The Northern Thing

Caches No’s 5087 to 5101 – Yorkshire Christmas Fayre IV

Sun, 1/12/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

We had held a Christmas Fayre the previous three years to help raise money for the UK Mega, twice for ourselves and then last year we raised money for the Aberdeenshire Mega, this time it …

Caches No’s 5078 to 5086 – Autumn Caches and Events

Wed, 27/11/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

For the first time since 1986 I didn’t go to Norfolk for a weekend in the Autumn… Angel78 wasn’t interested in going this year so after 34 years of going and drinking too much and …

Caches No’s 5047 to 5077 – GeoCoinFest Sunday

Sun, 8/09/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

So, after another good nights sleep in the hotel it was back into Manchester for some more caching and for the Flash Mob event… bit of an issue getting into town as the Corporation were …

Caches No’s 5020 to 5046 – GeoCoinFest Saturday

Sat, 7/09/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

GeoCoinFest Europe is a traveling Mega event celebrating geocoins, tags, and trackables and made it’s way to celebrate in Manchester. This is an indoor event that is set up similar to a trade show where …

Caches No’s 5007 to 5019 – GeoCoinFest Friday

Fri, 6/09/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

The Annual European Geocoinfest is a Mega event all about Geocoins… something I have no interest at all in – well in the 10 years I have been caching I have paid money for exactly …

Cache No. 5006 – A Rare FTF

Tue, 3/09/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

I haven’t had an FTF for many years, July 2014 was my last, cache #3316 En Route Through Otley, but when a new multi cache popped up in Ilkley I thought I would go and …

Caches No’s 4998 to 5005 – The 5,000th Cache

Sun, 1/09/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

So, after an extended caching session the previous evening I set off down to Lincoln

Caches No’s 4982 to 4997 – Hillgorilla’s a Beast Part 2

Sat, 31/08/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

A week to go to the Manchester Geocoinfest and only 19 caches to go, which actually presented a problem, Which cache to do for the milestone and how to manipulate things so that I got …

Caches No’s 4969 to 4981 – The Streak

Sat, 31/08/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

For the last few years Groundspeak have come up with odd ways to keep people caching over the summer, they do this by having events that if you complete them they give you a ‘souvenir’ …

Caches No’s 4964 to 4968 – A Midlands Day Trip

Sun, 25/08/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

Bank Holiday Sunday, earlier in the week Angel78 had contacted me and said she wanted to do something at the weekend, so I drove down to Lichfield, and then we went on to the Churnett …

Caches No’s 4948 to 4963 – Hillgorilla’s a Beast Part 1

Sat, 24/08/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

Hillgorilla had set out a whole load of puzzle caches – puzzles which were almost all Jigidi online Jigsaw puzzles.
Jigidi puzzles have a maximum of 500 pieces, and most of Hillgorillas are 470 or so …

Caches No’s 4923 to 4947 – A Cunning Plan

Fri, 23/08/19 – 23:59 | No Comment

In 2018 I found 188 caches, I had already reached this figure at Piratemania and having done 50 lab caches at Aberdeen my cache count had gone up considerably.
At Aberdeen Zoe had got to her …