Category Archives: Turf

With the Darkest Ninja medal – taking 30 zones between the wee small hours of 2.00 am and 3.00 am – finally, and with no little amount of effort, ticked off the turf medal to-do list, I now needed to … Continue reading →

With a couple of hours’ free turf-time, I grabbed the Swifty Air kick scooter from the shed and set off for Dalkeith Country Park – my targets for the morning, two uniques zones I wanted to tick off the list, … Continue reading →

My turf thoughts have been looking at the Darkest Ninja medal, taking 30 zones between the un-godly hours of 2.00 am and 3.00 am, for some time, but my attempts have been thwarted for various reasons. However, everything was set … Continue reading →

For my next night turfing session this fine evening/early morning, I had in mind a route starting from Springfield mill down in Polton, following the path upstream on the north side of the River North Esk to Roslin Glen, and … Continue reading →

One of the most delightful things I’ve discovered about being retired is there’s no need to plan your days. It’s not like when you are working full time and free time is precious and not to be wasted, now I … Continue reading →

In the 1982 movie First Blood, starring Sylvester Stallone, the town’s sheriff, Will Teasle, played by Brian Dennehy, asks the question, “Whatever possessed God in heaven to make a man like Rambo?” And once I arrived at zone WallacesCave I … Continue reading →

Had a good turfing session during the day yesterday, collected all Rosewell, Bonnyrigg, Eskbank and the lower parts of Dalkeith, bringing my zone count up to 103 zones. If I still held them all today, I’d add Gorebridge, Newtongrange, and … Continue reading →

Having lost much of my enthusiasm for turfing over the past couple of weeks, I was in desperate, nay dire need, of something to get me back into the turf zone, if you will excuse the pun. I needed an … Continue reading →

Having lost a week of turfing time due to hip problems, I finally got started turfing again today. I would have liked to start at the beginning of the new round but other family commitments and aforesaid injuries put paid … Continue reading →