Thursday March 18th 2010Before we get to the very serious crime perpatrated by Josh later in this blog. Let us start with poor old Mr Shiltonpig.....(as usual) we were on our way to Prestop Park Wood for the final cache in a series we have been completing recently. Mr Shiltonpig is used to being the family mule, carrying all the bags and the ever heavier Josh on his shoulders...but things reached a new low today when Josh and Mrs Shiltonpig ordered him to crawl through the dog stile rather than the human one. What was worse is that both of them started laughing at him....what more must one man suffer with his family?
Prestop Park Wood is surprise surprise part of the National Forest and in order to get more acquainted with the area, we had pulled a nature book from a dusty shelf and put it in the bag. The first tree that we encountered along the way we were unsure of what particular species it was...so in all eagerness we pulled out the book, only to find that despite the book having 200 species of tree, it didn't have ours. So we concluded after several minutes that the scientific name it should be "tree". So glad that we bought the book now, its been so helpful so far! This last cache is a multi cache,which means you have to collect or find multiple bits of information before you can get to the cache. We have done them before, but this is our first in the East Midlands.
The first stage required finding a nano cache which would then give you the co-ordinates for the main cache. Nano in our household is code for evil...evil because they can be so hard to find at times.....however as you will see in the photo Mrs Shiltonpig is looking very pleased with herself as she finds it within seconds, leaving Mr Shiltonpig speechless. Meanwhile the ever increasingly amazing Josh pronounces his full name for the 1st time on this cache "Joshua"...he normally refers to himself as "Osh"...so a lump in the back of the throat moment for team Shiltonpig....don't worry it soon went when he started whinging!!
Now this next section is either going to go over your head or you will instantly get it...team Shiltonpig have another passion...Science Fiction. Don't get me wrong we don't dress up in Star Trek uniform or anything (well only at weekends), but we are big followers of Lost and the photo to the right recreates the scene where John Locke holds two marbles in his hands...
linky thingy ma bob Right so now I have that out my system we can continue. The nano cache pointed upwards...up the hill much to Mrs Shiltonpigs delight....her motto is "I don't doooo hills!" but a small hill was acceptable in this instance. The co-ords took us in the middle of some sapling trees which was clearly the wrong place....so we retraced our steps to a viewpoint and had more success in that area. It was here that things started to get ugly...
Josh found a nearby branch and started hitting Mr Shiltonpig and then turned his attention to Mrs Shiltonpig, over and over he kept hitting her, he then turned back and started hitting Mr Shiltonpig again...all the while giggling his head off. What kind of son are we raising!!! Battered and bruised we started making our way back down the hill....it started to rain and so our speed quickened...briefly...and the returned to slow. Just the one cache today but very satisfying is was too!
Thursday March 18th 2010
Prestop Park Wood is surprise surprise part of the National Forest and in order to get more acquainted with the area, we had pulled a nature book from a dusty shelf and put it in the bag. The first tree that we encountered along the way we were unsure of what particular species it was...so in all eagerness we pulled out the book, only to find that despite the book having 200 species of tree, it didn't have ours. So we concluded after several minutes that the scientific name it should be "tree". So glad that we bought the book now, its been so helpful so far! This last cache is a multi cache,which means you have to collect or find multiple bits of information before you can get to the cache. We have done them before, but this is our first in the East Midlands.
Now this next section is either going to go over your head or you will instantly get it...team Shiltonpig have another passion...Science Fiction. Don't get me wrong we don't dress up in Star Trek uniform or anything (well only at weekends), but we are big followers of Lost and the photo to the right recreates the scene where John Locke holds two marbles in his hands...linky thingy ma bob Right so now I have that out my system we can continue. The nano cache pointed upwards...up the hill much to Mrs Shiltonpigs delight....her motto is "I don't doooo hills!" but a small hill was acceptable in this instance. The co-ords took us in the middle of some sapling trees which was clearly the wrong place....so we retraced our steps to a viewpoint and had more success in that area. It was here that things started to get ugly...
Josh found a nearby branch and started hitting Mr Shiltonpig and then turned his attention to Mrs Shiltonpig, over and over he kept hitting her, he then turned back and started hitting Mr Shiltonpig again...all the while giggling his head off. What kind of son are we raising!!! Battered and bruised we started making our way back down the hill....it started to rain and so our speed quickened...briefly...and the returned to slow. Just the one cache today but very satisfying is was too!
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