Category Archives: Turf

I’ve always felt rather guilty that my Swifty Zero kick scooter does not venture from the shed very often on turfing sessions. This is entirely due to the fact that my mobile phone mount does not fit well on the … Continue reading →

Back into Edinburgh today hunting more unique zones. Mostly centred around the Craigmillar area but taking in a few outlying isolated zones left over from previous visits. My steed was again my ever-faithful Swifty Air kick scooter. One thing I … Continue reading →

Somewhere, out there, quite probably right at the edge of the Multiverse, there exists a small planet called Turf World. Things are different there. Everything there is absolutely perfect. For example, on Turf World the weather is organised properly. Head … Continue reading →

I must admit, I enjoying turfing at the start of a new round, all those clean fresh zones each with 50 additional bonus points. And I love clearing my local patch, leaving a nice neat sea of green dots on … Continue reading →

Morning all, yes, another new unofficial Planet Gary medal. It’s called 28 Minutes Before and takes its name as the sequel to the two renowned zombie apocalypse films, 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, both directed by Danny Boyle. … Continue reading →

Gorebridge, Midlothian. Not one of my regular turfing areas, mainly as it takes 30 minutes cycle to actually get there. And it’s all hills, and exposed, and always windy. This ex-mining village takes is name from the Gore Water and … Continue reading →

Yesterday at TurfEmba10 turfer Fearglas mentioned about my unofficial medals, which got me thinking that evening just what else could I think up? Well, I’ve come up with two of them, the 2-in-1 and the 3-in-1 medals. The concept is … Continue reading →

Saturday 28th January and my second turfing event, TurfEmbra10, centred on Oxgangs and Colinton areas of Edinburgh. The event ran from 3.00 to 4.30 pm and some 23 intrepid turfers signed up to take part. The event base was the … Continue reading →

First of all, apologies for some downtime on Planet Gary. This was due to the need to update the programming language that the site runs on. Planet Gary uses a software package called WordPress, this in turn requires an underlying … Continue reading →

With the weather hovering around or below freezing point these past few days what little snow that fell earlier has remained in place just enough to grant me another of my unofficial medals. With 88 zones taken over the last … Continue reading →