Suicide Lake

Giant thorns used by Mrs Shiltonpig to inflict injury

Wednesday April 28th 2010

Mrs Shiltonpig has been up to her usual tricks again today, its been quite a week for her. She was very frustrated that Mr Shiltonpig had been the only one not to sustain injury this week and so in real anger she pulled back some large thorns (that should only appear in a Lord of the Rings novel but somehow appeared in the real world)and into poor young Mr Shiltonpigs forehead causing blood to be drawn. Wounded he may have been, but he persevered and kept on going to the end of the road. So yesterday a few new caches appeared in our very local area and

"Heres Johnny!"

it seemed rude not to go and do them. In fact the area of Donisthorpe (a viking settlement) and Ashby Woulds has the highest density of caches in the National Forest area, well worth a visit. First up a cache by a bench, Mr Shiltonpig was struggling to find it. When a man about 100 metres away came and told us where the cache was, whats embarasssing was that he isn't even a geocacher, must just know its there!! Thats a 1st for team Shiltonpig. We then took a visit to a church....we have been to quite a few recently that we are considering beoming monks and nuns (Mr Shiltonpig wants to be a nun)....real reason would

Maurice Maguire Masterpiece

be to escape Joshs moaning!! His lump from the other day is much better now. The final cache in the Donisthorpe area was actually a chance to see some artwork by Maurice Maguire. The artwork in question is the marker in the photo on the left. Using the digits on the other side of the marker (you didn't actually think we would show you them!) we actaully had to put into use that GCSE Maths without the use of a calculator we will have you know. Sadly it took us 4.5 hours to work out the basic clues....and then a further 2 minutes to find the cache!! Last but by no means least is the cache at Suicide lake....its official title is "Albert Village Lake", but lets face it, its not the most exciting name is it...so we named it Suicide lake a long time ago....and far more intriguing it is.

Sewer rats are getting bigger these days

One of the things we encountered along the way was a giant smelly rat near the sewer, we captured in on photo (to the left). The smell was awful....it was only then that Mrs Shiltonpig spotted that the smell was in fact Mr Shiltonpig. But be warned you may bump into him one day....so bring a peg. Did you know that Albert Village was actually named after Prince Albert who was married to Queen Victoria herself?? well, well, well you learn something new everyday! It is also home to something that we found in our geek bible, bird watchers.

"Wheres Wally?"

Bird watchers were in for a treat though when they looked out this rather strange looking bird hide. Can you spot the lesser spotted geocacher in the picture to the left? If you do, send your answer on a postcard along with a £20 note to "Shiltonpigs holiday to Barbados fund". Sadly we didn't bump into any birdwatchers so we couldn't make fun of any of them....however it should be noted that we found a robins egg today, and we looked it up on the net....and we have a bird book and binoculars....aaaarrrggghhhh, what have we become....and on that note, we will go home and have some jelly (the non alcoholic variety).