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#1 Post by **Vladikavkaz** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:46 am

Some of you may know that I've been on a fitness drive for the last year or so, with the unintentional sharing of calorie burn logs with the google group...

I've started orienteering in the last few months (I'm ranked a mighty 3564th in the country at the moment!) and have just purchased an electronic timer, that has a unique code to identify me when I take part.

If you believe in coincidences*, have a look at the id number

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*If you don't, then it's highly likely I chose the number, but where's the romance in that...

#2 Post by **Scurra** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:57 am

Excellent. Had 314159 already gone?

#3 Post by **giraffe** » Thu May 03, 2012 11:40 am

For those of us of a dim disposition, care to tell me what I am supposed to be noticing? It's not the numbers from lost is it?

#4 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu May 03, 2012 11:57 am

puzzlers nowadays

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16
25

well done vlad

#5 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:49 pm

Ah, Vlad. You're such a square.

Now if you'd got 221214 I would have been far more impressed...

Orienteering sounds like great fun. I've never done it (well apart from stupid kids in woods on school trips). I think it's something I ought to try. I like being outdoors, like walking, like mapreading (yes, I know I'm not a real girl - I don't like shopping or shoes either).

#6 Post by **MBH** » Thu May 03, 2012 5:14 pm

Bunnylump wrote:Ah, Vlad. You're such a square.

My Sister beat me to it - that was going to be my reply

(and she is too a real girl)

#7 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu May 03, 2012 5:31 pm

Oh, don't worry. I'm proud of the fact I'm not a real girl. Apart from the hatred of shoes / shopping and enjoyment of map reading I could certainly live without chocolate. When I was younger I used to prefer making mortar and replacing bricks in the chimney (that was before the fear of heights started) than doing girly pursuits. And my best toy was Bettabuilder (bit like Lego).

I go to work and listen to them all going on about things to do with celebrities and these shows like Strictly Come X Factor and wonder if I'm off a different planet.

Vlad, have you ever tried Geocaching? I've often thought that sounds like good fun too.

#8 Post by **kathlyn** » Thu May 03, 2012 5:48 pm

I used to do orienteering as a teenager.

Geocaching that's cheating. Letterboxing on Dartmoor much more of a challenge.

#9 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu May 03, 2012 6:41 pm

love of puzzles plus outdoor fun

letterboxing is great

did it a few times when i was younger in the lake district

#10 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu May 03, 2012 6:47 pm

What is letterboxing? I've only ever played Knock Down Ginger.

#11 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu May 03, 2012 8:18 pm

knock down ginger??

dare i ask...

#12 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu May 03, 2012 9:31 pm

Didn't EVERYONE play knock down ginger??

#13 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu May 03, 2012 9:43 pm

no
ive googled it
we called it Knock and Nash

(knock on someone's door and run away before they get there)

#14 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:00 pm

So is that what you and Kathlyn have been playing together??

#15 Post by **SparkOut** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:01 pm

OK, so that's ding dong ditch sorted out, what about letterboxing?

#16 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:10 pm

Ding dong ditch?? Good Lord. How many names are there for it?

#17 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:12 pm

you get clues to locations
sometimes as in geo caching its the grid reference
other times its a series of bearings and distances
other times its straight clues

here is a list of "clues"
http://www.ian.kirkpatrick2.btinternet.co.uk/page1.htm

#18 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:13 pm

Bunnylump wrote:Ding dong ditch?? Good Lord. How many names are there for it?

http://www.streetgames.co.uk/Knock_Down_Ginger.html

lots

#19 Post by **Bunnylump** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:30 pm

Right, well there's the next meet sorted out, isn't it? Well volunteered Clvrlad.

#20 Post by **clvrlad** » Thu May 03, 2012 10:32 pm

:-/ well theres none here...loads down south though.....

who do we know that loves walking in the rain...,.

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