West Side Story - The High Noon series continues

Saturday April 17th 2010

Mr Shiltonpig has been in for a rough old month of it recently, he has trodden in dog poo more times than he would like to remember, the evil mud has tried to take his trainer off him and now team Shiltonpig lead a mutiny and tie him up on the nearby railway line and hope that 13.47 Burton to Derby train is on time...just what led him to this point and did he escape? read on for more adventures of team Shiltonpig. So it was a normal family outing to a place called Croxall Lakes which forms part of the Staffordshire nature reserve and otters can be seen.

A useful sign that we found

 Talking about otters...one man said to the other "I had a chicken tarka last night"...."don't you mean chicken tikka" the other man said "no, its like chicken tikka but a little bit 'otter". Boom boom the old ones are the best. This area was to hold 2 caches for us that we had previously not come up against. We were on the trail of our second high noon statue...and all was well with team Shiltonpig...we even spotted the high noon statue way before we had reached the cache site. Two seagulls were occupying the statue, and its no surprise to learn that this area of the National Forest is dominated by wetlands.

Cowgirl and her sidekick cow toddler

But then this is where things started to go downhill for Mr Shiltonpig. Josh and Mrs Shiltonpig decided that is was there turn to be cowgirl and cow toddler and pose James Bond style at the high noon statue, but this must have gone to their heads as they started to form a little clique and started to conspire against poor old Mr Shiltonpig. We reached the cache site and found a very clever little hide that clearly had we not seen one before we would have struggled. Mrs Shiltonpig commented that she was disappointed there wasn't some bras again at this site....perhaps we will find more at other sites.

Mr Shiltonpig loves bird watching

But the mutiny was well under way when Mr Shiltonpig started picking on bird spotters. Now some of you are aware of the geek bible that team Shiltonpig have used previously, on page 45 it clearly states that geocachers are more cool than bird spotters....but Mrs Shiltonpig and Josh were upset by Mr Shiltonpigs actions and had had enough. They tricked him by saying "shall we go and do another cache at Mytholme Bridge"...but secretly the 2 had got into the cowboys and indians mode. When he wasn't looking Josh hit Mr Shiltonpig over the head with a dirty nappy while Mrs Shiltonpig tied him up on the railway track as in the 1st photo at the start.

Mrs Shiltonpig spots a dead duck

Fortunately Mr Shiltonpig was able to use his spare knife in his jeans pocket to free himself up and collect the cache nearby before Mrs Shiltonpig and the train could do anything about it. To show he didn't hold any grudges he offered a truce to the team and poured a glass of coca cola (other forms of cola are available from all leading supermarkets) and they all made up with a family hug. Now you may be wondering why the blog entry is called "west side story" well as you park up there is a sign nearby with lots of pictures of animals on it and its entitled "west side story" and made us laugh...."ha ha ha ha he he he he ho ho ho". And a word of warning to the younger population at home (spacemarine lol) don't try lying on a railway track....because it gives you back ache!!!!