Creating a Geocache

Lazy times are coming. My head is full of thoughts but I don´t know a right way to get them out. A voice in my head whispers "Write, write!" while I´m giving priority to another stuff. It must be over. English is a top priority.

I´m a newbie in geocaching. The definitive place to start with this kind of entertainment is the website http://www.geocaching.com. I won´t write about the history, terminology, etc. There are many references everywhere. In short, a participant uses a GPS receiver to hide and seek containers which are called geocaches or caches. These caches vary in size, location, and difficulty.  

Yawa´s hand and a nano cache

I like creative caches and hate such thinking: "I was walking around this place and thinking that would be a good cache. So I hid one." And something similar uses to be a cache´s description, too. In my opinion, completely bad! But when the container isn´t a classic box, the treasure isn´t a classic small toy, this is a perfect cache. There is an example here and here. I don´t want to seek, I want to hide something like that. It would be creative. It would be something you want to show your friends. It would be a cache you don´t forget. If you walk around it, you´ll smile. It would be pretty cool. In spite of better opportunities of creating caches in the forest I´ve chosen place near my Alma Mater without any special reason. An exact idea for cache didn´t cross my mind, yet. I´m waiting for it, looking for other caches (inspiration) and enjoying this time :)

See you on the trails!

Less Talking, More Reading: Matilda

The whole time I was reading this book I couldn´t stop smiling and get the name “Matilda” out of my mind. We´ve used this name like a nickname for marking the group of people. Only thing we´ve done before this decision was checking the date of Matilda´s name day because of the celebration. It´s on 14th March. We didn´t know that Matilda isn´t ordinary Matilda :)

Anyway, Matilda by Roald Dahl is a children´s novel where the heroine is a little girl who has qualities of genius. She is special. At the early age she can speak very well, read and is gifted in maths. But her parents don´t care about her talent and sensitive soul. Mr. Wormwood is Matilda´s father and a typical couch-potato who doesn´t want to buy any book for his daughter. Mrs. Wormwood, Matilda´s mother, has an interest only in playing bingo. There are another characters in the story, too. Miss Trunchbull like the Headmistress of the school which Matilda attends is a holy terror. Miss Honey is Matilda´s teacher and she´s carrying about her.

The book contains a little of fantasy. Matilda has a special ability to move with things without touching them. At the end of the story she uses this power to help Miss Honey. Matilda´s parents and brother move without her because of father´s cheating with speedometers in his work and she is adopted by Miss Honey. The whole book is filled with illustrations by Quentin Blake. It was published in 1988.

We can go further and discover the audio book. I must mention an amazing voice of the narrator. The whole time you´ll listen this book you must smile. Miss Honey´s voice sounds so fragile, Miss Trunchbull´s like a nightmare. Literally. Miriam Margolyes is a person with this voice and my future favourite voice artist. I think it´s my first whole audio book which I´ve ever heard. I really recommend it!

It´s a way of the world that they´re producing the movies based on the books. Matilda isn´t an exception. But I haven´t seen this film.

If you´re looking for something light, something funny and specially with an easy use of English, Matilda is the right choice. After all, it´s the bedtime story.