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Aaah, Phooey! I thought with it's being a miscategorised virtual, it'd still be loggable or something. Of course I didn't want to relog it as that would be bad , and I couldn't possibly use a sock puppet account to try as that's bad too. I remember sitting up at three in the morning as the ISS wandered by... Psssst, anyone want to buy a logo?

1) You can log archived caches 2) You want the icon 3) This cache is a locationless but was miscategorised as a virtual so it’s still loggable. Unless I missed something. 4) Log it!

Why?

The trouble with that is the bug is still on the listing. The best way is to get it adopted by some account or other, where the person doesn't mind archived listings and squished bugs.

Successfully rescued TBVQH6 (ICM's ARK-MO Geocoin) from Nursery Time (GC87FA) but I have to report that 4 TBs are probably MIA in GCKQ7E, Jake The Snake: 1 Neville in the Field of Human Conflict 2 Stonehenge TB 3 TB - Rillenschiene - no loss really! 4 Stripey Tigger - has been reincarnated by the TB's owners.

Now the tone's gone down a bit, how about fingernail clippings and pubes - in the same cache. I am not kidding: the "donor", not a regular cacher thank goodness, had logged his/her deposit as such. Eeeew.

Except I'll delete the log if I think peeps have been hanging upside down! So going for it with the wrong gear is actively discouraged. Assistance may be available on request/bribes.

Most people want their TBs to move, hence the "T" How do you know that they haven't asked, though? Isn't it better to assume that they should be moved?

Yesssss! Totally agree with this post. How many paedos actually lurk around bushes like we cachers do? I'm sure they'd be a bit more circumspect in their behaviour: they're the ones with something to hide, not us*. I'd be interested to know specifically what prompted the OP; the way it was written implied a personal issue. And yes, I'm a parent. *excluding tupperware

Dad's Army theme tune?

Yes, cheers, Adam, and all the best for the new year.

Personally I wouldn't faff about. Put out a new cache instead. If the owner hasn't logged in for a considerable time - by that I don't mean hasn't found any caches for a long time - and if the cache is compromised and you replaced it, write a needs archived* note and it should only take a few weeks. I've been responsible for having a few caches archived, not because I want to put a cache there myself, but because I don't see why they should be left to fester for ever. <rant>*Surely it's "needs archiving"</rant>

Bite? There's no criticism here. I've already set 45 though (and they're all fab, I hear ), and there are plenty of other setters around here too; just more elsewhere.

There are a lot of people with many hundreds of caches already found and, because there are a large number of caches in their home area, they are still able to go out and get more. Conversely, there are some people who live in sparsely populated areas (cache-wise), and they may have reached the edge of their practical caching range. I can’t get a cache now unless I’m prepared to do a round trip of about 80 miles. I was wondering, therefore, if there was some way of measuring caching “success” by incorporating cache density into the figures. You can see what I mean if you go to the interactive map on geocacheuk and zoom in a few clicks (four is good). Then select the whole of the map page and see how many caches there are in a particular sized grid. Some places are wick with finds and others are not, as you can see. If you centre on Leeds there are well over 1200 within “easy range”; in my area in Durham there are about 600 (been there, done that), and in East Anglia there are only 230. Inverness has only about 180. If you compare these with somewhere like a centre of Henley-On-Thames (1900+ caches) or Northampton (1100+), you can see a huge difference. Just a thought or two. Back to the wrapping paper and glue. Mmmmmmmm, glue.

[panto mode] Oh yes we will! [/panto mode] MrsB (slapping her leather-booted thigh, in traditional swash-buckling manner) Is that a thigh-length leather boot, perchance? Or just yer standard thigh, rising atop some comedy pixie-type short leather booties, which does nothing for me.

Surely the term we need here is not "stolen", which is being bandied around here rather a lot; the word we all seem to be missing is the one that was invented for such occasions: muggled. And it won’t stand up in court I’d guess. Better to take the pragmatic stance of the coin's owners and let it drop.

Did I imagine "X-ray Axolotl Anxiety" ?

Lucy Daniels is the name of several authors (awfuls) who wrote kids' books with animals in the title like - but not quite - Aardvark In An Ambulance, Beaver In A Blender, Ferret In A Fryer and other alliterative stuff like that. Does that count? She/he/they had verbal diarrhea so I imagine they'll've covered the whole alphabet.

Aaaaaagh! <ducks>

Vicious? It was meant to be emphatic. Vicious would've involved a series Edited to add that, in retrospect, I should have added a smiley in my original post. Sorry

If I read it correctly, you only leave the Freeloader out in the sun to charge up its own internal battery. You then use that to charge up your PDA. There would be no requirement to leave the PDA out in the sun. It works that way too, of course, but as the OP writer forgets to charge their PDA, then they would probably be a good chance that the Freeloader wasn't charged too and you can use direct sunlight to charge the PDA via the Freeloader. Which is why I mentioned it.

They work but be careful leaving it out in the sun to charge your PDA as intense sun* could damage the PDA rather than charge it. I use one to apply permanent power to an electronic cache that I'm developing. The charger works well, it's the rest of the cache idea that is taking the time. *This won't, however, pose too much of a problem in England.

I think the response to date says it all - that and the fact that nearly half the posts have been from the original writer. To answer the original question: NO

I just came across the term Not Validated Member applied to someone who was previously a member/premium member. What does it mean? I thought it was a sort of limbo for someone who'd not renewed their premium membership but I'm only speculating.

And is now a member! Wouldn’t it be nice if Labcat1 checked the number on the coin and, if it is owned by someone else, released it into a cache or asked where it could be sent? Go on, Labcat1.