THE WILTSHIRE EVENT #38 Event Cache
stanthews: Need to make room, thanks again everybody.
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
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THE Wiltshire Event #38, this event will be held on the Saturday 21st of September 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.
Log a will attend to be notified of any announcements.
At this event we will be playing Connect Four Knockout on paper. You will have a grid of 8x8 squares and it's just like nought's and crosses, get four in a straight line, vertical, horizontal or diagonal to win your round. The overall winner will get a three course meal for two and 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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Qba'g zvff bhg, pbzr nybat.