Hope you enjoy virtually celebrating with us.
Jen & co
We have hit another Geocaching milestone and so we felt we should share all of our milestone videos with you. In descending order for you.
Thats right we have hit the milestone of 400…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=graEkyFiqoU&w=560&h=315]
Here’s our 300th find video:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuA-ahmB08o&w=560&h=315]
Here’s our 200th find video:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqOL2HmNSbI&w=560&h=315]
Here’s our 100th find video:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU3ys_IvbJY&w=560&h=315]
We hope you’ve enjoyed celebrating with us.
The Gilmour’s
We were gifted a Kooties coverall a couple of weeks ago and we have spent some time trying it out with Robyn (3).
WE WENT GEOCACHING, keep reading to find out our caching fun.
Robyn absolutely loves to pretend to be a doctor and make everyone better. There was an obvious choice when deciding which coverall to go for, you can choose between: fire fighter, construction worker, paramedic and police officer.
Kooties are a worlds first coverall that combines messy play and role play.
We have three children and so this is perfect for us as our washing machine is always on the go when they have been playing outside with chalk, painting with water or in the mud. Our kids seem to get covered in all sorts and so I was excited to see if it would reduce our in the week wash down with Robyn’s school uniform.
Robyn’s first impressions was that she couldn’t wait to get in them, she loved that she could be a ‘doctor’ and fix everyone back together again. Robyn is 3 but 4 in November, we decided to go for a size 3-4 because she is on the tiny side. We were pleased that the Kooties coverall had plenty of space to grow but it didn’t matter that it was a bit big her her because of the elastic on the wrists and ankles. Either way they offer a lot of space making it easy to get the coverall over all of Robyn’s clothes.
The first thing we did was let Robyn chalk away and it proved useful because it meant her school clothes were kept clean. The chalk was easy to wipe off the coveralls as well. Find out about the chalking in the vlog (keep reading).
Whilst out Geocaching Robyn enjoyed searching for someone in need and running to help as well as running to find the cache. Often when we are out Geocaching we wear old clothes because we don’t want to get them muddy or grass stained, the coverall is a perfect alternative for the kids and it means we wouldn’t have to worry as much.
Robyn was very happy playing in the Kooties coveralls, you can see for yourself in this short video we put together. See what Geocache we discover…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNDGN-Zux1Y&w=560&h=315]
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The Gilmour’s
So we mentioned the Egg Rolling Geocaching event in a recent previous blog post and we thought we better share what we got up to with you all.
We went along on Easter Sunday and it was our second year to visit this much loved event. It’s so much fun and the kids were looking forward to it. We decided to get rubber eggs this year, a tad naughty, we just wanted to have some extra fun. Each of us decorated our eggs as you can see, they are placed in age order as well.
Both sides were decorated, above are the reverse of the eggs. I think you will agree that we all put some great effort into them.
Egg Rolling is basically to roll an egg down the hill and to see which one gets the farthest. We wanted to share the fun with you so have put together a short video for you all…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7xoKHpu9wQ&w=560&h=315]
Unfortunately I had an influx of work and had to do some traveling but now I am back I am able to update you on our happenings. I have a few draft blog posts ready to go and so you should hear from us again soon.
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Jennifer
Last weekend we had so much fun in the little snow that came to us in Hull, East Yorkshire. Grabbing the sledges out of the shed that we had bought on offer last year it was time to finally use them… and what fun we had!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utL3dvYAue0&w=560&h=315]
The Gilmour’s
This blog was prompted by The Geocaching Vlogger, his video on declaration of an appreciation week for Geocaching HQ. We wanted to join in somehow and so the least we can do is write a blog post. In fact it’s the first one of 2019, we need to get back in on it. The Gilmour’s have done plenty of New Year Caching after all.
I’m going to try and not be so sentimental but I think it’s unavoidable. Here’s my message to Geocaching HQ…
Thank you doesn’t cut it for us because Geocaching has brought a lot to our lives. We have been caching for almost 2 years, in fact as soon as we discovered it we went out to cache. At first we enjoyed it, we couldn’t believe this was across the world and around us and then after time went by we realised what a difference it’s made to us. The time we went out caching was a way of escaping the reality of our lives at times, a way to get healthy and a way to spent time working as a team in our family unit. I used to laugh at those shirts that said ‘Geocaching is my therapy’ and then I came to realise that we could even relate to this. Escapism from my reality was important and still is at times, still recovering from an abusive relationship from some years ago. I do love nature and used to go walking a lot but it became difficult as it ended up thinking over situations etc all the time. Geocaching gives you a focus. Not many people know about my connection with Geocaching like this, so it’s quite personal. Thank you again HQ.
Our three children growing up with caching, this photo was from a couple of weeks ago.
This was a first family photo on our first Geocaching trail back in 2017.
Find out more about the Geocaching Appreciation week from Joshua himself…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQhzVhEfefg&w=560&h=315]
We have some blog posts ready to share so watch out for those coming out soon. Subscribe if you haven’t already so you don’t miss them.
Jen and the rest of the Gilmour’s
We wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year!
We cannot wait to blog more and we have a lot in store for you all.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFK7QrGG79w&w=560&h=315]
The Gilmour’s
OK. So we thought we would share some of the YouTubers we watch because over the last year we have some YouTubers that we watch weekly (and even daily). Some are as a family and some individually.
Click on the pictures to be taken to their channel.
We probably have to mention the Geocaching HQ YouTube channel because of our love for Geocaching and with this been an official channel.
As a family we watch the following YouTube channels:
2. The Tim Tracker. We discovered this channel when watching some Disney videos in preparation for our trip to Florida and of course Disney World. They got us excited and we enjoyed watching them on the build up, we still try to keep up to date but it does tease us a little 😉 They usually post daily and have done Q&A’s over live streaming, a couple who have got the perfect balance on their updates. 
I recently completed the two series of ‘Haters Back Off’ on Netflix, it follows Miranda Sings who is trying to become famous initially with her talent of singing. Miranda starts her own YouTube channel, when I went looking up for a series three I came across an actual channel for the fictitious character (genius). 
Rob is a football fan and watches this channel which is for the team he has supported for many years, Liverpool FC. They show news, previews, interviews and more on The Redmen TV.
Sophie and Riley love watching the new Mickey Mouse cartoon episodes.
Robyn absolutely loves Blippi which we came across randomly one day, now he is a known channel in our house. Blippi will go around play areas, childrens museums and points of interest and incorporates childrens learning in his episodes. He has catchy songs and introduction.
What YouTubers do you watch? Do you wait for their next upload?
We also have a channel but just for fun and we don’t have a schedule, you will see some of our blog posts linked to a video.
Enjoy tuning into these channels and we hope you enjoy them as much as us.
Jennifer, Rob, Sophie, Riley & Robyn.