Category Archives: Turf

The creation of a new zone is always an exciting moment, especially a zone that you requested yourself, though I cannot be sure how many others did the same. And zone SiccarPoint is no exception. However, anyone rushing out to … Continue reading →

This page lists my TvT or Turfer verses Turfer collection, turfers I’ve taken at least one zone from, also known as turfer uniques, starting 21st December 2020. There are no medals but it can an interesting challenge. Note turf names … Continue reading →

This pages lists all the zones I was fortunate enough to be First To Take, or FTT for short. This means I was the first person to take a new zone soon after it was created, before any other turfer. … Continue reading →

With sunset times becoming ever closer at this time of the year, you don’t need to venture out during the wee small hours and can enjoy an after-dark turf in the park from around 10 o’clock onwards. Even at that … Continue reading →

A final session around North Berwick was perfect for gathering the final 70 zones I required to complete the 1000 round uniques needed for the Diversiest medal. Well, most of them anyway. I would still find myself 10 short as … Continue reading →

Throughout the Turf blog pages I’ve been posting my progress on medals achieved and ranks gained and thought it would be useful to bring them all together on a single page as an overview. Perhaps also to show just what … Continue reading →

Almost two weeks into a 28-day round, I’ve reached the point where the end of my quest for the Diversiest medal is no longer almost unreachably distant. A session this morning in Falkirk and Grangemouth gave me 86 takes bringing … Continue reading →

Seven days into round #192 and my tally for round uniques towards the 1000 required for the Diversiest medal now stands at 413, more than a third of the way there, or about 2/5th of the way, though I think … Continue reading →

For the UK Explorer medal, you are required to take all 12 regions within the UK and while considerable efforts a few weeks ago brought us, that’s myself and ChoccyMuffin, up to 11 regions, we still required one more to … Continue reading →

Conditions were ideal for another attempt at the Loanhead Ferret Run, otherwise known as taking 10 zones in under 10 minutes. The weather was warm with temperatures around 19 degrees and only a little chance of rain. And it gets … Continue reading →