Caching Tales

As my week off work drew to a close I had just Saturday and Sunday left for some caching adventures.  My nieces 3ft and 4ft were up for an adventure, aka team DannyJGB - well almost the whole team, one part was off playing golf with my fairweather caching partner.  Keen not to venture to far from home we decided to head for the new circular walk ‘Flossies Dozen’ near Soham. Set by the legendary Eco Puffins Parents, it has replaced their previous Flossies Walk series which followed a similar route.  Grabbing coats and boots from the car...the weathermen had got it wrong again, rain was definitely on the way...we set off along a very quiet country road to collect our first cache. In order to limit some of the arguments that sometimes ensue on these trips with my lovely nieces, 4ft navigated us to the first cache, whilst 3ft ducked under the trees to make the retrieve. It was a quick find and after a quick switch over of  navigator and retriev...

As Monday morning dawned I woke up relaxed and happy, not two emotions I usually feel on a Monday morning. This week was different because I had the week off work, and better still I hadn’t booked much in the diary as I wanted to spend most of it geocaching.  So where to go today? I’d decided I wanted a fairly decent sized trail. I’d hit the long awaited 6,000 caches at the weekend and now wanted to get my numbers up a bit more. It was definitely a quantity over quality day! Looking at the cache map, I could see an awful lot of smilies within 20 miles of my house, so I decided my best bet was a trip to South Cambs to undertake the fairly new RYO62 letterbox series Bunny Hop. 48 smilies were up for grabs along with 48 letterbox stamps for my book.  Fortunately, I’d spent some time completing the various puzzles and jigsaws - of alot of rabbits - a few weeks earlier so with the co-ordinates plugged into my GPS I set off.  Arriving in Bassingbourn at t...

They say there’s three things in life that you shouldn’t discuss with your friends: Politics, Religion and Money...although I often think there should be a fourth: football!  For years I’ve lived by this philosophy and I have to say, for the most part, I’ve avoided falling out with anyone over differing views.  I avoid the news like the plague so not discussing politics has been easy. Money doesn’t bring happiness, it just makes life easier, so I have no problems avoiding that subject. And not being religious in the slightest - I’m as far down the spectrum from any sort of belief as you can be -  I’ve easily managed to avoid that too.  But this week when one of my very good friends officially became a deacon of the Church of England it has all of a sudden become a lot harder to avoid religion. To support and wish him well in his new career I attended his official Ordination ceremony at Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, but to say I was less than c...