Hot on the heels of the Eden Project, work took me to Chelmsford yesterday for the epic 21st World Scout Jamboree! It's huge! 30,000 scouts and about another 10,000 adults of various kinds, in Hylands Park. They are using the huge arena stage that will be used at the V Festival in a couple of weeks time, but for scouting songs and dances. So, at lunchtime all these scouts start singing poppy uplifting songs like One World One Promise, the theme song of the Jamboree, or S Club Seven, or Dancing In The Street. It was all quite glorious, if somewhat cheesy too. I was practically moved to tears by the earnestness of it all.
