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I'm quite sure M-DM (Liz) would be happy to do it too.... she lives in Glossop. Clicky thingy to her profile!

Ta Chuck... still a way to go, but thanks!!

Ooooh Becky... I'm so glad you're ok!!! I don't think it's an omen type thingy, but perhaps we can make one up? If a large tree falls at your feet you shall neer experience mud / DNF's / nettles / large rabid dogs / cattle / horses (delete as appropriate) again!

Nearest is about 0.3 of a mile (well, technically, although I DO own one in my garden, 37ft from my home coords!) Furthest is 3512.33 miles away in Washington DC, USA.

I used to be at position 80-something but then I remembered my real life!! When I've managed to log the caches from this weekend I'll be at around 310 mark..... I was surprised I was THAT high up to be honest... I don't cache like I used to!

WITHOUT any doubt whatsoever!!! I'd never have met my three best friends OR my man!!!

What do I love about caching? What's not to love?! I love loads of things: Nicely put together caches that are well thought out, in places I love to visit. Camping events, where I get to cache with people I wouldn't normally cache with , and see old friends. CITO events - always nice to "give something back" to the countryside. And best of all... Having a "Caching free" day out, but sneekily turning on the iphone to find a cache within 500ft that you can dash off to!!!

There are LOADS of cachers who have met their other halves at events - particularly camping events, purely because you get to spend lots of time with other people over the course of a weekend. I found my OH at an event in 2006, and even though he was attached at the time, we remained friends until earlier this year, and well, the rest is history..... I think it always helps having a common interest!!

I'm based over in Wirral, and I don't actually head over to Liverpool very often, but here's some good recommendations... The Anglican Cathedral is amazing... and there's a cache right by it - GC2G2T9 Everyone heads to Liverpool One for shopping - a great John Lewis there, and loads of fab restaurants etc, Red Hot Buffet there is great. Personally, I don't tend to go up that end of town, I love the Cavern Quarter, and can heartily recommend a restaurant very close by in Stanley St called Casa Italia really authentic, relaxed atmosphere and very reasonable. My favourite restaurant in Liverpool. There are some great caches around Matthew Street (in the Cavern Quarter) so make sure you take a look!! Start here - I can recommend Liverpool's Musical Links - although it may drive you crazy! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat=53.4066496&lng=-2.9865710000000263&dist=100 Enjoy.... Sadly I will not be around, I'll be working and heading to the OH's in West Yorks!!

Hmmm you'll find this is massively subjective, and everyone seems to like / dislike different things!! I have an Oregon 450 with Discoverer maps, which are great, and I really love the Oregon, but still getting to grips with it. I still have my Colorado 300, which also has the maps on. I still (secretly) prefer the Colorado, but don't tell anyone!! The OH uses that for now! We do still have a Legend in our possession, but it rarely gets out of the cupboard! I use GSAK, but I'm a numpty at things like Macros, so I tend to just use it to do PQ's and filter for the days caching I'm doing rather than keeping huge databases of caches! Still couldn't cache plan without Memory Map, and use it religiously - especially when planning caches along a route. I also use Tom Tom to get to parking etc, can't NOT use it when the POI are SO easy to do! I bet someone will come along shortly and give a whole different picture!

I love these type of posts.... Little snippets of fabulousness... I have decent boots from Decathlon at the moment, they're comfortable, but not the best boots I've ever had... The BEST boots I have ever had cost me £12.99 about 10 years ago from Aldi (believe it or not!!) and they lasted me about 2 years....

Yeah, I agree... I wouldn't leave my full postcode in a cache or give it to any organisation I don't know much about etc... I'd be more than happy to give them the CH62 bit, but not the rest. I DO think they need to look at the cache guidelines though - imagine if a newbie does one of theirs that MIGHT not be fully compliant, and then set their own cache in the same vain... we've seen it happen with micros... newbies just do a handful of micros and then spawn a load of toshy micros in laybys... Just a thought....

Well.... Thanks for all the entries! There were certainly some well thought out and funny entries, but alas, there can only be one winner! The final three were: 1. Haggis Hunter "You know a true geocacher when it's a GPS that pops out.......... " made me spit my tea over the laptop!!! 2. I loved the fact that Team Noodles reflected on my change of Sig line... Since losing a lot of weight, I now do small hills - for years I always said "I don't do hills" and so I really liked "now doing small bridges" 3. Now, I've never met Original A1, and even those cachers I HAVE met may not realise, that I was actually a North West Champion at Gymnastics - albeit when I was VERY young, and so their caption "Due to building delays, the London Olympics introduces the inaugural parallel bars competition outside" REALLY made me laugh. So - as there can only be one winner....... . . . . Original A1.... I have a brand spanking new, unactivated Geocoin waiting for you....!! Well done!! If Original A1 would like to start a new caption comp (prizes are not necessary) then I think it would be fun! Oh - and Nick (Nick & Ali)..... you're not big and you're not clever!!

Yep!! I bought my Colorado from them about 2 years ago and had REALLY good service fmor them. However, the Colorado was badged as being brand new with box etc, and when it arrived it was in a white box... I have no problem with this, as it was obviously in perfect nick, and everything else was present and correct, but it WAS a really good price, and arrived by courrier the very next day! I'd have no qualms about using them again, I bought my Oregon from Handtec simply because they were cheaper.

Whilst you have already said that the landowner would be ok with it, what you haven't thought about is whether cachers would be happy rummaging around in a pub car park for a cache. In my newbie days I had a cache in a pub car park and whilst it had many hits, some of the comments were based loosly around "nice pub and great history, but why hide a cache here." In other words, yes, we appreciate the history and the interesting facts around the pub, but rummaging around in a car park isn't the nicest caching experience. If it were me, what I'd do is to do what my parents did... they have a whole series of caches based on interesting pubs in Wirral, and they did them all as muli caches. The coords take you to the pub and then you have to find out a piece of info / get a number etc and then find the cache which is hidden nearby on a local footpath, or other pleasant place. I don't think many of us like rummaging around in very public places, and face it - some pub car parks leave a lot to be desired!

Well, I guess I'd probably have finished the house renovations that I started 5 years ago, but instead I still have a hall stairs and landing that's half stripped and the almost untouched bedroom. Luckily I managed to do the extension, new kitchen, french doors and decorate the rest of the downstairs in between camping events and over the winter one year.... but hunting for tupperware IS a major distraction. Other than that, I may well have read some of the 20 or 30 books I have sat about unread, and my garden would MAYBE look a little tidier (well ok, a LOT tidier) Like Mouse, I HAVE carried on doing a lot of what I love to do as well as caching, but maybe (just maybe) I'd have got around to doing far more without caching in my life!

Yes, it IS slower than usual, but the "oldies" among us will remember Wobbly Wednesdays" and "Slow Sundays" all too well. In those days you were lucky to be able to log on, at least I HAVE been able to log my caches, it just took forever!!

OK.... To show that I don't actually hate Nick as much as he thinks I should do I'm happy to stick my neck out and offer a prize of an unactivated Geocoin to the best caption this month. Competition closes on 31 March and I will select the winner... Like the Photo Comp, the winner can then select a new pic and start off a new comp next month, although the starter doesn't need to add a prize, I just feel generous! I've outed myself... those that know me well know that I'm not usually seen in public with no make up on.... eeek!

Oh Andy - that cheerd me up!!!

Whilst not taken by me, and not the best pic in the land, it was a fun walk, and it WAS taken on my camera! VERY close to Whitley Wander No 8 I decided I would be a bit more adventurous and not walk over the bridge in the most traditional of fashions...

Oooh Mrs B.... I never knew that existed!!! Ta!!!

I think that's in the interests of keeping it simple... If you're unsure if something has been covered before, simply use the search facility in the top right hand corner.

Hee hee I was tipped off by someone who it was and I emailed him last week... he confirmed it, but swore me to secrecy..... Oh I love a good secret!!

I'm not sure I remember the last text message I got, other than from Tesco to say they were going to deliver my shopping.... Don't most people just email now that it's so accessible on iphone/android?

Sam.... Come on... we can do an even better version... Practices will take place at my camping event in Cheshire in May, and the REAL McCoy filmed at Piratemania!!