If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We picked up a travel bug on Saturday, under a gravestone in a little park by St Paul’s. I already knew where the cache was hidden, as I’d dug it out before, but Rich had never seen it, and [...]

We went geocaching today for the first time in ages. It’s been a hot weekend, filled with breakfasts and lunches on the patio, bike rides across town and lazy mornings spent soaking up the sun.
So it seemed only natural to head out this afternoon without any coats to look for hidden treasure. We’d picked a [...]

Hiding a geocache is no easy task.
You have to find somewhere interesting, nowhere near another cache, secluded enough to not be stumbled upon by accident and not on private land. And not only do you have to do all that; you also have to prove it to the moderators.
So - as I say - not [...]

Well, technically her birthday was earlier in the week, but that’s no good for celebrations, so she came over this weekend, arriving with Dan on Friday evening and staying right through.
So, Friday night I knocked off 10 minutes early and headed to the station to find all the trains delayed and full. Not entirely surprising: [...]

I don’t think I’ve been stung by nettles since I was 10. I’d forgotten that they actually hurt as soon as you touch them, almost like a little shock; I had some crazed, incorrect recollection that they only stung a few hours later when the bumps came up, but it turns out that’s not right.
Anyhow, [...]

Ze Frank is trying to make the earth into a sandwich. A simple idea: you put your slice of bread on the ground somewhere, take a picture and plot its location on Google Maps. That pinpoints the opposite spot, so someone else can put a slice there, take another picture and, voila, earth sandwich.
Not so [...]

Happy Baishakhi Mela. Today was Bengali new year - the first day of year 1413. I don’t know wether those last two digits are unlucky, but certainly Brick Lane seemed to be happy about seeing the new year in. I went down there this morning to watch the processions and wander through the markets. The [...]

Who would have believed that there was a secret nursery right in the centre of London (see the BT Tower and Euston Tower in the background). This is about 10 minutes’ walk from my desk, and I never even knew it was there.
Found through the power of geocaching, of course.

The tubes were a mess this morning. Of the four lines I can get to work, three were out of action, leaving x-thousand people to cram onto the already struggling Central Line.
So, I walked. I hadn’t planned on walking more than a couple of stations, but by the time I got to St Paul’s, heading [...]

Rain rain rain, then grey skies. It wasn’t until gone three that it finally cleared up, so I decided to make the best of what remained of the day and head out to try and find another geocache. It didn’t go well. It was down on an old disused railway line, which has lain dormant [...]