Billy Twigger

Mine works fine! Steering's a bit dodgy though!

I've done 31 locationless caches, although none for a while. Like Ullium, I first thought that they were a bit too effortless, and some certainly are. However, many are pretty challenging. Like others, I think that they should be categorised and counted in a different way -not unlike trigpointing. In a sense they are like cache hiding where you search for a location first, then log it's co-ords then get it online. I'm unhappy that the 31 locationless caches I've done are included in my total, and I always mentally discount them. Having said that, if we go back to first principles, and accept that geocaching is all about getting out into the landscape and getting your eyes opened to places you wouldn't normally see, then locationless caches certainly fit the bill. (Pun fully intended Ullium!!) One of my favourites was Fading Ads and I still look for ghosts on walls gable ends wherever I go.

Well done to Pid. Some of the best caches I've done are those of the Bucks trio of Dan Pid and Anna, or various permutations of the trio! So in a sense, I'd really rather prefer that Pid had HIDDEN three hundred!!

As darkness approaches rutson discovers the penultimate stage of a seventeen part multi-cache is missing.....

Well Done!!!!

Really, Officer...if you would only take the quickest look at my GPSr I think you'll find......... P.S. Nice to see Alex McLeish has a new job?

Which force would that be BT? Force of circumstance? or Force Majeure? Ullium. Looking at the pic again.................it would need to be force of habit!

You could also use The Force. Works for me! If only I could get a decent signal!!!!

Another, if seldom seen, use for your GPSr is to log a good parking spot for "non-local" cachers! Are you local?

Never mind about Edinburgh! Go to Bute The island is a Geocachers playground, (there are 13 caches to find)look! and you have a lovely sailing to get there - Yup - Bute it is!

Some alternative cachers tshirts.... or... what about....? Just a thought.

Thankfully, and unlike BugznElm'r, my only need to report my location arises when Mummy Twigger calls me on my mobile and asks "Where are you?" When I say, "I'm at N58 36.659 W3 20.349" I suspect that the silence sounds exactly like the response I would get from Mr PC Badger. I used to be very helpful. For example, "Where are you?" "I'm on the A67, about 7 miles from Barnard Castle" "Yes, -but where's that?" " N54 33.055 W1 45.089" "Your tea's cold!" I think you really need to speak to Neafearjustbeer to find the value of knowing where you are, -or where he is!

I'm undecided about "middle of a forest" caches. I love woodland and mixed forest, and we're getting to that time of year where they are at their most colouful. Nonetheless, I can't convince myself that looking for a cache in a forest is in fact geocaching. It's great fun, and if the description and clues are well thought out, it should be found. But if you can't get a signal, its not geocaching. Take a look at Spoiler 2 on Wye Rapids Now, I've not been there, but it looks as though air has difficulty getting through never mind any far-travelled microwaves! Maybe I'm spoilt for choice. Here on Bute there are plenty of spots where you can expose your GPSr to 360 degrees of wide open sky, and I'm pretty certain that your GPSr will take you to all of my caches. I think the point is that you WANT fellow cachers to find your cache. So if the satellites can't get you there, make sure that something does.

Good idea, -I think a certain cacher has been making their own recommendations.....look here

Looks like Scotland is ahead of the rest again. BBC Scotland Wednesday 7:30 pm Map Man In this new series, explorer Nicholas Crane attempts to travel across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. Here he tackles William Roy's pioneering 18th century map of Scotland. BBC Scotland But what are comitted geocachers doing watching telly anyway, there must be a graveyard with a piece of tupperware tucked away somewhere?! Or... you could watch ... BBC Scotland Wednesday 9:00 pm The Moors Murders Code Documentary about the relationship between Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, and the secret code that experts believe Brady is using to hide the location of his final victim's body. [AD] Lets hope the code doesn't turn out to be GC538D!!!

I guess that the longevity of a cache is directly proportional to how much maintainance you are prepared to devote to it. I have come across a few caches that are in a state of complete disrepair only to find that the 'owner' placed while on holiday, and has never been back to check up on it. Keeping your cache in good order is really important, I travel hundreds of mile to go geocaching - and to find that the cache I'm looking for has been destroyed/stolen/lost is a real pain.