Today I started various 'geo projects'.
They are as follows:
geo-caching
visiting trig points
visiting Sustrans mile-posts (both of these in a very male, box-ticking, list-making way)
geo-caking (this is a challenge of my own devising. I have to visit a cafe/tea-room in each postal district and partake of tea and cake. This must be done using public transport or my own physical exertion ie walking or cycling)
No geo-caking today, but I made a start on the other three.
So
Geo-caching. I did not want to take a photograph and give away the location so I took a (poor, mobile phone) snap of a striking piece of natural history a few metres away.
It looked focussed on the phone's screen, but never mind. I'll go back tomorrow with my camera.
From the internet I understand it is a beef-steak fungus and is edible. I won't be eating it.
Trig-points My nearest one is on the playing field of a special needs school, so that will have to keep until the weekend. I went here instead.
This was the approximate site of trig-point No. TP7765.
It was destroyed in the 1960's by the building of a school, which was demolished in the 1980's.
I used to walk my dog there. It was then covered by a housing estate including the road above, Ayleward Drive.
It is at Ordnance Survey grid reference TL254241.
Sustrans mile-posts Easily done, its near the library. The next nearest appear to be in Ware and Hatfield. Oh well, that will keep me fit!
Here is the Stevenage example (another poor mobile phone snap)
Oh yes; the Ordnance Survey grid reference is TL239238.
Now I am off upstairs for a snooze.
