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Welcome to the first ever Turf Scotland Advent Calendar 2023, devilishly devised and craftily created by the inhabitants of Planet Gary for turfers anywhere in the Multiverse to try their hand at, pull their hair out and scream with frustration. … Continue reading →

Wednesday 6th December and it’s task No 6 in the Turf Scotland Advent Calendar 2023. I thought this would be a fairly simple task. Select a zone of your choice and add the points value of the zone to the … Continue reading →

Having decided not to risk life and broken limbs yesterday attempting Task 4 – Turfabble, where you are required to take exactly 10 or 20 zones and collect exactly 200 or 400 Turfabble points where each letter in the zone … Continue reading →

Well, that was fun! Overnight rain falling on frozen snow and ice, then the sky clears and everything freezes into a solid invisible sheet of black ice. And on top of that it is now raining heavily and is expected … Continue reading →

Task No. 3, 3rd December 2023, and another task from the Turf Scotland Advent Calendar 2023 is now complete. This one was called Turf Trek and goes as follows: Easy Option Captains log, star date: 77387.4 The Romulan Empire has … Continue reading →

2nd December 2023 and it’s time for Task No. 2 of the Turf Scotland Advent Calendar 2023. This one is called Turfing Bad and was inspired by the titles of TV series Breaking Bad. The challenge requires you to build … Continue reading →

It’s Friday the 1st of December and the first ever Turf Scotland Advent Calendar 2023 is now underway. The first task looks easy enough, though I’m wondering just why I ever came up with the idea in the first place … Continue reading →

Here in the Turf blog section of Planet Gary, I want to share some of my turfing adventures, taking you with me while I’m out exploring town and country in search of turf zones, for points, for medals and simply … Continue reading →