Log entries Steamed Up - Alton
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sandvika
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- Archived
2010-04-02 00:00
buzio
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- Didn't find it
2009-03-22 12:32
Amberel
(610)
- Found it
Logging in June 2010, but found the cache on 22nd March last year when it was a TerraCache. In view of buzio's DNF log, therefore, this should not be taken as an indication that the cache is still in place.
I was hunched over the computer one Sunday morning trying to get TCP/IP running on a new micro-processor that I hadn't used before, when a TerraCache email alert arrived to say that 4 new caches had just been published. I looked out of the window. It was a lovely spring morning. The sun was shining, the air was fresh. Would I rather be going out for a ride on my motorbike or would I rather be working on the computer?
I rationalised it. If I went out for a ride, maybe the solution to the problem would appear to me while I wasn't conciously thinking about it - that does happen sometimes
So an hour and a bit later I found myself groping around for this cache 
. I had to be very careful; the signal box was in use, with people regularly going in and out, but I timed the "fetch" and "replace" to perfection .
The photo on the cache page brings back memories. Over 50 years ago I frequently used to travel on the Southern Railway from Waterloo to Salisbury (and then on to Tisbury), on a train hauled by these same locomotives. My Mum comes from Tisbury, and we often travelled to visit my grandparents, who still lived there. My grandparents name (and my mother's maiden name too, of course) was Strong. When we were little toddlers, whenever we saw the signs "You're approaching the STRONG country" we thought it meant we were getting near to Grandad's house .
Thanks for the cache, and for the memories,
Rgds, Andy
