{"id":21195,"date":"2013-08-06T22:54:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=21195"},"modified":"2013-08-06T22:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:54:26","slug":"day-218-more-geocaching-cocktails-i-dont-even-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/06\/day-218-more-geocaching-cocktails-i-dont-even-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 218: More Geocaching &#038; Cocktails (I Don&#8217;t Even Drink!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning started bright and early. I was awake well before my alarm, so I got up. Nothing was on the agenda until 10:30 so I just sat and watched some <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sky+\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sky%2B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Sky+<\/a> stuff. Then we bobbed round to our friend&#8217;s house to help her with a few internet issues and have a chat.<\/p>\n<p>By the time we left there it was around 1pm and we had caching plans in place. We had intended to complete a series of 9 caches around Shelf. It was supposed to be 10, but we knew number 3 was already missing. As it turned out, we could only find 7 of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GC2WFPE: a nice easy start to the day, the cache exactly where we thought it would be.<\/li>\n<li>GC2V6G9: we spent ages here. There were only a few places it could be. In the end we gave up and didn&#8217;t find it.<\/li>\n<li>GC2WFQ1: this also took a long time to find. It was worth it though as it filled a gap in our D\/T grid (4\/2.5) and that&#8217;s always useful!<\/li>\n<li>GC2WFQ2: one of those caches that moves around&#8230; it wasn&#8217;t where it was supposed to be at all (the clue said roots, the cache was in a wall&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>GC2WFR0: hidden under a stone stile, this was fairly quick to find.<\/li>\n<li>GC2WFQB: this was meant to be hidden between a wall and a tree, however all the trees had been cut down recently. The cache was fine though.<\/li>\n<li>GC2WFR6: this was the other one we didn&#8217;t find. It wasn&#8217;t a pleasant place to search at all. We gave up.<\/li>\n<li>GC2WFQJ: this was out in the open, an easy find. It was supposed to be magnetic, but the magnet had corroded.<\/li>\n<li>GC2WFRD: attached to a gate post, this was another easy find.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you might guess, this walk ended up being quite frustrating. It appears the owners of the caches haven&#8217;t kept them up to scratch as they originally intended and that&#8217;s a shame as it could have been a lovely afternoon. We had planned to do more, but our hearts weren&#8217;t really in it by this point.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home, we popped in for a cheeky ice cream at Kendall&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ice cream\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_cream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ice Cream<\/a> Factory.<\/p>\n<p>When we got in, I saw that another cache had been published. This was a bit of dilemma. We already had the souvenir for today and found 7 caches. However, we wanted to keep the numbers going in order to help getting to 1000 that bit easier by the end of the month. Plus being first to find a cache is always a good thing. It was decided that I should go for the cache on my own while Mrs Pitts stayed and prepared tea &#8211; it helped that I knew exactly where the location was&#8230; in theory.<\/p>\n<p>A quick blast down the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Drighlington\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drighlington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Drighlington<\/a> By-pass (within the speed limit, obviously), and I was there. It&#8217;s a heart stopping moment when you first unroll a log from cache that has just been published as you hope for a blank log sheet. But there was one and, for the 23rd time, we had found a cache (GC4HQA6 to be precise) before anyone else. I say &#8216;we&#8217; even though Mrs Pitts wasn&#8217;t with me, as we are a team!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/6th-August.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21197\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/6th-august\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/6th-August.png?fit=320%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"320,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"6th August\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/6th-August.png?fit=320%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21197\" alt=\"6th August\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/6th-August.png?resize=320%2C480\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/6th-August.png?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/6th-August.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-6.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/day-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-6.png?fit=500%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Day 6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-6.png?fit=500%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21198\" alt=\"Day 6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-6.png?resize=500%2C200\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-6.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Day-6.png?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added a bit of topological greenery to the quilt so that it isn&#8217;t just a blank white space. 31 squares do not make a rectangle (unless a long, thin one counts &#8211; which it does, but doesn&#8217;t look pretty&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Our new Motorway Mayhem cache was finally published today too, gaining three finders very quickly: The Awesome&#8217;s (with a stupid apostrophe), TeamShiney (that&#8217;s not how you spell &#8216;shiny&#8217;) and the TwoMcGhees (who are very nice chaps!)<\/p>\n<p>The evening saw Mrs Pitts experimenting with home made cocktails. Now, since I don&#8217;t drink, I have <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Non-alcoholic beverage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-alcoholic_beverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">mocktails<\/a>. Mrs Pitts made me two of these: an &#8220;Apple Berry Fizz&#8221; (strawberries and pomegranate seeds muddled together, some <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Apple juice\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_juice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">apple juice<\/a> and ice, shaken, with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ginger ale\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ginger_ale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ginger ale<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ice cube\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_cube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">crushed ice<\/a> added to the glass) and a &#8220;Berry Slammer&#8221; (strawberries and raspberries muddled together, the juice of a lime, apple juice, shaken, with ginger ale and crushed ice added to the glass). Both were very nice!<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the night was just spent watching TV and relaxing, like a holiday should be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning started bright and early. I was awake well before my alarm, so I got up. Nothing was on the agenda until 10:30 so I just sat and watched some Sky+ stuff. Then we bobbed round to our friend&#8217;s house to help her with a few internet issues and have a chat. 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