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The Hull Hub and Geocaching

December 22, 2019Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged app, blog, blogging, Cache, East Yorkshire, family, Geocache, Geocaching, Hull City, Jennifer Gilmour, Kingston Upon Hull, magazine, newspaper, Paperzine, The Gilmours, The Hull Hub, travel, treasure hunt, YorkshireLeave a comment

We have been meaning to share this with you for a little while but we have been in The Hull Hub for our love of Geocaching.

Here it is:

Here is what we wrote about Geocaching in Hull…

Back in May 2017 my family and I discovered the world of Geocaching and the five of us embraced it, it has been something we have taken with us on holidays and has saved us a lot of money as a family. The photo of us was taken on our first ever trail.

What is Geocaching?

Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor adventure that is happening all the time, all around the world. To play, participants use the Geocaching app or a GPS device to navigate to cleverly hidden containers called geocaches. There are millions of Geocaches in the world waiting to be found.

Some are as tiny as a thimble and some as large as a caravan, there are clues on what to look out for or how to open it, using your problem solving skills. Once you open it you simply sign the log with the date and your username. If a Geocache is large enough you may find some ‘swag’ which are small toys/items, the idea behind this is that you swap an item for something of the same value or greater.

For us Geocaching has helped us discover different places and seen things we wouldn’t have seen without it. Some cache hiders like to give historical information and place their cache at a location linked to this.

City Centre caches are more urban and hard to discover because you are not meant to be caught finding them by muggles, which in the context of Geocaching are people who don’t know about the hobby.

What Geocaches are in Hull?

Here are a few with the GC codes if you want to find them on the app and discover them for yourself. There are 2,191 Geocaches around Hull.

We have some fantastic caches in Hull and if we take the City Centre alone there is a Hull Culture Cache Trail (GC7035W) placed in 2017 for Capital of Culture. Theres also a Historic Hull Trail (GC71D5) which is a short multi cache trail in which you have to answer questions at certain locations to gain the information to find the cache’s location. Another multi-cache in the City Centre is A Trip Around Town (GC2FNJX) which took us the best part of a day to complete as you walk a quite a bit but we enjoyed it and it cost us nothing extra to do.

How do you start Geocaching?

You can get a Geocaching account for FREE and if you want to go the extra mile then you can get the premium membership for £25 a year which unlocks the whole of the Geocaching world. It has saved us money as a family, it’s our go to weekend or holiday activity. No longer are we scraping our heads on what to do without spending a fortune.

Simply download the app and away you go.

Final thoughts

Geocaching has provided our family to rediscover places we loved and has helped us with our own mindset, giving our walks purpose and giving us an adventure. I haven’t pin pointed where the photo’s are taken in and around Hull, but you can see some of the caches and get an initial feel for what it could be like. Rob (my husband) and I will go out on our own at times and we enjoy it just as much with the kids. Robyn (my youngest) found her first cache late last year and now has the competitive streak to find it first when we hit the next Geocache location.

You can also read it in Issue 8 at www.thehullhub.co.uk

The Gilmours

Our Caches

July 21, 2019Posted in Geocaching AdventuresTagged blog, blogging, Cache statistics, caching, East Yorkshire, family, Geocache, Geocachers, Geocaching, hides, Hull, Hull City, Jennifer Gilmour, Kingston Upon Hull, life, Riley, Robin Gilmour, Robyn, sophie, statistics, The GilmoursLeave a comment

The other week we received an email providing us some statistics on the caches we have hidden.

I have to admit I was impressed with the total amount of times our caches have been found. We love reading the logs and finding out what others think of our hides.

If you haven’t found any of our cache’s yet here is a list of them available in East Yorkshire. We have plans for more and we hope to build a trail in the future.

View our caches here:

Board Schools (GC75E4W)

Carlton Micro (GC76FJV)

Sophie’s Cache (GC7NXCB)

Riley’s Cache (GC76GTC)

Robyn’s Cache (GC7MQDM)

Travel Bug B&B (GC797W7)

Amy Johnson (GC81XMQ)

Treasure for Bugs (GC89FWT)

Travel Bug B&B is our most favourited cache, we did love placing this one out there to be found. All of them are child friendly, Carlton Micro and Amy Johnson are micro caches but the rest are big enough for some swag.

Happy Caching.

The Gilmour’s

Friends On Every Street

June 29, 2019Posted in Family AdventuresTagged art, blog, blogging, business, events, family, Friends On Every Street, Fruit Market, fun, Hull, Hull City, Hull City Centre, Humber Street, Instagram, kids, Kingston Upon Hull, Levy's, life, Look North Mate, Peter Levy, pop up shop, pop up store, Riley, Robyn, sophie, sun, The Gilmours, weekendLeave a comment

This afternoon we enjoyed the sun and went along to the first day of Friends On Every Street pop up store. To be honest we have been excited to go along to this event since we discovered the reason behind the ‘Peter Levy Changed My Life- 29.06.2019’ when I posted our family feet pic on Insta. Glad to say that this photo has been used by Friends On Every Street and the Fruit Market as well.

As soon as we walked down Humber Street we could see where the pop-up shop was because of the people crowding around the entrance, we soon found out that Peter Levy himself was present. What a fab turn out and soon you could see a sea of people wearing the iconic shirts.

Anyway, we decided we couldn’t miss it and with the build up on social media it has been enticing. The kids were also intrigued to find out what all the fuss was about. There’s lots of photo’s to come because there was so much to take in, we have narrowed it down but it was difficult. It is well worth the visit if you don’t have anything to do tomorrow or just go anyway, it will be the last day and open from 12 midday. There’s refreshments and music which gives it a brilliant atmosphere.

There was a lot to observe and it felt like an alternative art gallery, there were lots of photo opportunities and with directions and instructions we couldn’t go wrong.

We were particularly excited about this photo opportunity, Robyn our youngest wanted to pose for the camera but Riley was taking the mick out of me because I had a snap taken laying down before (cheeky thing).

A snapshot of the wall’s and what there is to see, we spent a while observing and having a nosey around. As I mentioned before, it felt like an alternative art gallery that expressed the love of Hull (its people, places and slang).

Peter Levy was present and so it only felt right to grab a photo with him. We had met him last year at the Freedom Festival and Sophie had a picture with Peter then, Sophie wasn’t shy to let him know of this and I mentioned she had his signed sticker on her bed frame. It made it more memorable and Sophie won’t forget it, she gave him a hug which was quite sweet.

Sophie says “Peter Levy is a very nice guy who is very intelligent. The wall art was amazing because it had all the colours of the rainbow”

It wouldn’t have been complete without an Insta wall with a lot of the fun gimmicky work of Friends On Every Street. We spent a lot of time giggling to ourselves and perhaps sniggering as well, even coming home and looking back on the photo’s we found new re-created logo’s we hadn’t spotted before.

We couldn’t resist splashing the cash to buy some local swag and investing in a Levy’s shirt, pin badge and sticker pack! We congratulate Friends On Every Street for their genius work and have enjoyed seeing their journey so far, we look forward to seeing what’s yet to come.

My MacBook has had a make over and I certainly feel ‘cool’, yes I said it. My hubby has been subtle with his placement of his sticker as you can see, clearly didn’t want to potentially over kill it (like me).

Thank you so much for a fun afternoon and there will soon be another feet family photo on social media, keep your eye’s peeled and nose’s pinched.

Jennifer

Fun Science Workshop

May 27, 2019Posted in Family AdventuresTagged blogging, Competition, East Yorkshire, events, experiment, family, fun, Giveaway, half term, Hull City, kids science, life, rockets, Science, science hull, Science Workshop, spectacular-u-lab, The Gilmours, video, winner, workshop, YorkshireLeave a comment

In the last half term the three little Gilmour’s went to try out their first Spectac-u-lab workshop. We had in fact won a giveaway for one of their places and it was something we had seen online but hadn’t had the chance to try it out. We paid for the other two spaces so all three children could go and enjoy the workshop together.

We had selected the rocket workshop and was excited to find out what this would entail. Not only would they create the rockets but they would find out the science behind them. Katy is the owner of Spectac-u-lab and she is creative with the science. The children could understand why the reaction would create the result.

Table’s prepped, rockets selected, stickers at the ready. Oh wait and…

…Well equipped.

I have to say it was a huge success and all three kids enjoyed it, they continued to explode their rockets and create at home.

If we were closer to the venue we would certainly go to the Spectac-u-lab CREST Award, it’s perfect for my eldest.

The workshops are affordable, fun, creative, interesting and educational. Thank you Katy for a memorable morning.

Workshops are usually priced at £5 per child per workshop, each workshop is an hour.

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This half term:

28th May: Bath Bombs – Winterton

29th May: Egg Parachutes – Beverley

We plan to go to the Egg Parachute workshop and this time bringing Daddy with us to enjoy the fun.

Bankside Gallery: Preston Road take over part two

April 6, 2019Posted in Family AdventuresTagged April, Avo, Bankside Gallery, Banksy, Hull, Hull City, Legal Graffiti, Libby, Libby Squire, Preston Road, Wall Things Bright And BeautifulLeave a comment

Open today and tomorrow, the Preston Road take over part two which is part of the Bankside Gallery. We went along to check it out and we captured a lot of photographs and some video clips, keep reading to find out out thoughts.

About the take over;

This is the second Preston Road takeover Bankside Gallery have hosted.

The council have been kind enough to donate 22 derelict houses which are soon going to be demolished – these will be transformed on the weekend by more than 100 artists from around the UK.

This time we’ll have more artists, more houses & a great selection of local DJs, good food & a bar.

For more information see the Facebook event here

We bumped into Katy Cobb who creates fantastic murals from Wall Things Bright and Beautiful.

We came across this painted onto the pavement in a few locations and we couldn’t resist getting our feet in the picture as we have a few photographs of our feet as a family, Geocaching, on the beach and bowling. Another to add to the collection.

What we thought of the take over:

Jen says; “Its beautiful to see different artists creating something out of nothing, I loved seeing the personality splashed onto the walls”

Rob says; “Interesting project, these big spaces been temporarily turned into visual pieces of art”

Sophie says; “I thought it was amazing because I got to see lots of people create inspiring paintings”

Riley says; “I think that some houses are very good with the graffiti, my favourite one was the sunflower and bee one”

Robyn says; “A banana one”

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If you have been, what did you think?

The Gilmour’s