A Little Light Relief
Feb 6th, 2008 by ShaunO
Had a haircut today. Just what you needed to know hey?
Was looking a little like the ‘wild man from Borneo’. And regularly getting up and thinking ‘ooh… bad hair morning’… Of more concern was that one morning my Uncle Eric might not recognise me and call the police, or something worse…
It was lovely day in Norfolk today.
I decided to take my ‘SatNav’ on an outing for comic relief (a reference to my previous light hearted ramblings on ‘SatNag’). The intent – to have a ‘crack at’ finding my first geocache. I chose this one which seemed to promise no swimming, or climbing trees, or anything like that, and it’s only a few miles from where I am.
I like the byline on www.geocaching.com:
‘The sport where You are the search engine’
I have to confess I’m not sure about sport – but for the more lively of the practitioners I gather that some caches are placed in ridiculously difficult places – at which point I’m sure it would become sport – each to their own I always say…
Anyway, having negotiated somewhere to park the car (which is always a bit of a challenge in ‘outback’ Norfolk lanes) I started my hunt. And, of course, that’s about all I can say about that without ‘spoiling’ the cache.
Suffice it to say I did find it, it took me much longer than it should have, and most surprising, I enjoyed the ‘hunt’. It’s a lovely spot too, which, frankly without going there to find the geocache I would have never seen. And its basically ‘just around the corner’.
Having found the cache I was feeling very ‘furtive’ as by then a groundsman had arrived to tend the graveyard and I had no idea what he must of thought I was doing traipsing around the place – casing the joint? :P
So I didn’t spent a lot of time going through the menagerie of bits’n'bobs in the ILLY coffee tin – I did the log, chose my ‘little ball and maze’ puzzle from the goodies and left behind an Australian 50 cent coin.
I learnt more acronyms today too. If someone ever reverse engineers my brain (whats left of it) I’m sure they will find I am just a walking glossary…
TNLN – Took Nothing, Left Nothing
TFTH – Thanks For The Hunt
TFTC – Thanks For The Cache
Oh, and on the ‘techie’ front, Garmin make a groovy web browser plug-in which means you can use web pages (or create your own) which can up/download data (waypoints and the like) directly to your ‘SatNav’ (which you have plugged in via USB) whilst you’re browsing your GPS savvy web-sites – like geocaching.com.
So, down 50 cents, up a ‘little ball and maze’ puzzle, seen another lovely little church in Norfolk, and a satisfactory, to good, time (practising my under-stated British) had by all :)
and… more web links than you ever wanted for St Michaels, Ryston:
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