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..

March winds and April Showers bring forth Mays flowers

Wednesday April 7th in the year of our lord 2010

The jet setters otherwise known as team Shiltonpig had been all over the place in recent days...going even as far as Stoke on Trent. But it was back down to earth today, back to the good old (or should I say new) National Forest. Bretby Park was the name of the game, we have been to Bretby before, but just not to this section. We were after 4 caches....for those of you not wanting to know how many we succeeded in getting skip to the next paragraph. We got 3 caches, simply because stupid Mr Shiltonpig wrote down the wrong cache details down. So we will be back again...

A warm welcome back to the readers who skipped over the last sentence. The first cache took us to the most unstable stile we have ever seen, it was so wobbly it made a jelly look solid. It was so unstable that if it had been a human it would be having intense counselling. The cache however didn't want to be opened, we pleaded with it and we begged it...boy we even got down on our knees and asked for it to open its treasures to us...this seemed to do the trick and our reward was a geocoin all the way from America...Florida to be precise....to be honest we would have preferred if that had kept the coin and sent us their weather instead, but nevermind, you can't be greedy.

Now for any geocachers reading this you may have noticed that we have had a lot of rain recently. So much rain in fact that even the clouds are starting to complain. This of course in turn upsets the ground as it gets all muddy, so muddy that you even have to consider wearing appropriate footwear when you go out. This is rather upsetting for team Shiltonpig as high heels are the normal preferred option and thats just Mr Shiltonpig. The cache at the top of this very muddy hill was in Mr Shiltonpigs favourite container...a rock, the 4th we have found of these in total. Hooray to us...the rock even had its own moss on it...to blend in. Very clever indeed..

The final cache took us to Bretby Hall, it is a place that gives all son in laws in the country hope....it is a retirement home....pretty neat one at that. An interesting fact for all you Egyptian fans out there is that the chief financial backer of the guy that discovered King Tut owned Bretby Hall at one point....well I never I hear you say....thank you for that bit of information. These days Bretby is just a good place to put a cache...and we found the one nearby...took us ages and ages to find it. Josh had started puberty by the time we found it....not to worry folks, thats the 3 caches that we found today.

It is worth ending todays blog on the wildlife that we encountered today. Granted it may not be a giant lizard discovered like in the Philippines but was enough for us. A bunny rabbit came very close to us, and a pheasant just walked on by about 40-50 centimetres away from us. So I am sure that the BBC will not be rushing out to Bretby to be amazed by what we found, but for this small team of tree huggers we were thoroughly pleased (well Mrs Shiltonpig was after she recovered from the hill). So we will leave you on the last thing that happened to us at the cache site today.....Josh trumped. And on that note...we wave goodbye....till the next time!!