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I once found a lovely miniature carriage clock which someone had probably put in because it no longer worked - I took it and managed to fix it, though, and it now proudly sits upon my mantelpiece! So, how about it? The geocaching repair service! The great thing about this is that this person would probably have thrown the clock away if they hadn't thought of putting it in a cache, but this way it hasn't been wasted.

Yes, it's another novelty cache idea! The name says it all, really: 1. Hide a big cache with lots of smaller caches inside each other (there should ideally still be space for a logbook inside each one). 2. FTF the big cache takes the cache inside it (which contains all the others) and hides it close by. Call this Cache 2. They log the coordinates. 3. Next person to find the big cache puts in a piece of paper with the coordinates of Cache 2 on it. They then take the cache inside Cache 2, hide this, and log the coordinates. And so on, until all the "dollcaches" are hidden. Voila! A multicache. Obviously the coordinates would have to be logged quickly to avoid confusion, and perhaps the caches should be numbered. And there are all sorts of fun expansions: if people are bored with the current multicache trail then the doll can be "retracted" and the process started again.

I am informed (by an anonymous source) that if a Freemason meets someone whom he expects is also a Freemason, he asks, "What is the time, brother?", to which the reply is "9 o'clock, brother". Splinter98 had an interesting idea for a variant of this on our cycle-cache placement today...

Hello, I'm katymoe.co.uk and I'm increasingly regretting choosing a boring username. I cache mostly around South-West England, although hopefully this summer dear Maurice my GPS will accompany me to Scotland, perhaps with a couple of friendly travel bugs. I'm very interested in the prospect of a buddy system if it is ever implemented (lurking in waiting of this...), as my cache finds and placements are currently spread across my account and those of splinter98 and martiansoup. </excuses> ^_-

It's a situation familiar to all of us: you've found what you think is the location of a cache, but there's a person or group of people who just won't go away so you can get to it. You start to wonder: maybe they're thinking the same thing? What we need is some kind of signal by which geocachers can recognise each other with the minimum of embarrassment if they turn out just to be a dawdling muggle. Any ideas? Of course, these should be as obscure and Masonic as possible.

Recently splinter98 and I placed some caches on the Bristol-Bath Cycle Path and had to work extremely hard to avoid the suspicious looks of passers-by: we eventually made up an unweildy system of codenames to shout when muggles were approaching: Cyguggle - a muggle on a bicycle Peduggle - a walking muggle Joguggle - ...you get the idea. We eventually found that persistent "situggles" were the most dangerous of the lot! What are all your experiences in avoiding muggle detection? And, although this is highly unlikely, do any of you have any better codenames than us?