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Title: Chilly day yesterday
Post by: Andy H on February 10, 2007, 11:25:18

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/beckyandy/Icebreaker.jpg)

Title: Re: Chilly day yesterday
Post by: okra on February 10, 2007, 14:52:10

Great pic

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Post by: MrsKP on February 10, 2007, 16:05:29

cool !   8)

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Post by: shirlton on February 10, 2007, 16:31:05

Did you go for a walk to get that pic. Very good

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Post by: Andy H on February 10, 2007, 16:56:51

Yes I went Geocaching and walked about 11 miles.
It snowed most of the day south of Banbury along the Oxford Canal

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Post by: kitten on February 10, 2007, 20:31:05

Hi Andy, I have family just near Banbury, it's a beautiful part of the country, even better in the snow!  Great pic  ;D (BTW what's geocaching?)

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Post by: Grandma on February 11, 2007, 08:38:46

What a great pic, Andy! I'm only an 'armchair traveller' now but I'd love to see the same scene in spring, summer and autumn. Perhaps you can oblige?  ;)

Title: Re: Chilly day yesterday
Post by: Andy H on February 11, 2007, 11:20:25

(BTW what's geocaching?)
I stumbled across geocaching whilst looking up something to do with co-ordinates on the net. It is simply a bit like a treasure hunt, you get co-ordinates on the internet and then use a GPS to go find the hidden box.
sign the log book and replace, then log on line on Geocaching.com
Sometimes there are items in the box that have a dog tag attached, they can be taken out but must be put in another cache, this way they travel around the world, I have one that has gone to grand canyon and california and now up in Nova Scotia!!!
Takes you to some great places that you would never visit, even locally.

You can enter your postcode to find ones near you. I bet there are some :o


I'd love to see the same scene in spring, summer and autumn

I would probably not go to the same point again but maybe different parts of the canal for more of the above, I found 18 in 5.5 miles!

Anyone interested then email me if stuck.

Title: Re: Chilly day yesterday
Post by: GREENWIZARD on February 11, 2007, 14:12:50

don't fancy dipping my big toe in that water

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Post by: Andy H on March 11, 2007, 08:34:30

Police officers called to investigate a suspicious package found themselves at the centre of a game of treasure hunt.
Bomb disposal officers were called to St Peters Road in Peterborough on Saturday following reports of suspicious activity in the area.
The street and surrounding area was cordoned off at about 18:00 GMT
But the area was declared safe when the object turned out to be a global positioning system (GPS) device used in a game of treasure hunt.

Ceefax 112

March 10 by Mithras (0 found)
Found by Ebandflo, muggled by the town hall, cordoned off by the police, blown up by the bomb squad at 1930 hours 10th of March 2007.
Sorry!

GCVHXA     Good old geocaching!

Title: Re: Chilly day yesterday
Post by: Biscombe on March 11, 2007, 09:00:51

Awwwww!! The pic brings back memories, I used to live on a narow boat!! I remember being iced in, water running out had to shower in the lesure centre!!! Twas the no dig time when I could only grow flowers and herbs in pots on the roof!!!!

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Post by: sea chelles on March 16, 2007, 16:35:41

lovely photo, im hoping to go on a narrowboating holiday this year  ;D

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Post by: Biscombe on March 17, 2007, 07:42:37

You'll love it!! which canal??

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Post by: sea chelles on March 17, 2007, 19:15:52

Quote from: Biscombe on March 17, 2007, 07:42:37

You'll love it!! which canal??

not sure i think we might be starting off in guilford, im leaving it all to my hubby and mums OH to organize so with them in charge we might not even make it off the isle of wight!!!  ;D ;D