Adventures of a Bolas Heathen

When we returned home from Lancashire on Saturday evening, we spotted a new cache not too far from home that had come out during the day. Knowing the FTF was bound to have gone by now, we left it until Sunday afternoon to find. The cache was behind a telegraph pole on a country lane [...]

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Issac was due to be away at scout camp this weekend, so it was just me caching on my own. I’d been watching the weather all week with the original intention of going caching around the Chorley area. By Friday afternoon, the weather looked dismal and as I’m just about fed up of caching in [...]

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Late on Monday afternoon, a new multi a few miles from home came out. I had things to do for the rest of the day so no chance of going out to find it. The next morning was a different story and I had time to dash out as the cache still had not been [...]

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On Saturday we decided on a return visit to the area of countryside between Birmingham and Coventry. We’ve always enjoyed previous visits to the area so were looking forward to it. The weather forecast was not too promising, with a band of rainy cloud coming over the UK from west to east. The nearest forecast [...]

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We were having a new boiler put in at home today, which involved a lot of banging in the old airing cupboard by my office, so I decided I would be much better out and about going for the 19 new caches in Granville Country Park instead (tough decision that one – not!). I parked [...]

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Just after we got home from caching on Saturday, I logged on to GC.com to see there was a ton of new caches near home just out: 19 around a country park, 2 at a local church and 2 more along the old Wellington to Market Drayton railway line. I was all cached-out for the [...]

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On Saturday we decided on a return to the SE Manchester area to try and clear up the many, many new caches in the area. We parked up by the Old Cock pub in Didsbury – an old haunt of mine from when I used to live in Altrincham and fancied a change from the [...]

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I’d heard on Facebook that Wrekin Ranger had set a cache near the huge pile of horseshoes at Peplow, not too far from home. She’d given enough hints to give the location away but I waited until the cache was published before going to find it, as it’s only fair. I’d just returned home from [...]

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