Sunnyhurst saunter

I had woken up after my night shift on a Sunday afternoon and the day was nice enough to go for a wander , so off I set with dee tee on a cache hunt.

Firstly we arrived at sunnyhurst wood and I was very delighted to find a fairies house, I wrote out a wish for them to look at and left some treasure in return for my wish being granted 🙂

Dee tee had his new sat map thing with all the caches on, but it wasn’t working too well! For one cache we couldn’t find the right spot, and near another there were too many chav muggles with dogs. Dee tee finally found one and it was from reading the description and not from the GPS, he did well to find it, he’s learning well. And there was treasure to be had, snagged this dino …

 Onwards and upwards , very upwards up donkey brew, I stroked a horse and left some raisins in a bird feeding trough. Had a nice beer at the top of the hill, slipped down well 🙂 We sat outside, although it was sunny it was chilly, cuddles kept me warm 🙂 We then went for a meal at the Rock inn tockholes , wasn’t the best meal I’ve had taste wise but good because I was with my love. 💜

An update

So , here is a quick update, I have not posted on this blog for a while. The thing is, I split up with my geocaching partner M. After that I felt bit sad to go geocaching as it was something we shared together and had some good times doing. Then I thought, well it’s my hobby, I introduced him to it and I was doing it before him, so I should continue!

Back in February I went to London for a seminar about self love 🙂 Whilst catching the train from London Euston I thought it would be rude not to grab a sneaky cache. I wanted to get it on previous trips but had not had chance. I thought I had got away with signing the log without many muggles being about, only to then realise there was a bus stop full of people stood behind me.

 
The log mentions my new and true love dee tee 💜

At the beginning of March I thought I would show dee tee the delights of geocaching, and we went to Wycollar park near Burnley, a place I had passed many times and thought it looked interesting as it had an art installation there. The first hunt did not go well, we looked all over near a duck pond and there was nothing to be seen, I wondered what dee tee must’ve been thinking. Then, in the pouring soggy rain, we walked up to the Pendle atom , a metal structure on top of the hill which is a lovely vantage point, it is near here that dee tee got his first cache 🙂

  Above is a rock I bought in the gift shop, it is painted in the form of the Pendle atom and I got it as a souvenir of our first afternoon out together. Our sogginess was dried by a nice brew in the warm tea shop afterwards 🙂

Haworth hike

Ok so less of a hike and more of a slow meander, but hike began with H 🙂
We came to Haworth this Saturday for the halloween dragon parade. With 99 geocaches under my belt , it would be rude not to grab that special one whilst here for the day. Soon after parking we were in the base of a tree digging out my 100th cache!! And snagged a chopper too.

We walked back down to main street via a church and graveyards , in which there was a clue to finding a cache near the church, we had to work out co-ordinates by the dates on a particular gravestone, yet we could not find this gravestone of ‘tabby’ at all, I think my GPS was out. We did see some interesting names on stones though, ‘pickles feather’ being my favourite and I have called myself it on twitter for the time being 🙂 After this we went to the craft fair, £1 to get in but we got a free brew. I bought some lovely stones, some obsidian to protect from negativity and some hematite which I love but can also give energy. From the fair we visited a few shops, more goodies fell into my poseession 🙂 and it was time for the parade , but nothing was to be seen. We overheard the dragon king saying it would start a bit later at 3pm and not 2, so we trundled to the park for another cache. Spent a good while foraging in foliage for this cache in the park without any joy, so we went back up to main street and saw the dragon. We were a bit disappointed that the ‘parade’ was just one woman lol.

The halloween decorations on the main street were pretty cool.

After a few naughty stops at choccy / sweet shops on the way back to the carpark, onwards and home, not without a little driveby cache outside of Howarth. This had lovely views over the town and was behind a telegraph pole. The log was very wet and we couldn’t sign it , but I used one of my personalised stickers 🙂 pro cacher 🙂 This is a bead I got from that last cache.

Malham meander

This week I have been on annual leave from work. Went to Blackpool with mum for a few nights for the main event of watching riverdance. I enjoyed the show but sitting for a long time makes me ache so I was glad when it was finished. I have been visiting the chiropractor this week to try and help my aches and pains.
On Friday, M was off uni due to a teacher training day, so we set out to Malham for an adventure. I came here a few years back and walked a very long way , but we did more of a meander this day.
Firstly we walked up a hill from the village to a fence post. We found a cache which was placed by a schools geography department, which I thought was rather cute 🙂
I got this marble which I looked like a lovely blue eye to me. Sorry about the pic, I’m no still no expert.

Following this we walked up and down fell towards Janets foss, the weather looked rather threatening on the way up.

The foss was very mystical, apparently a fairy lives behind the waterfall. I have had a fairy wish jar for a while and I had a wish written inside it, I left it at the foss and I hope the fairy queen finds it and grants it! The waterfall was too strong to get behind today though. This was a special cache as it was my first EARTH CACHE. I didn’t know what one of these was but apparently you take a picture of yourself at the site and email the cache owner this and some answers to questions about the area. I won’t put our mugs on this blog but here is the waterfall.

Here is a nice stream near Janets foss.

After this we wandered to Gordale scar for another earth cache. What an astounding area this was, beautiful. M kept kissing the rocks he liked them so much ha. There was a traditional cache here too where I found a giraffe, I was pleased at this because I love giraffes. Here is some nice scenery on the way to the scar.

We had to walk up a very steep hill on the way back and it hurt M’s legs. On the drive home we stopped off for one last cache in a church car park. There were muggles about so we walked around the churchyard. A friendly dog walker gave us some church facts, it was a bit embarrassing as the dog kept sniffing my front bum and M’s arse!!! We finally found the cache and a lovely red gem.

Just a quickie

It is Sunday and I had a very lazy lie in today. Went to bed about 21.30, and awoke about 11am, with a few M disturbances inbetween. I am a tired person, always have been since I started taking antidepressants. The nature of the drug is that they help sad people who can’t sleep , sleep! I never needed any help in this department and these tablets just knock me out. To be kind of sane, I have to accept the side effect of somnolence , and this has caused problems in all relationships , not just men. Anyway, when I arose I took M home , via costa coffee at the services. My cappuccino was too strong, and my muffin was substandard, most disappointing :). I also had a go on a one pound mechanical massage chair, it was worth a quid I’d say.
When we got to M’s , the house dwellers were not in and he did not have a key , I had to drive him across town for a spare. On the way back I suggested getting a cache, if I’m near one I want to get it! We had looked for this one about 7 months prior , but could not see it , perhaps because we were very novice ?
It was hanging from a hook in a tree, this is the first one I’ve seen of this type , pretty cool I thought. There were lots of muggles about so we pretended to shout for an imaginary dog called Geo so as not to look like freaks.
Here is the cache.

Caching at the crags.

Today we went to hardcastle crags. Me and M , V & T and my goddaughter. We took the easy path as the little one cant walk far and needed a pram some of the way. There are loads of geocaches around this national trust trail but our friends are not into geocaching, and the little one couldnt really go off track, but me and M just had to grab a sneaky one, we will have to go back another day for the rest. The cache was in a tree stump by this lovely river.

The pic was taken whilst in the middle of the river on stepping stones.
Here is another view from the riverbank.

We went back to the carpark after this, but we were still in the mood for more finds as the weather was holding out. We drove home via a place called Hapton. We parked at the end of a lane and walked up for a few drivebys, here are some cocks on the lane.

Got a ‘did not find’ for a cache halfway up, got full of foliage searching for it but no joy.
Jumped in purple rona again after this for a few more drivebys. I was very impressed with the bench which was home to one of the caches. It was in memorium to a local milkman and the bench incorporated milk churns, cool!

Another cache was in an old red phone box, it was full of creepy crawlies.

It started to pour down so we had to forego our last cache. So, here is my swag for this saturday 🙂

Pretty cute, they seem to match somehow 🙂 Rather pleasing.

My own cache.

So after being on many caching adventures I finally decided to make a cache of my very own. After figuring out how to upload caches onto geocaching.com, I bought some little boxes from eBay and started to fill one with trinkets.

I tried to make it a bit personal to me by including a plastic lizard ( I love lizards and have one as a pet) and a little ladybird (I love ladybugs too!). I also included a troll with purple hair which is not pictured, purple is my fave colour and trolls are cute. I included a badge which had ‘FTF’ on it for the lucky first to find. The box came with a handy camouflage bag too. I have got this travelbug to hide in the box also when I get round to it.

The place to hide it was obvious , the park near mum and dad’s which I grew up playing in. The site I chose is an old outdoor public toilet which I thought brought a historical element to things 🙂 the stone remains are still there.
Below is the war memorial in the park which is an angel.

2 people have found my cache so far and I was happy that they took the time to write a long description of their finds.
One lady took the FTF badge and had not left anything in return though which I was annoyed about!
3 people logged the cache as destroyed when it wasn’t, there was actually a rogue cache nearby which had unfortunately been moved from somewhere else.
I look forward to more people finding my prizes 🙂

Bushey Bimble

I arrived at Bushey near London around tea time on Monday to visit my friend at her new home. She suggested a quick geocache adventure before having something to eat. The nearest one turned out not to be that near really, it was as the crow flies but we would have to walk a long way round to get it in reality. It was decided to drive as close as we could to the cache and it wasn’t long before we were at the correct spot in a small urban nature reserve, under large pylons. I was looking in the wrong places but D the novice cacher found the right location under a little bridge, it was up to me to recognise the cache box as she overlooked it , not knowing what she was looking for. I took this.

And I did my first travelbug drop off 🙂
By now it was about 6pm we went for a coffee on the main road while waiting for my friends husband to finish work so we could get a takeaway , I think that was enough caching for D for one day 🙂

Buzz around Burnley

I am on my way to London and I am not going to see M this week due to my trip and then work, so we decided to meet up for a quick spot of Sunday afternoon caching. We went to the coldwell activity centre where M does his volunteering work, it is a lovely place in the hills near to a reservoir. We gathered a few caches in this area and M showed me around the gardens and poly tunnel at the centre.
I tasted a few of the strawberries which were growing.

I admired the garden which had a wild feel, I liked what they did with these tyres.

Always on the lookout for wildlife I was happy to see lots of bees enjoying themselves.

Following the activity centre we drove about doing a lot of ‘park and grab’ caches. I love how geocaching takes me places I’d never think of going to, this is sad but we saw some really awesome dry stone walls! And an interesting spire on a hill which is apparently an ancient burial site. Here is purple Rona waiting for us while we explore.

So lastly my treasures, which are a bit rubbish, including a very damp coloured thing, I leave way better treasure ! Maybe the treasure will be better down south 🙂

M did quite like the badge.

The last is a stealth pic on this train while someone sits across from me 🙂

Glamping

Well I’m still getting my head around this blogging thing, ive wrote this post twice and lost it!
So last week I went glamping to the Forest of Bowland. My first experience of glamping was earlier in the year at a music festival where I stayed in an uncomfortable , soggy bell (or should I say HELL) tent. Determined not to let this experience put me off, we booked this hut in the woods.

Looks like an old shack but it was so cosy inside with the wood burner and rustic wood furniture.

My mental health was not very good this week, depression, anxiety and body dysmorphic disorder making me want the ground to swallow me up, but the fact we were the only ones there in the forest helped to ease my anxiety a little.
Here is our view to the lake, you can just about see a tree swing which I enjoyed 🙂

The glamping was close to a stately home, the family of which owned the whole wyresdale estate. We had a good walk round on the Tuesday and collected quite a few geocaches, we were still aching by Friday! Lovely views were to be seen.

Here is the swag I collected. One very special item here, my first travel bug which is currently winging it’s way to London 🙂