The change from summer to autumn cannot help but make me think about the past and reminisce about days gone by. A very large element of my childhood and youth (1969-1978) was Boy Scouting. Starting out in Cub Scouts as a Bear (at nine years old, I was too old to become a Wolf cub), I eventually became a Webelo and then a proper Boy Scout. I went through the ranks until I became an Eagle Scout…