018/




As the GoGo trails are such a well loved and anticipated event for Norwich, Stalham District Rangers decided to incorporate it into a sleepover, and set ourselves the challenge of how many we could find, as well as working towards the Pull's Ferry challenge badge.



Let's hop right to it shall we! 😉


On Friday night we arrived at our accommodation, Pull's Ferry, home to the Norwich Division Headquarters and situated along the river, with gorgeous views and everything we needed, a.k.a A KETTLE! After setting ourselves up, we wandered into Riverside, to find some Hares, and also very importantly, Pizza Hut!

We also had the privilege of 'The King of Scribbles', the hare residing at Pull's Ferry playing a part in our lovely view.

Before heading out, we took on the challenge to learn and understand some Norfolk dialect...


After finding the 5 Hares dotted in and around Riverside, we took our Pizza back to the room to begin working on our Pull's Ferry challenge. As part of this, we created Range-Hare, our very own little hare, from newspaper, string, sellotape and wooden skewers....


Despite many plans for evening, we were all very tired, and quite little was achieved before falling asleep. However, the energy we would gain would prove to be very useful the next day...

 On Saturday morning, the real Hare hunt began. 

 Making use of the car we drove out to Norwich prison to find one of the Moongazer hares, as well as visiting the Roman Catholic cathedral, before heading into the City Centre to really increase our hare count. 


In total, including those on Riverside, we managed to find 45/50 City Hares, as well as 2/18 Moongazers, at the prison, and at Wroxham Barns, which we popped in to find on our way home. 

 As well as looking for the Hares, we completed the Norwich Cathedral labyrinth, played 'pooh sticks' with paper boats off of the Jarrold bridge and bought GoGoHares merchandise in Jarrold's and the forum shop. 




My personal favourite hares are Honey Bunny (pictured below), Haremione and Lepus (the county hare residing in North Walsham market place! 




After around 6 hours looking for the Hares, we admitted defeat and returned to the car and journeyed home, where I definitely didn't move for the rest of the evening. 

Thank you so much to the lovely ladies I got to spend the time with and I personally really hope I can find the rest of the Hares somehow, even the far out county ones. Fingers crossed!

 x
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I promise that I will do my best, to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the Queen and my community, to help other people and to keep the Guide Law,
Yours, 



The 16-Year-Old Brownie

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