The Ordnance Survey list shows no Benchmarks in grid SE1647 Continue reading →

A Facebook post to garner assistance to retrieve a 5/5 cache was the spark for a day of caching… Team MX needed someone to hold the ladder while he climbed up for a cache called Mr Tall and asked on the Yorkshire Geocaching group for help… but the group feeling was that if you are doing one cache you might as well do the whole Mr Men series, and any others along the way, and maybe where sensible extend the route to get a few more in… In the end I worked out a figure of 8 route of about 8 miles that had 40 caches on it and it turned out that the day to meet up was going to be a Monday starting at 9:30am Continue reading →

Having been a bit under the weather with a cold for the previous few days I didn’t really fancy going for a walk on Saturday afternoon, so I thought I’d take a drive instead.
Drive-by caches on a Saturday afternoon can sometimes be problematical as there is a lot of sightseeing traffic filling up the country roads so I thought I would do a series called Service With A Smile which is situated on the A6055 – a road that is really the Southbound Carriageway of the A1, at least it was until they built the new A1M alongside. My reasoning was that as the road went from nowhere to nowhere and as there was a much faster road next to it the road would be nice and quiet for pottering along stopping regularly for caches
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My mother decided that as she had never been on the North Yorks Moors Railway that it was something she wanted to do – so the first Thursday in September, when the kids had gone back to school so there wouldn’t be any of them running around the train we went off to Pickering to take a trip on the railway.
The railway is the longest ‘heritage’ railway in the country and appears along with the Kings Cross and St Pancras Stations and the West Highland Line in the Harry Potter films as the route of the Hogwarts Express . Continue reading →

Another caching expedition organised by the Yorkshire Geocaching facebook group. The plan was to do a series called “Palma’s Surprise” which was apparently put out by a cacher called Palma Violet… Any similarity between this series and the now archived series called ‘Oakwell Re-cycled’ by a cacher called Hunky Hamster is of course totally coincidental, though as they are the same caches in the same places the coincidences are rather glaring ! Continue reading →

Some people use one email address for everything… I use 15 different email addresses because I have different ones for different things – for example I buy and sell things on ebay so if I buy things on one ebay account I sell it on the other and to get a different ebay account you need a different email address. So that’s one reason. Then I have different Facebook accounts for different hobbies so one group of people I know through one subject don’t get bombarded with messages about another subject they have no interest… and so on it goes.
The point to this is that I do not use my phone for sending or receiving emails, so when new caches come out I do not get notifications sent to my phone but have to wait until I turn my computer on to see them. Continue reading →