3 August 2012 (Friday) - Brekkie, Geocaching...

Terry and Irene stayed in Ashford last night as they were going on to friends today. So before they went we met up and went round to the Foundry (where we met Steve) and had a spot of brekkie. You can't beat a Full English with good friends. Once replete we went for a little stroll in the park. Victoria Park is lovely; and we strolled in the sunshine; watching the fish in the river, playing pooh-sticks, watching the fountain. A lazy morning that could have gone on forever.
We made our way back to the car; failing to find a geocache on the way. And once home we had a cuppa. Terry and Irene had to go. We waved them off, rather sad that we don't see anywhere near enough of them. But we shall meet up again next weekend.

The rain shower had passed and the postman had been. The banners I'd ordered for the astro club had arrived, so I got them out and put them up. The poles are far superior to the poles that we have for our banners, but at thirty quid per pole, replacing what we have would cost over three hundred pounds. I can live with telescopic ones that keep collapsing.
And once we had established that we were happy with the banner poles, we went for a little geo-stroll. Having determined that there are nearly a hundred geocaches within three miles of my house we went looking for some. The first was a small sandwich box only five minutes walk from my house. The second was within two minutes of the International station. The third in a graveyard by the bowling alley. We couldn't find the fourth which was in a solicitor's office in the Bull Yard. The fifth was a tiny thing magnetised to a chair somewhere near the town centre. And the sixth was the one I failed to find on Tuesday which we did find today. It wasn't in the flower bed I thought it was in. Finding five geochaches out of six is a far better average that what I've achieved so far.

Home again to get the car, and on to Staples for printer cartridges. The Internet told me there was a geocache not a million miles away from there; and we found it after a bit of searching round a bus stop. And once we'd taken the shopping home we went out geocaching again. We found a really good one in a hollowed out branch in Cade Road. And then....
If you've ever driven round Ashford you'll have seen a concrete bridge on one of the roundabouts on one of the busier bypasses round the town. There's a geocache on that roundabout. We risked life and limb to get on to the roundabout, but despite a serious and intensive search we couldn't find the cache. Next time...


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