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Should not be too surprised - there's obviously a delay in the service!

This is my suggestion for crawl in around Covent Garden without having to crawl too far ; The Harp, Chandos Place - CAMRA's National pub of the year! Salisbury, St Martins Lane - Famous for its cut glass! Lamb & Flag, tucked off Garrick Street - Olde Worlde Freemason Arms, Long Acre - Victorian Sheps' Pub Cross Keys, Endell Street - Stuffed Fishes!

...that's not me (man with funny hat)! A couple of suggestions; If you can, visit this cache/pub in the City; My link The 16th Century Pub, however, it's closed at weekends. Another pub which is near Marylebone station; My link

...surely it couldn't happen again?

...given us north Londoners a chance for a FTF or two!

Finally...my replacement Oregon 400t has arrived back from Garmin - 4 months after I sent them my drown GPS! Apparently, the courier company (a well known American company with brown vans) could not find my address, not once but twice and they even rang me twice for details on how to find my place! After much to and fro-ing a different courier company managed to do the deeds...by delivering it to my neighbour!!! Come to think of it I should have given them the co-ordinates of my address...or would they 'DNF' with that too?! I did suggest to Garmin that this would be a good opportunity to sell their Sat-Nav to them! Anyway, I’m please with my new toy and I hope to reduce my DNFs after months with a simple, but limited E-trex.

This is what was said on this report; UK 'dangerously dependent on GPS' The UK is already "dangerously dependent" on the GPS satellite navigation system, a report by engineers has claimed. Back-up systems are often inadequate, while equipment which can illegally jam systems is easily and cheaply available, the report from the Royal Academy of Engineering added. With Global Navigation Space Systems (GNSS) affecting such things as road, rail Geocaching and shipping equipment, a system failure could "just conceivably cause loss of life", said Dr Martyn Thomas, chairman of the academy's GNSS working group. He went on: "The UK is already dangerously dependent on GPS. GPS and other GNSS are so useful and so cheap to build into equipment that we have become almost blindly reliant on the data they give us. "A significant failure of GPS could cause lots of services to fail at the same time, including many that are thought to be completely independent of each other." The report said that GNSS is vulnerable to deliberate or accidental interference, with people jamming systems or equipment being affected by solar flares. Sometimes faulty information from a system failure is so wrong that it would be easily spotted, the report said. But it added that the real threat lies in "dangerously misleading" results which may not seem obviously wrong. In such a situation, a ship, say, could be directed only slightly off course by faulty data but could then be steering into danger or Geocachers could end up not finding any caches at all, worst, fall off the edge of a cliff whilst trying find these plastic boxes. Helping to launch the report, Bob Cockshott, of the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network, said there is a whole generation of road users who cannot read maps and cannot operate without satnav. He went on: "Dependency on GPS is growing and jammers are getting easier to obtain. We expect this problem to become more severe."

Phew! This one of mine would be OK. GC2C1NN It's neither a scrap piece of paper or in a plastic bag.

I've found 14 caches by riding up to them on Boris Bikes. The bikes can be very handy if are doing 'repairs' to it at GZ I did considered sticking a coordinates for a cache under the saddle of a Boris Bike then publishing the serial number of the bike which you would then have to find (all Boris Bikes have individual numbers clearly on display). Do you think the reviewers will accept that and would any cacher be willing to go for it? It would be a 5 star difficulty rating!!!

Well, your local tax bill will be that little bit lower after our CITO event at Chiswick.

I know some folks don't like 'defacing' geocoins but nearly all of mine have a label attached by a small split ring. This does mean that a 3mm hole is drilled through the coin. It clearly identifies the coin as a 'traveller'. The other side of the label had the tracking details on including the tracking number in large, clear print as the number on some coins is tiny and easily missed. I could not help noticing all the beer stains on your wooden table top in picture, or is it tea?

The scene near GC1W7VD SOTL - Ye Olde Bung Hole, The Peak District GC2GYRV London Event @ Tower Bridge; this was the captivating scene when we staggered out the following morning.

...or turkey! Happy holidays!

I like them because they are easy to find - always on metal. But, I do find them to be a pain to unroll and re-roll the fiddily logsheet...unless of course I'm TFTF!

Whoops! I don't feel so bad about drowning my GPS! Any chance of posting the last pic of your GPS?

...problem solved; The UK has just bought Southern Ireland for £7,000,000,000 - we are all in it together now!!!

...there be a mega event at Westminster Abbey on May 19th.

...some of us fit our lives only around this hobby!

They do take place every month! You (and everyone) will be most welcomed.

Correct, no DNF here then! An interesting Earthcache in the coast of Lancashire where you can discover footprints of man and animals that roamed here many centuries ago. GC1TG4P

Cheers, Mr Curry. OK. What Earthcache in England requires a picture such as this;

Seriously, it's the 'Southern most tip of Asia' Virtual cache GC6097 in Singapore. An easy find in the sun, May 2008! It explains why you haven't aged.

The Tea Pot cache!

I found a cache accidently in Malta. I saw a familar stickouflage and found a big cache hidden under it, sadly it was listed on Geocaching Russia, so no bonus tick for me.