I was a rather reluctant Brownie. I was already busy with piano lessons etc., etc., but my younger sister wanted to join, so she did - but Mum enlisted me so I could walk up with her and bring her back. :(
Worse, I only had about 10 months to go, agewise, so mum wouldn't buy me a uniform. She made me a brown skirt and blouse (uniform was a tunic at the time) but she did buy me the tie. Can you imagine how 'out of it' I was? Despite that, I quite enjoyed it and gained badges, until I came up against knots! I've tried and tried and I still can't manage a reef knot, mine always were 'grannys'.
Later, my girls loved Brownies and Guides and their cousins were Brown Owls, Akeelas and Scouts - so I learned what the movement offered and I thoroughly approved. No reason to change my opinion, so well done Baden-Powell and all those who surrounded his statue in Poole - time we objected to these destroyers and showed them that they are opposed by ordinary people.