20 July 2010

itsnotaboutthenumbers.com is dead, long live GSAK!


















It was with shock and dismay that I recently discovered that itsnotaboutthenumbers.com had perished. This had the galvanising effect of getting to grips (after an impromptu e-mail tutorial from Von-Horst) with GSAK, the geocaching statistical package. And, lo and behold, it is possible to produce a UK county map with a colour scheme resembling that of itsnotaboutthenumbers. Life goes on! Oh yes, Dyfed has at last turned red! (100 caches).

Grey V-Dub spotted @ Manorbier


Wish I'd started blogging on V-dubs at the start of this blog. Oh well, better late than never. Nice one to start with!

@ the old stomping ground (2)

@ the old stomping ground (1)


Glamorgan v Somerset 20/20 (logging as football even though it's cricket)

10 July 2010

@ a loose end in Tenby

Tenby Seaviews Stroll multicache

Hard work for a multi cache, but just about worth it for a glorious vista from an angle I hadn't appreciated before.

08 July 2010

Ammo box at Carreg Cennen


Bonus! Haven't grappled with one of these in ages.

Carreg Cennen

I'm starting to get really attached to this place.

Soggy in Brynaman

Classic country caching.

Class 66 at Gwaun Cae Gurwen


Wasn't expecting to see any trains on my circular tour round the Black Mountain today.

07 July 2010

Nuclear bunker at Gwaun Cae Gurwen


...could only be an Eclectic Penguin cache site!

18 June 2010

New Abercachers Travelbug race

Have entred this cutie into the Abercachers 2010 Travelbug race

14 June 2010

Tortie and white!

04 June 2010

Classic David Brown tractor


Haven't seen one like this since going to Tillington in 2006.

Caching on Caldey

26 May 2010

Preseli ridge


View from geocache on Cardigan-Tenby road

17 May 2010

County Map Update




















Latest developments


London - 50 caches

East Sussex, Buckinghamshire, Essex - first caches found

Wiltshire - up from 1 cache, to 2-9 caches

Round-up

So, a frenetic last few weeks of March has led to a series of territorial gains in south east England. However, now back to the normality of life in Wales again, and I have eased the foot off the gas a bit in the last few weeks, both in caching and blogging terms, as real life has bitten back with a vengeance!

Tortoiseshell has been through various ebbs and flows since 2006. The latest hiatus is not a blogging crisis by any means, but I do feel another "State of the blog" update coming on...

29 April 2010

22 April 2010

Back to life, back to reality


After 15 months of high-life caching and other nonsense in London, back to basics in Ammanford with 2 quick cache and dashes from the Eclectic Penguin stables.

30 March 2010

AFC Wimbledon 2-2 Wrexham

Wombles salvage a draw from the jaws of defeat with this injury time penalty - a remarkable last few minutes as I have ever seen in a football match.

Anarchists Alley


Found a geocache near this place on Whitechapel Road