just another morning here

Actually I’m pretty annoyed about this blog post really … my favourite cache stats site has closed ( It’s Not About The Numbers – what a shame, it was the best one), and I’ve been waiting to blog until a bug with My Geocaching Profile was fixed, which it almost is now … then looked back at my third caching post and it seems that my profile there has automatically updated, meaning that I don’t have pictures of the maps etc. as they were back in May at just over 500 finds, instead they’re as they should be now at 680 finds (sort of). Poo to not realising that would happen back then (which it does say on the site), otherwise I would have done it like this:

Anyway, never mind, I know it’s only really me who’s bothered about stuff like this! I *am* pleased to have that giant country shaded in on the map, just from finding one cache in Russia!

My penultimate weekend of the holidays was spent caching; my friend and I were rather proud of ourselves managing 109 in one day, a figure of 8 walk of around 20 miles, mostly in the pouring rain as well. We did 30-odd the day before, and 28 the day after, as well. We had been going to camp up in North Devon but in the end because of the weather we decided to camp at home instead, so that we could dry our clothes/boots and charge batteries overnight!

The girls had time with friends over the weekend which was great for them, Josiah came with us on Sunday, and Steve had some peace and quiet!

All I can say, having done that, is that it might have bumped my total caches found number up significantly, and it was fun to have the marathon challenge, but I can hardly remember any one individual cache. I would far prefer to spend the time and energy on one decent cache(password available on request) than on 150 pots behind posts. I can safely say that the graph won’t carry on going upwards at such an almost-exponential rate, as I won’t be carrying on like that throughout this academic year!

Since then we’ve just been bumbling around at home; I’ve been working every morning on school stuff and a little bit of orchestra as well, and the children have been generally annoying me. We hoped to have some ‘family afternoons’ but Steve hasn’t made it home before 5pm any day so far, so never mind about that! Evenings have been spent sewing nametapes onto school clothes in the vain hope that if they’re named they might not go missing so often

I have found over 100 more caches since the last cache stats post in January. Sad but true, I like the graphs, pictures, and numbers, so here they are for anyone who’s actually interested. No-one? As I suspected! I will be pleased if I manage to get Russia shaded in on that world map over the summer …

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This morning I found out how to screen grab on the iphone (press bottom button and then tap on/off button) so now I am showing off my Angry Birds achievements. (sad but true!) Seriously, if you own an iPhone or iPod touch and haven’t played this game yet you are missing out!

I finished level 6 while in the bath last night. Then realised there was an update available so now I’m working on level 7!

I may do these at irregular intervals when I am very bored and probably ought to be doing something else, like updating the orchestra website or something. Here’s an update on the last geeky caching post that I wrote about six months ago. Easier to view pictures big on flickr if you’re actually interested, otherwise you can get a vague idea from the filled in counties on the uk maps, say ‘yes dear, that’s nice’, and flick on to the next blog

First here are last year’s graphs:

And now today’s:

Adding in the little graph that shows difficulty and terrain, as I am particularly proud of the 5/5 that we did last year!