Border Caz

I got the co-ordinates for a cache in London from a cache in Shropshire, about 170 miles away. Don't know when I'll ever get to go for it! I also spotted this TB which contains part of the co-ords for a cache, the other parts of the co-ords are with other TBs so you need to spot all the TBs to get the full co-ords for the cache, and they're spead all over the UK. This one says it must not travel out of Wales.

As well you should have. That is what is known as a "murder" of crows, and for very good reason, I'm sure!! Cows, not Crows! You know, big things with 4 legs, that you get milk and beef from. Like this:

I don't usually bother to "trade" unless there is something I really want (that's only happened twice!) although I do move on TBs and GCs. I often add something if a cache is particularly empty, I have recently made my two teens clean out their rooms and have acquired a good selction of small toys and things suitable for caches. I agree that it is mostly children who enjoy finding "treasure", so it's usually kid's stuff I leave.

You can add a new "Found it" log at any time and change the date to the date of your actual find - you don't have to leave it as today's date.

Take the family pet dog with you. If anyone walks past while you're ferreting around in the undergrowth you just pretend to be looking for a lost ball. Sorted.

What an exciting life you have over the pond. I once felt very threatened by a large herd of cows on my way back from one cache.

What, even with global warming?

I've had to use a compass a couple of times in quarries where the side of the quarry was sending the satellite signal doo-lally. On one cache the co-ordinates were given with "then walk due west 30 metres". My GPS doesn't have a compass on it, and anyway it lost the signal as soon as I moved.

But in the listing for the event you state: "Showing up here is all that is necessary for logging this event. All that is required is an appetite, enough cash to pay for your meal and the willingness to poke fun at lame hides. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday morning, Eh?" So the event itself should only have been rated as 1/1 as the descent "into the pits of hell" was not a logging requirement.

I vote for "Needs Reviewers' attention". "Needs archiving" is too dictatorial, but "Needs Maintenance" only goes to the CO, so as everyone says we need a nicer sounding request that will flag it up for the attention of a reviewer. However, I don't like "Flag for Review" or "Mark for Review" as, to a newbie, that might sound as if it's only being highlighted for themselves and they might use it for example if it's one they fancy taking their friends to, or a DNF that they are going to try again.

Lancashire around Blackburn seems to be a hot spot, I'd also recommend a trip into Manchester (by train?) to do the city centre ones, especially GC17CYK - Manchester Invasion. Great alien hunt!

I've found a couple of caches "hidden" in black polythene rubbish sacks. I though it was against the rules, but as they're not my caches I've always replaced them as found.

Having read all this, I think I've got it sussed. From breakfast tomorrow I shall be switchng my decoy dogs from their current diet of meaty chunks and meaty biscuits to one of Soya chunks and baked beans. Thus they will be vegetarians like horses and within a few days (once all the meaty chunks are cleared from their system) I can dispense with the bag full of plastic bags, the picking up of the poo, and the carrying of the bags full of poo around with me for miles on end and hours at a time until I encounter a bin. And no-one will mind stepping in the deposits they leave 'cos they are vegetarian and therefore not a risk to health. Sorted.

Thanks for that, I'll try it. My postcode always put me about 2.5 miles west - now I've shot up 4 miles north west.

Seems to have gone belly up again tonight.

There were supposed to be fairies here but I only found hobgoblins: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d1-355e402d8fd7

When the dogs get all excited 'cos they think I'm putting my wellies on to go geocaching and I have to explain I'm only gong out to brush the snow off the car.

I started off by using my sat nav - Garmin Nuvi 250 - and wanted to get a handheld GPS when funds permitted. Unfortunately I lost my trusty Garmin one day whilst out caching, and as I need a sat nav for work I had to go and buy another - a Garmin Nuvi 205. Almost the same as my last one except no Europe mapping (that's the 255 now) and it draws a line where I've been so I can follow it back again, also I can have a pair of boots instead of the car or arrow. Most of the time it's pretty accurate, I've set 3 caches with it and the the finders have said the co-ords are good, although it can lose the plot quickly under tree cover. Main disadvantages are that it's got nothing to hold on to, and it's not waterproof so needs to be in a plastic bag if weather is wet - but then I don't do caching in the rain if I can help it. I haven't found the battery life to be a problem - it runs easily for 4 - 5 hours, I'm never that far from the car or the end of the route. I suppose it would be a problem if you're into climbing mountains for caches - but you can turn it off once you're heading in the right direction and then switch it back on when you're getting nearer. I'm not one of these that walks along studying the GPS, I like to look around me as I walk!

Nanos in pub car parks - excellent idea, make sure they're in Shropshire or close by - these will take me to interesting places which I may not have seen before, and will involve possibly fairly long hikes as I'll have to walk home after I've partaken of the choice of refreshment on offer.

What do the following have in common: The Northern Lights A character from the Arabian Nights An instrument that measures pressure without using fluid A nuclear weapon The second wife of Henry 8th

That would be the one that could walk!

I wouldn't say Micros are like Marmite. I don't love them or hate them. I love Marmite - have done ever since, as a very small child in a highchair, I managed to reach the pot on the table and consume a whole teaspoonful before anyone realised and grabbed the pot back. Any cache is better than no cache, so Micro's are good in places where you can't conceal anything bigger. But I hate the Micro "hidden in ivy" in a wood full of ivy covered trees.

Hope the cache was waterproof!

My canine companions aren't geomutts; no amount of training, bribery, coercion, corruption, blackmail, threats, intimidation or similar has been successful in persuading them to help me in my endeavours to find metal or plastic containers hidden in woods, under stones, in ivy or anywhere else. However, they have certainly proved their worth as decoy dogs. Neither of them chases balls for fun - they don't even have a ball between them (inc the boy's mutts nuts) so why am I often to be found scrabbling around in the undergrowth shouting "No, I can't see your ball here". So Decoy Dogs rather than Geo Dogs they remain. But I love them really.

No salty stuff round Shropshire and no snow either. But very white everywhere with heavy frost, and the canals are frozen - daren't take the dog out for any canalside caches in case he tries to jump in and goes through the ice.