I have to say that Church Micros are growing on me, there aren’t that many around here so I hadn’t taken much notice of them, but there are about 5,500 in the country and visiting them is getting very popular so I joined the Church Micro group on Facebook… My 42 CM finds makes me pretty much a novice, especially behind the top finder who has found 3,500 of them (the next on the list has only found 2,700 so they are in a league of their own)
Two new caches were put out between home and Ilkley one Saturday evening, so I went along the next morning to find them… not FTF’s this time as I wasn’t up at the crack of dawn to get them ! Continue reading →

There are only a few Church Micro caches within 25 miles of me, surprisingly I haven’t been to find two of the nearest ones, so I set out on a wet Thursday afternoon with the intention of going to one at Harewood, but hadn’t got further than a mile from home before I changed my mind and went for one at Farsley near Pudsey instead !
One of my reasons was that the Harewood cache stands alone, whereas at Farsley there are several more caches nearby Continue reading →

The next day, Bank Holiday Monday was a long day for me, we got up for 9:00am and because the Premier Inn breakfast would have to be paid for and is expensive we decided to go elsewhere (and found a nice cafe where the similar food was almost 50% cheaper). Then we did a bit of caching around Maidstone and eventually set off home at about noon… we then made a couple of stops on the way home before getting back to Coventry at about 8pm, where UKCacheMag was complaining of falling asleep and was looking forward to an early night – I then drove Angel78 back to Lichfield where she was complaining of weariness and looking forward to an early night… Meanwhile I still had a 2 hour drive back to Otley, not getting back until gone 11pm… no early night for me ! Continue reading →

The Hotel we were staying in managed to cock up our rooms – apparently there were two people staying with similar names (though not very similar to people with eyes to see the surname was spelt differently and one was booked by a Male and the other by a Female) but there you go, the kerfuffle meant that they did give us all a free breakfasts for the first morning, so we stoked up on sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns, beans, tea, coffee, toast, yoghurt etc before setting of bright and early for Hop Farm and the Mega Event itself  Continue reading →

The cachers down London way had had a bit of a complaint that the UK Mega event had never been in their neck of the woods, it had been in Harrogate, Weston Super-Mare, Perth, Swansea, Cumbria, Oxfordshire and next was going to Ayr – so nowhere near the South East. This prompted the cachers in Kent to set up their own Mega event at Hop Farm near Maidstone for May 2014 and of course UKCacheMag had to be there to promote the magazine and so I went along as usual to help him sell it… this time we took Angel78 along with us. I drove down to her house, then onto UKCachemag’s in Coventry and he drove us from there on (as he has the bigger car – and it was stuffed full with all the gear). It’s a long way to Kent from here… 140 miles to Coventry for a start and then almost as far again down to Kent Continue reading →

Not St Ives in Cornwall, nor even St Ives in Cambridgshire, but the St Ives estate near Bingley, West Yorkshire.
It was a nice sunny morning and I felt like going for a walk, and I didn’t know where to go so I decided to go to a place I had been somewhat avoiding for no good reason. The St Ives estate is a cache rich area that although only 8 miles from home I have only visited once before so there are many caches for me to find… Continue reading →