Month: November 2024
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In good news, my injured arm is not broken and should recover within a couple of weeks.
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Dan, wearing a sling, stands near the reception of a Minor Injuries Unit.
In amusing news, the doctor who treated me recognised me from (tales of) my electric shock admission earlier in the year, even though she never treated me on that ocassion.
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Stuck in a Lift
About twenty years ago, I spent three hours playing I-Spy in a broken-down elevator. And in doing so, I learned two things about my friend Fiona.
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I'm leaving Ireland a day late, from the wrong airport, and with one fewer functioning arm than I anticipated. It's been quite the ride. I'll be glad to get home.
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Dan sits in an airport bar drinking a beer held in his right hand. His left arm is in a sling.
(for those that are concerned: I've damaged my shoulder, possibly while slipping down a hill in search of a geocache or geohashpoint; so, y'know, the usual reason I get injured... but I've got some physio instructions I'm supposed to follow, and I'll be okay)
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Sooo... I'm in Dublin.
I missed me flight at Knock airport, which turns out to have been the only plane leaving that tiny airport today. So I arranged a flight from Dublin tomorrow, extended my car rental and arranged to drop it off in the capital's airport instead, and zipped over here.
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Two pints of Guinness on a candlelit table.
Now I'm in an underlit bar sipping a Guinness and waiting for a pizza.
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Found GC8XWKX Shamrock #20
This checkin to GC8XWKX Shamrock #20 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My mum and I have been visiting Ireland on a geohashing & geocaching expedition. We'd spotted this shamrock shape but it wasn't in our operating zone so we didn't get a chance to hunt any of them, until …
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Found GC8E8A0 Challenge 💖 Virtual x 15 💖 Country x 5 💖
This checkin to GC8E8A0 Challenge 💖 Virtual x 15 💖 Country x 5 💖 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I've never much gone for 'challenge caches'. Mostly they just bug me when I fail to filter them off my map and only end up realising that I'm arbitrarily disallowed …
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-27 53 -8
A sixth Irish geohashing trip in Ireland spelled disaster. The hashpoint itself was easy, but we missed our flight back to the UK and ended up having to road-trip our way coast-to-coast to get back to somewhere we could catch a plane in the morning...
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I've only been driving in Ireland for several days, so less than 100% of the iconography of the signage makes sense to me instantly, for now. But this one's a complete mystery to me.
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Photograph showing a road sign; it's yellow, diamond-shaped, and depicts in black the silhouette of a person running from left to right. Above them is the silhouette of a car, much smaller than them and twisted anticlockwise by about 20 degrees. Impact/movement marks eminate from the lower of the car's wheels, as if it's a thrown object that's just bounced off the head of the runner.
Is this warning joggers than tiny cars might bounce off their heads? Or is it exhorting distant swerving motorists to put on their right indicator to tell people which way to run to avoid being hit by them? Or maybe it's advising that down this road is a football pitch for giants and they'll play "headers" with you in your car if you're not careful? I honestly haven't a clue.
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Found GC9QNY4 NFCache
This checkin to GC9QNY4 NFCache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Despite having been hidden as recently as 2022, this "feels" like an old-school cache. A non-trivial offset, a real scramble through the terrain to find it, and a generous-sized container at the other end. Back around 2010 many more …
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Found GC6TZ1G CachePoint
This checkin to GC6TZ1G CachePoint reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a boat tour of the bay and a delightful late lunch, my mum and I came out here to find this cache as the last of three muggles present were packing up. TFTC!
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-26 53 -9
A fifth geohashing trip in Ireland for me and my mum was foiled when I couldn't find anybody who'd take my money in exchange for driving us to a random spot out in the sea. We took a boat tour but it didn't come close enough to score.
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Found GC1X432 Swan Lake
This checkin to GC1X432 Swan Lake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found by my mother and I while exploring the area. What a beautiful estate, thanks for bringing us here. Log slightly damp but usable. TFTC. Greetings from Oxfordshire and Lancashire, UK!
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Did not find GC9VD2M Claremorris_01
This checkin to GC9VD2M Claremorris_01 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Two of us hunted for about 10 minutes without any luck. We found a the host object without difficulty and soon found a man-made hook upon touch we suspect the cache might once have resided. Eventually we had to …
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Found GCA0R10 Leabharlann 📚
This checkin to GCA0R10 Leabharlann 📚 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for my mother and I as we passed through Claremorris. Excellent hiding place for the area and a great condition of cache, FP awarded. SL, TFTC.
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-25 53 -8
My mother and I's fourth geohashing trip in Ireland and third successful expedition took us to a muddy field East of the town of Claremorris (where were were later able to award ourselves a slap-up lunch!).