Pharisee

You're planning a walk in the woods with TWO girlfriends and you want to look for geocaches..... !!

It would be handy to know which part of the country it was in!

A guess you want... a guess you'll get! The only "Ratel" I can think of is a mechanised troop carrier used by the South African army. The British used something similar called a "Scorpion".... so is a Ratel a South African Scorpion? Edited cos I can't speel

There are probably more than a few out there that were published because the cache setter wasn't aware of that particular guideline and / or omitted to mention exactly what sort of container they were using in the cache description or the reviewers note. What the Reviewer's eye doesn't see, the Reviewer's heart doesn't grieve over!!

Having done a bit of "Googling" for stone circles for the above posts, I now know the answer... but as I didn't know the answer before the Googling, I'll leave it for someone else to reply

Having done a little Googling myself it seems that the impressive stone circle at Stanton Drew in Somerset also has a similar legend. This from Wikipedia:- "There are several local traditional stories about the megalithic complex. The best known tells how a wedding party was turned to stone: the party was held throughout Saturday, but a man clothed in black (the Devil in disguise) came and started to play his violin for the merrymakers after midnight, continuing into holy Sunday morning. When dawn broke, everybody had been turned to stone by the Demon: so the stone circles are the dancers, the avenues are the fiddlers and the Cove is the bride and the groom with the drunken churchman at their feet. They are still awaiting the Devil who promised to come back someday and play again for them." I eventually found the lyrics to the song I mentioned and more about the stone circle on the "Twisted Tree" website here:- Twisted Tree Strange that the name "Stanton" is common to both sites. I wonder what the derivation of that name is. Maybe I'll dig a little deeper

Thst's a big DING for the star at Orion's shoulder!!!!! The Nine ladies features in Stephen Booth's second novel "Ddances with Virgins", a cache 'Petrus' appears in"The dead place" (dangerous dave indeed!!!!!!) Hmmm.... Way back in the early 70s, I vaguely remember an old folk song being sung to me by my 'lady of the time' concerning "Sue and William" who lived in "Stanton Drew, in the county of Somerset". They went to be married on a Saturday and hired a fiddler to play for them afterwards. He would only play for them up until midinght because "dancing on a Sunday wouldn't be right". At midnight, Sue found another fiddler (the Devil in disguise) to carry on playing for them. When he stopped playing "Quick as a flash, he turned them to stone." I wonder which came first, the old folk song or the name for the 'Nine Ladies'.

What's it led me into.... a divorce court!!

That reminded me of a log I wrote way back in March, 2003 for GCC02B, now long since archived :- "I’d already visited Thaxted earlier in the afternoon whilst doing a different cache and thought then just how nice the place was. It was a warm and sunny late afternoon when I came back to do this one. A very pleasant stroll around the town to gather the required numbers and an equally pleasant pint of IPA (served by a very attractive little barmaid) outside the Swan Hotel while I sat and did the necessary substitution. The walk up the lane was peaceful and tranquil. The bird’s song only being briefly disturbed by the laughter of the four naked girls dancing around the old oak tree in the adjacent field. I found the cache without too much difficulty after remembering my Pythagoras. Took nothing but a photograph (number 13 or 14, I think) and left nothing. Thank you, Yasdnil, for a very pleasant hour or so. PS I was lying about the girls in the field, I just wanted to make an otherwise boring old log entry a bit more interesting."

Isn't it the way ski jumpers land... sort of knees bent, one ski in front of the other. EDIT... Ignore that.... Should have read the question properly!!

Oh my word.... Hadn't thought of him for a decade or more!!!

Good idea..... now tell me how I scan a QR code with my 60CSx

Ebay.... Link to just one of the sellers

Same to you, Jeff... and let's not forget Sergei and Alexandr

That would be a quick DING to you, then and an extra Kudos point

OK... thanks for that. Now another quicky question:- Which artist sang the title song for the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"? An extra kudos point if you can also give me the song's title.

It's the mythical worm or serpent that forms a circle by eating it's own tail... Is it supposed to encircle the world?

And to be truthfull.... why would they?

I was only a wee lad then but I remember my mum having a real thing about Frankie Vaughn... was it him?

Crikey... What-a mistake-a to make-a [slaps side of head with palm of hand] I know, really.... It's just that nobody has wound Dave up for quite a while...

That's a fab photie Dave Not sure about your grammar though Nah... it's rubbish. There's a bloomin' great weed right in the way!!

I have to agree with the majority of the replies... It's a pretty daft place to hide a cache. I drove past that point a couple of evenings ago in the pouring rain and fairly heavy traffic travelling at close to the legal limit and to see somebody running across the road would have been just a little disconcerting, to say the least. Just because that short section of the centre reservation has legitimate public access, it doesn't give you the inalienable right to place a cache there. I'm certain that if you'd followed the correct procedure and asked the Highways Agency (or whoever is responsible for that section of road) for permission to place a cache on the centre reservation at that point, the answer would have been along the lines of "B*gger off and don't be so stupid!"

How about putting a letter in a small wooden boat, chucking it into the sea and hoping someone, somewhere will find it..... or is that way too far fetched?

It would appear that only Northern Ireland 1:50K maps are available from MemoryMap, not Southern Ireland. I guess you'll have to do what I did... ask around... beg... and finally give up your first born!

I have no idea but I'll have a complete guess at one of the Scandanavian countries... Norway? They say 'Money can't buy you happiness' but by the cringe,,,, it'll get you some cracking crumpet!!