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Hi Gary, glad your coming along, I have set 6 new caches that will get released on the day and some of the prizes that can be won are Garmin extrex, unregistered travel bug, unregistered car decal, regatta coat. There will be other little things. See on Sat dont forget to say hi.

For the 2nd year an Introduction to Geocaching event is being held in Carnfunnock Country Park in Larne, Northern Ireland. I am going to try and build on this each year with the view to getting Irelands 1st Mega in a few years time. If anyone was thinking on late weekend away why not take a trip over to Northern Ireland and come to the event. http://coord.info/GC3P8T6

Hi Gary, welcome to the werid world of caching in Northern Ireland If your out and about on Sat why not call up to Carnfunnock Country Park in Larne where I am hosting a Caching Event aimed at new/newish cachers. There will be experienced cachers on hand as well. http://coord.info/GC3P8T6 Also there are Milkshake(Belfast) and Boutye Hey(Ballymena)events which will help you meet the other madhatters from around this way Happy Hunting

A nice easy ding... lol

Who set up the 1st Geocaching listing site?

Being an avid Manchester United fan this one is easy for me.. 1971–1972 Frank O'Farrell from the Republic of Ireland.

I'll guess 61, middle of the road. DING yes there are 61 courses world wide with Royal. Most are in the UK.

It cant just change its name, just like the town couldnt from what I am aware. But very good point.

Ok, big hint time. Choice from 21 or 61 or 91

Just a little off the mark(its well into double figures), I am not asking anyone to name them all just the number. This question did pop up in a pub quiz very recently and was linked to Royal Portush getting a major golf champoinship played at it. (I am not a big golfing fan btw)

In keeping with a Royal theme. There are how many golf clubs around the world with the bona fide right to a 'Royal' title, bestowed by a member of the United Kingdom royal family?

I will have a stab at William in the 1800's I think he was IV or V. the old grey matter is stuggling if I have to go for 1 I will go for IV. He was over 60.

Ding for the country - and it doesn't seem fair to let somebody else get the overall ding for the year. Kiddicraft patented a building block toy in 1939 in the U.K. They later developed a self-locking building block and LEGO acquired the design rights in 1949. It didn't get renamed to "LEGO" until 1953. Over to you, Fiancetto..... Hmmm I disagree with your year.. "At last one I know thanks to James May. Lego as we know it was 1st produced in 1949, but the company that makes it started making wooden toys 1932 and changed its name to Lego in 1934 (cant remember what it was called before)." Lego was named in 1943, Lego brick was patented 28 January 1958.

At last one I know thanks to James May. Lego as we know it was 1st produced in 1949, but the company that makes it started making wooden toys 1932 and changed its name to Lego in 1934 (cant remember what it was called before).

Maybe someone needs to set a new question......... In which year does New Years day and Christmas day happen in the same year?

First time posting pics Lark rise to Colin Top My link

Ding, over to MartyBartfast

Cavehill and black mountain overlook which UK city?

Europe is finally set to begin the rollout of its long-awaited satellite navigation system, Galileo Two spacecraft will ride to orbit atop a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana. The pair incorporate next-generation technologies that should deliver more precise timing and location data than the current American GPS network. But Galileo is still years away from full operation. A further 28 satellites will be needed to complete its orbiting constellation. So far, the European Commission (EC), which initiated the project, has purchased only 18 satellites. These will fly between now and early 2015. Lift-off for the Soyuz is timed for 07:34 local time (10:34 GMT; 11:34 BST). The event will have double significance because it will mark the first time that the Russian rocket has operated from Western territory. The vehicles normally fly from the Baikonur and Plesetsk spaceports, in Kazakhstan and northern Russia respectively. The European Space Agency (Esa) has acted as the EC's technical agent on Galileo, leading the procurement of the satellites. Its director-general, Jean-Jacques Dordain, admitted to having some eve-of-launch nerves. "I've always said that a rocket is a complex machine and even though the Soyuz is the world's most reliable launcher, I will be pleased to get past Thursday," he told BBC News. "A launch is always an achievement." The Soyuz will put the two Galileo spacecraft at an altitude of 23,222km, where they will circle the globe every 14 hours on a path inclined 56 degrees to the equator. Together with two additional platforms to be launched next year, they will test and validate the Galileo system end-to-end. Assuming no major flaws are found, 14 further spacecraft will then be despatched in twos and fours to take the network to the provisional operating constellation of 18. Compared with GPS, Galileo carries more precise atomic clocks - the heart of any sat-nav system. In theory, the data transmitted by Galileo should be significantly better than its American counterpart. Whereas a position fixed by the publicly availably GPS signal might have an error of about 10m, Galileo's errors should be on the scale of a metre or so. But the systems will be interoperable, meaning the biggest, most obvious benefit to users will simply be the fact that they can see more satellites in the sky. So, as the decade progresses and the number of spacecraft in orbit increases, the performance of all sat-nav devices should improve. Fixes should be faster and more reliable, even in testing environments such as big cities where tall buildings will often obscure a receiver's view of the transmitting spacecraft. Few people perhaps recognise the full extent of GPS usage today. It is not just drivers on the roads who rely on it - banks employ GPS time to stamp global financial transactions; telecommunications and computer networks, and electricity grids are synchronised on the "ticks" of its orbiting atomic clocks. "I am convinced not only that Europe needs Galileo but the whole needs it, too," said Mr Dordain. "More and more services are based on navigation signals. To have two or even three constellations would therefore make these services more accurate and more robust." The Future

War history hopefully paying off here, they where used to train anti aircraft gunners during the war. Images projected in the inside and the trainees used lights to hit the targets.

Just up the road in Belfast they hold a monthly event. (the milksake event)Milkshake This is a great event to meet fellow cachers.

great little site, not so good for Northern Ireland. OT- does anyone know of OS maps online for Northern Ireland?

Ding.... A great Ballymena man.. Over to NattyBooshka

No right guesses so far, so I will give you all a hint, He played for Ireland but came from Northern Ireland. And he was years before Hastings.

Keeping it topical (sorry for non rugby fans) Who was the first Rugby Union player to win 60 international caps?