Busy little Geo Bees

Hello all,

Well, actually we did absolutely nothing on Saturday.
But we did partly make up for it Sunday when we went geocaching.

Our first find of the day took us through dense jungle...LOL!
OK, OK maybe just an overgrown nettley footpath, but I was thankful to have worn trackies instead of leggings. Bloomin nettles & thistles.
Spotted these cute tiny toadstools tucked inside a rotting tree trunk.
Seconds after taking this we found "Side Stream"

One cahe found, 2 to go.






After a fairly good search and then being invaded by non-cachers, we had to move on to our third choice cache of the day. So following a nice walk through Darley Park and a lovely ice-cream on route (well it has to be done doesn't it) we searched  for quite some time but to no avail.
Think we may need to consider investing in a hand-held GPS, as our phones GPS just isn't strong enough under tree cover.
So back we went to our 2nd choice by the weir.

Very nice place for a cache, although a little daunting.
After my Lara Croft impression along the small ledge to where the GPS was pointing, I had to give in and allow my knight in jeans and cap to take up the challenge.
Whilst my knight grabbed the cache another couple showed up. Turned out they were also Geo-cachers.
So we chatted for a bit and all signed the log.

Here is my knight, risking a soaking to retreive the cache:

 





My brave hubby xx















S o 2 out of 3 is pretty good going.
Now that I have bored you all to pieces, I'm going to go curl up in bed.

Hugs
Buffy xx

Where's August gone

Can it really be the end of August in just a few short days???
Goodness, where has this year gone?

Well it's been a rather good year when alls said and done.
Graham and I have been finding quality time together.

Mawgan kindly took this photo of us together whilst we watched the truck racing.. We don't actually have many of the two of us together. Something we are definitely going to have to change.

 It is almost liberating to get to spend time doing activities we can enjoy together. This is one of the many micro/nano geo-caches around Derby. We will soon be releasing our own travel bug out into the big world. (Travel bug - a small trackable item, similar to a dogtag, that is placed in a cache and is collected and relocated by another geo-cacher)



Anne and Connor celebrated their first wedding anniversary the other day.

 So nice to see them still agruing over pokemon/digimon......
Only joking, it's transformers now ;-)









Mawgan has finished her first year at senior school and been to France with school. She seemed to fit in very well.

She appeared on stage with the Drifters (right side of photo at the front of the group right by the mic).

Now all I need to do is make a start on my xmas cards............

Hugs 
Buffy xx

Birthday weekend

Hello all,

I have had an amazing weekend.
Starting with friday:

Graham and I booked friday off and went cycling around Carsington. The weather was perfect

We also managed to find eight of the ten caches hidden around Carsington. I call that a very successful day.

 

Here is a photo I took whislt caching. I used photoshop to give it an oil-painting effect. 

My wonderful hubby oiled up....... lol

On Saturday we went to town and just relaxed. When we got home Mawgan gave me my present from her, a lovely new Eeyore mug. Then Graham gave me my present from him, a nice new camera lens

So of course when we went to Donington for the Truck racing I just had to try it out.

Even lorry drivers like to do a little rubbing now and then. I think it's a great little lens.
But Mawgan had a go too:-

and took this piccie of Gray and I. Which is absolutely wonderful, as we don't have many photos of us together.

I want to say a big THANK YOU to my dear friend Debs for the lovely birthday card.

Hope all of you are well and happy
Big Huggles
Buffy xx

Cycle, Cache and crawl

Hello my dears

Hubby and I have had a lovely (HOT) weekend in Scarborough.

We jumped on our bikes saturday and followed the old Cinder Track (Scarborough to Whitby railway line - disused). We stopped for lunch at Ravenscar

 Otherwise known as "The town that never was", all the roads are in place but few to no houses were ever built. Graham is sat on the bench near the tree and our bikes are lent against.
I can highly reccommend the food and service at the tea-room. And the view is gorgeous.

After lunch we carried on up the old line to find a cache (yes, we're geo-cachers). Here we see my dear husband checking the GPS on his phone to see if we were in the right place.
When we realised the steepness of the slope to reach the cache Graham volunteered to go down to it. My night in shining armour, signed the log while being eaten by bugs.

We then turned around and went in search of another one close by,

which we found after 10 mins of searching. Signed the log then had quite a wait before we could replace it as lots of people showed up.......

We found one more cache after, which contained some amazing old photo's. On the back of the photo's was a Kodak stamp and date of 1960, we think the ladies in the pics were in Austria at the time they were taken but we can't be sure. Wish I'd taken photo's of this cache.
On sunday we walked about 10miles around Scarborough, stopping for a quick bite in north bay. Then grabbed our 4th cache of the weekend.

So:-
22mile cycle ride
10mile walk
4 Caches
Bloomin good going I recon

Back home now and will be collecting Mawgan from school at mid-night, when she gets back from France.
So a wonderful weekend had by all.

Hugs to all
Buffy x
just what Graham and I needed :-)