No, not “PAT and Charlie’s Seventh Loop”, “PAT” and “Charlie’s Seventh Loop” – It’s a double series mega day with a few drive-bys, random odds and sods, and the like.
It was a Sunday, and the girls were at home doing what they do during the afternoon. Kas went out in the morning to run the “Rocket 5k” event in central Milton Keynes.
I scooted out not really having much of a plan in terms of how long I’d be out. I’d sort of thought about doing these two series and then going somewhere else, but I also needed to be a bit careful as I was running a half marathon the following day. It turned out to be one of the most painful half marathons of all time. Too unfit, and stiff from the walking the previous day.
So the PAT series is over near Thornborough and consists of about 20 caches. When these were placed it forced me to rework some of the plans I’d got for my “Flags of All Nations” series, which caused some minor pain, but then it serves me right for planning something and then not doing it. I parked in Thornborough and walked them clockwise. A couple were obviously missing and I’ve yet to go back for them.
Charlie’s Seventh Loop is a series on the south side of Milton Keynes which runs from Caldecotte Lake down to the far end of Water Eaton, through the Waterhall Park. Being one of Charlie’s Loops, the caches are tougher than the average bear, and take some time. There are lots of field puzzles and multis to do. I think I missed a couple of these simply because I couldn’t solve the puzzle whilst at the cache. I can honestly say I’d never walked the path from Dobbies through to the bottom of Caldecotte Lake, and nor had I come back to the Red Lion pub and along the Grand Union Canal into Fenny Stratford, so a bit of Milton Keynes I’d previously never seen. If I remember correctly though. the weather was a bit up and down, and there were a couple of bits at the start of the series where I was receiving far too much attention from cattle, and in one case, from a farmer too. The cattle were a bit scary.
Caches found on this day were:
- PAT5 Twins
- PAT6 Edgey
- PAT7 Split
- PAT8
- PAT9 Rusty gate
- 7L1 GATE (Multi) – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L10 TWIN POST (Multi) – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L11 ICT (Muggle central) – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L12 LOW POST PRICKLY – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L14 IVY POST (MAX NUMBER) – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L16 BIG TREE – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L17 LOW SHRUB – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L18 SEAT Multi: (ODDS) – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L19 SIGN Multi (LOWEST ) : – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L2 PRICKLY POST – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L20 WEDGIE : – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L21 SEAT 2 Multi : – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L22 BONUS : – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L3 PRICKLY COPSE(EVENS) – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L4 SNEAKY NANO – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L5 RIVERSIDE TREE – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L6 WEDGIE – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L7 TREE (RANDOM LOW) – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L8 BRIDGE 2x1 – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- 7L9 SMALL TREE – CHARLIE’s 7TH LOOP
- Banksy?
- Church Micro 8430…Bletchley Queensway Methodist
- Hide Out of Sight