Over the last couple of
weeks I've been frantically solving puzzles in readiness for today.
Today we set off to Teynham where there is a series of fifteen
puzzle caches. Having solved word searches and sudukus, kukuros
and morse code, transcriptions and all sorts of brain benders we
thought that going to actually find the tupperware would be the easy
part. It wasn't.
We parked up in Teynham
and set off. We found a clone of "Furry Face TM".
Banjo (what a name!) was a little smaller all round than
Fudge, but I suspect that's a feature of how much Fudge gets walked.
We chatted with the nice people with Banjo for a bit, then carried on
with our walk. It was a very good walk; especially scenic as it
seemed to be "National Fit Birds go Jogging Day" (to
be politically correct).
A little way round the
route we turned off to go hunt out some other nearby geocaches. We
had a minor incident with one. WIth no hides immediatly obvious we
checked other people's logs of the find. Mention had been made about
a new fence, and the clue did say it was ten feet high. So having
impaled my "flowers and frolics" on barbed wire and
having scaled about twenty feet up an old oak tree I wasn't impressed
when er indoors TM" found our prey knee
height along the footpath.
By now it was mid day so
we stopped off at the Dover
Castle Inn for a pint. The bar staff were happy for us to scoff
our picnic in their garden, so we did. I suspect they were gald for
the trade; the place looked empty. It was whilst scoffing lunch that
an email came in; a new cache had gone live which was about half way
home from where we were. We didn't really think about it very much,
but carried on with our walk.
It was at this point that
we met two other fellow unters of sandwich boxes, and we carried on
with them for a while until we reached out forthest point north. Our
friends carried on with the cache series; we took a slight detour to
pick up an extra one; and we met up with them a bit later when we
were rather struggling with one that was eluding us.
Once we were back to the
car we had a little look on-line and saw that the geocache that had
gone live over lunch time was still waiting for a find to be logged.
The lure of a First to Find was too strong to resist, so we had a go.
And were lucky. We were first to get there.
The cache was very near
the Lady of the Woods;
somewhere that I've blogged about before. It's a wooden statue in the
middle of the woods that was thought to have been carved during the
last war by Italian prisoners of war. It is supposedly a religious
icon thought to be carved in the image of the Virgin Mary.
As always, I
took a few photos whilst we were out
And so home, where we
carried on washing up the camping gear that had got wet over the
winter in the leaking shed. And with er indoors TM"
off bowling I got my saxophone out. I had a trial squawk; but "Furry
Face TM" wouldn't stop singing along. I
the watched the first episode of the new
"Cosmos" series. Billed as "weaving
rigorous science with visual, emotional and spiritual elements, it
will be a transcendent experience – a vision of the cosmos on the
grandest scale we know", I must admit I thought it was
rather rubbish. It reminded me of some of the speakers we've paid to
perform at the astro club in the past; it was all fancy graphics to
impress the masses, but very little factual content. After twenty
minutes I realised I was only watching it because I will be expected
to comment on the show tomorrow at work and later with members of the
astro club.
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