If you go down to the woods today...you’ll definitely get a surprise!

I thought it was about time I got my act together and started blogging again, this time on my obsession caching! Or ‘Geocaching’ as it’s officially known.

This week’s caching trips have been short & sweet, mainly due to long working days due to traffic chaos, illness & a round of medical appointments, yawn!

Anyway, moving swiftly on, the week started with a little trip out on Saturday with my hopefully soon to be newphew & niece Blue Gizmo & Blue Gizmo 2. Both are fairly new to caching & thoroughly enjoyed finding some of the new skull hunt caches at Mildenhall...well enjoyed might be an exaggeration they certainly argued a lot about who would find the next one & after about an hour just wanted food & a play park. Nevertheless, it was an amusing experience & one I’m sure to repeat soon.

A caching highlight of this week was a rare First to Find (FTF) for us, again in the woods near Mildenhall, which turned out to be rather more grim than expected. On arrival at GZ we were greeted by a boney hand - ‘Halloween’ had certainly come early! A clever cache, by relatively new cachers, Graeme&Eden. We returned a couple of evenings later to bag a few more in the series & again they did not disappoint - certainly had the ‘grim’ factor down to a T!

This week has also seen our 14th War Memorial cache published (GC7NPV3), which brings our total cache hides to 46...we’re determined to reach the golden 50 before the summer’s out! The location this time - Fordham in Cambridgeshire, which has a beautiful memorial and a bit of a sad history.  Thieves badly damaged it a few years ago whilst stealing the bronze statue that sat on top of it. Thankfully it has been restored & you would never know when looking at it today that the statue on top is a fibreglass replica.

The cache, a rather uninspiring 35mm film pot! (yes a lazy cache, definitely must put more thought into our caches - in fact the wood butcher (other half) is currently making a few...more to be revealed on that soon!) was grabbed shortly after publication, by 19curl79 who I bumped into whilst doing the HHA series last year. Congratulations to her on a quick FTF.

Right, I’m off to pack the nettle sting spray in my caching bag - all this rain will certainly have helped that caching foe to rapidly spring up this weekend!

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