hahaha... no he is all kitted out in Northface & Berghaus now.... 

its technical apparently...

...& provided by the council  

Yeah.. I pay Council Tax too



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I was a little surprised when they took him to Blacks on his first day to get him kitted out.

The pay is very crap though!

On the plus side he need never get wet in the rain again!! .. Veered off topic as per usual then


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always veering off topic... we've done well...  we've covered models of mobile phones, councils wasting public money, hobbies, hubby, bikes, rambling...got the dogs mentioned, ....    and the star of off topic subjects.... DOGS IN COSTUMES!

whooop!

(should anyone want to post anything at all about geocaching.. please do... I am still interested!)

I have never knowingly stayed on topic


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me neither...  I don't feel so bad about it when its in a thread I started though! 

It'd be a shock to the system to post on a strict forum now...  one where you get swooped on for going off topic!

I'd not last a minute


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Only five and a half hours ago Duds said to me, and I quote...."I hope we're going to do some interesting stuff this summer holiday".

Do you reckon I could get Geocaching on the intersting stuff list?

yeah.... I reckon!

When you have more time I will give you some links to the interesting stuff... & show you the things hubby brings home from the caches!

Its a bit of fun....

oooh  my mate [neighbour] is involved in setting  cache clues and running the group/web site..  and is on the commitee or summat..

he's been doing them for years all over the country

in fact my other mates were stuck on a clue once and rang me to go look for the answer in the guys house (I had the key cos he was away)

wayhay!!!!

How cool is this!   My hubby is gonna be dead impressed...I have link to the geocache bigwig!!  

You haven't heard the last of this from me Olly...  You're gonna end up regretting telling me this!

my partner and her mom do it-they come home with all sorts of..ahem..treasures lol

hahaha

I'm even a member. . http://www.groundspeak.com/   just got my weekly newsletter thru.. tho I only joined to read the clue my other mates were struggling with..

Meant to say does hubby leave something when he finds a cache Ditty?

the idea is to take a treasure but leave a replacement so the cache should never be empty

oh yes...  he bought some bits n bobs at tesco's...  mini highlighter pens.. led keyrings & other such toot!   He's banging on about getting some engraved travel bugs done  

Currently though... he is doing reccies for the perfect place to put a cache near to us (one we would keep an eye on)...

I will make sure he has the groundspeak url...  I know he looks at the geocaching.com one & the GAGC one.

cool innit!  well... whether its cool is yet to be determined, but so far I love it...

Just had a look at the sites - there are loads in my area
I don't have a GPS, though. But what a cute idea!

oh he's really into it then..

My neighbour has a stack of plastic boxes in his house all waiting to be placed..  very serious he takes it too..

The Groundspeak link takes you to the geocaching.com link anyway..  I hadn't looked at it for a few years.. it a mahoosive thing now..


I checked the hide and seek link and can see a few of my mates caches  there.. he mainly does south of England but also ventures north a good few times a year too

Not that I have ever done any of them. .tis pretty hard to do them when you have the agoraphobia thingy

I've hidden a box of treasure in this very thread

No.. really I have


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sure you have Zaph...

ello you

not even on your mobile (awaits Zaph to comment on the limitations of mobile GPS)...  or pedestrian mode on a satnav?

I love the idea of it...  I am aware that the yellow gadget in hubbies toot drawer is the GPS thingy...  However... its only just occurred to me that I haven't got a clue about map grid references, long & Latitude jobbies and stuff!  

I used to follow the other teams when we did orienteering at school fgs!

... oh, you'd have appreciated hubbies armchair geocaching then... sitting on the sofa last night...  looking for clues for caches that looked like they would be on main roads or bridges.. and then google street mapping to see if he could find them! 

I did tut and tell him he seemed to be missing the point!

I have one of these


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Morning Olly


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Flippineck - expensive hobby! I'd want to find more than a tupperware box with a keyring in it, if I'd coughed up for one of those..

 

hahahaha 

tis how I would do it tho

I found Zaph's treasure first...

you can get them for about £80.   Thing is, if you already do walking as a hobby...  and go off the beaten track then you are likely, (& wise apparently) to already have one.  

Also... I don't think the treasure itself is the main motivation.. its more the challenge and appreciating the countryside etc!

apparently

Cos whilst hubby says all this to me... and I am nodding in agreement...  I suddenly imagine the horror of treking 8 miles... searching in lots of creepy crawlie riddled nooks & crannies, only to find an EMPTY cache box...  

I would cry!

also... some caches are as small as a camera film tub thingy.... and they just have a bit of paper in them for you to log that you found it....

...no treasure

*tries to blend into background whilst waiting for Olly to put more treasure in it*

you never know when geomuggles are about

I do love a good walk in the wilds, but I usually just do it with hiking boots, a map of my chosen route and a kagoul!
I can only imagine my reaction if I'd gone up crag and down gully for some 'treasure' and found a film canister with a bit of paper in..

I know...

and even worse... you didn't even have a pen on you so you were unable to sign the cache log!   This seems to be hubbies nightmare... or perhaps its an excuse for him to buy gadget pencils or something.

I'm with you... its ALL about the treasure!

on the whole walking, & maps, & navigation thing....

I don't think I would do this without hubby....   I once got lost in our local 'Country Park' for 8 hours!  The kids were quite small... and it was before I had a mobile!

It has bloody different coloured arrows and footpaths & named walks fgs.... but I did get lost.... and when it started to get dark I panicked!    

I ended up finding my way to a main road and then walked to the tesco's up the road and rang my dad to come and pick us up and take us back to the car park so I could get my car!

hides

Found it

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it was meant for Ditty

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it's empty!!!