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 Organiser Roy G4JAC |
Sunday 7th November 2021 - Multi-Tx
DF Location
Broak's
Wood, North of Gosfield.
NGR TL 787 315 Lat/Long 51 57' 11" N, 0 35' 56"
E
With Covid still lurking, like most of the year's events, the usual pub visit was replaced by an on site picnic. |
 10 Txs and associated triffids provided the amusement. |
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event was scheduled for the 31st of October but with
warnings of heavy rain, I decided to delay for a
week. Fortunately all those who had booked in were able to
attend, along with a couple of others who couldn't make the original
date. My first thought was to have a central start (with a walk from the car park) and a spread of Txs over a larger area, including some needing roads to be crossed.  However, on the Saturday I found that the main paths were very muddy and hard work, which caused a rare feeling of pity for my fellow DFers (advancing years?) and distances were reduced. |
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| Despite
the mud on the paths, I had a very pleasant day finding/constructing
hides for the Txs and Triffids. There were loads of
paths not shown on
the map, good for my confusion at least, several times I had to consult
my GPS to
make sense of where I was. I had lots of company, families with
young children, dogs with walkers and muntjac deer - which had
probably created some of the extra paths. I had arrived on site
at 10:00 am but, with all the
exploration and explanations as to what I
was doing in bushes (my daughter tells me I should get a dog, or at
least a dog lead),
it was gone 3:00 pm before I had time for sandwiches
and a rest in the car. At 3:30 pm it was a relief to hear all 10
Txs running their first test sequence, would the new silica gel packs
keep them dry for a
night in the soggy undergrowth? Sunday morning 11:00 am .... Yes, all Txs came on for their 2nd brief test, fingers crossed that all the Triffids are OK too. Here we go .... |
 Lots
of smiles and clean feet - will they last?
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 Txs were due to start half an hour
earlier than usual at 13:00 ...
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 .... there were two extra Txs on for Rx/brain checking from 12:00. |
 13:40 Gary - leaving the ghost having already found A,B, &C |
 Philip close on his heels,
coming from the same joker group.
Clearly I should have made this harder! |
 It's getting crowded near F
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 It's behind you
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 The Triffid at F was supposed to be easy but caused several people a problem (enforced rest from running), can you spot it ? Answer at the bottom of report - obvious isn't it - Catherine spotted it from twice this distance. |
 L, the only Tx where Philip spots the
Triffid before eagle eye Gary.
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 Was it a
shoelace malfunction? |
Results
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 Well done Tim, with no Boris present, I
had to bestow the honours
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 Colin 2nd, playing the under-arm game.
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 George 3rd, pleased to have found
all 10 for the first time, with
2 minutes and 24 seconds to spare at his joker, nearly spiced! |
 Heroic past - Colin should have held
the trophy physically from 13/06/21
until 3/10/21, finally he got his hands on it. ...
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 ...... but life is a struggle at the top ..... |
 .... especially when this guy is around, well done again Gary. |
Times for information, only points mean prizes!
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Times for those
finding Triffids for fun only:
Could have been worth a prize but ...... I hope it was mud hopping fun anyway ! |
| Hero League The table shown on the right shows the changes in Hero points for those who attended this event. A full list may be seen here. Points awarded on this and previous events were: 1st 50, 2nd 10, 3rd 3, organiser 5. Next season (2022) these will be changed to: 1st 50, 2nd 20, 3rd 8, organiser 5. You can find out more about the Hero League here. Thanks to all who have supported us this year, particularly those who have made long journeys and/or run events. Good to see some new DF sets being produced, time we moved on from the 1970's tech. I wonder what will appear next year?
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 From above - spot the triffid answer - did you find it? |
