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goldpot

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  1. Scotland North-Alba15 Scotland South-Alba15 North East England--Alba15 & Deceangi North West England---Alba15 & Deceangi Yorkshire and Humberside---Alba15 & Deceangi East Midlands-Antheia West Midlands-Chiastiolite North Wales-Deceangi South Wales-Chiastiolite South West England- Graculus Southern England- Graculus South East England-Deceangi Isle of Man-Deceangi Malta-Deceangi Gibraltar-Deceangi Guernsey-Antheia Jersey-Antheia The Bee Keeper--sssss--Steve has an easy job!!!
  2. Where's currykev when you need him (or not)!
  3. My best pic of the month so far with a aim and shoot camera! As I appraoched GC1AEJ2, The Common - Trinity here in London.
  4. Or count this one; Linky if you can get here early on the 24th Feb.
  5. ...a wild guess; Mrs B! Here in the wilds of SE Wales we have to create our own entertainment to fill the long, dark evenings and inevitably such recreation often involves the cooperation of our ever-obliging sheep population. Many years ago I graduated from the rather mundane 'one (wo)man and her dog and some sheep' scenario and experimented instead with shepherding colonies of native wild hamsters over the heathlands of the Brecon Beacons. Hamsters, by the very nature of their diminutive size, are much trickier to round up but I've managed to take the World record for 26 crammed into one standard size hamster exercise ball. More recently my interests have returned to "creative sheep herding" as practised on the lower slopes of The Blorenge: Some of the more artistic efforts of illuminated sheep herding can be seen here... MrsB ...is that a ding then??? I take it that no sheep were harmed in that 'art' video.
  6. ...I didn't realised you are a professional Quiz Master!
  7. Only the ones the English gives them...all Bank of England notes.
  8. The day will come when you'll get a free GPS when you purchase 2 plastic food containers from your local supermarket!
  9. Sadly I know the answer, it's the Jubilee which norsch answered first, however, the East London line is closed for reconstruction and will reopen as a Overground line later this year, so technically is now no longer a Tube Line. So, this now means the Central also connects all Tube/DLR lines and if you include the interchange at Bank/Monument so too the Circle and District lines! I better get a life....like hunting plastic Tupperware.
  10. My sincere condolences to you Wendy on the loss of Caesar aka GeoDog.
  11. Welcome to the Geocaching world. If you have a passport you can join us at our London Event next week at Swiss Cottage.
  12. I carry a bag of doggy biscuits. Drop a few at its feet and walk off. Works with unruly landowners too.
  13. It will happen tomorrow. How do I know this? I've placed out 25,500 Geocaches today in a long trail - just hope the reviewers are up for it!
  14. ...difficult not to in London England! And we have smog (pea-soupers) too which is handy as no one can see you hunting for a cache.
  15. ...mmmmm. I posted a coords in the SE Pacific asking for all the caches in a 1000 miles radius, only 24 showed up and none of them appears to be the one. Must be very VERY isolated! Or is it on New Zealand?
  16. Just looking at the Geomap around Heathrow there is a trail of caches outside Hatton Cross Tube station on the Piccadilly Line which serves all the terminals. The first cache is GC2079M Or, you could catch the Heathrow Connect (not the Express which uses the same line) from any terminal and travel to Hanwell and do the string of WTF caches along the Grand Union Canal starting with GC17E36 Have fun!
  17. Many many differences. The most important is that it will be available to all of mankind, not withdrawable at the whim of somebody like G.W.Bush (as he gave his own office the right to do). The monopolar world is over and the monopoly of "GPS" will have been broken. At a technical level, the major advantage will be that Galileo satallites will have atomic clocks which are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than the 1970s technology of the dinosaur clocks in the USAF satellites. As the fundamental operating priciple of these things is based on time, that's what 1066 and All That would call "a good thing". Another major advantage is that the Galileo system will allow seamless integration of all three constellations: NavStar; Glonass; Galileo. The US miltary fought tooth and claw against civilians being able to receive Glonass. Remember the furore when NorthWorstOrient equipped their 747s with Glonass receivers? In the bad old days the monopoly system was the USN Transit. Then along came Glonass, which was vastly better. Then SA was removed from NavStar and it beat Glonass into a cocked hat. Now Galileo will trounce NavStar like the dinosaur that it will soon be shown to have been. Whooppee! It'll be a civil system which is not controlled by military fingers. It'll be much better than the overpriced military stuff and it'll be beyond control of any "czar". ...yes, that is all fine, but, and importantly, will we find the caches quicker than we do a present?
  18. Thanks. I actually found that site shortly after I posted. It's not as bad as I thought - but it still seems quite a trek for what was going to be a short 'get far away from work' trip. We did day trip to Turku where there are quite a few urban caches to be had and the city is historic too.
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