I slept through until shortly after half
past seven this morning when I woke to find I was cuddling two dogs as though
they were teddy bears. It was rather sweet. Admittedly one dog was chewing my
wrist, but you can’t have everything.
Over brekkie I checked my emails. I got
a little bit frustrated. I’ve been working on a new Wherigo – a GPS game to
play on your phone. Basically you’d play out a simplified version of the TV
show “The Crystal Maze” in the co-op
field, and depending on how many gold tokens you get you would be directed to
one of three distinct geocaches.
The local geo-fed liked the concept but
yesterday he told me it was against the rules (I don’t think I explained the idea to him as well as I might).
However he referred me to geo-HQ. I emailed them and this morning they emailed
back to say they don’t answer Wherigo questions. However a two-minute search of
the geo-map showed two Wherigos in the south-east which are *exactly* the sort of thing I have in
mind and have been allowed by the geo-feds. I emailed back, and then got the
dogs ready to go out.
With dogs leaded up we drove up to
Crockham Wood; there is a series of geocaches there (would you believe it?) It was only a small series, but that suited
me; I wasn’t sure how I’d get on with two dogs rather than just Fudge. We
arrived, and very soon met up with Gordon and Mark, and three of us (and three dogs) went on a rather good
walk. I got on fine with two dogs on the dual-lead; mainly because Mark took
them for me.
The walk was a tad muddy in places, and
there was still quite a bit of ice left over from last week’s snow. It must be
said that there seemed to be an awful lot of up-hill and very little down-hill
bearing in mind we ended up back where we started, but going out for a walk
with friends is always good. I shall be starting the new job next week and the
option for a mid-week walk won’t be there for some months so I was glad to be
able to make the most of it today.
When we were about ten minutes into the
walk I got a message that more friends thought they would do this walk today;
but they were at least an hour behind us. It would have been good to have seen
them… next time we will.
Geocache-wise it was an excellent walk.
Just lately I seem to have done a lot of walks in which the caches are (seemingly) miles apart. The caches on
this walk were (for me) ideally
placed and all took just a little more finding that the average
film-pot-under-a-rock would. Most were big enough to put swappable and
trackable stuff into. There were three field puzzles to solve whilst we were
out, and they were straightforward, and the puzzle to be solved at home was tricky
enough to make you think. A two-hour walk over two and a half miles; in all respects
it would be the ideal series for anyone wondering what all the fuss is about to
have a go at.
We
said our goodbyes, and once home I popped the dogs in the bath and hosed off
their paws and undersides. Being longer-legged it was very noticeable that the
puppy’s tummy was a lot less grubby than "Furry Face TM"’s.
Once bathed both dogs went to sleep, and over a spot of lunch I watched the
first episode of the drama show about Queen Victoria that had been on telly
recently. It was rather good so I downloaded the second episode too.
I then got an email from the geo-feds. I
*hadn’t* explained my plans for a virtual
Crystal Maze as well as I might have done. Once I’d actually explained what I
meant the reviewer was very happy with my idea.
Now I need to start work on it.
I’ll watch another episode of “Victoria” first…
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