Irn-Bru? Scottish Blethering Thread

[Edwardoka]

TIL that we have trainspotters on here, but somehow geocaching is weird?

 

[snorri]

TIL that we have trainspotters on here, but somehow geocaching is weird?

There was a shipspotters thread too when your back was turned, but geocaching has never caught on here.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@Edwardoka I would like to get into geocatching.
Have perused the site several times for the rules, but haven't got my head round to it yet

 

[Fubar]

@Edwardoka I would like to get into geocatching.
Have perused the site several times for the rules, but haven't got my head round to it yet

Pester @Bobby Mhor too, he's a gimp (that's what they call them... )

 

[Brandane]

There was a shipspotters thread too when your back was turned, but geocaching has never caught on here.

AHEM! Ships are good!

 

[Edwardoka]

@Edwardoka I would like to get into geocatching.
Have perused the site several times for the rules, but haven't got my head round to it yet

It's really quite easy, install an app on your phone (c:geo for android is excellent), sign up on the site, open the app, "near me". Find one that seems interesting near you. Look at the map, travel to that place. Find the cache, write your name in the logbook, mark it as found on the website and onto the next one.
As pastimes go, hunting for tupperware in bushes is only sometimes fun but it is an excellent excuse for a trip and it has taken me to some incredible places.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

It's really quite easy, install an app on your phone (c:geo for android is excellent), sign up on the site, open the app, "near me". Find one that seems interesting near you. Look at the map, travel to that place. Find the cache, write your name in the logbook, mark it as found on the website and onto the next one.
Done! Cheers for that, I better go to bed now
As pastimes go, hunting for tupperware in bushes is only sometimes fun but it is an excellent excuse for a trip and it has taken me to some incredible places.

 

[GlasgowFinn]

It's really quite easy, install an app on your phone (c:geo for android is excellent), sign up on the site, open the app, "near me". Find one that seems interesting near you. Look at the map, travel to that place. Find the cache, write your name in the logbook, mark it as found on the website and onto the next one.
As pastimes go, hunting for tupperware in bushes is only sometimes fun but it is an excellent excuse for a trip and it has taken me to some incredible places.

Is there a (good) app for iPhone?

 

[snorri]

As pastimes go, hunting for tupperware in bushes is only sometimes fun but it is an excellent excuse for a trip and it has taken me to some incredible places.

Yes, it was always a good incentive to get out on the bike until I had found nearly all of the caches within my daily cycling range . I had a rule that cycling and walking were the only modes of transport permitted .

 

[Edwardoka]

Is there a (good) app for iPhone?

There's the official one from groundspeak. I've never used it so no idea.

Yes, it was always a good incentive to get out on the bike until I had found nearly all of the caches within my daily cycling range . I had a rule that cycling and walking were the only modes of transport permitted .

I went out one day on the bike around Glasgow to get an FTF in a park (which I missed by 5 minutes) and ended up finding several magnetic nanos on metal railings in crappy parts of town. My enthusiasm for it died that very day.

Probably the best one I never found was A Plane Cache (GC1H89R). Proper wilderness. Shame I didn't find it. Worth the visit, though.

Keep meaning to get back into it, but as I get older I start to look altogether too shifty rummaging in bushes.

 

[snorri]

My enthusiasm for it died that very day.

I can understand that, I ignored the urban sites and searched only in the more pleasant rural areas.

 

[GBC]

Can I just take a moment to recommend to you all the recent book by Geraint Thomas "The World of Cycling According to G". I was given it at Christmas by one of the heirs, along with David Miller's "The Racer", and it is a genuine can't-put-it down offering. There's none of whiny 'kid from the wrong side of the tracks' nonsense, just an insightful and often humorous account of professional bike riding today - and his description of Ian Stannard's autograph had me scrubbing a perfectly good Cabernet Sauvignon out of the carpet. No more as I don't want to spoil it for anyone!
"The Racer" is next up but it has already been so highly praised that I don't imagine that it will need any further endorsement from me:-)

 

[Col5632]

Can I just take a moment to recommend to you all the recent book by Geraint Thomas "The World of Cycling According to G". I was given it at Christmas by one of the heirs, along with David Miller's "The Racer", and it is a genuine can't-put-it down offering. There's none of whiny 'kid from the wrong side of the tracks' nonsense, just an insightful and often humorous account of professional bike riding today - and his description of Ian Stannard's autograph had me scrubbing a perfectly good Cabernet Sauvignon out of the carpet. No more as I don't want to spoil it for anyone!
"The Racer" is next up but it has already been so highly praised that I don't imagine that it will need any further endorsement from me:-)

Might give it a read, as I'm not much of a 'reader' it has to be something I'm really interested in to bother reading it

 

[snorri]

Keep meaning to get back into it, but as I get older I start to look altogether too shifty rummaging in bushes.

Leave it for a few years and they'll just think...... ah yes, oldie caught short

 

[Louch]

Can I just take a moment to recommend to you all the recent book by Geraint Thomas "The World of Cycling According to G". I was given it at Christmas by one of the heirs, along with David Miller's "The Racer", and it is a genuine can't-put-it down offering. There's none of whiny 'kid from the wrong side of the tracks' nonsense, just an insightful and often humorous account of professional bike riding today - and his description of Ian Stannard's autograph had me scrubbing a perfectly good Cabernet Sauvignon out of the carpet. No more as I don't want to spoil it for anyone!
"The Racer" is next up but it has already been so highly praised that I don't imagine that it will need any further endorsement from me:-)

That stannard story keeps me chuckling to myself often

Found the racer to be quite awful. Ghost writer on his first book deserves a medal.