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!
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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.
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Well the weekend has been so proactive. Saturday I spent seven hours in the hot sun geocaching. Hid four around Skellingthorpe woods and also found four as well. Dropped the new-look Riddler trackable off in Baby Masons cache near Pig Lane.
Made it to dads about 4pm by which time asda had shut, so didn’t get any shopping done.
After searching around the fittings at work, I finally discovered my tracktags had in fact arrived. Daz Tingles eyesight must be failing him now he’s getting on. I’ve activated Ramona’s Roamer and in a couple of days the nun figurine should have arrived for the other. Just need to drop then off after that and hope they move about safely this time. So many cache thieves out there, even the medium sized Skellyswag cache only had a plectrum and baby Alan key in it. Just need Antheia to activate my new ones now.
Craig’s off work this week. Hooray! Added bonus Lorna who’s covering him only gets 90 minutes so can achieve the same sub standard he can in seven and a half hours. Lazy twat!
Been planning this for ages and finally managed to pry myself away from the Xbox. Looking forward to a date on Sunday with a lovely lady so jumped in and updated the blog, including a new page on my geocaching hobby. Got 4 made up ready to hide sometime as well as a couple of travelbugs along the way. Hope they hold out longer than the last one. Thieving twa…ahem…monkeys.
Felt really drained and tired all day long. The 35 degrees centigrade it reached yesterday must be to blame. Brits just cant handle such extreme heat. Doesn’t seem five minutes since we was all whinging about the cold. Anyways, jobs a gooden. Roll on Sunday, and hopes that JG adjusts his Kickstarter awards a bit for Saturdays launch.
Kind of a disappointing walk to work earlier. A few days ago I noticed a Pen with two little babies. That alone is a very low clutch for a swan. On the way past the Brayford this morning she only had one left. I can help thinking people are killing these graceful creature. Totally illegally as well as Mutes are supposed to be protected.
Decided to boycott the pub quiz last night as funds are a bit low. Was very warm so didn’t feel like going out anyway. Susie’s got some sunflowers on the grow. Time to start cutting the borders to size or they’ll have nowhere to go. Nor will mine when they get here. Along the steep would be good for sunflowers as it catches the light all day and gives them something to brace themselves.
Gonna spend Saturday geocaching in the west common and up the river…touch wood. Will charge the knackered phone up too so I can get a good few hours out.
The mystery of this week is how one of my geocaches managed to go missing and then turned up back in its original place by itself the following day. Either the latest finder was playing sillybuggers or they didn’t return it to its rightful place until a message from me spooked them. Either way it puts me in mind of other things that go missing and turn up again later. Agatha Christie herself did for a whole week and she never did let on where she had been.
Lovely sunny day outside. I hope the weekend is just as nice. Wednesday… so work isn’t much of a bind either. I appear to be playing more Modern Warfare than Left4Dead these days. There are too many idiots on the latter ruining gameplay.
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