Caching Tales

T emperatures really rocketed this week and as I worked on through the Covid-19 crisis at my little desk at home, with none of the luxuries of the office i.e. air con, I was increasingly desperate to find ways to keep cool.   It was definitely time to get out the paddling pool, for a bit of feet cooling relief during my lunch breaks. Although various other household residents also decided to make the most of it. The kitty pictured below, thought it was a giant drinking fountain!  So what else do you do when it’s 30 odd degrees? Go for a nice long caching walk in Norfolk! Yep that’s exactly what I did.  This week I headed to West Dereham to do another Poshrule walk. It actually wasn’t too long, but boy it was humid. And to make matters worse I definitely hadn’t taken enough drinks!  But it was a really nice stroll mainly along quiet country roads. There were quite a few hills, which I wasn’t expecting, but some lovely quick easy finds all the way around.  Not lon...

This summer seems to have been a bumper year for new geocaches. Literally days after the Covid-19 lockdown eased here in the UK, dozens upon dozens of new cache alerts started filling up my email box.   Lots of local cachers had clearly made the most of their spare time whilst stuck at home, by setting lots of new caches, helping to keep Geocaching fresh and fun. I really should have done the same! Dozens of new geocache series began appearing on the map, and none more so than around Downham Market in Norfolk. Poshrule, Jane Chick and a few others had definitely been very busy! As the weather was looking good at the weekend I decided to do one of Poshrule’s new circular walks ‘Wereham Whirligig’.  I parked up at the recommended spot near the beautiful village green and pond, and set about solving the multis nearby, before heading out of the village to grab the first cache in the series.  The first part of the walk was along a quiet country road and the caches were all qui...