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My money's on Moote

"How I need a drink, alcoholic of course"? Edit. Sorry adam, thought you said I got there first

3x10^8 m/s

And there was I thinking that SBAs were reserved for drystone walls (or do I mean trespass )... I'll go and get me coat Edit: My Scottish cache has been temped because some Glaswegian miscreant has nicked the Bell, the date cast thereon enabled the final location to be calculated...let’s hope this one survives the recasting of the Bell

Personally when I found the cache, there was little to no chance it could cause damage. But this never the less is a most valid point John Having revisited the cache tonight, I have moved Emma a few meters across the road. Moote is correct "there was little to no chance it could cause damage", however, there was a wobbly stone on the road side of the wall, which I suspect a number of people had tried first. In isolation that is not going to affect the integrity of the wall, however, repeated removal of this and perhaps other likely candidates on the road side of the wall might have a negative cumulative affect on the wall. Note also, that in addition to being mortar-topped, the wall is also mortar-ended:

So, if Emma's box is moved from the field side of the mortared-top wall to a similar position on the road side of the wall, there is no trespass involved, no climbing of walls or fences, and the wall falls outside of the guidelines...does my cache then get re-instated?

Or the management of grouse... Punch in the OS co-ords into this website The Countryside Agency: the screen shot below shows an area from which people with dogs are excluded, even though there is a public footpath there.

It's a wall, not a fence, and as I've already said, you do not need to climb (or sit on) it to reach the cache...

Only just spotted this one... On a slightly related topic, is it not a little hypocritical of a cacher to report a cache as SBA because he considers it to be illegally placed and at the same time logging it as a find! Sure he found it, but isn't he condoning its placement by logging it? Whilst I admit that deleting his log was, perhaps, done in a fit of pique, my reasoning was as stated. (As an aside, I hadn't realised it was subsequently possible to log a find against an archived cache: surely a bug!) I had considered earlier comments regarding there being several more suitable places to hide a cache nearby, however, I decided that it should not be up to somebody else to dictate where I place my cache. That is not to say that I will not accept the decision of the moderators: on the contrary, I will accept it, even though I and others disagree with it. In this case, however, I would prefer to remove the cache container, leave the cache archived and release the general area for someone else to place their cache. It is not necessary to climb the wall or fence, there's a gap to squeeze through! Farmers' fields? There are far greater crimes: only this week I witnessed a couple walking two unleashed dogs on a public footpath through a field of newly born lambs (and their mothers), but that's a separte rant... Perhaps we should call for a 10m exclusion zone around ALL walls, after all, our GPSs are not that accurate! In which case I must archive Pirate's before it has even been found (for the avoidance of doubt, Pirate's is NOT in a wall, drystone or otherwise, but NEAR one! BB

OS Grid => Metric DD MM.MMM => Nautical Miles! Statute Miles: no use to anybody...

Is that a tripoint. or are you just pleased to see me...

Fairy tale: Once upon a time a man asked a girl to marry him... She sais no, and he lived happilly ever after

Swine being the operative word... Edit to insert...a pig!

Shoot the bar steward (and I don't mean the dog)

Guilt revealed.. Hi everyone, I'm sweating me cobs off here in Texas this morning. a. A joint effort, I think...http://rutson.com/check.jpg

I received a survey 2 mins ago, maybe based on how long you've been signed up?

Preference: I prefer a good puzzle or a long walk up a big hill. I didn't much like Harold

Likewise Tony, Congrats...nice cache to share a FtF: Poor Johnson

On which basis ... Tony, I think you'd better archive K1 and K2, Chew Valley's looking a bit dodgy, but Hey "Circumf" is OK, all you need is a bit of maths. Oh but, don't forget poor old Johnny with a grade "J" in O'level math. He's thick as PigS**t, but we can't exclude him, can we...

The "Health & Safety" police vs "Common Sense" Whatever next...compulsory Risk Assessments for every cache

You sound just like my wife...

"Many a true word spoken in jest"...Herbie's off to climb K2 tomorrow!

Deja Vu

Surely the text on the coins should be "Uisge Beatha"...

Please forgive my naïvety, but what has Groundspeak being doing with all those extra £ (sorry, $) from this recent proliferation of GeoCoin icons? Just a thought, given that it's a bit of a bugger to log things on a Sunday..