Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Found GC9P505 Paddington Bear & friends (Leicester Square)
A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live queue, while the rest of my group enjoyed a lie-in, eventually brought me to take a seat alongside this iconic bear. TFTC!
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Found GCBJ704 Seven Dials Sundial
Approaching from the West I was foiled by the glare of the rising sun in my efforts to claim this fascinating monument from afar and eventually had to walk all the way past it to line up my photo!
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Found GC38EQ3 Underground
Initially thought I'd be able to find this one without the hint, but when I couldn't get fix to closer than 8m I took a peep at it and was instantly aware of where to search. Soon the cache was in hand and I was back on my way. TFTC!
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Found GC240NQ West End 1 - The Beatles
Stood around for a bit reading about David Bowie while I waited for the waitstaff -on their pre-work fag break down the alleyway - stopped their muggling and went inside. Glad I came early while it was quiet here! TFTC.
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Found GC5E4E Catastrophe, Calamity, Cataclysm Part 4
Can't do the physical today, but scooping a pic with the virtual during a morning walk around the neighbourhood.
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Found GCAJJCJ Piccadilly Circus (Virtual Reward 4.0) ใ
After nine hours on my feet yesterday queuing for and then attending the first day of West End Live in Trafalgar Square, I somehow decided that the best thing for my poor legs would be to get up early while everybody else slept in, to come walk around and find a virtual or two. Right around the corner from my hotel, this was the first!
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Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these...
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A bus lane sign with the 'e' missing, so it says "bus lan".
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Hanging out in London's theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirt...
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Close up of a t-shirt in the style of a Hamilton one but for Slamilton: A Basketball Musical.
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The hours of queuing pays off! Let's go!
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Dan, near the front of a long queue, in front of an illuminated West End Live sign.
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Back of the queue for West End Live. It's gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it!
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Dan, wearing a Slamilton t-shirt, stands with a tweenager outside a Central London building.
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Off to London for a couple of days of musical theatre fun! Don't wait up!
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Dan on a speeding train.
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125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out.
Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I'm optimistic that perhaps, at last, reconstruction work is almost ready to begin.
It's a long, slow process. And there's clearly a way to go. But it's good to see progress happening.
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A view through a pair of dilapidated residential rooms, through the gaps in a hollowed-out partition wall.
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๐ถ It starts with sausage,
A hot dog in a bun.
One simple sausage,
Put some mustard on one...Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious's colours reminiscent of a hot dog?
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Sir Pentious, an anthropomorphic snake from Hazbin Hotel, in black and yellow longitudinal stripes with red 'eyes'.
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I guess it's sweet that the dog has decided that I'm not to leave my home office without her noticing.
But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she's going to get her paws run over!
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A fawn-coloured French Bulldog lies on a laminate floor against the feet of an office chair.
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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme
With thanks to Mark Palko for sharing: this seems like a spot-on observation of Musk's career. Wouldn't it be nice if the world's first trillionaire also happened to be the world's last trillionaire?