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A couple of months ago, Brad did some work on Bryan’s car. So what you say; well Brad returned Bryan’s car with a Bristol Rugby sticker in the back window, (Bryan is a Northampton supporter). There was a strongly worded message left by on Brad’s voicemail once Bryan found it. Round 1 to Brad.

Bryan and Brad swapped cars again last week. Brad’s car now has a Northampton tax disk holder and air freshener. Round 2 to Bryan.

I hope the above is not a reflection on the Northampton v Bristol score in a couple of weeks.

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Number One Idiot of 2006

I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away.

Here’s your sign, lady. Wear it with pride.
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I thought that I should add a quick explanation of what geocaching is now that we are starting to find a few caches.

First of all you need a handheld GPS and the co-ordinates of where a ‘cache’ has been hidden. One of the best sites for this is Geocaching.com.

Geocaching is like a treasure hunt. Some of the caches are straightforward - the co-ordinates take you straight there, some take you to a clue (or several) from which you have to get the final co-ordinates.

The ones we have done so far (and the ones we are looking at doing) are quiet rural, but there are some in towns and there is even some at motorway service stations.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and “treasure”, usually toys or trinkets of little monetary value.

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Well another year is over.  It has been an eventful & busy one for us, with the wedding and Brad (& Rob) taking over the garage.

We had a small party to see in the New Year, just 5 of us for dinner (Myself, Brad, Ali, Mouldy & Steve) with Trudi joining us later.

There was much food and drink consumed (judging by the recycling box).  The girls won at Trival Pursuit (again!) and there were a few drinking games, of which I have some photos.  Which may get posted here, (I am open to bribes to delete them).

 Happy 2007

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So on Friday we set off on another geocaching trip.  This time we were off to Leigh Woods.  The weather wasn’t too great, but it stayed dry.  Bea enjoyed herself, running around while we were searching for the cache, walking backwards and forwards trying to get a clear satelite link under the trees.

We found it eventually.  It perhaps would help if we didn’t try and guess where the cache was and followed the instructions.

On the way home we purchased a cable for the GPS, so now we will be able to overlay our tracks onto a map.

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