gingerbreadmen

Mine didn't turn up today and neither did a "one off" that I tried, mind you, worse things happen at sea.

At the risk of sounding paranoid, there are a few people out there who possibly having found a cache accidentlaly may decide to swap the contents of a whiskey bottle for liquids of a "less pleasant" nature. I personally never touch anything edible or toiletries and I'm still here to tell the tale... (famous last words!) Would you let your kids put something they found on the street in their mouth?

As the country basks in temperatures of 100f/40c (approx. for any pedants out there) I think I can safely say that EVERYWHERE is a caching hotspot at the moment.

We could always have an event at the top of Snowdon, then it's either the train or Shanks' Pony but definitely NO cars.

My major discovery? Finding out just how dangerous new Vari-focal lenses can be whilst walking through the countryside - the feet find drops that the eyes just don't see, resulting in a jarred back, sore limbs and grazed knees , especially on Springwatch by PopUpPirate! (Nice coin though, cheers! )

Thankyou all and to the person who e-mailed me with some very detailed advice, thanks to whom I now have t' machine up and running, not only that but it got me around the Fylde today without a blip, well several blips actually but non of them Mr TomTom's fault. I'm a very happy bunny now!

Could I claim Sharon Stone if anybody locates it/her for me?

I have been trying to export POIs from GSAK to my TomTom 300. I've attempted this by going into file - export - TomTom POI File, I then clicked on generate but all I get is a message stating "You cannot create a OV2 file here, that folder does not exist." Can anybody help me in a step by step manner, I'm afraid "turn the flange sprocket on and disengage the uber-thermal coupling device" type instructions don't work with me (as a certain other cacher will verify!) all instructions need to be very, very basic.

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Hmmmmm Dead sheep and a cigar tube??? -.-- --- ..- ..- - - . .-. -... * # - .- .-. -.. ! BTW my ambition is to get Andy's PDA working! Well that's just blown that idea out of the water And yes, thanks are due for finally solving the conundrum that is the pda, next stop... trying to get it to link to the gps, then there's the matter of not being able to load POIs to the Tomtom. Oh, and while I'm at it, my brakes make a squealing noise, could you sort that out for me on Saturday while you're doing nothing? Cheers, Mate.

"Slow motion orienteering" as it was once described to me by a policeman who stopped to ask why I had a box of toys at my feet.

I went into my local shop the other day and asked if they had any camo tape. "Sure, loads of it, we just can't find it." came the reply.

I use ordinary model aircraft type paint (Humbrol etc), it does flake in parts off after a while but most of it seems to stay in place. What I do make sure however is that I leave the bottom of my boxes clear, so that if the cache is found in error the contents can be seen and recognised as being not dangerous/unpleasant or whatever - I wouldn't want the bomb-squad called out for a teddybear travel bug now, would I?

Our caches are all straightforward finds so I want to hide a real stinker to get my own back for some difficult ones we've had in the area recently. You know who you are!

Are there any Dry Stone Walls there? There is one, its in a cave

Are there any 0s or Os in the number? I've been foxed by using the wrong one in the past, especially on those tiny little numbers sometimes used.

Place a cache in it and it'll soon get trampled to bits

Poor co-ordinates, rubbishy clues, horrible hiding places, fierce animals, too many muggles, not enough petrol, batteries ran out, Everton at home that day, passport ran out so couldn't get across the border to Yorkshire, in fact anything that is not my fault, it is never, ever down to a poor searching technique..... like yeah!

>>ZBZ TDR BFBGW WYBRV DJSFP XXXGU KEURN UUFDG MUZKW PYQLH LZBFR JUIDI WLKRX GXKXZ GHGJV M<< JFDCM GRPSK GCUKO FUSPR MRALQ EOESA KLQJK FMNHA CGKHS NPTJB FO

...hoping for a nice new 60csx for my bithday mind you, so don't mention to Mrs Mars Bar that I can do without it. And just how much is my silence worth I wonder......

>>I hate trees<< I know, it's just not fir.

I remember a story on Radion 4's "Home Truths" show some time ago (back when John Peel was presenting it). There was a series of stories about random shoes, etc. One week they ran a (slightly macabre) story from somebody who found a boot with a foot still in it. The following week they had a story from the person who the boot/foot had belonged to, explaining the circumstances of the accident he'd had. You can't just say something like that and not tell us any more. How, why and what happened.... I'll not get to sleep tonight wondering about this.

Well we didn't know at the time, did we? Oh, by the way, it was a real phone, there's no messing about on this Enigma series.

ahh feeble examples, armstrong park newcastle http://static.flickr.com/43/112042402_1326824a37.jpg?v=0 I went to our local shoe shop to ask for a shoe tree but didn't get one that looked like that! Wonder how many of them are for the left foot?