A Long Way But It Was Worth It!

LNER Express, JorvikLB and Yorkshire LAdybird were all on their way to Sutton Coldfield Near Birmingham to see Granny so i asked if i could hitch a lift. When we looked at the clues, we saw that "Super Lovable Letterbox" was not too far away from Granny's house, so we set out to find it!

After 1 hour and 1/2, we arrived at Tittesworth Resevoir, and followed the track into Fosters wood. There were lots of footpath markers, so i asked if i could have my photo taken on top of one.

It was a long walk to find the letterbox, and this was the only one on the place, but we were determined to get it! After couting and keeping a look out for all the things in the clue, we eventually reached the braodwalk! JorvikLB nipped round the end and climbered round the other side until she counted 5 posts. And, low and behold, there was the little letterbox hiding behind the stone.

In the clue, it clearly said "Please do not stamp near the location it is planted" so we found a lovely grassy area nearby and sat down to stamp in. It was a lovely day out as we got to play on the adventure playground aswel. Luckily the sun stayed out all day, so we wetn back to Granny's with huge smiles on!

Froggers first proper adventure in England !!

Frogger was absolutely delighted when we told him we were going to set off for the moors to find some letterboxes! He told us how excited he was and rushed off to get his stamp ready.

Once we arrived on the moors, we parked near the bridge and worked out on the map where abouts we were. i will now hand over to Frogger to tell you about our day:

Once we were out of the car, JorvikLB took a lovely photograph of me in the heather which was a beautiful purple colour! it is also meant to be lucky when the heather is purple, so i was extra hopeful about the day ahead when i found this out!

We then poddled of to the beggining of the footpath and started to count out the steps towards the letterbox. We reached the spot and Yorkshire Ladybird went to go and investigate. However she came back with a worried look on her face. There was a small river running between the path and the tree that the box was hidden by, and Yorkshire Ladybird had a big crack in the back of her wellie (much to our amusement. She found out ankle deep in the middle of a puddle) and was not able to get across. JorvikLB took one look, stepped back and leaped. She landed clear of the river with me still tucked safely under her arm. So then we bent down and together we moved the big rock out of the way to reveal the first find of the day.

When we looked inside of the box, there was a baloon inside. Everyone exhanged galnces and then looked in the logbook to try and find the answer. We did. Nearby to the letterbox was a geocache and some people had come across the letterbox thinking thats what it was. Luckily the stamp and logbook were still present. Then when we looked at the back of the logbook, we found out that the stamp had been found in a geocach on dartmoor! I was amazed to know that i was holding a stamp that had been so close to the origin of the hobby!

After packing up and moving on, we set out for the next box. We went back to the river and headed upstream. We came to the two trees that the clue mentioned, and pulled out the letterbox. I was a bit confused because when i stamped my logbook, there was only half an image on my page. I looked to my left at LNER Express' page and his had come out the same. Then Yorkshire Ladybird explained to me that the other half of the stamp was in Conneticut. Good idea i think! Sadly we couldn't go for that one afterwards as we would be a little bit late for tea.

We then took another look at the clue list and were delighted to find out that the next box was only a few paces up the track! We soon arrived and scrabbled down the bank to the tree that was holding the box. It was a very interesting shape, and the hiding place was ideal for a letterbox! It was great fun colouring in the stamp with felt pens to get the print the correct colours! the stamp looks brilliant and is very well carved! Here i am next to the box in it's hiding place. See if you can spot it.

We went back to the car and drove a little up the road to the kilns at Rosedale. We reviseted 3 boxes (2 of JorvikLB's and the first box ever to be put out on the North York Moors in 1992) so that i could get the stamps for my logbook. All boxes were near where we parked so we took them back to the car to stamp.

It was time to go home and we were all really tired but suddenly JorvikLB realised we were right by the place she had planted anotehr of her letterboxes! It took Her, LNER Express and Myself to persuade Yorkshire Ladybird to go there but it worked in the end. Yet again it was a bit of an easy box as it was in the car park so as we went to find it, Yorkshire Ladybird started to put the clues back into the correct order in the folder. It was then that she noticed the coordianates to a certain clue. She checked the map. They were exactly the same. So before anyone knew what was going on, we were half way through the clue!

We reched the boulder, and JorvikLB let me do the honours and find the box.