Free Time

Just over three weeks left for the Eurovision trip to Helsinki. Of course, a good holiday needs good planning, which is why I have a couple of things lined up for whilst I'm out there. Being a bit sunnier than the last time I was there, I'll be doing a little geocaching around the city.

Hopefully I'll be able to get another reindeer steak whilst I'm there. The cheesy tractor restaurant Zetor could be on the menu.

I have holiday cash, the hotel and air tickets are paid for and so is my entrance to the contest. How exited am I??? BUBBLING!

Well, the end of February draws closer and it's been a goodun. I had a lovely weekend with Anne and Matt coming down from the Wirall, a couple of nice meals, and it was great to see the Wildcats thrash the Romford Raiders 5-4 after such a poor start.

I've just reinstalled Windows on my PC following some pretty sluggish performance, and we're now speedy again.

March is on the way, and may it bring another enjoyable month. It also meands that May is closer, and of course my long-awaited jaunt to Helsinki and Eurovision. Look out Finland, here I come (again!).

I decided to go geocaching near Broad Hinton today to get to the "Norman Motte and Bailey" cache. It was a one and a half mile trapse along a number of fields to get to it, but overall I think the excercise did me good.

Photos from the cache are here, but they're not the best!

I hadn't been out Geocaching for a while, so I decided to spend Friday night looking for one local to me. I quite like the puzzle caches that you get and I saw that the nearest one to me was a puzzle/multicache. The whole thing took about an hour and a half, and was about a two mile round-trip. All in all it was a great cache, but I foolishly worse shorts, and my legs have been bitten by the local wildlife.

Not content with one cache, I also did one in Marlborough, a micro cache very nicely hidden, and then did a multicache in a nearby village. I solved the puzzle, or so I thought which took me to N51-28.629 W001-43.443, which also agreed with a local-super cacher's calculations, however some 45 minutes searching and I still couldn't find it. Maybe it's been stolen? I don't know. You win some, you lose some. I'll have another go soon.

I'm thinking of going to see United 93 at the cinema this weekend, and I mentioned this at work. It seems that a number of people seem to be against this film, because they think it's too soon after the real event. How soon is too soon? Would it be the same in 10 years time? Or does this put closure on a horrific event? I think I'm going to see it anyway, on the basis that I want to understand more about what happened.