Category Archives: Turf

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 →

You will no doubt have heard of the Tooth Fairy, an anthropomorphic personification who visits good children in the dead of night, takes away their old teeth from under the pillow and leaves a coin or two in their place. … Continue reading →

My mission today, which I did chose to accept, was to turf the fine town of Penicuik and surrounding area, the local patch for the legendary Three Turfers of Penicuik, otherwise known as Hodge, SparseRunner and Aibo. With around 60 … Continue reading →

One of the drawbacks of controlling a large number of local zones is you need to travel further away to take more zones. However, there were still a few of the less frequently visited zones in the area, the ones … Continue reading →

The Greed 200 medal, awarded for controlling at least 200 zones at the same time, has been eluding me for weeks now. All the lower value Greed medals were all achieved without any problem but with this one whenever I … Continue reading →

Monday, and I’m on holiday today, and the rest of the week as well, and afterwards for ever more. It still hasn’t really sunk into my old 0.1 MHz brain that I won’t be going back to work as I … Continue reading →