A picture of baby Zack with his proud mum and a picture of the little 'un with his very proud great grandparents. Just need to wait for Richard (Zack's grandad) to come back from Australia next month and we can try for a five generation photo shoot with Zack's great great grandparents!!
On Sunday, I was still feeling a bit weak so stuck to some easy quick cache and dash's in the 'fairly' local area of Grays. What a nightmare it is driving around the place and Chafford Hundred nearby. The place is like a maze. I seriously was beginning to doubt I would ever find the way out of Chafford Hundred.... and I was getting very hungry.
The first two caches I went for were pretty easy to find, although i had struggled to find somewhere to access the park last time I was in the area. Lucky Dipping was the first one of the day for me, once I had finally found my way to it; somewhere to park and a way to access the park. A nice pot to start with. Then on to a micro across the road - Brian's magic roundabout. I hadn't been able to find this one last time, but today I was on the ball and went straight to it. A cuite little micro hidden in a snail shell - very clever. Then it was on to a nice woodland pot - Woodview. {One day I will work out how to do the links to these caches.} I left a trackable in there as the cache was well hidden away and unlikely to be muggled.
Then I had to get sidetracked - Grays and Church Micro Grays in order to find the numbers for the Harry Hill cache. Interesting concept = which is best, CM or Sidetracked? Personally I prefer CMs as you generally get to find nice little corners of the English countryside and very picturesque churches. Whereas Sidetracked caches tend to be grimy train stations in urban areas. I was fortunatel with the Sidetracked Grays cache as I parked feet away from it. Would not have been able to do that if it had been any other day than a nice quiet Sunday with both football and rugby on the telly! hee hee.
Unfortunately I managed to make a right mess of the actual Harry Hill cache. It is up a pipe and I managed to push it further up, without realising that there is actually some string attached. All I had had to do was pull the string. DOH. So that meant the CO - cache owner - had to pop out and sort out my little error. At least I got to say sorry in person at the BIG EVENT a few days later.
Jill and I had been collared to organise one of the Essex events. These occur every other month on a Wednesday. It was over the Christmas period that we had to decide on a suitabl
e location/pub and Jill was away in Australia. So it was down to me and Andy to look for somewhere in the vicinity that didn't mind having 40+ people descend for a drink and a chat. Not as easy as you would think to do that. Most of the lovely country pubs were either too small or could not afford to risk losing some of their restaurant customers. So we ended up at the Cricketers in Southend. As it happens Andy and I used to come to this pub a lot as we used to work opposite. We actually celebrated our getting engaged in this pub so it has fond memories.
LOADS of people attended the meet - it was a great success. Trackables were swapped and Bob did the honours with the certificates again. Here is me with my certificate for finding 1000 caches. I'm very proud of it and the smiley magnet that came with 
it. And of course the great DrSolly came to our event. Everyone was very excited. He is the number 1 cacher in the UK with over 18700 finds. Not to mention that he designed and very successfuly sold the Dr Solomon anti-virus package. You can find out more about him on his website -http://www.drsolly.com/
ahhh!! I want a little certificate! how lovely!!!!
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