30th March 2015 – Quiet Drinks GC5PHC0 – cache #3584
On such a rainy, windy, horrible night it was lovely to get a smiley in a nice warm friendly pub.
Goldfish58 – or Carina as she’s know to her friends has appeared several times in these caching stories, and was hosting an event for two reasons, firstly to celebrate her birthday, and secondly as a bit of a goodbye as she is heading off to live in Stirling.
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Grid Square SE1646
The Ordnance Survey list has 6 Benchmarks in grid SE1646, all Cut Marks.
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Grid Square SE1749
The Ordnance Survey list has 4 Benchmarks in grid SE1749, one is a Pivot, the others are all Cut Marks.
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Caches No’s 3580 to 3583 – Three More Survey Monuments, and More
Two weekends in a row I spent driving down to the West Midlands – though this journey took me down as far as Gloucestershire, is that still the West Midlands ? or is it near enough France to be the South West ?
From here there are two ways to go, West along the M62 then South along the M6 to the M5, or South on the M1 and then West on the M42 to the M5… The Sat Nav programs list them both as being exactly the same distance from here to the M42/M5 junction. So this journey I decided to set off an hour early and stop for a couple of caches on the way, well I planned more but then the traffic report had long hold-ups just before Tewkesbury so I had to stop caching and spend the spare hour sitting in traffic jams instead
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Caches No’s 3577,3578 & 3579 – Three Survey Monuments
I’d had to go down to Wychbold (about half way between Birmingham and Worcester and as I was driving home I had about an hour or so of daylight left, so thought I would grab a few of the local YOSM’s – one to the north of Birmingham in Sutton Coldfield and and two on Cannock Chase.
Grid Square SE1746
The Ordnance Survey list has 4 Benchmarks in grid SE1746, one is a Bolt, the others are all Cut Marks.
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