Jango & Boba Fett

I have found that when asked what you want to do with them you say junk modelling it keeps them happy. I was asked in Boots in Weymouth if I was going to use them to store food items and when I said no junk modelling I walked out with a carrier bag full - most of which did in fact end up being used for junk modelling but at least one has found an alternative use as a micro cache.

No question it must be The Last of the Mohicans GCGAYP, only thing is when you find it can you please tell me where it is. Spent nearly 90 minutes looking for it and ended up posting a DNF, still it must be one of my top caches and there is no doubt that we will be back. Oh yes and it is less that 3km from Wales' only malt whiskey distillery.

I'm a bit lost so I decide to check where I am be reading the names on the lamp posts, benches, bollards etc... after walking 200 yards I find that I have been in The City of London, The City of Westminster, Clerkenwell, Soho, Hanover Square, Chelsea and Lambeth. But where am I really?

I believe that they disqualified themselves from membership of the House of Commons through their application for paid officers of the Crown, namely the guardian/bailiff/steward? of the Chiltern Hundreds. So the profit that messrs Boothroyd, Walden & Jenkins made was that of paid officers of the crown.

Strait rules game is my preference so dig out your copies of N F Stovold: South Kensington

In the absence of Rutson anyone up for another game of -

Down here in Dorset we have: Wey Anchor GCZ9J4 Durdle Window GCX94R Weare's The Cache GCVRC4 Fair Play GCNCRM - an in joke for Puzzle Cache fans Kismet Hardy GCGGB1 Ferry Easy GCK2MB .... enough I hear you groan

DING !!!!

Ah now we are getting much warmer, the correct county at least. So when is someone going to post the name of the town where Bob Hope's family hale from and which rhymes with kitchen? And in case you wondered what the Norwich connection is well this town's football team are also called The cannaries!

Just to make it clear the answer is NOT Tamworth. To try and stear you in the correct direction Valeria Singleton was born there as was the Director of the St Trinian Films (or at least the early and better ones) and Sir Henry Wood died there. Plus ... it was the first town in Britain to replace dustbins with bin bags. Oh yes and for all you die hard Mercians, King Offa died not too far away at Bedford, where he is buried.

Can't comment on the mystical powers that afflict Mini Metro head gaskets but a bit of investigations shows that the King Offa hint is highly misleading as England's first declared king seems to have had more capitols than Robert the Bruce had caves to watch spiders in. Just shows you should never consult a pub quiz setter if you want vertifiable veracity! So best try, try and try again ...

Congratulation on breaking another barrier, and just think when you eventually come over to our way of seeing things there are hundreds of little white concrete pillars to find too - you know you want to so just give in to the dark side ....

Which English town was the first to replace traditional metal dustbins with black bin bags? (Hint - it also served King Offa as his capital)

Well of course they did fly the Jolly Roger or more properly Jolie Rouge, which was a red pennant (long thin triangular flag) which was the sign that they were a Privateer, along with the national flag of the country from which they took their commision. The black "square" flag (with or without bones) was a signal flag but was only hoisted after a pursued ship was engaged it that ship put up resistance and carried the message that no quarter would be given if resistance continued (kind of surender or else).

DING!! - its nice to reciprocate

OK back to the typical pub quiz fare, what do Bhutan and Wales have in common vexillologically speaking?

Having had a series of caches solved within a week of placing, the plan for this one was to see if it was possible to make folks work a little harder and maybe see it if could last a month before being found. As it was I forgot that it went live the first weekend of the Scottish school holidays so it only lasted about 36 hours before thunderbird30 and HighlandNick cracked it. Mind you there are at least half a dozen others who have tried, failed and emailed - though not as yet DNF'd. Personaly I love Puzzle caches as all the hard work that goes into cracking them makes the find seem so much sweeter - and its horses for courses, there does need to be variety in cache difficulty and in the physical effort needed to reach them.

Ah this is a hoary old chestnut (or should that be toffee apple) which if I'm not mistaken goes back to the days when computers operators lived in air conditioned isolation and wore sandals with socks: Christmas Day = December 25 = DEC 25, which one of our socially isolated computing geek friends might mistake for 25 in base 10 which is our familiar friend 25. Halloween = 31 October = OCT 31, which said geek might confuse with the the base 8 number 31 = (3 x 8) + 1 in the decimal system used by mere mortals ie 25. So you see DEC 25 = OCT 31

Soory Chris but I'm hiding in Dorset at the moment, but as soon as I'm back I'll be high tailing it to my favourite part of East Anglia. As for all those Norfolk/Suffolk cachers I can't realy say but I've certainly been busy out finding caches over the last fortnight.

Not bad going but just think how much better you could do if you went over to the dark side.

That would be CCCooperAgency me thinks

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Brighton Belle

Bewitched

1, 4, 6, 8 & 9 have all now been found, however there are some new "old virgins" to add so I will update the list soon.