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Day: 13 April 2024

  • Sign on the fence of a school playground reading, in block capitals: "Polling station for Dan Q's imaginary friends only".

    Council Disenfranchisement

    West Oxfordshire District Council seem to want to disenfranchise me by requiring that I bring photo ID to a polling station with a different name on it than the photo ID that they themselves issued.

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    • posted 13 April, 2024
  • Dan sits on an iron bridge with a 7-year-old boy, above a raging weir.

    Found GC2W6AF Babel Fish

    This checkin to GC2W6AF Babel Fish reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The younger child and I had an initially fruitless search in, under and around the nearby bridge before we had the sense to insert our babel fishes, after which the hint item became clear to us. A short โ€ฆ

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  • Dan, his finger to his lips as-if in thought, looks at a finger post sign that indicates a public footpath to Knapwell (1ยฝ miles).

    Found GC51F07 Knapwell one and a half

    This checkin to GC51F07 Knapwell one and a half reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The second of two caches found on a morning walk from the nearby Cambridge Belfry Hotel, where some fellow volunteers and I met yesterday for a meeting. This cache looked so close, but being on โ€ฆ

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    • to GC51F07
    • posted 13 April, 2024
  • Dan stands outside a floor-to-ceiling shop window within which is a cardboard cut-out of a smiling police officer.

    Found GC10ZT3 Off Yer Trolley! (Cambourne)

    This checkin to GC10ZT3 Off Yer Trolley! (Cambourne) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Even early on a Saturday morning, after a volunteering event the previous day at the hotel across the road, this highly-exposed GZ made me feel vulnerable! It's not as though anybody were actually watching me as โ€ฆ

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    • to GC10ZT3
    • posted 13 April, 2024

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