Cushie Butterfield

A few caches removed is hardly likely to cause anybody to give up geocaching I would rather take an hour to board a plane than be blown up in mid air. Geocachers are hardly the majority, rather the minority when it comes to the population of London. Imagine how you would feel, or what you would do if you were called out to a plastic box that could be a bomb to find out that it's full of tat and a notebook placed by some people playing games? I would be quite relieved but then I would move it if it saved somebody else having to deal with it again. Imagine if a cache, placed with permission, was replaced with something more dangerous but nobody took any notice because it's only a cache? It could be easily done. It would be fun to go caching in city centres, especially for tourists but I would rather be safe. If the police have removed them they have done so for our safety.

I think people have their own unpublished cache to keep their own non travelling coin collection in it. Others (like us) have a seperate log in and transfer them there. It's to keep them seperate from the inventory list when you visit a cache and drop other traveller's. It saves me trawling through a list of 75 coins to find the one I am dropping.

Good if you managed to get them and bad if you couldn't

It looks excellent, I'll be buying it

I drill a hole through ours then attach a plastic keyring with an printed insert explaining about the coin. They seem to last a bit longer with a hole through them (unless you leave them in the Kent Triangle where they seem to disappear)

I called Blacks in Durham and the girl said they didn't have them but my sister went in and spoke to a boy who said they had them, one per customer - maybe all the staff don't know about them? Gill managed to get me a rusty fairy one

Blacks in Canterbury said on the phone they didn't have any but they do. They are giving out one per group/couple/family and you aren't allowed to choose which one. Durham Black's have some also, my sister very kindly called and collected us the Angel so as a displaced Northern lass I'm very happy. Edited to add that Millets in Caterbury said that if they get any they will take them to Blacks as they don't sell Garmin accessories!

Blacks at Ipswich and Fenchurch Street London still have stock of B I g Ben coins, called 23 stores from the list now and none have them in stock. Shame, I have to pass five on the way to the hospital this morning.

Just called six local Blacks or Millets from the list and none have any coins, three denied that they were taking part in the promotion, one Millets said if they did come in they would transfer them to the nearest Blacks as they don't sell Garmin products, one thought they were an accessory and had never heard of geocaching.

... and what would be so wrong with that really? Hands up, I posted some to other cachers (who incidentally weren't particularly friends, just people I have seen on this forum), as they live in far flung parts of the country and had no Blacks store near them. As a result, Garmin have publicity in areas they might not have expected. I did a circular tour of Blacks stores in central London, by wheelchair to collect them so they weren't exactly on a plate either! I sent family members and a friend in to get three extras and posted them all to other cachers (all unable to get into a participating store), they are now in circulation - out there as Garmin intended.

Yes I just tried and it did the same to me. I haven't had chance to go out caching with mine yet, I usually load info onto my csx through mac caching but I was printing out the pdf sheets to take with me. I tried loading notes onto my ipod nano but it didn't save all of the text, with the file magnet I get the lot.

I have no idea, sorry. I don't have a PC, all Apple here

I've just downloaded an app called File Magnet from itunes for £2.99. After installing it on my Mac I can connect on the same wireless network to the iphone. I can save the pdf's for the cache listings on the desktop, drag them into File Magnet and they appear on my iphone to be stored. Probably old news but it's very simple and I love it!

Ours is off and ready to go Little Quest Carousel Horse TB28W01

Some lovely emails, thank you I have enough help for now thanks, I'll get them sent out by the end of the week.

Another of our caches has been stolen, the coins that were in it have 'turned up' in another cache and are still travelling, no need to guess who 'found' them. I can't replace the cache yet, our youngest daughter broke her arm in a horse riding accident last week and I'm too busy keeping her company at home and going to and from to the hospital to go out to sort it out. I have two coins belonging to other cachers and some of ours to release soon but because of what has happened I don't want to drop them round here. If you have time to cache soon and would help us by releasing a coin please could you email me at teamskully@gmail.com with your name and address so that I can post them to you.

We would love to join in please, will sort out a coin for release later today hopefully (where did I leave those drill bits......)

He couldn't enter anyway, the rules state that it is open to people over 18 years of age.

Oh DUHH Thank you

I think you just fill the form in once but can log as many times as you wish. I don't know how people finding coins would know about the competition though, nothing comes up when you log a coin. The only way for them to know would be for the owner to put details on the coin's page. Or have I missed something?

After 10 days in Crete in 40º heat it's too hot to go caching! Any gadgets there are very expensive and not readily available so I don't think it is as accessible as here in the UK. Most of the caches I looked at in Crete were set by foreigners. I did bookmark a few to look for but decided to lie on the beach instead

AARRRRGGGGGHHHH nooooooooooooo not more diversity training

What a lovely surprise for it to turn up after all this time. We have several missing and would love them to reappear somewhere, sometime. I hope we are still caching in five year's time.

A boy working in Blacks at Bluewater said that they were expecting more in before today but none have arrived. They said they have post drops twice a day and to phone twice daily to find out!

I used trading card collecting pages, they are easily found from Pokemon/Uh Gi Oh card sites. They have nine pockets in each A4 page and fit into a ring binder. They also have bound albums A5 size. (each pocket is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2") I think our local comic shop sells them for 25p a page. If you intend leaving the coins in you can sew along the top of each pocket with a sewing machine to seal them or use double sided sticky tape between the pocket openings. You could get craft foam and cut circles out for the coins to fit into. I went to buy the proper folders online after seeing The Moor We Hunt's collection but the shipping was the same price as the folder. Edited to add this is the site I have used before, they usually deliver in a couple of days. http://www.uktradingcards.com/