"In your hands, the birth of a new day... " (Limahl)

30 April 2009

Champions!

AFC Wimbledon celebrate winning the Blue Square South league at te first attempt. Next year: Blue Square premier (aka the Conference).

They beat St Alban's 3-0 on a sunny day in Kingston-upon-Thames, where AFCW currently share with the local natives, Kingstonian.

An odd year for Wombling. Completely randomly, I have managed to see both the first and the final games of the 2008/09 season. Funny old game.

We're not worthy




















...I'd happily settle for a scene like this in the afterlife...




















...which I suppose would make this guy "God". This is Terry, of Terry's Badges - a hallowed Tortoiseshell institution (by mail order) since 2005, but never seen him in action before.

A nice pair

Spotted aT Bryncastell Bridge, Bow Street, Ceredigion - two old BR locos dressed up in yellow Network Rail livery

29 April 2009

County map updaate




















I got the chance to update my notaboutthenumbers.com geocaching map today. Finally, my solitary cache in Watford earlier this year has been recognised in the form of Hertfordshire turning sky blue on my map (the small county to the north of London, which is dark blue on this map). Next county target has to be Essex, with Kent and Buckinghamshire also in possible striking distance now that the nights are longer.

Oh, and the long overdue first cache in Derbyshire is also on the horizon.

Also look out for some darkening of the blue shades in London, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd - and we may not be too far off Dyfed turning red, either...

6 April 2009

Pontarfynach

"Pontarfynach: River Capture at the Devil's Bridge" (Earthcache)


Thanks to Dodo the Saxon for letting me bag this one, despite my overlooking of one of the questions. The earthcache was based around the village of Pontarfynach / Devil's Bridge, and based on the geological question of river capture. In this case, the Rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol (which flows to sea at Aberystwyth) "captured" water that was originally part of River Teifi (which meets the sea in Cardigan, 35 miles southwest of Aberystwyth).

3 April 2009

Geocoin update

Just to note the following geocoins I have grabbed over the last few weeks


New Mexico Geocoin


Compass Rose 2007 Geocoin


British Columbia 2008 Geocoin


Angel of the North Geocoin


Travel Express Geocoin

Multicache at Talsarn, Ceredigion

The Star Duck travelbug


Duck Hunt (multicache)



Perfect spring day.

Wales v Luxembourg u-21


Luxembourg attacking the Sospan end. Wales won 5-1 but Luxembourg had the more stirring anthem tune in my view.

Underpass mural, Llanelli

Honeytrap

South Wales Geocachers Geocoin


Puffin' along to the next cache geocoin


500 finds geocoin



Note to self: I will blog more on this when the mystery has been resolved.

















A new era

Big Ben geocoin


Roving Vault TB


Scarlet Secret


Wrong Side of the Bridge


Right Side of the bridge


After five months with virtually no geocaching action, it was good to be back in "cache and dash" mode at the start of what promises to be an exciting spring/summer of geocaching.

Three new caches in my home area - one opposite Parc Y Scarlets stadium, where I would end the evening by going to watch Wales v Luxembourg under 21s.

The other two were on one of the prettyest county boundaries that I know of in Wales - the River Loughor which divides Carmarthenshire from Swansea. In days of yore, the Loughor was all that stood between Maalie and a Sunday tipple.

Here is a travelbug with one the requisite papers to cross the county line.