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Well done John. It seems ages since the Alston cache bash!!

Billy Twigger and Highland Nick taken by surprise by a highland coo at Hope Springs Eternal

BT and I both started caching in the Autumn of 2002. I was the first to his first four caches on Bute. He kept getting my first caches, the moment they came out. We shared a friendly numbers rivalry all the way up to 1000. Here's hoping that we get the chance to find a few more caches together.

Well done Mike. It wasn't that long ago was it?

Yay WD! It was your great caches that kept me going through the Great Scottish Drought of 2003

Not much chance of that John, though I am trying to work it so that the 1000 comes up then.

Yep, Moote, the A201 is a cracking machine. It picks up a signal quicker than anything else that I've got and holds it well in urban canyons and under the trees. Its big advantage over the old Mio's is that it is much more robust, and the mini usb connection will last all the daily plugging ins and unplugging that your typical cache n' dasher subjects it to, unlike the tacky, fragile connecter on the 168. Its only failing is the positioning and sensitivity of the short cut buttons. You'll switch it to photo-viewer or landscape mode every time you take it out of the case. With Memory Map and GPS Sonar, you don't need much else, although I still switch to the trusty old Garmin for the close up work, or when its raining.

Yep Bob. Got a life, but got a ticket at Bridge of Orchy as well.

I'd had two GPSr's before I finally found a use for them in August 2002. On the Glocbalpositioningsystems website, buying number three when I read the link on geocaching and I've never looked back since. It used to be easy, keeping up with all the caches in Scotland back then. Now its a cacher's market and you can pick and choose what you want to do. Ps, Sally - 749 now.

Get on the train and go down to Ostia Antica An extraordinary historical site with a neat little micro. Just half an hour from the City. The highlight of our anniversary trip to Rome last year.

Shows how often I visit the forum! Thanks for the good wishes, folks.

1970 - Yeti, An extraordinary album by Amon Duul ll Side 1 1. Soap Shop Rock a. Burning Sister b. Halluzination Guillotine c. Gulp A Sonata d. Flesh Coloured Anti-aircraft Alarm 2. She Came Through The Chimney Side 2 1. Archangels Thunderbirds 2. Cerberus 3. The Return of Rubezahl 4. Eye Shaking King 5. Pale Gallery Side 3 Yeti Side 4 1. Yeti Talks to Yogi 2. Sandoz in the Rain Hands up, who loves Renate as much as me

Is that a spelling mistake? Nope. In the seventies, men were men - even Jocko Homo

As with the avatar, it's an obscure reference to the music of my youth. In the mid seventies, the band Devo released a groundbreaking (to me at least) album "Are We Not Men? We Are Devo" In the song, Jocko Homo they introduced the dance - the Poot. Us sad Devo afficionados immediately became Pooters.

Blimee. A claim to fame. 2903 It's come twice a week for nearly three years now. Unlike me!

Gothenburg, Sally, followed by Winchester!

Confusion will be my epitaph, As I crawl a cracked and broken path. If we make it we can all sit back and laugh..... But unfortunately, I'm up in Scotland,

Bill, the man in the cap looks suspiciously like you.

Well done the big R. Maybe you'll get up to the frozen North soon, where caches are caches and micros don't have magnets in them!

And if you are lucky, Rutson will be standing behind you laughing at your efforts.

Very well done John. Still keeping 400 ahead of me. Lets hope the mighty Astra gets above Hadrian's Wall again this year

Ah, but by then it's too late. If you're at work, everyone's looking round wondering what "One man went to mow" at full volume has got to do with shoes. If you're at home, all the young telly watchers will finally think that you've lost it at last and start looking up the number of the local care home. There should be a warning in the cache name, as it's getting to epidemic proportions up here. Naming no names!!

I know, I've measured the distance in Memory map. This geohiking business is a bit worrying for us driveasclosetothecacheaspossible cachers. Whoaa! the Huns are two down!

105 miles to Tarbet, I believe.

8.45 Sunday morning, Wemyss Bay. See you there. Is it the Volkswagen yet?