Q:What do you call a woman who climbs up trees?

team Shiltonpig beaten up figuratively

Monday May 10th 2010

A:Ivy. Have you ever been hit in the face? Well today team Shiltonpig were hit in the face twice...and boy did it hurt. Now some people may say that we take geocaching far too seriously, but our team motto is "geocaching is not a matter of life and death....its more important than that". Two new caches were released in our area fairly close by to where we live...and so we thought we would have a go at claiming the first to find....we packed everything up and then by the time we got to the caches, we found we were second to find. Second? I repeat second? nobody remembers who the 2nd man on the moon was....they only remember the 1st

So cute, so cheeky....and so noisy!

We thought at first the Ashby Bells had beaten us to it (again) but it was their evil twin friends...the Fielding five, that had taken the honour off us. Governments have gone to war for less than this, but we smile through gritted teeth and say well done. Next time...we mean business lol Having said that as we were getting into the car from the cache at Gorse lane (is it me or does that name sound painful?) we saw a car pull in and then turn around. We must have had "geocaching sense" as we had a felling they were geocachers. It turns out that it was "hoppityhop" and its the closest we have come to bumping into geocachers in the East Midlands....so pleased to kind of meet you.

where Mr Shiltonpig goes after an argument

The irony was that the next cache we were doing today was actually one of "Hoppityhops", a cache near a badger set. Josh was sound asleep in the car, so we had to take it turns to do the cache...Mrs Shiltonpig went first and scared all the badgers away by the time Mr Shiltonpig arrived there were none left...but they were cleary lived in. It seems the perfect time to introduce this crazy website and it seems like I will never be able to provide a link like that again. We were actually on a bit of a spring clean today, cleaning up and mopping up some of the caches in the area that we had not got around to today. Two of which took us to the village of Overseal

Follow the yellow brick road

It is said that in 1971 that Overseal was the population centre of the UK as the same amount of people lived north and south and east and west of it.Since then Josh was born and this has thrown all the figures into mayhem. One of the caches took us to a wood called Gunby Lea....no really thats its genuine name...next to it was a beautiful field of rapeseed where Mr Shiltonpig took this beautiful photo? there is actually a small dog at the top of the path, it reminded him of the Wizard of Oz and Toto for some unknown reason, but hey ho.....we can all dream can't we. The final cache took us back to Bretby where we have been a couple of time before

Wave back at Team Shiltonpig

We might have know the last cache would cause us trouble....its one of Geohunter Xs caches and we always seem to struggle with his. We were stung several times, scratched and we were sitting in a heap sobbing when we realised we had actually already seen the cache and not realised. D'oh....so after a nice few caches this afternoon we calmed down about the failure to first to find the caches....we popped into our local hand grenade and rocket bazooka launcher shop on the way home...and picked up a few items in case we bump into a few individuals (Please note violence in all its forms is not acceptable, and team Shiltonpig do not condone it...except in the case of failure to get First to finds) Sweet dreams..