The problem with drinking too much vodka is that you are good for nothing the next morning… it took me until 11:30 to be able to face eating or drinking anything, although I had been out for a walk on the beach at 9:00 before going back for more sleep.
All this meant that Angel78 and I didn’t get set off to do any caching until 12.00. We decided that although there were lots of caches about we couldn’t go for them all and so we would just stick to the local Church Micros Continue reading →

Three out of the last four years I have made an entry that starts “I was travelling down to Brean Sands near Weston Super Mare for the weekend, so I thought I’d do a few drive by caches, it’s a 250 mile drive, 230 of that should be on Motorways so it should have been about a four hour drive… it took me”… well this year my first stop was picking up Angel78 in Tamworth and then we went geocaching so the four hour drive took me 9 hours.
Angel78 has decided that her ‘thing’ is going to be Church Micros – a little odd as there are very few CM’s in the Midlands and she hadn’t found any when she made her decision, but there are so many worthless caches these days that it’s good to have some sort of speciality to go for, so many of the caches we did over the weekend were Church Micros. Continue reading →

A new series of 3 caches and a bonus had been recently put out in Bramhope 4 miles from home which I thought I would have a go at.
First off I didn’t look for GC5074Q Tudor Queens – Mary I – I made a decision soon after I started caching that I wouldn’t be happy with someone poking about the garden hedge / fence / wall at the bottom of my garden for a cache so it was only right that I didn’t going to look for caches in other peoples garden wall / fence / hedge.
So this one got put on my ignore list… When I got home from reading other peoples logs I realised that the bonus cache was going to be on the same path as the three normal caches and that even though I hadn’t got the full numbers to work out the co-ordinates I do know where it is going to be hidden… I’ll go and get it one day Continue reading →

Geocaching.com had put out a message that they wanted people who were expert hiders of caches to hold ‘Maker Madness’ events to pass on their insight in hiding caches on to others. Now I don’t hide caches but my friend Ian – PrinterFixerMan does and he decided to hold one of these events… so I decided to show some support and go along.  On my way to the event I thought I would go and have a walk round a cache series near where he lives… basically a trial to see how I was recovering from the debilitating trapped nerve in my back – I had only found 8 caches previously in 2014 and none of them more than 10 yards from Tarmac ! So a steady 4 mile walk along reasonable footpaths would be a suitable next step. Continue reading →