Helen in Mustardland

I often cache alone and have never felt scared doing so. I have a mobile with which to summon help if I need it (not been anywhere so remote it wouldn't work) and I usually (ok not always) let someone know where I'm going as well.

Just say someone had been really stupid and numptyish and managed to lose the unique tracking code on the little bag their TB dogtag came in.... ...does anyone know if there is any way of getting a new code assigned, or finding out what it was?

The very first cache my dad (Easy Rambler) found, about half a day after I'd told him about geocaching, was in a park in Southampton city centre. He told me the logbook had an entry in it from some local rough sleepers, as they put it in their entry "we're the ones you call the wino's" but apart from the logbook entry the cache was undisturbed and well re-hidden.

You would have to get onto it first. I don't see any bushes or rocks to hide the cache under though? I bet everyone thought the Vatican was the smallest country in the world. As featured on Danny Wallace's 'How to start your own Country' series on the BBC. Perfect place for a magnetic micro in the guise of a rusty bolt, I'd say. SP I'm not swimming all that way for a micro!

As chance would have it, I'm going to a bonfire near a cache called Normans' Retreat, so maybe I can get that one at some point (probably Sunday morning before other revellers have woken up!)

Well I suspect that George here may have been in the water when we looked for him. It was quite a windy day so the lake was very choppy and not at all transparent. And there had been so much rain that the level of the water was quite high. Zero looked like it was going to be a little way into the lake, by my GPS. Of course, I might just be making excuses for failing to find it!

Congratulations!

Congratulations Pumpkin Man! On the century and winning the prize! Race you to the next century and the dizzy heights of the Hall of Fame! H

Thanks Deego. Have saved that and will try it out when I'm feeling braver!

There's one here right now! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b0-8458ed04a26b (ps does anyone know how to make the link sit behind the word "here" above which would be much cooler than what I've done?... but then I'm a technonumpty so if the link works at all I'm doing ok.)

Congrats Jeb & Co! You must be destined for the Hall of Fame now! See you there in a year or so(!)

It keeps "403" forbidding me to go anywhere. Maybe they actually want me to do some work today or something(!)

Mm, can't say I would. Anyway, knowing my luck the oxo-cubelike substance mentioned above would probably turn out to be an oxo cube!

Does anyone know whether a One Day Travelcard will cover the Docklands Light Railway, or whether a different ticket is required? I know it's ok on tubes and buses, but I've only been on the DLR once before and I've forgotten. The tfl.gov and trainline.com websites seem clueless too, or if they know they're not letting me in on the secret!

Wish I could make it, I'd bite your arm off for the tickets if we didn't now have inlaws and outlaws all descending on us for the weekend. Oh, and if our tent didn't have a rip the entire length of the flysheet from an unfortunate encounter with a gazebo pole in a Welsh gale... Have fun everyone who is going!

It's gorgeous, isn't it? Wish I'd bought two now, one to keep and one to travel! If I can bear to release it, it'll be at the Canary Dwarfs 100th celebs. At least that way it'll be in safe hands for a while longer! Just not sure yet whether I'm going to...

Pingu is exactly a year younger than me. Look like us Twelfth night girls seem to like toyboys!

When I zoom right in, it appears to have decided I live in the freezer aisle of my local Tesco....

Oh that's ok then. I will retract my worried smilie and replace it with the excited one again! Can't wait. Must decide what its mission is going to be...

Yours arrived yesterday??? Where's mine then?

Oh go on, add me to the list. Daniel's just been in the chatroom and made me promise to put my name down!

Actually I didn't either, as I arrived late in the evening and there wasn't anywhere to pay (I guess it's a manned booth at other times) But I might have done. The way I drove in I couldn't see anywhere safe on the road that wouldn't have been in someone's way. We must have come from different directions!

Not St Paul's (my first guess) but you can see St Paul's from it? In fact I believe you have to be able to see St Paul's from it if you want to solve the clue...

I can think of several I've done where you have to pay to park. £3 for the Stansted TB hotel, for a start, although you can walk in for free. Oh, and we paid £2 a car at one of the stages of the LOTR quest. Again if we'd been on foot or come on the Lakes bus we wouldn't have paid that. But we'd have paid bus fares! I don't think there's anything to say it has to be free to get to a cache. It's not the same as charging people to do a cache, imho. As long as it's made clear (and if it's not in the description, it probably will be in the logs!) then that's ok I think.

I'd do a cache like this if it happened to coincide with somewhere I was going anyway. But be wary of setting co-ords to be found from a train. Last (and only) time I tried to use my Etrex on a train, because I was wondering how fast we were going, it totally refused to find me any satellites at all... even holding it by the window didn't work.