Category Archives: Turf

Turf Scotland Advent Calendar 2023. The date is December the 8th, Day 8, the task, Game of Fives. The Easy Option – first take any 5 zones without attributes, then take 5 zones with any attribute. The Challenging Option adds … Continue reading →

So good to be back out on the bike turfing again. The snow and ice have mostly vanished, just a few small patches of compacted snow/ice left on the sheltered paths. Turf walking is okay but not a good as … 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 →

Bicycles can be so disheartening sometimes. You have a plan, to change your bike tyres to your chunky winter tyres, then to head out turfing and take all those off-road zones dotted about your local patch. However, soon things start … Continue reading →