The Patrician
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do you know when its out?
Garmin's website says 3rd quarter 2011.
Amazon UK says "Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 11 Aug 2011" but it's showing as not in stock.
http://www.gpstraining.co.uk/Garmin_eTrex10eTrex20andeTrex30.html says mid September
Price 110 quid so you'll need to not drink 3 pints in the next week or two to make up the extra tenner!
Edit for tautology!
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... a completely shambolic pretend conversation about meeting somebody later, where we were meeting, times, who would be there etc etc etc. In fact I got so absorbed in the phone conversation it started to distract me from actually looking for the cache!!.... (I hope no other cachers spotted that one).
It's when you get a reply you know you're really in trouble!
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cool thx, do you need maps on it or is the direction thing good
Maps are handy, mostly for following footpaths in my case, but very far from essential.
Many people here cached successfully for many years before useful mapping receivers were available. There are some maniacs who cache without any form of GPS at all, relying on maps and Google Earth, etc and have racked up numbers of finds that I'll never get to!
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What is the psammead?
I'm afraid Google had to be my friend, never heard of it
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If I taught my year 5 class correctly last year then it was a sword.
Ding!
A French swordsman specially hired for the occasion apparently.
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Here is the question:
Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)?
Anne Boleyn?
DING!
Ta!
What was used to execute Anne Boleyn?
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Personally I don't mind a bit on roads but I prefer it if there isn't too much. Trying to juggle the dog on a lead and a GPS ceases to be fun quite quickly, it's much easier on a footpath where I can let her roam!
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Here is the question:
Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth I)?
Anne Boleyn?
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I've emailed Fianccetto, perhaps she's been away somewhere. I know she found one of my caches [*] the other day.
[*] For 'one of my caches' please read 'my cache' throughout.
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Wow... I remember my physics teacher arguing that as bulbs tend to blow when being turned on, it was cost effective to leave a bulb on. Showing my age then as electricity has gone up a hell of a lot, and bulbs have probably become cheaper!
I need a stiff drink!
They've also become much lower wattage, the energy saver ones anyway. What are they now 11-14 Watts? An 11 Watt bulb would cost about £13.50 to run all year.
I'm off to the pub now for a stiff drink, so maybe see you all tomorrow!
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Personally I had to Google it to see what the question meant!
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A bloater is a smoked herring (like a kipper) the difference being it is smoked whole, whilst a kipper is gutted and prepared first.
Ding! Leaving the guts in gives it a distinct flavour.
Over to you.
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I've always thought they were kippers.
MrsB
Sort of, but there's something in the processing of the fish that isn't the same as a kipper.
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Hmm, so "a fish" will not be a sufficient answer then...
It might be good enough in a few hours time, we've had worse than that get the ding!
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Let's stick with fish.
What's a bloater? A reasonably specific answer will be required!
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We've always called dogfish egg cases mermaid's purses.
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Personally I've never had one actually get me, although a couple of years ago when I was stalking a deer (with a camera) my trouser legs had about half a dozen on when I came out of the bracken. The dog gets a few and I've always used tweezers on her but I've just ordered a couple of those O'Tom jobs as we're off to Scotland shortly and she always picks up a tick or two when we go there.
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Anyway, from a real ramble to that of the fictional 'Brother Francis', who is the central character of the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M Miller Jr. (I do so hope that someone's read this book, which I understand was a 'set book' in some areas for GCSE English Literature during the 1980s and may still be. If not, then I'm in trouble! ...)
You're in trouble!
Guess - a book?
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I saw a narrow boat called "Noggin" in Upton on Severn this afternoon.
If we can get a Thor Nogson, Olaf the Lofty and Nooka we've probably got nearly the lot. I don't think we'll get a Nogbad the Bad.
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It was about Roger Water's father who was killed in Italy I think, but I don't know the song.
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So they scrap virtuals which had some merit and bring in this nonsense. It makes you despair.
I see they are called "Geocaching Challenges", shouldn't they have a rule that they are something to do with Geocaching? Or am I missing something?
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I've just logged one of the seemingly "insoluble" puzzle caches (Enigma). The harder they are, the more satisfaction in solving them. This was certainly not a bad puzzle, and was probably one of my most memorable caches (the FTF was only the icing on the cake). An absolutely brilliant location too.
Thanks for the pointer to this one. I thought I was going really well until 3 rotors became 4 and then the wheels really came off my effort!
I haven't given up hope though, there's still one passage of morse to listen to.
Congrats on your FTF.
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Bittern?
Edit - Already taken I see!
The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted · Edited by The Patrician
1950s?
Edit - the more I think about it that's probably a daft answer, but I'll let someone else have a go now!