Author Archives: Gary

Welcome to Turf Tours, the place where turf zones are the order of the day. Here, we take a lazy but informative tour around some of my local areas, delving into the history, the land, the challenges, the sights and … Continue reading →

Today sees the finish of yet another Turf round, Round #130, when zone counts are all reset to zero and we start the mad frantic dash to grab all those fresh unique zones with their 50 bonus points before someone … Continue reading →

My plan today, which was not very likely to come to fruition, was to try for the Greed-200 medal, granted to the turfer who holds at least 200 zones at the same time. I already held 65 zones and calculated … Continue reading →

An email popped into my mailbox the other day and it was very brief and to the point, it said, “What’s in all those bags on your Ogre bicycle?” That was all and this was not the first time I’ve … Continue reading →

Today has been a good day. My pension forecast has finally arrived and the process of sorting out my retirement has begun. All the paperwork has been completed, all be it with quite a few question asked of Rosie the … Continue reading →

The City of Edinburgh, like the city of Rome, is said to have been built on seven hills, though this is perhaps not that widely known and all these hills also have Turf zones on them. They are located no … Continue reading →

It’s great having lots of turf zones locally that you can reach easily, your local patch. But after a while they can get rather familiar, for example, I’ve taken zone A7View 67 times as of today, I know exactly where … Continue reading →

I’m often looking at the Turf medals on offer, wondering which one to go for next. At the top of the list is the Darkest Ninja medal – taking 30 zones between the hours of 2.00 am and 3.00 am … Continue reading →

Making any firm plans in turfing can be difficult, frustrating and annoying all at the same time. Yesterday, having increased my zone count up to around 60 zones in the afternoon, the first part of my weekend plan to attain … Continue reading →