19 April, 2026

Dan Q found GCBN167 Ivy Believe It’s Up There!

This checkin to GCBN167 Ivy Believe It's Up There! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

This afternoon I’m acting as backup driver for my partner Ruth, who’s walking the length of the Thames Path by (very gradual) instalments. Having parked at Culham Lock I began to walk back towards Abingdon to meet the walking team coming the other way, when I noticed that a new cache had been published nearby and diverted to find it.

A delightful tree climb later and I had this great cache container in hand. TFTC, FP awarded!

Dan Q did not find GC3KQK2 RRR10

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A little sad to DNF this cache which is probably just well-hidden, but I’ve only got limited time to hunt as I’m the backup driver for this segment of a walk down the entire length of the Thames Path.

Finding the right Bottom Hole paper

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On the 6th of January 1995, viewers of BBC Two were treated to a new series of ~~Waiting for Godot~~ Bottom. Stuck at the top of a Ferris wheel, ~~Vyvyan and the People’s Poet~~ Eddie and Ritchie wait to see what the cruel hand of fate has dealt them in this week’s episode “Hole”.

At one point, ~~Captain Edrison Peavey~~ Edward Elizabeth Hitler pulls out a newspaper to read.

It may surprise you to know that the “Hammersmith Bugle” is not a real paper and they never ran a headline “No News Shocker”. At which point, it is time to rip off Dirty Feed’s shtick and find out what that paper really is.

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Terence Eden, in Finding the right Bottom Hole paper

This is exactly the kind of rabbitholey deep-dive I know and love (and have experienced ever so frequently myself). Take a ride with Terence on a long (and not-entirely satisfying!) ride to try to find the actual newspaper that’s been adapted by the Bottom production team in this particular episodes.

Anyway, it’s an amusing journey that I enjoyed going along with, this morning, and maybe you will too.

Personal Location Tracking FTW

I took the dog out for a walk from the Chicory House yesterday. At one point, we found ourselves on a familiar-looking footpath: I couldn’t place exactly why I’d been there before. Geocaching, possibly: I couldn’t see any on the map but perhaps they’d been since archived?

Fortunately, I maintain a personal tracklog of virtually everywhere I’ve been in the last decade or two, so I was able to run a quick query and discover that I’d walked out here on a geohashing expedition in 2024.

Personal location tracking continues to be awesome. Being able to both forwards-search (“where was I on this date?”) and reverse-search (“when was I last within this area?”) unlocks a wealth of aides mémoire that are otherwise hard to come by.

It’s hard to sell people on the idea, probably because it’s a slow-burner – you need lots of data before it starts to pay off! – but I still recommend it.