1. Your initiation ceremony was kind of cultish.
2. And getting your promise badge was a huge deal.
3. These were your bibles.
And you read them cover to cover to work out how many badges you could get with the minimum amount of effort.
4. And it was incredibly exciting when you got your first badge.
5. You probably got a hostess badge for making your mum a cup of tea and doing the washing up.
6. But there was always that one girl who had like 100 badges on her sash.
7. Getting put in a different Six to your best friend was slightly traumatic.
8. You’ve never felt more powerful than when you were made a Sixer or a Second.
And you never questioned what happened to all the numbers in between.
9. You learned a bunch of songs that made absolutely no sense, like this classic.
10. There was nothing worse than forgetting a full-uniform week.
11. And you were outraged when they replaced the culottes with a tracksuit.
12. You went on a Brownie camp and did loads of awesome things.
13. You made some terrible crafts.
14. There was probably a point when your whole pack was just people from your class at school.
15. So you felt an intense rivalry when you came across another pack in the wild.
16. You kind of still wonder why your leaders were a group of women named after owls.
17. But nothing was scarier than being told off by Brown Owl.
18. You probably went to a big Brownie gathering.
19. Carrying the flag at Remembrance Day was a huge honour.
20. There was always a big emphasis on helping old ladies cross the road/carry their shopping.
