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I'm sure Dorsetgal & GeoDog will be along soon for very practical advice. Don't forget the Attribute Icon for wheelchair accessible or not as the case may be. I hate it when someone puts a cache as 'accessible' or any other icon and then it turns out to be otherwise. I once did a cache that had a wheelchair friendly icon and when I eventually found it, it wasn't on the footbridge, it was under it! When I met the owner at an event a few months later, her excuse was it was an early cache when she didn't know what she was doing. No attempt to correct it now she supposedly did know what she was doing though. I felt for anyone in a wheelchair who had to log a DNF because of the duff description

DING Diners Club was the first 'charge card' as we know them today, launched in 1950, but was limited in its coverage. American Express, a financial services company started in 1850, launched their competitor in 1958 and went international in coverage. In 1963 they began to offer cards where the transaction currency was in Pounds Stirling or Mexican Pesos. Their original cards were literally paper card, but in 1959 they became the first company to use the plastic card as we know it today. Additional info for those who are bothered... The 'credit card' as we know them began about the same time(1958/9) as a Bank of America experiment in California, but did not really develop until the mid 1960s when franchising with other banks allowed it to spread, across the USA and internationally, including the 'Barclaycard' in the UK in 1966. To create a common name for the various individual bank's franchised cards, they all became VISA in around 1975/6. Over to keehotee...

Now somebody was only 1 year away....

Only if I let people know it it's higher or lower ... (Don't tell anyone but you're close ) And you didn't say which card...

Denominated as in - the currency of the card account was made available in GBP rather than US$, or French Francs, or German Marks etc...

OK, as nobody came in on this last night, I'll take advantage of the time difference..... Today we are all used to spending on plastic, but... Which charge/credit card first appeared in 1958? Which year did that same company first issue cards denominated in Pounds Stirling?

Well 5678 is the only number consisting of 4 consecutive cardinal numbers in order. Or have you been hoisted by your own petard and this is a "pick the thing I'm thinking of" question? Or how about.... If you add each set of 4 up... 1243 only equals 10... but all the others add up to 20 or more... Definitely seems to be a Q with more than one possible A...

Thanks for the link. I had asked a stupid question, but have now found the answer so edited to remove stupid question!!!

How about in the year 1243, something must have happened (the Mongols were rampaging around Aisa in 13th Century), though not many people will have heard about it as it was the latter part of Middle Ages... The others are all dates in the future, so we don't know about them yet?

Mrs C was in charge of the GPS recently and stepped over a kerb to put her foot into a rabbit/gopher hole up to mid-shin. She did exclaim somewhat and hobbled back to the car while I finished the cache! (having shown due concern of course).

Is it really if any consequence or relevance? The total area of the UK is around 94,500 Sq miles, which is divided into 14 regions (states). The USA is just a little bit bigger and divided into 48 Continental states. I'm in Nevada, which is 110,500 Sq miles, far greater than the UK without any further division. Somewhere smaller, like Rhode Island is only 1,500 sq miles but gets the same search status as Nevada. Incidentally, Nevada has 5,830 caches, while Rhode Island has just 968. Wyoming, at around 98,000 sq miles, is probably the nearest to UK in area, and has just 2677 caches. So, yes, the UK has a massive edge in cache density with its 36,478 caches and having a further degree of division has some advantages, but I don't see any value in worrying about it...

And there was thinking it was linked to Twitching Instead it's yet another way for Big Brother to keep a track on you. i wonder how many people on these sites will regret what they have posted in a few years time, when they go after a really decent job that they really wanted, and then the interviewer brings out a web page of something they'd rather forget about...

Well I'm (like Mrs B, my other half doesn't care about the trackables) at about 25% attrition at present, but then I feel there are factors to consider, like: The relative time after release for the disappearance... Number of moves actually made... Was the cache muggled or was it 'stolen' from a perfectly good cache? I've divided my coins into degrees of 'V&A' a term we use at work for 'Valuable & Attractive', i.e. the desirability. This is a rule I've applied ever since my Essex Scout Coin, which was extremely visually attractive, went missing after just 2 moves. If I regard it as V&A, I now drill and tag with a keyring/ID tag, the intention being to both make it less attractive to an illicit 'collector' and add an explicit instruction to keep it moving. It might upset the purists, but hopefully will keep it in circulation longer. I have recently stumbled across a 'Mystery Geocoin Dog Tag' from one of the dealers in the approved shop list on the GSP website. See HERE These can be used to replace missing, lost or otherwise not in circulation trackables.

Why on earth would you wish to put out a cache that in your own words is 'likely to be muggled'? A Cache is supposed to have a permanence of at least 3 months, which by implication means that it is not placed where a Muggle is 'likely' to find it. Getting Muggled is a risk a cache owner is supposed to mitigate against by careful placement; not just put it out and hope for the best! You should select a container size that reflects the circumstances of the location...

Seems you have a problem. Your battery life should be about 5 hours. Have you given it enough of a run about to fully charge? We have a Nuvi 270 which we admittedly don't try caching with, but it does last a long time on the internal battery and does fully recharge in a reasonable time. Garmin do produce a mains adaptor for most of their USB socketed range, but I doubt they sell many...

What's a blapple??? I'm guessing it's a blackcurrant flavoured apple and the other one is a blackcurrant flavour orange. I actually brought some 'Grapples' in the supermarket here before Christmas, they are Grape flavour Apples. Very juicy and did have a faint taste of grape, but nothing more than to make it just a strange tasting apple!!

How's this for a totally new development GPS The Movie The Storyline as given on the film's website... BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS FACT: There are over a quarter-million treasures that have been hidden and are ready to be found in the new and expanding game of GPS treasure hunting which has taken over 200+ countries by storm. SUMMARY: A group of adventure seeking college kids embark on a GPS treasure hunt in the Northwest wilderness. They are led to believe they will find two million dollars in cash. When they arrive at the treasure location they find what appears to be a grave. They dig up the grave to find a small coffin. What they find inside is shocking. Are the contents of the coffin real or is it all part of the game? Seems this movie had a small 'theatrical' release in the USA and is now going to DVD sometime. It's a bit weird that it is linked to an 'alternate' GPS game but has spawned a Geocoin, which is a geocaching.com trackable?

Oh if it was the old days I probably would; but I've had too many hand wrappings from accross the pond so I behave I don't see any reason why the subject caches should not be listed as part of a forum question...

But your cache is only a temporary disable, for genuine reasons, not an archive as stated by the OP. So you're in the clear Hazel!!

Dorsetgal hitting the sherry I can understand but GeoDog as well!!! Most dogs I know will drink anything that is left within reach, so if that was a sweet sherry, I'm sure it would be lapped up (quite literally)

If there is not some 'hidden agenda' here, then why am I frequently encountering caches that have owners who have not logged in for years? Some of these are being semi-maintained by other cachers who leave new log books. OK, perhaps it is not a hidden agenda, but rather a very inconsistent application of the rules/guidellines. It seems that there is one rule for 'Traditionals', particularly on the Continental USA, and another for Virtuals...

I thought it was easy to.. DING for Chudley..

We celebrated the New Year at a little place called Primm on the Nevada California border, far from the 220,000+ that were expected on the Las Vegas strip. Primm consists of nothing apart from 3 Casino/Hotels and an Outlet Shopping Mall, but it does have some caches!

Happy New Year - Well Harryhotspur has done it again; goes and gets the answer but doesn't come back with a new question... It's now been over 2 days, so I'll throw in a quick and easy one. This was actually a real question a couple of weeks ago on the "Trivial Pursuit" gameshow on prime time US TV. None of the 3 contestants got it right... Which European city is home to the fragrance "4711"...?

Where did they get those GPS units with the inbuilt generators that need shaking all the time? How about this one HERE