Thursday evening: Nipped onto site after work. Chaos. Heavy rain earlier in the day had put the build back. The arena was heaps of wood, and the beginnings of a boundary fence. Many tents were not up. The access route was already a quagmire - slippery as anything where people had driven through long grass, and the top layer had turned to soup. Did ( Read more... )

Coming on the back of a week's holiday should have meant that I was well rested when I arrived on site at Locko Park last Thursday. Having driven down that day from Peebles in the Scottish borders (and the Edinburgh end of the borders at that, meant that I wasn't. The route I'd taken was beautiful, with deserted roads as far as Lockerbie, fast as ( Read more... )

Today was meant to be a day in the Scottish Register Office in Edinburgh. In the end I did under four hours there - a long slow late breakfast, Edinburgh traffic, and lack of keen slowing my start, and a discovery of an interesting mistake in earlier research (not sure if it was mine, someone else's, or a combination of the two, encouraging me to ( Read more... )

Aberdeen to Edinburgh via Dundee and Fife ( Read more... )

Today was the day when I discovered some of the edge pieces were missing ( Read more... )

I was worried when I planned this week that today could be a problem ( Read more... )

The geocaching mega-event day in Perth. Left camp early and drove up early enough to get a good parking spot opposite the hall, watched an organiser being interviewed by Radio Five Live. Very good opening speech for the day by the Provost of Perth, who had clearly caught on to the tourism benefits (not least a thousand of us spending a weekend ( Read more... )

A long drive today from Manchester to Kinross. Roadworks a-plenty across central Scotland. Camped up, went out and found a few caches. Now taking a few minutes break from socialising while it's still light. The clouds from earlier have cleared and it's turning into a nice evening.

 Filled my car up with fuel, worked a normal day, and then drove up to Manchester ( Read more... )

but, if he did, he'd probably have ended up with a very confused one from the latest festival hosted beyond the Maelstrom by the Church of the Merchant.

• He'd have reported the foolishness of a church for which he has quite a lot of time, and his assurance that their god does not care about a lucky dip at a fete.
• He'd have noted his concern at the ( Read more... )