Nearly There

I saw this excellent picture whilst idly browsing and thought "this time tomorrow, I'll be getting ready to go to The Griffin". A quick glance at the web page hints at around 30 attendees so it should be nice and cosy!

Hopefully, I should get there just before seven to meet and greet before moving (squeezing?) into the conservatory for, hopefully, a night of jollity and general geo-chatter.

I have knocked up a bit of a quiz so if there's room I may roll that out. No big prize, in fact, so far, no prize - I'll have to have a rummage and see what I've got that would make an appropriate trophy.

I'm not sure what beers they've got on, I've been rather busy with the panot the last week or so, but I've never been disappointed with the selction at The Griffin.

Well, that's all for now - I've curtain call at 7.30 - hope to see many faces tomorrow night.

Clavedon

Feeling a lot better after my near-death experience with the man-flu, I decided on a bit of caching to blow out the cobwebs. A new series of 14 caches appeared last night so they had to be done.

After breakfast at the Gay Cafe, I drove out to Claverdon, near Henley-in-Arden, picking up a Tutti-Fruitti cache on the way. I parked the car and walked back to the first cache of the Langton Lane Loop series.

As I approached the cache I spied a couple acting suspiciously in the trees. A gps hanging around a neck and a handful of paper confirmed them as geocachers. After introductions we decided to do the rest of the series together, signing the logs Lorri-Ann and Kev and Kev (well almost). We then spent the next couple of hours or so slipping, sliding and sloshing in the mud around this excellent series.

Abbey, the lab, really enjoyed all the water even when mixed with soil !

After the series, we went our seperate ways but I think that I spied my new friends turning into Bearley railway station as I was pulling out.

I was going to do the Webbie Womble series on the way back but the weather was looking a bit iffy so I wimped out but still managed a few more easy caches on the way home.

The more observant may have noticed 15 smilies on the map; "Edstone Adventure" was caught up in the middle of the series, so did that one as well!

Caching Up

I'm been a bit quiet on the Geo front lately due to a number of things including, grandkids waking (everybody) at 6am every day, man flu and work.

I'm on annual leave this week but was literally dying from man flu earlier in the week but finally got out for a spot of tubbyware hunting yesterday. I'm going through a bit of a retro-HiFi phase at the moment, buying (slightly) older HiFi gear on eBay! The current set up is mainly Denon including receiver, CD player and a (soon to arrive) MiniDisc recorder. I've also got a ProJect turntable for the old vinyl which can be picked up for a song at charity shops!

What's all this to do with geocaching? Well the receiver needed picking up from Worcester so Sue and I made a day of it. After a lazy start, we picked up a few easy caches on the way down ending up at Upton-upon-Severn for lunch. Following some gorgeous cauliflower & brocolli soup, we made our way to Malvern for a few more caches and the Oxfam shop (where I picked up Elton John's "Goodbye Yellowbrick Road" on YELLOW VINYL).

After a very nice veggie curry we picked up the audio gear before driving home. A nice relaxing day.

I've still got two caches with a kilometre of Balders Hall which I really should do (sorry Stokesy).

The Birthday Bash is less than a week away and I'm really looking forward to spending the evening with my geo-buddies.

Sorry

Sorry Guys but I have been busy with other "projects" lately and have, sadly, neglected this blog.

I have, belatedly, discovered Facebook (kev@byke5.co.uk) and have found that very time consuming especially winding up a certain Strangler without even trying, apparently!

Cachingwise, I have been rather quiet over the past week or so but am off work for a week so may have to nip out and bag a few!

That's it for now; I'm still getting over a cold (man-flu) so fortified with medicinal alcohol I'm off to my sick bed.

Watch this space.