2009-10-31 50 -2

Location

Long Crichel, Blandford Forum

Participants

Sermoa - confirmed
Macronencer - confirmed
Mapaholic - confirmed

Plans

Halloween Special! We are going to get as close as possible to the hash point, but the main idea of this Saturday meetup is to celebrate the spooky season.

The hash point is in a field, but there is a road close by. A mere skull's throw South down the road is a nice spooky bend with trees by it. I have checked the weather forecast, and it's looking pretty dry at the moment. We plan to get there early-ish, to be all set up by 4pm: the trees on the bend should provide protection from what little wind is forecast, as it's supposed to be coming from the West. This makes them an ideal place to light pumpkin candles (obviously nowhere near anything flammable!). Should be fun! We will stay until dark so that we get lots of different photos. --macronencer 21:12, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

We will use the twitter hashtag #geohashingN50W2 to talk about the expedition.

Expedition

Sermoa's trip report

The fun thing is, we knew for sure we were going somewhere this saturday and we were anxiously awaiting the Dow Jones opening on friday to see where it would be! We bought pumpkins in advance; here is my preparation of my pumpkin ...

Tesco calls this a 'large' pumpkin. it's actually quite small, but big enough.
Here is my pattern ready to transfer on to the pumpkin
Pattern transferred, and lid cut off
Emptying the pumpkin, saving the seeds and flesh
Here it is, already lighting up nicey just with the sun shining through it!
Look at those lovely pumpkin seeds!
Cooking up a soup, and softening the seeds
FOOD PORN! My toasted pumpkin seeds :)
Here is everything we managed to produce from that one pumpkin!

Mapaholic and i took the train from Winchester to Eastleigh where we met Macronencer. A quick trip to Lidl for some drinks and chocolate, then we were on the road to Dorset, listening to Interview With The Vampire soundtrack for added halloween spookiness! ;)

On our way we passed the remains of a Norman church. It's now an English Heritage site, open to the public, so we stopped to have a look. It was like being on holiday and stopping just because we felt like it! :)