Adventures of a Bolas Heathen

Mrs Bolas Heathens wanted to go to Ikea this morning. I was not keen as I hate the place but we struck a deal – we’d find a few caches on the way! We opted to look for the new “CAMO” caches near Essington and all were nice easy finds with the exception of one, which [...]

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Yesterday was my birthday and we were due round at the in-laws with the children for a lovely birthday tea. As I was driving over (the children had gone ahead with Sarah), I was thinking to myself that it would be nice to do a cache on my birthday, but that there were none anywhere [...]

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The Middlewood Circular series of caches was our target for this weekend. The series follows an old railway line (now a walking path) from Marple down to Macclesfield and then back to Marple along the Macclesfield canal. The cache owner has split it up into three chunks to make it more manageable and only parts [...]

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We’ve just had the annual email saying our Groundspeak subscription is due to expire next month. We’ve got it set to auto-renew and wish they would say this in the email as it’s a bit convoluted going to the site and trying to work out if this is set or not. Will we renew? Of [...]

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We had to take Isaac to Stafford for an interview at the Grammar School as part of his 11-Plus this morning, so took the chance to find the two new caches in Stafford. These have been our closest to home Not Found’s ever since they came out. The first was a replacement cache in the [...]

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Isaac was sitting his 11-Plus at Stafford Grammar School this morning so I was caching on my own today. I dropped him off in Stafford at the school, wished him luck and then set off down the M6 to start off with the new M6 Toll caches. The first cache was one of snerdbe’s and [...]

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On Saturday we fancied another good long walk and the chance to go for two circular walks near to each other, whilst also finally bagging the LQ West Midlands cache was too good to resist. After a quick drive to the cache area via the M6 Toll we arrived at the first cache of the [...]

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We had another great day’s caching on Saturday. This week we fancied a good long walk in the countryside so the area just south of Birmingham, near Redditch stood out as there are several new trails to get our teeth into. We started the day with some “What’s Wrong With Bromsgrove” caches – two dead [...]

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