Category Archives: Turf

Some local turfing today, this time with my darling wife and turfer Cathryn, aka ChoccyMuffin. We spent a few hours turfing Rosewell and Bonnyrigg, taking around 60 zones. The aim was to allow Choccy to take the zones first with … Continue reading →

In the TURF Ultimate Region Fight 2024, after two weeks, Team Scotland is sitting in 4th place with 47 points with Team Västmanland and Team Norrbotten both in the lead with a healthy 62 points each. With three weeks of … Continue reading →

In Game of Thrones, often expressed by enthusiasts as G.O.T., which coincidentally also stands for Game of Turf, they have a saying “winter is coming”. Well, the other morning saw the weak sunlight glistening on a thin covering of frost … Continue reading →

Well, that’s a week into the TURF Ultimate Region Fight 2024 and I find myself totally lost on where I’ve been turfing, when I was there and how many times I’m been there as well. Even wondering what day of … Continue reading →

Back out turfing in the rain again yesterday, and a few more observations to make. First one is that annoying phenomenon when the mobile phone screen gets wet and the turf man icon gets a life of its own and … Continue reading →

That’s Scotland for you. One day dull, dreich, drizzly and depressing. The next day, glorious azure blue skies with puffy clouds and bright sunshine. Almost perfect turfing/cycling weather, though an east wind keeping the temperature on the cool side. Ideal … Continue reading →

This was the turfing forecast for Monday, 2nd September. Visibility: poor, 150m. 10m for spectacle wearers. Timing: Imminent, all day long. Wind: westerly, 5 mph. Cloud cover: low, ground level. Precipitation: Scotch mist, drizzle, dreich. App function: variable, totally crazy, … Continue reading →

The Turf Ultimate Region Fight 2024 gets off to a flying start yesterday with impressive numbers of players out in the field bang on 11.00 am as the countdown to the new Round ticks away. It took about 5 minutes … Continue reading →

Right, turf stuff and a new toy to share with you. It goes by the name of Quad Lock and nothing more than a very neat mobile phone mount. And I must say I’m very impressed so far, it seems … Continue reading →

It is a commonly known and disputably indisputable fact that the game of turf and bicycles go together, hand in hand, like coffee and four-fingered Kit-Kats in the morning. Or evil thoughts after another turfer takes that single FTT or … Continue reading →