Shep, Seren & Tess Dog
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Sounds interesting! I assume you're going back to try Hestan Island Hop - I'd like to come with you for that one...
Go on, do my Heston Island Hop...you know you want to!
S.
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I will be using the phrase 'Dry Stone Wally' to describe anyone who's failed to read the cache page properly (I guess we're all guilty of that once in a while) or who gets destructive in pursuit of a cache (I pulled up some grass yesterday looking for one - but it'll grow back).
Thanks for introducing me to the term
I dunno how that letter 'Y' got in there!
I've only just noticed it. I was going to edit it, but then changed my mind...I think its quite a good description of people who do this actually! Ok, so maybe I could have phrased 'You do not need to take the cairn apart' a bit better, but you would really have to see the area first.It is only a teeny weeny clearing, & there are a few large rocks scattered within 1 or 2 foot of the cairn...surely it would have made more sense to have taken a peek under them first rather than immediatley taking it apart? Im at a loss really as to how specific I have to be!
I may as well have just taken a huuuuge can of paint up there & painted a humungous 'X' marks the spot on top of the rock, that way no one would have been in any doubt! 
Anyhoo...I don't really have to worry about a spoiler pic or a cryptic clue anymore...the FTF-ers have sucessfully managed to tell the whole Geocaching nation where the cannister is,by mentioning it in their log...doh!!
Im in total agreement with regards to removing new cairns that spring up...these can be a real danger.
S.x
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Un-kept Resolution Cardiff Social by Write and Mane (GCRKD9) is organised for 18 January 2006
We will 'post' The Bank Holiday Event 29 April 2006 once we have recovered from the January Social Event.
Just a quickie to say that I won't be able to make this tonight, Im on a 9am start in work this week & will be lurking somewhere around Wolverhampton all day today, so won't be back in time. Pleaee accept my apologies...& have a drink on me!
Seren.
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As most people know, the idea of placing caches in dry stone walls or cairns isn't on, as it goes agains the policy of Geocaching & not disturbing the area.
If this is the case, can somebody please tell me WHY my Bothy & The Cairn cache was totally taken apart, even though I had stated in capital letters that the cairn nedn't be touched?!
An I just not making myself clear or what?
I put a spoiler pic, showing quite clearly that the cache was under a single rock, & included a clue that said to look at the spoiler pic. Sadly, all this was totally ignored.
The cachers were even looking for a "sandwich box wrapped in a bin bag" which just proved that they hadn't even bothered reading the page properly, as all the cache was, was a small film cannister.
It took me a very long time, with lots of phone calls to The Forrestry Commission to be given the go ahead to place a cache in this area. Both the FC & The Bothy Owners Associaton were very happy for me to join both hobbies, as they both felt that they could benefit. However, if the FC chap I spoke to comes across this log, he's going to have ahead fit, & could quite possibly tell me to remove it.
As well as wrecking the cairn, the spoiler pic is now no good, as although I think the cannister has been put back in the same place, there is a different rock on top of it!
The cairn was obviously put there for a reason. It may well have something to do with a pagan/wiccan ritual for all I know, in which case, it has now been totally distroyed.
Please let this be a warning to people...
A) Not to place caches dirctly inside cairns/stone walls.
To read the details very carefully & not immediatley start taking said structure apart.C) To have some flippin' respect for the area!!
Seren.x
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Behold my mighty vessel!!!
We had a trial run with it yesterday up at Pontypool canal, it's fine up there where it's nice & flat, so will be very good for plodding round the Scottish lochs in the summertime!
Im not too sure about using it on a river though, as all it is is a dingy, & I have a real fear of it getting a puncture, lol! But it'll certainly do the job for what we want anyway.Besides...it only cost us £33!!
By the way Gollem....one of the caches (Heston Island)is mine...you must try & do it sometime, but give me a shout before you do!
S.x
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Ohhhh...lots for us to have a look at then!
I shall post a pic once I get said vessel!
As for other caches, I can't do links, but theres our Heston Island Hop that no ones been able to do yet!
S.x
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...Acessable by canoe, & if so, how do I go about finding them?
Hubby has bought me an inflatable kayack for my birthday. Hopefully it will be delivered next week...it's actually quie big, it holds 2 people & is about 7ft long!
Im dying to try it out, & would love to be able to bag a cache in it...so, anyone got any ideas?
S.xx
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OMG...I haven't beenon the forum for a few weeks, & I come back to something like this.Its sad that some people are hell bent on wrecking things for others. I really hope this is a one off, & that no one elce tries to hold TB'S to ransom.
S.xx
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*Sits on hands*
S.x
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We'd be interested, & I have to mail the Blorenges, so I'll mention it to them too!
Seren.x
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Merry Crimble!
And thank for all your hard work!
Seren.x
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Have mailed you to say not to forget us!
S.x
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Ive used a waterproodf paper notebook on my Heston Island Hop cache...its yet to be found though, as its a bit of a mare to get to, so cannot yet report wether it is any good or not.
Seren.
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I found this one in "Time to Mooch: A mingle in the dingle" by Mortington Bear :-
"27/12/04 Ric + Chris of Ironbridge. Found by accident. Took Nothing, Gave Nothing, Except our wishes to fellow journeymen. May your God go with you.
Ric + Chris"
Quite nice really
We found this cache too, & loved the entries by the owners of the horses in the field.They seem to regularly look in on the cache, but seem totally baffled as to what its all about.They seem very good about it though, they log an entry, then put the cache back again.
Seren.
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...and us!
Seren.
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Believe me Mrs B...The MAN is the work of Satan himself.The sooner we go back to Scanias, the better!
*Ponders the idea of holding a cache meeting in the back of her trailer...we'll probably have to drink the contents first though, to make some room!
*Seren.
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Count us in purleese!We normally go in this...George,my Smart car...
But I have been known to swing past & check up on one of my caches in this...
Seren.
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LOL, I hardly call hiding your husband under the patio normal!
BTW...If you are lurking around this afternoon, pop in for a cuppa...we have bought coffee for our new perculator type thing, & it makes a very nice cuppa indeedy (I may even let you have some Baileys in it too, if you behave yourself!)
Seren.
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Our waterproof jackets needed re proofing, so there I was at 8am this morning, stood on the driveway, with my blue boiler suit on (it has red & white go faster stripes down the sides & makes me look like one of Eevil Kinevils crew members!
) my jacket over the top of it, & a Tescos carrier bag over my head, whilst Shep sprayed the jacket with Febsil!!!Im soooo glad none of the neighbour saw us...It looked like some kind of strange sexual practice!
*sigh* The things I have to do for my husband!
Seren.
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Im glad that everyone had a good time, I really wish we could have made it.
I hope Mr Top Cat makes a speedy recovery.
Seren.
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C'mon, put me out of my misery...how did it go?
Was there a good turn out?, Did the elusive Mr Blorenge turn up?...and more importantly...what did you all have to eat?
Seren.
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Have you considered extreme ironing? We did some at the Scafell virtual to add that extra frisson
Oh, yes, yes, yes!!! that's my sort of thing! I'd be good at that
Is Snowdon good for more "mature" cachers? (Without unicycles)
Mrs B
*Dumps 3 months worth of ironing on Mrs B's front doorstep*
We'd be up for this (so long as no ironing is involved!)
Seren.
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*Feels smug*
I TOLD you there was summat FISHY 'bout them Blorenges!!
S.xx
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If we find something we really like in a cache, but dont have anything suitable to swop, we will always leave 50p or a £1 instead...you can guarantee that the money will be the next thing to be taken by the next finders!
Back last year, we found Stonefisk's cache by the first Severn Bridge. He'd taken a lot of time & effort into placing some really good things in the cache. We took the cordless mouse (which we still use!) but all we had to leave was a fish pendant on a string. We wrote in the log that we would return (we only live a few miles away) & leave something elce to make up for it, but only a few days after, the cache went missing...I still feel bad about that
S.xx
I've only just noticed it. I was going to edit it, but then changed my mind...I think its quite a good description of people who do this actually! 
To read the details very carefully & not immediatley start taking said structure apart.
South Wales 1st Day Event
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Hope everyone had a good time!
Unfortunatley, we are bust de cluttering our house reasdy for our house move, which is hopefully due to take place at the end of the month.Spent all weekend running back & forth to the tip, & was up at 6am on sat to do a car boot sale!
It was worth it though, as we made £87!
Once things are back to normal, I hope to get out & about caching again, we haven't been since before Christmas!
Seren.