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The treeswingboys have been working on the treeswing but haven't been progressing very well. A few more branches have been trimmed. We got the volleyball stuck for good this time, after a few days of wind and shaking from us it still hasn't fallen from the grasp of the twig like branch.

We have also been spending some recreational time searching for geocaches. This outdoors sport has proven to be a nice supplement to the wilder studies work. With the added use of the geocache phone app, it has been a breeze finding new caches whenever we choose. There have been some bugs and inaccurate readings from the app, but compared the previous method we used this is much better.

On Tuesday we looked up a local cache. Upon arrival at the location we realised it was not a large container but smaller than a micro cache, it was so small it was off the scale. It was hidden on a bicycle sign in a bridleway. We took a little while to find it, but eventually succeeded.

It was really small, it could barely fit a log in it. We went to a local Tesco and bought some chewing gum. We then managed to put a whole chewed gum in place of the log. It screwed closed tightly squishing the gum inside. That was it for the day's caches.


We aimed to see "Warhorse" on Wednesday. We were just going to the ticket till and then realised we hadn't got the orange Wednesday code. The orange app wouldn't work and we weren't going to pay full price for the tickets. We also didn't want to waste the journey. We decided to look up a local cache.

To our surprise there was one in the cinema car park. We couldn't get a good location tracked to it, so we went to another nearby cache. This cache was in a car park, it was supposed to be a big container and possess a geobug.

We parked in the car park in the exact same parking space as the car that was on the gps map. We then set out to find the cache. We looked 3 times and couldn't find it. It was about 10pm and there were still a few cars in the car park. Some muggles came back to their cars. Then some treeswingers drove in and looked like they were smoking a spliff.

We were about to leave, however the treeswingers started to deploy. We waited till they left then had another look. We took into account that a comment had said the location was out by 18 ft and the hint said "be quick so you don't have to pay and display". We were parked right in front of a pay and display sign. Turns out the cache was directly behind the sign in a bush.

It was a big container, with barely anything in it. It had the geobug/tag it in and the logbook. We added about 50 chargers, 3/4 bottle vinegar and half a pot of salsa. It was a nasty concoction. It was heavy and smelly.