Mega
At the end of July we had the UK's 3rd Mega event, over 1300 people attended despite there being a number that said they would come and did not in the end. The mega itself was fine with some useful talks and a chance to look at many beautiful coins in other people's collections. The Thursday before we joined in a side event, where a night caching trail had been set up to take us around the woods near to Auchterarder. It was fun and well organised and a good opportunity to speak to a few people we knew from before.
On the Sunday we had a great day at a CITO event (Cache in trash out), where we cleaned up the area surrounding the Lade in Perth, (while trying to make it look as if we were following the health and safety demands placed by the council. This lead to us tying two tow ropes together to capture things in the river that we were not allowed to be within two meters off. It was fun even for the engineering side of things.
The other big thing that I have done in the last while was a 128 hour shift with the person I care for, hard work, some fun and some unexpected time off because people were so kind to the two of us. There were points that I wondered why I had ever said yes to doing this shift, but by the end I was happily helping the woman plan for next year, and I have foolishly said that we can camp, but then again that might be better than the fully accessible (yeah right) hotel we stayed in this year.
Anyway, I should go back to tidying as we have someone coming to live with us while they buy a house. So all visitors will be on blow up beds, sorry Paul and Neil.
On the Sunday we had a great day at a CITO event (Cache in trash out), where we cleaned up the area surrounding the Lade in Perth, (while trying to make it look as if we were following the health and safety demands placed by the council. This lead to us tying two tow ropes together to capture things in the river that we were not allowed to be within two meters off. It was fun even for the engineering side of things.
The other big thing that I have done in the last while was a 128 hour shift with the person I care for, hard work, some fun and some unexpected time off because people were so kind to the two of us. There were points that I wondered why I had ever said yes to doing this shift, but by the end I was happily helping the woman plan for next year, and I have foolishly said that we can camp, but then again that might be better than the fully accessible (yeah right) hotel we stayed in this year.
Anyway, I should go back to tidying as we have someone coming to live with us while they buy a house. So all visitors will be on blow up beds, sorry Paul and Neil.