If you go down to the woods today....

Day off today so took the dogs to the woods for a long walk on the yellow route. Sun, rain, hot and cold all in the space of two hours. Only in Scotland! Took some nice photos and saw some wildlife. I often find that if you just stay still for 5 minutes all the birds that had left when they heard you the first time, come back, and true enough, a treecreeper flew onto the tree in front of me and crept up the tree. Got a few funny looks from the two ladies walking their Spaniels. They gave me a guarded hello but really they were thinking "Please do not attack me you weirdo that we have watched standing still for the last 5 minutes or I'll set my spaniels on you and then spray mace in your face" I said hi back. Finally found my first 2 geocaches. They will also be my last 2. The first was in the roots of a tree. A small plastic container which I opened to find a bottle opener, a Kinder surprise toy, some wet paper, some dry paper in a plastic cover, a pencil, 2 dead spiders and one very much alive spider. To say I was underwhelmed was an understatement. I hurriedly wrote something on the paper and returned it to its hole. Half an hour later I found my second geocache, in tree roots again. Original.. Again a plastic container but this time a lot bigger and filled with what seemed like unwanted MacDonalds Happy Meal toys, and the obligatory spider. This time I didnt even bother opening it. I resisted the perverse urge to throw the thing as far as I could down a steep slope and returned it to its original place. Returning from behind the tree I was met by the spaniels and their owners who must have done the shorter green route. This time I swear they looked in fear for their lives. I made my excuses and left...