Going Green

Had to share this!

Overbury (my employers) have recently merged with our sister company, Morgan Lovell. As part of the merger we have refurbished our offices at Fort Dunlop. It all looks very smart, but I think we may have over done the lime green......

It Works!

Ok so the cheeky little app works a treat, how about a photo.....



This was taken in the Beaujolais run a couple of years ago in Macon in France.

I'm on the right of the picture looking like a right knob-end!

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Blogging on the Go!

As ever I've been thoroughly neglecting the blog. So, I've just downloaded a little app for the iPhone so that I can do a few more regular updates when the mood takes me!

This is the first post from the iPhone, so let's see if it actually works eh?

IT Days of Yesteryear

OK, I know, I've neglected the blog since last November, can't believe it's been that long. As the weather and daylight is now much improved, I'll be out on the geocaching trail alot more throughout the summer and will be blogging my little heart out.

I work for a construction company, and I visited the BT telephone exchange in central Birmingham yesterday, and boy do they have some out of date kit!

A very accurate pie chart

One for the mathematician's out there.

Spandau Ballet & Cache No.3000

I've been neglecting the blog of late, but Saturday encouraged me to write something!

First off, after a bit of DIY (something else that gets neglected!) I jumped in the car with the geomutt to grab caches 2999 and 3000, which were a couple of new puzzle caches not far from home. I'd solved one of them, but the other eluded me, so I decided to resort to chance, knowing that they were likely to be on the same footpath.

Found the first one easily enough, then tottered off down the path with the clue in mind, and found cache No.3000 in the second place I looked!

Onto the main event of the day....you may have read a blog of mine earlier this year about me bidding for (and winning) 2 tickets to see Spandau Ballet with backstage passes thrown in. Well, Saturday was the day.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been exchanging voicemail and texts with Alison Hadley (Tony Hadley's wife no less, which makes me sound like a bit of a name-dropper!). She assured me that the tickets and passes would be at the Box Office for collection on the night.

We arrived nice and early, at around 6.30pm, just in case there was a problem, and it was a good thing we did!

I asked the (rather grumpy) lady in the ticket office if there were some tickets left for me.....nothing....oh dear....

I called Alison Hadley.....voicemail.....oh dear....dismay!!!!

I left here a message, and settled in hoping for a response. In the meantime, I spoke to a very helpful Steward, who got on the case trying to contact someone backstage to find my tickets.

While he was doing his stuff, Alison finally called me back, and told me she was also on the case.

Progress !

My phone then rang again, this time, it was Tony Hadley's manager! My tickets were on the way! I returned to the (rather grumpy) woman in the ticket office, and explained the situation, and that she should expect my tickets to arrive shortly. She gave me a look that said "You chancer, trying to blag some tickets". The look on her face was a picture when the guy walked in with the tickets :-)

Finally, we got inside the Arena, only to realised that we didn't have backstage passes! Anyway, we found our seats, and I sloped off to talk to security at the side of the stage. As I was talking to them, Alison called me again to make sure I had got in.

A very nice chap then arrived and waved us through to meet the band!!

We met all 5 of them, had our photos taken, and got them all to sign our programme.

We went back to our seats and waited for the show to begin, and what a show it was!!!! They were absolutely brilliant, one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

A thoroughly cracking night out!

Geocaching Targets for September

I've decided to act like a large global corporation, and set myself a few targets for the month of September, and as I have 10 days off at the end of the month, I'm hoping to achieve them too!

Target No.1 - Most Finds in a Month

My previous record of 290 should get surpassed this month, I've got 43 finds already, and with maybe another 40-50 this weekend, I'll need about 200 on my holiday, and on the first day I should get around 70 on the Sussex Amble.

Target No.2 - Progress the D/T Challenge

I have identified (and solved) a couple of puzzle caches ready for my trip to Cornwall (actually I'll have to detour near Plymouth on the way from the Isle of Wight to get them, and will probably end up putting the tent up in the dark!), these should add a couple of ticks to the D/T grid, making 70 boxes completed out of 81.

Target No.3 - Most Finds in a Week

Previously 133 in March of this year, easy-peasy to beat this one once the Sussex Amble is done!

Target No.4 - Have a fabbo time!

Easy.

I've invested in a POYG Broadband dongle, and hope to Blog my way through the week, with photographic proof of my efforts!

Caches found at time of posting......2633.