Five years ago, I was transferring Adrian’s scout badges from an outgrown scout shirt to a new one. Already then I said it would be last time I’d do it for him.

Well, the shirt that was new then has been far to small for a long time. Adrian has been wearing scout t-shirts or hoodies instead. For this year’s summer camp, he wants to have a proper shirt again, and all the badges on it.

He’s been hard at work with the seam ripper to get the badges off the old shirt. There was also a small mountain of badges that he’s earned since then. The total is… impressive. At least fifty.

The amount of work that it would take to sew all these on is truly immense. We’ve concluded that textile glue is the only reasonable way forward.