Dave from Glanton

It is indeed - over to you

Sadly not, although you have conjured up an image which will be with me for the rest of the day.

A nice easy non-Monopoly question...what is a gnomon?

The link between the Oranges is the law. Bow Street was home of the eponymous Runners. The others were sites of law courts or police stations, but I can't recall offhand which was which

Ding! Over to you

On the classic London Monopoly board, there are a number of streets (i.e. coloured things that you can build houses/hotels on) that don't actually exist in central London. What are they?

What he said, and "abstentious"

It's not just him. The last cache I submitted got published in 8 minutes flat by Deciangi.

I'm not casting aspersions here, just thinking out loud... Before we start flaming the Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds, are we sure that the "RSPB" user is actually representative of that organisation? We've seen our share of sock puppets, trolls and flame-bait in the forums - is it possible that the user who has reported this cache to TPTB is in fact some ne'er-do-well masquerading as a the RSPB in the hope of spoiling come cachers' fun? Just a thought.

A story about an unrelated cache, but interesting to compare and contrast the approach taken by a different landowner.... There are a number of caches within the MoD training area in Northumberland . For those that don't know the area, north of the River Coquet is 'dry training' with blank ammo, pyrotechnics, etc. South of the Coquet is live firing with real bullets, bombs and other explosives. There are notices all over warning people not to touch or pick up anything anywhere within the training area, as it is potentially dangerous (even in the dry training area), plus warning signs about not leaving the road on the south side of the river due to the risk of unexploded live ordnance. There is one cache which I have done which was sited just off the road on the south (live firing) side. When I did this I was surprised that permission had been granted Just last weekend I was talking to a friend of mine who works for MoD Estates, and looks after access to MoD Estates land. We got onto the subject of geocaching, and he said that he regularly looks at GC.com to see if anything appeared within the training area. He specifically mentioned the cache that had been placed within the live firing area. Knowing how careful the MoD are about safety and given that someone had placed a cache on their land (1) without permission, (2) in an area where the health & safety hazard is death by military ordnance, they could have been justified in going ballistic about this one (pun entirely intentional - I couldn't resist) I was amazed at how amenable they'd been about this cache. They'd gone out, retrieved it, rehidden it nearby within the safer (non-live firing) part of the training area, and simply sent a note to the cache owner to let them know where it was now hidden.

I think that one's probably taken as a given. The Countryside Code states that you should leave gates as you found them - I imagine that being a generally conscientious bunch, geocachers follow this code.

Dialling 999 is a perfectly legitimate course of action in this case. A moorland fire is not trivial - as others have pointed out. My work has seen me spending a lot of time in emergency services Command & Control centres, especially fire service. I've overheard a lot of stuff when I've been in there, and its amazing how trivial a matter some people will dial 999 for. The fact that there's a real fire there is more than justification itself for you to call them without like you're abusing the 999 service.

If the cache is near a tourist attraction, then cachers visiting the area are likely to visit that attraction. This works two ways; benefit for the cacher (get to see and enjoy something interesting that they might not have otherwise visited), and benefit for the owner of the attraction (visitors=income). I know that when I was seeking permission from a landowner, he saw the placing of a cache as a potential mechanism for increasing visitor traffic to his farm (note to TPTB that may be reading this: it was NOT a commercial cache). I know from the logs for the cache that this has been the case.

Ding! The seeds in a sunflower are arranged in spirals, and the number in clockwise and counterclockwise spirals are always two consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

Cheating? Well it was a Google-free cheat, so I guess I can get away with it with a clean conscience. OK, a slightly geeky question for you then...what is numerically interesting about the seeds of a sunflower? (there's a 'Da Vinci Code' link here, if you need a clue)

Hmmm....I was going to suggest that cricket pundit fella Richie Beneaut (probably spelled wrong). Then I hit the 'reply' button and noticed that it quoted the name of the image file in the text prefixing my reply. I think I've decided to change my mind - could it possibly be popular chat show host Michael Parkinson?

There are TheDrake Stone GCM561 and Little Church Rock GCBBDF in Northumberland. I assume that GCHPYW is the one which Alibags is thinking of.

Does anyone have user no. 0800 ? "I am not a man - I am a free number"

I'll follow that with a transverse parallel to Lancaster Gate

After a quariceps curtailment like that, I think I can take advantage of Fowler's 2nd mutation.... Green Park

If the general location is suitable (e.g. that patch of green where you placed a cache has not subsequently been transformed into a municipal dump) and maintenance isn't a problem, then I would say keep them.

Does that mean that the famous Geopuzzle is making a comeback then?

I can't say of it's more up-to-date imagery than Google, but the imagery on Microsoft Live Local is different. Certainly for a lot of the areas I've looked at, it is more detailed than Google, and looks more like aerial photography than satellite imagery. Worth a look

I'll make a guess of Sea snake

I think the number is surprisingly low - only 2? (the rest are all tarns, waters, thwaites, meres, etc). Edit - drat! too late. must type faster