{"id":54873,"date":"2015-03-29T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=54873"},"modified":"2015-03-29T00:09:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:09:02","slug":"farmgirl-jubilee-merit-badge-beginner-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/54873","title":{"rendered":"Farmgirl Jubilee Merit Badge, Beginner Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our<\/span> Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/a>, now with\u00a06,269 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20148,908 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> former life<\/a> \u2026\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For this week\u2019s Each Other\/Farmgirl Jubilee Beginning Level Merit Badge<\/a>, I brewed myself a cuppa, baked a few current scones (with clotted cream, guv\u2019nr), kept me eyes peeled for a sighting of the Tardis (my childhood dream of being Doctor Who\u2019s new companion has never died), and read all about HM Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s Diamond Jubilee of 2012.<\/p>\n

What a bash. It was positively smashing and brilliant. (Crikey, I love British idioms. Wait. Crikey is more Down Under, isn\u2019t it? Well, that\u2019s a bit barmy of me, but no matter.) The British know how to do a jubilee, I tell you what. The peasants (do we still call them that?) camped out in the rain to be a part of this celebration, so you know it was a party worth going to. <\/em>Like Woodstock, only way more posh. A party 60 years in the making, in fact. Cheeky!<\/p>\n

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Photo by Richard Symonds via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Lest you think this all a bunch of codswallop or that I\u2019m off my trolley, check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just reading about it has me knackered, but I was determined to earn this badge. It turns out that a jubilee is a basically an anniversary celebration of \u2026 well, just about anything. Want to commemorate the first anniversary of your first Badge? Have a jubilee! Feel like marking the fifth birthday of hosting your very own grownup dinner party? It\u2019s jubilee time!<\/p>\n

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Photo, Tsuchiura Fireworks Display by peaceful-jp-scenery via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

For me, the hard part wasn\u2019t planning a party. I mean, come on, luv, I\u2019m the princess of parties. I have the cocktail dress to prove it (a becoming little black chiffon with a flounce to die for). The hard part was deciding what to celebrate. There\u2019s just so much good<\/strong> in this farmgirl\u2019s life \u2026<\/p>\n

Then I had it. I could host another Organic Dinner Party for my friends and family, and incorporate some of the other farmgirl elements: a reusable bag swap perhaps, or an evening of candlemaking (right after our course of bangers and mash \u2026 or maybe bubbles and squeak \u2026 hold the blood pudding)?<\/p>\n

Of course, my jubilee didn\u2019t need to be British \u2026 but I was kind of hooked. Line and sinker. Which reminds me of fish and chips. Luvvly jubbly, gals.<\/p>\n

I got to work planning my jubilee and even included an invite for the Doctor.<\/p>\n

Doctor Who?<\/p>\n

Just wish I knew where to mail it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with\u00a06,269 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20148,908 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ\u00a0 Wondering who … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladsome_sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}