Year: 2026
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Wrote note for GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green
Quick check while I was passing, as nobody's logged this cache during our stupidly-hot July or August (and I don't blame them: it's been horrible outdoors!). Anyway: the cache is fine and healthy and looking forward to its next visitor!
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I descaled the coffee machine yesterday. We live in an exceptionally hard-water area and this maintenance was long overdue.
This morning I turned the machine on and something felt unfamiliar and wrong. I couldn't put my finger on what, until I realised...
...I'd gotten so-used to seeing the "descaling needed" light illuminated that I'd subconsciously forgotten that it wasn't supposed to be always-lit! Turns out that a warning left long enough becomes not just invisible but normalised!
(Next, maybe I should do something about the 'check engine' light in the car. It's been on for a while too...)
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Close-up of the buttons on an automatic/beans-to-cup coffee machine.
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How do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say?
My fellow volunteer Oliver Earl has been picking up on his blogging and asks, with reference to my archives... how do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say? And then he comes to the correct conclusion:
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The modern app
The other month, David Bushell made a tongue-in-cheek interactive simulation of the state of modern desktop applications. It's pretty fun, and I see what he means.
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we don't shame smart glasses wearers enough
Ava's take on techbro ideas of "privacy", and in particular the situation with "smart glasses", is especially well-written and worth a look.
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Found GC9BHWG Watercress beds
This checkin to GC9BHWG Watercress beds reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Despite immediately honing in on exactly the right host, it still took me an embarrassingly long time to find this cache. This, despite having found - and even hidden - cache contsibers of exactly this type before!
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Found GC8ZWZ3 Letcombe Bridges 1
This checkin to GC8ZWZ3 Letcombe Bridges 1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF while passing through the village on a circular walk. TFTC!
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Wrote note for GC4H2MB Church Micro 4008…Letcombe Regis
This checkin to GC4H2MB Church Micro 4008…Letcombe Regis reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found the grave, but this is now the second offset I've found here that's asked me to double-back on my walk. Nope! I'm just going to save the calculated coordinates for the next time I'm in …
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Wrote note for GC9F5YC GIs in Letcombe
This checkin to GC9F5YC GIs in Letcombe reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found the clues and solved the coordinates, but I've JUST walked past the final location a while ago and don't feel like doubling back today!
A=How many letters in the word underneath Knoxville?
B=A*2
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Found GC9QWHD Plankton's cache
This checkin to GC9QWHD Plankton's cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Like many before me, from the looks of things, I didn't find the cache at the published coordinates but about 11 metres away at N 51° 34.086', W 001° 26.441'. Possibly worth the CO checking if those coordinates …
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Found GC93M2N Segsbury Fort
This checkin to GC93M2N Segsbury Fort reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A challenging but worthwhile find during a walk along and around the Ridgeway.
AltA windswept and rolling rural landscape, with storm clouds brewing in the distance.
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Found GC46RY8 It really is about the (2 millionth) cache
This checkin to GC46RY8 It really is about the (2 millionth) cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. This morning I came up to explore the Ridgeway and escape from thinking about Life Stuff for a bit. (Although escaping from the rain wasn't a possibility! It was real wet up …
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Found GC39X1K GH #11 twisted tree
This checkin to GC39X1K GH #11 twisted tree reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found cache contents first, some of which I was only able to identify thanks to the photo in the previous log. Cache container, minus lid, was found a reasonable distance away, but this badly-damaged, nearly-destroyed cache …
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Found GC39WVC G h # 10
This checkin to GC39WVC G h # 10 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A few attempts at hacking through the brambles to get near the hint location had me thinking that perhaps this was a wintertime only cache... before I realised that there was a different route by which …
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Found GC4H2N6 Church Micro 4009 ... Letcombe Bassett
This checkin to GC4H2N6 Church Micro 4009 ... Letcombe Bassett reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick diversion before a hike up Gramp's Hill and along the Ridgeway. After collecting the required information I pressed on to the cache, meeting some friendly ponies and horses on the way.
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