The recent cyclone in Burma has wreaked havoc in a way that we cannot imagine. The BBC report that around 22,000 people have lost their lives! Words fail me to express my horror at this level of devastation and loss of life. I can't help but wonder if global warning and climate change due to the damage we do to our wonderful planet is too blame. Why can't we realise that we live on this earth; the only one we have, we should look after it! If we considered the planet as a spaceship that we inhabit maybe we would be more careful?
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Monday, 28 April 2008
Courtesy Car
My car had to go in to the garage today for some work, a recall on the brakes. The garage provided me with a courtesy car a 308. I was a little surprised to find it was running on fumes and I had to put some fuel in as I had to go to a meeting in Belper, but I suppose that's standard practice. Once I got used to it I really enjoyed driving it it was a lot more powerful than my car. I went down the quick way but cut back across the Peak, I'm afraid it was a bit muddy when I returned it. I didn't want to give it back!
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Better luck at Beauchief Abbey
We did find the cache here at Beauchief Abbey it was almost too easy this one. But the nice thing about geocaching is that it encourages you to go to places you've never been before.
Mushroom Lane
Colett and I went geocaching again today, the coordinates seemed to indicate the cache was on Mushroom Lane, we wandered up and down getting annoyed as the distance to the cache kept counting down and then back up again. Never getting close enough to really start looking. Eventually we gave up and went to the cafe in Weston Park Museum. When I thought about it I twigged that the cache must be on the other side of the high wall we had spent so long staring at. So it must be somewhere in Weston Park.
Saturday, 26 April 2008
See you Humph..
The wonderful Humphrey Lyttelton has died what a sad loss to the world a man who appeared to live life to the full, never lost his sense of humor, he had wonderful timing and a wonderfully smutty mind without ever loosing his dignity. I have laughed so many times with him and his compatriots on "Sorry I haven't a clue".
Chicken fillets
I got the giggles in the cab home from a night out with Colett tonight, she thought I was pissed! what was making me laugh was that i had noticed two ovals of gel on the floor of the cab, I thought some poor lass had lost her "chicken fillets " on the way home from a night out. I was speculating in my head how she had come to have "lost" them both. It turned out that they were in fact the gel insets you can put in your shoes to cushion your feet!
Best geocache so far.
This was a mutipart cache in Sheffield's General Cemetery with a series of clues to find to work out the coordinates for the actual cache, despite the GPS not always working too well because of the tree cover we eventually found it. More because of the application of brain and a little local knowledge. This sort of cache is much more interesting than the standard kind.
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