What a Transformation!

Time to bring some colour to our mobile adventures.  A red sack, silver baubles and some tinsel have done the trick, getting us into the festive spirit and ready for the Rutland Christmas fancy dress ride.  Out have come the museum boxes, in have gone padding and 24 comedy crackers- you'll have to wait till next time before we tell you what's in the crackers.

On such a beautiful day, we also checked on the Geocache.  It was there, in one piece and not yet found so we need to add another clue to aid those in search of.  Here is a sneak preview of the cache.

It was a lovely walk that brought more fun ideas to our heads.  e.g. grandfather clock, broken time but we are not going to tell you anything about that till next time either.  It's a time of secrets and half truths, cos it's Christmas! 

It's been a time of walks and not cycles this past week and on Friday we did a very early morning (it was still dark) search for a Geocache in Burbage. 

Having left the SATNAV on, it ran out of battery and we were not able to find the cache. It made us realise the importance of giving enough clues without revealing too much. The snow and wind battered us but we enjoyed it, especially the lemon drizzle and chocolate cakes, marmalade wraps and hot drinks.  It was Sally N's birthday treat. 

In the bleak mid-winter...

...we ventured out into the sleet and darkness to deposit our first geocache.  We could have picked a better day but at least we were unobserved, or so we thought till a cyclist on his way home appeared.

We managed to work out the GPS and hope that we have the co-ordinates right.  We will just have to wait for someone to find it or complain that they can't.  Or, the bomb squad are alerted to a little yellow box not discretely hid on a fence post.  The thing is we have never actually seen a geocache so we don't know what it should be like.  We have just made it up as we have gone along.  No doubt serious geocachers will put us right.  Are we bothered?  No.

Not sure if we can yet call this fun, but we did make it difficult for ourselves, picking the worse night of the year so far.  We are going to find a Geocache on Friday at dawn, weather permitting.  Least then we will know if what we are doing is about right and will be able to see what we are doing.

We hid it so well, bet you can't find it!