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MM Links February 2011 [Week 4]
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Good Morning, MM Linkers, and welcome to the fourth week of my reign as Lady Alex the Leisurely.
This final week of my reign has come around all too quickly, but, as many of you will already know, with increasing years, Time passes on an ever accelerating clock. Nevertheless, I have thoroughly enjoyed setting these links and hope you have been entertained, if not by my stories of life chez Alex (all true), at least by trying to fathom the connections to my Links.
This final week of my reign has come around all too quickly, but, as many of you will already know, with increasing years, Time passes on an ever accelerating clock. Nevertheless, I have thoroughly enjoyed setting these links and hope you have been entertained, if not by my stories of life chez Alex (all true), at least by trying to fathom the connections to my Links.
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To continue with my biog: After we retired, Lord Alex and I again looked around for hobbies that we could pursue together. Enquiries via friends and searches on t'internet brought us to not ONE -- but TWO new ways of filling our time.
First, we found that there were Tai Chi classes locally (based on gentle exercises, no pressure, cup of tea and a biscuit obligatory at half time) sounded like the kind of exercise class I personally would be interested in. None of this 'feeling the burn' or 'going through the wall' for me! We duly enrolled and now spend an enjoyable couple of hours each Tuesday morning 'grasping bird's tails' (Strix, no naughty comments please!), 'waving hands like clouds' and (of course) 'repulsing monkeys'.
These various exercises follow the exotically named 'tor yus' and 'dan yus'. Needless to say, I thoroughly recommend these classes for balance and relaxation, if not for the tempting cup of tea and a biscuit (sometimes home made) at half time.
First, we found that there were Tai Chi classes locally (based on gentle exercises, no pressure, cup of tea and a biscuit obligatory at half time) sounded like the kind of exercise class I personally would be interested in. None of this 'feeling the burn' or 'going through the wall' for me! We duly enrolled and now spend an enjoyable couple of hours each Tuesday morning 'grasping bird's tails' (Strix, no naughty comments please!), 'waving hands like clouds' and (of course) 'repulsing monkeys'.
These various exercises follow the exotically named 'tor yus' and 'dan yus'. Needless to say, I thoroughly recommend these classes for balance and relaxation, if not for the tempting cup of tea and a biscuit (sometimes home made) at half time.
As if the intellectual stimulation of learning all the names of the Tai Chi moves were not enough, we also discovered Geocaching: The game where you are the search engine.
The idea of this game is to locate containers (caches) hidden by other Geocachers. The hiders give the location of the cache (its GPS co-ordinates -- Global Positioning System) on the Geocaching website and (armed with a hand-held GPS) off you go to find it. Caches may be hidden all over the world, but you can be sure that there will be many near where you live. They are all on public land, in towns and in the countryside, but usually very cunningly hidden. Their size varies from a tupperware lunch box to very tiny indeed. I think the smallest one we found was a circular metal container about 1cm in diameter 0.5 cm deep, which was attached to the underside of a metal railing by a magnet. All caches contain a log to sign (usually a rolled up sheet of paper) and a pencil. The ones which are big enough also contain a variety of small objects or 'treasure' (such as key rings, coins, disposable lighters, postcards, etc.). Participants are welcome to remove any or all of the objects, but it is considered courteous that if you take something, then you should replace it with something else.
The idea of this game is to locate containers (caches) hidden by other Geocachers. The hiders give the location of the cache (its GPS co-ordinates -- Global Positioning System) on the Geocaching website and (armed with a hand-held GPS) off you go to find it. Caches may be hidden all over the world, but you can be sure that there will be many near where you live. They are all on public land, in towns and in the countryside, but usually very cunningly hidden. Their size varies from a tupperware lunch box to very tiny indeed. I think the smallest one we found was a circular metal container about 1cm in diameter 0.5 cm deep, which was attached to the underside of a metal railing by a magnet. All caches contain a log to sign (usually a rolled up sheet of paper) and a pencil. The ones which are big enough also contain a variety of small objects or 'treasure' (such as key rings, coins, disposable lighters, postcards, etc.). Participants are welcome to remove any or all of the objects, but it is considered courteous that if you take something, then you should replace it with something else.
For us, the joy of Geocaching is not so much in finding the cache (although that does give us a buzz) but that the search generally takes you to places that are off the beaten track. Also, the Geocacher responsible for hiding the cache usually gives some history about the hiding place. For example, we have been to an Iron Age earth house only about a mile from where we live. We had no idea that this local ancient site even existed. Another time we were led to a WW 2 wireless station hidden in woodlands a few miles away! Most surprising was the time we were on holiday in San Francisco and found a series of caches, which gave us a comprehensive and entertaining résumé of the history of the nearby waterfront.
It is a primary rule of Geocaching, that you must not let anyone see you find a cache or see you return it to its hiding place after signing the log. Subterfuge is essential. So, if you ever see people acting suspiciously feeling their way along the underside of a wall or peering into a drainpipe, do not automatically assume that they are stark raving mad. They may only be Geocachers searching for an elusive 35mm film canister with a stub of pencil and a piece of paper therein.
It is a primary rule of Geocaching, that you must not let anyone see you find a cache or see you return it to its hiding place after signing the log. Subterfuge is essential. So, if you ever see people acting suspiciously feeling their way along the underside of a wall or peering into a drainpipe, do not automatically assume that they are stark raving mad. They may only be Geocachers searching for an elusive 35mm film canister with a stub of pencil and a piece of paper therein.
So, how's that for the ultimate 'anorak' hobby then?
It ticks all the boxes: t'internet, computing, GPS, wandering about in the (usually) wet, trying not to draw attention to yourself , avoiding eye contact, clearly being up to no good scrabbling about under seats in town centres, feeling about in cracks in walls and digging around the roots of bushes.
If you are still waiting for your own cache of MM Linkwords, then remember that according to normal practice, I shall follow the usual rule on word length as introduced by crofter. Each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts! Each of my selected link words may go in front or behind my challenge word! The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when crofter will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.
My final set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.
It ticks all the boxes: t'internet, computing, GPS, wandering about in the (usually) wet, trying not to draw attention to yourself , avoiding eye contact, clearly being up to no good scrabbling about under seats in town centres, feeling about in cracks in walls and digging around the roots of bushes.
If you are still waiting for your own cache of MM Linkwords, then remember that according to normal practice, I shall follow the usual rule on word length as introduced by crofter. Each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts! Each of my selected link words may go in front or behind my challenge word! The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when crofter will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.
My final set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.
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