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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