Three Events
It has been a week of events around here. It started last Tuesday
when our good friends fly2live2fly organised an event over at Burton on Trent.
We arrived to be taken to a room where the table was laid for a gathering more
akin to a wedding reception than a group of cachers. With white linen
tablecloth and napkins we were certainly in our element. The event was a little
more distant that the usual Dragonlady events but it gave everyone a chance to
meet up with some faces that we don’t normally see. With Kathy from UK
Geocachers also there selling her caching goodies it was a good night out with
a lot of friendly banter and, of course, caching talk.
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| Posher than usual |
Once the weekend arrived we had the Nottingham weekend
events, breakfast on Saturday and then the a picnic event on Sunday. As I have
said before the breakfast events get bigger each time. On this occasion we had
visitors from the North West, Sheffield and Lincoln as well as our more local
cachers. A rather large teddy bear also made an appearance! A head count by the
waitress at the end of the event confirmed that 62 breakfasts had been served
which isn’t bad going for a morning event. Of those 34 actual logs came in as
having attended breakfast, so a lot of cachers went the extra mile and brought
family and friends along.
Pete and Tracey from the Podcache Show www.thepodcacheshow.blogspot.com
interviewed a couple of attendees so listen out for those on the next episode.
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| Large Teddy, demands breakfast |
Breakfast and chatting over it was time for people to depart
and head out for a days caching, or shopping in Nottingham in some cases. The
big teddy ended up travelling home with Keith and I.
Come Sunday it was time for the Picnic In The Park event.
Keith and I opened the curtains to a bright blue sky and sunshine, it was only
6.00am though! Clouds did gather though as the morning went on so we took a
gazebo with us and asked some friends to do the same. As things kicked off at
midday there was some cloud but nothing too much to worry about. First to
arrive was Stevo185 soon followed by an ever increasing group. Rain did start
but it didn’t dampen the atmosphere at all and as everyone dodged the showers
by sheltering under cover conversations again turned to caching around
different parts of the country.
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| Rain didn't stop play |
Again we had visitors from all over as well as
our local crew. Another appearance by the Teddy who was then passed on to
attend another event. Rob and Ian, who cache as Two Anchors, arrived with more
caching goodies to sell. Have a look at Rob’s website, lots of interesting
cache containers can be found there. http://www.cache4u.co.uk/ The website is
just having an update, so if you can’t get on when you look, bookmark it and go
back later.
A group photograph was then on the cards behind the Podcache
show banner and then people went off on their separate ways to find more
caches. As the afternoon drew to a close the remaining few of us decided to go
for an FTF on a cache that had been published the day before.
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| Group Photo |
We knew that the retrieval of the container wasn’t going to
be the most straightforward, but we had fun getting it. High Frequency http://coord.info/GC3P3DH as the new cache
was called, stated that the cache was done at your own risk and safety
equipment was required.
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| High Frequency ~ MFB Tracker
As the group of us arrived at GZ we could see exactly where
the cache was and then the retrieval began. With a plan of action in place the
container was actually in our hands quicker than we though. I will leave you to
read the logs though.
We don’t have any more events in the pipeline until the end
of August when the Summer’s End camp runs, ending with another breakfast
event. Summer’s End is progressing
nicely http://coord.info/GC3NC0R
with a new series of caches being placed
for it by some of the locals, Paneke and Goose S, whom we are grateful to.
The next lot of events that we are going to be attending are
coming thick and fast with:~
Piratemania V http://coord.info/GC365FT
The North West Mega http://coord.info/GC2X1TM
Then our camping and breakfast events and finally for now
Summer is a great time for the number and variety of outdoor
events on offer and a great way of meeting up with cachers from other areas
where you can swap ideas and stories.
Finally GeM, the caching group here in the midlands, are
just beginning to formulate a plan for a camping event next year which will
hopefully see campers attending from different parts of the country as well.
That’s in the very early stages of planning but has been an idea that has been
mooted on various Facebook pages for a while. More news on that when we know.
Have a good week………and keep smiling, whatever the weather J
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