FetchPoint: The Game

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Hanneke May 2022 8:51pm, 10 May 2022 88,845 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke Me too! I have even come in here asking why my bugs weren't squashed only for a kind Fetchie to pipe in: you did leave your circle, didn't you
Oscar the Grouch May 2022 10:00pm, 10 May 2022 4,767 posts	Quote Pin Oscar the Grouch sheepish me too - on a FIVE mile run!
Steve NordRunner May 2022 8:18am, 11 May 2022 1,592 posts	Quote Pin Steve NordRunner I get so used to living just outside the circle (and therefore squashing the bug automatically) that I forget the rule sometimes. I missed a bug once, so drove out for a short second run to grab it, then back to the car. When I got home it still wasn't gone (because I hadn't run it out) so I had to go back for a third run, from home and back. That was a tough day, but generally, living outside the circle works for me long term, also because it encourages more flower beds.
Hanneke May 2022 10:12am, 11 May 2022 88,860 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke I have strings of flowers outside my circle I want the centre of the circle to be just outside my house, as that is where the one road forks into two, with a good concentration of footpaths too, so I can get at the majority of bugs and jewels...
Hanneke May 2022 10:14am, 11 May 2022 88,861 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke It does mean discipline in carrying the bug out though, which is ALWAYS steeply uphill, which I may not want to do... So I have been known to get the bug on my bike and ride it out, or even: hop out of the car on my way to a client, quickly walk it out of the circle, back in the car, proper walk done already or to be done later
Steve NordRunner May 2022 11:24am, 11 May 2022 1,594 posts	Quote Pin Steve NordRunner I would bike it out, but I'm currently trying to see how high I can get my score on foot. I have a bit of a ravine on one side of my house, with only two footpaths down, so it suits me to displace the circle away from that. Quite a few runs end in me ascending one of those paths, which is a lot safer than descending, but it does mean they end with a knackering 70 m climb.
Hanneke May 2022 12:02pm, 11 May 2022 88,883 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke Sounds pretty epic and scenic though
Flatlander May 2022 10:58am, 14 May 2022 2,454 posts	Quote Pin Flatlander Sorry, Bright Strider I picked some of your flowers this morning. I was on my posh bike and don't like to riding it over Reynold's Drove since the drove was "improved" from its previous nice smooth tarmac to the current horrible loose gravel and dirt.
Bright Strider May 2022 3:36pm, 14 May 2022 293 posts	Quote Pin Bright Strider Hi Flatlander, Thanks. No problem. We are so close it is impossible to avoid, realistically. Yes, there was some dismay at the Reynold's Drove change from quite new tarmac to compacted gravel on Camcycle's discussion pages. It seems the Rampton parish council organised it, spurred on by members of the British House Society. Talking to a church friend from Rampton it seems it was skiddy for horses. I can see it might have been a problem for everyone in the winter. The grit and salt scattering all terrain vehicles would be hard put to cover all the St Ivo Cycle Way and its offshoots, in winter. A friend came off on his bike during a winter, by the busway, and broke his arm, so it can happen. He moved to Singapore afterwards; it wouldn't happen there. However, it is hard to see the Reynold's Drove change as an improvement, over all. I don't know what sort of surface would be all-weather and good for everyone. My church friend said it was no good for her children to scoot on any more, so she didn't try to claim it was all good, despite being a horse rider. I took to the busway for the latest Wings for Life World Run last Sunday, and went down Rampton Drove to reach the busway. I see that weeds are already encroaching on the compacted gravel; perhaps those people who argued for the change will rue the day they started to do so. Hopefully, lessons will be learned. I could contact my local councillors, in the next parish, expressing concern.
Bright Strider May 2022 3:38pm, 14 May 2022 294 posts	Quote Pin Bright Strider I have contributed to the discussion on Camcycle, posting some pictures of the gravelled drove, when just finished.