As per my previous post today was Mission:Explore ME0019 Day. The Mission Team, AKA the kids and me, trawled up and down the High Street of a local town searching out the letters a-z.

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The mission was 96% successful, which is pretty good. We competely failed to find a “y”! Plenty on pub signs, number plates and house names but we decided that taking a letter from the middle of a word or number plate was cheating. Having said that we did cheat, taking the “u” from the Rising Sun pub sign.

We only had one moment where we had to explain ourselves - a woman opened her front door as we were using her front step to provide a little extra height to get our “c” picture. She didn’t seem to mind and seemed pretty interested when Boy Wonder described the mission.

All 26 of our photos (that’s 25 letters and one Mission Team photo) can be found here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/little_wide_world/sets/72157624559863230/

Last summer I sent off for a Shoot London Treasure Map and was sent a pack containing compass, map, clues and instructions. The idea was to follow the clues (using the map), shoot what you see with a camera and upload the pictures to be entered in to a picture competition.

I failed completely to take the kids to London to have a go, until today - only four months after the competition deadline - and great fun was had by all. We explored a part of London I wouldn’t have thought to take the kids to before and the kids got to look at the world from a different view point - down a camera lens.

There are other treasure hunts running, including Shoot Liverpool and Shoot Brighton, and full details can be found at http://www.shootexperience.com.

Our photos from today can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/little_wide_world . Not all of the pictures relate directly to the clues and the Smallest Small declared herself tired before we had completed two of them, but I’m pretty pleased with how the shots came out.