A few weeks ago was remembrance day and since my daughters have joined the Brownies and got invited to carry the flag in the church and on the parade. It was a gorgeous, cold morning and after a lovely service where the girls did a great job of carrying the flag (the one flag, between the two of them – you can see there might be a problem brewing there!), the whole bunch of them, the boys brigade, the girls, brownies and scouts etc all disappeared down behind the church and marched past to the sound of the boys band. It was lovely.
We did get a bit of a hint of some brewing sibling trouble as the girls rounded the corner..some serious, frowning faces and we discovered that someone had told the girls that they couldn’t ‘share’ the holding of the flag for the march. In the church we had worked it out that one of them could hold the actual stick and the other could hold the corner of the material, then everybody was happy.
But that all went south when someone didnt appreciate the delicate balance of asking two sisters to do the same job!!
I think next time it might be time for an independent effort!
But it was so lovely to see the kids marching in the november sunshine to remember those gone before.
🙂
Always a tough one – sibling sharing. I love their solution and its a shame they couldn’t put it into operation. I do like marching bands. Rooted in my own childhood. Glad you had a good day for it.
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It must have been a lovely sight seeing them all marching along with the band. Always a tough one when they need to share a task…! #CountryKids
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A great honour for them, but yes, foolish not to work out that sibling rivalry might rear it’s head! Lovely photos
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A huge honor to carry the flag even if you have to share! Your girls are clearly better behaved than my boys who have never been trusted with flag bearing. All the same lovely to have them attend and be part of this special day. Thank you for sharing your lovely sunny photos on Country Kids.
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oooh yes i can imagine how popular that was not asking both sisters to share the task! your daughter looks exactly like you btw – wow!
lovely photos of a special morning x
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I can imagine that was a challenge! How fantastic to get involved though and wonderful photos 🙂
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That must have been hard trying to get them to share the honour of carrying the flag and then told not too.