THE WILTSHIRE EVENT #37 The 3rd ANNIVERSARY Event Cache
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THE WILTSHIRE EVENT #37 The 3rd ANNIVERSARY
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
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THE Wiltshire Event #37, this event is the 3rd anniversary of Wiltshire Events and will be held on the Saturday 17th of Aug at 1 o clock till late but some like to be there at 12 which is fine as I will be there by then, the event will be held at the Moonrakers pub in the lounge, no purchase necessary.
There will be some sort of fun laid on and a raffle. Come and chat about your plans for caching and what caching you have done.
There is going to be a second but FREE raffle, you will get a free ticket for each event that you have attended and logged in the last year (from September 2012 to August 2013), to get these free tickets however , YOU MUST LOG A WILL ATTEND before the 16th Aug.
At this Event, we will be playing
GEO-JIG
Everybody can pick up a piece of a jigsaw and put your name on the back, the idea of the game is to meet all the other cachers and compare jigsaws to see if they match, it may be a 3 or 4 piece jigsaw, if you get a complete picture, take it to Stan and then all your pieces (with your names on the back) will go into a draw for a prize of a 3 Course Meal for Two with a Bottle of Wine
The Moonrakers
The Moonrakers legend can be interpreted two ways and it takes on several forms as to time and place. One version is that a traveller came upon drunken Wiltshire yokels trying to rake a reflection of the full moon in a village pond convinced it was a cheese. This one conveys the notion that Wiltshire men were drunk and stupid. However, another (true?) version says the legend shows these yokels to be very clever and that they originated back in the 17th century in Devizes. A group of smugglers were forced to hide their loot in a pond, the Crammer, when they were tipped off that the Revenue men were waiting in ambush. They returned on the night of a full moon to the Crammer with rakes. This again attracted the attention of the Revenue men. When asked what they were about they pretended that they were raking a cheese, the moons reflection, from the water. No doubt the Revenue men walked away shaking their heads at the stupidity of the ‘simple’ Wiltshire folk leaving them to recover their contraband at their leisure. This legend has become firmly embedded in the folklore of Wiltshire and the natives of Wiltshire were known. The name has spread throughout Wiltshire with pubs, clubs, hotels and even learned societies named after them. I recollect hearing of a local after-hours Wiltshire drinking den being renamed the lofty title The Moonrakers Literary Society to get around the antiquated English licensing laws of that time. Thus members could quite legally be served liquor beyond the 2230hr deadline of those days. I believe that the local police were forever encountering drunks after a late night at the Literary Society. A modern take on an old legend shows us again how our ‘simple’ Wiltshire man once again has the last laugh.
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