Had a great time with Mr Lain in #Manchester City today . We set off from Skellingthorpe around 8am where he drove us to #Meadowhall shopping centre. We paused for a #McDonald’s before getting a tram to the train station, then a train to Manchester. We had tried four bookshops looking for second hand Fighting Fantasy gamebooks but nothing had turned up. One shop had even closed down and turned into a winebar. Finally we found Paramount Bookstore in Shudehill. Pretty early on in the search I found Sagard The Barbarian book4. It’s in used but acceptable condition. Mark would then go on to scour the shelves and bring up a signed copy of an early Citadel Of Chaos, an early copy of Fighting Fantasy-The Introductory RPG, a clean copy of Battleblade Warrior with black dragon logo, and a copy of Starship Traveller but we left that as it was in shit condition. All in all a great adventure and a pleasing result. Also visited the Museum Of Science and Industry afterwards.
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Let’s hope work flies by today with such a busy weekend ahead. I have #Manchester tomorrow with Mr Lain, and then meeting up with Claire on Sunday. It’s rained here during the night and is still dull and overcast. Gonna tidy up the rooms, and get showered before bed. Won’t have time in the morning. Best charge the camera and phone up as well. Kit out my rucksack.
My Riddler’s Roamer #travelbug has been taken all the way to #San Diego , #California . ( Thanks Aaron)
I’m so thrilled its gone five and a half thousand miles in such a short time. It was in Baby Masons #geocache so long I thought it had been lost until it was moved to the place Aaron picked it up. Then bang! All the way round the world. Here’s hoping the current holders of my other two #travelbugs get themselves into gear. Gonna feel like a travelbug myself this weekend!!
So here I am facing an appointment with an eye specialist on the 24th of this month. Apparently I’m having something with dye done. I’ve had a little look round on the internet and seen two processes involving dye. Ones like a bit of litmus paper leant against your tear duct. The other is an injection in the arm. Then the eye is scanned in both cases under blue light. I hope its the former. I hate needles. And if its needle in the eye (God forbid) they can piss right off. It’s all due to the pressure in my left eye being 1% different to that in my right. Bloody hell, 1%! Maybe i just blinked hard trying to focus on the hot air balloon? Are #specsavers just trying to pull a fast one? I only went in to reactivate my lensmail prescription.
Lovely ride out through the countryside again. Feeling it on the knees though. Glucosamine pills needed methinks?
Today was the last day I’ll see Craig at work. Finally, the useless overpaid lump has gone and the curse of the Tomblins away from Royal Mail forever. Well, officially tomorrow but do you honestly think he’ll stay his full shift and do anything? Will he ffff….lip. So now Regina and I shall be alternating weekends and doing up to an extra two hours a day. Bleh. But the overtime will be nice.
Thinking of going on a lovely bike ride tomorrow. I’ve moved it into my room. It wasn’t as safe as someone said it would be. My most expensive possession…scratched in three places, one severely grazing the metal. I can suppress my anger and hurt for the sake of peace but the bike stays upstairs with me from now on. I value my possessions and treat them with respect. I have too little in life not to. Anyway tires pumped, bags packed and hatcams on charge. Can’t wait!
I’ve now been an active Munzee player for a few weeks, and have been trying to weigh up whether is is better than geocaching.
Pros- Munzee is largely digital. It contains no more physical presence than a sticky label at best. Logging is done digitally also. You can have one set up in seconds.
Cons- some of these pieces can cost well over $5. Even if they have no physical presence. They may not adhere very long in bad weather. Membership is a whopping $30
Pros- geocaching can have little collectables. It’s slightly easier to understand terms. Stealth caches are camouflaged well. They’re hardier on weathers if made well. Cheaper membership.
Cons- you have to wait for groundspeak to publish them. There are distance restrictions between caches. Anyone can find then steal them for their contents. Logbooks can be ludicrously small.
Either way they’re both great outdoor pursuits!
Well I have been back at work for two days now. The usual palace of grime awaited me when I returned. What is the point of sending in a mobile cleaner for two hours to cover a seven hour job? This is the mentality of the idiots that have all the powers at Romec. Itll be much better if and when Cofely take over as I don’t think anybody can be as bad as the current headless chickens society in charge. Regina has be whinging about Craigs skiving whilst on the job, yet I caught her upstairs with him at least twice chatting. I have got a bigger fish to fry sadly. My mobile phone has decided to stop functioning properly and keeps displaying error messages. I have tried everything from empting caches to wiping it completely back to factory settings with no luck what so ever. Vodafone were also unable to help so it looks like its time to buy a newy. Unfortunately this may mean going for a less expensive option on the Kickstarter I am currently backing. But what can you do?
Updated this sites header pic and placed a social munzee on it. get scanning guys n gals. I appear to have opened up a new area for geocachers down on the Scarborough Bros farmland. Tentmantent enjoyed finding the Siblings series which I hid there the other day, and is arranging a litterpicking event next month in the woodland over there. Would have been good if I had though to hide a small cache there also. Anyways, time to wind down for the day.
Must have walked a good 10 km today in the hot sun. Found some pretty cool geocaches along the way. Including one up a tree. The idea was to climb it but of course I used ingenuity and stealth for the same effect. Gonna try the Hykeham district tomorrow and see what the Amasons have put together out there. Also have two new trackable to put out there. Will be nice to drop one into their doorstep cache. Wonder if anything become of the other. One thing I’ve noticed is that people simply don’t abide by the taking swag rules. America is so much better at adhering to this. I know Britain’s hard up but do people really need to steal from geocaches?
If any more trackable or small+ caches go missing I’ll be sticking to nanos.
Feeling a disturbance in the Force. I feel a sense of impending disappointment.
Alice’s Nightmare In Wonderland is a new Kickstarter project by popular British author Jonathan Green. This new work will not be a novel but a gamebook, reminiscent of such works as Choose Your Own Adventure or Fighting Fantasy. You will doubtlessly take on the role of Alice, and make key decisions to decide the outcome of her fate.
As this is a Kickstarter project, you are invited to help make a pledge towards the cost of production in return for rewards such as a signed copy of the book, or even your name credited within its pages. If you are interested and wish to find out more, click here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412864360/alices-nightmare-in-wonderland
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Jonathan Green successfully produced You Are The Hero via Kickstarter in 2014, and is the author of many books including the Pax Britannia novels.
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