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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.

  • Watercolour painting of a giraffe's face, wearing glasses.

    Cold Giraffe

    My mum painted a cold giraffe onto a postcard and sent it to me.

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    • posted 9 March, 2026
  • A brown horse with a white forehead star, wearing a blue jacket, walks in a circular pen in which arms encourage it to continue moving.

    Horse Gym

    My current temporary home - and, necessarily, office - is directly next door to some kind of "horse gym": a contraption a little like a huge revolving door to encourage one or more horses to exercise by walking around it.

    Every now and then my peripheral vision registers that there's a horse outside the window and, for the dozenth time, I look up from my work and glance around to barely catch it vanishing off on yet another lap.

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    • posted 9 March, 2026
  • Dan and a boy each throw a thumbs-up to the camera from a forest footpath.

    Found GC4MJRJ Rโ€™nโ€™R #3 โ€“ Not Quite A Well?

    Another quick find for the sharp-eyed geokid, once we found the right host. Three for three and that's time for us to turn about and go have our brunch. TFTC!

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    • posted 8 March, 2026
  • A boy reaches into an ivy-covered tree.

    Found GC4MJRT Rโ€™nโ€™R #4 โ€“ Changing Colours

    The woods made it hard to get a good fix, but eventually we were in the vicinity of this excellent cache. It took a few different tree hosts before eventually we were looking in the right place. The younger geokid insists that I log that he caught sight of it before me!

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    • posted 8 March, 2026
  • A boy looks over his shoulder as be begins to walk into a bramble bush.

    Found GC4MJX6 Rโ€™nโ€™R #6 โ€“ what YOU looking at?

    Came out for a dog walk from New Yatt this morning. The GZ is deep within thick brambles, but the younger geokid was up to the challenge and soon the unusual cache container was in hand. TFTC!

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    • to GC4MJX6
    • posted 8 March, 2026
  • I Am Experimenting with Blocking HTTP1.1

    Andrew Stephens has added Caddy configuration to prohibit HTTP/1 clients from accessing most of the pages of his website. I decided to probe it and see how that works.

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    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • Dan crouches by his French Bulldog on a rural footpath.

    Found GCAABPG North Leigh Loop #7

    This checkin to GCAABPG North Leigh Loop #7 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Completing our loop (minus a couple of DNFs, but plus a couple of nearby caches), this damp geopup and I were really happy to finish with this good-sized cache!
    AltDan crouches by his French Bulldog โ€ฆ

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    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • Found GCAABNW North Leigh Loop #6

    This checkin to GCAABNW North Leigh Loop #6 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Tougher than we expected to find - not only is this a stealthy container but it's hidden unusually-thoroughly too! TFTC
    I'm increasingly regretting my choice this morning to wear comfortable but not waterproof shoes rather โ€ฆ

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    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • A French Bulldog climbs a stile.

    Did not find GCAABNV North Leigh Loop #5

    This checkin to GCAABNV North Leigh Loop #5 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No sign of this one, despite the geohound and I's best efforts.
    AltA French Bulldog climbs a stile.
    Maybe it washed away if the nearby drainage ditch broke its banks this winter?

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    • to GCAABNV
    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • Found GC1QY29 Can Rabbits Climb Trees??

    This checkin to GC1QY29 Can Rabbits Climb Trees?? reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Coming up from Evergreen/Loop #4 the geohound and I made a poor guess about which side the the hedgerow we ought to be on, and - to avoid having to backtrack - opted to cut through โ€ฆ

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    • to GC1QY29
    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • Found GCAABN0 North Leigh Loop #4

    This checkin to GCAABN0 North Leigh Loop #4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An extremely easy find, although a bit of a spiky retrieval. TFTC!

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    • Checkin
    • to GCAABN0
    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • Found GC1QYPN Back to Evergreen

    This checkin to GC1QYPN Back to Evergreen reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geopup and I are out doing the North Leigh Loop from New Yatt, where we're temporarily living while our house is dried and damage assessed by the insurance company following a catastrophic flood a few weeks โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC1QYPN
    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • A French Bulldog pulls at the end of a very large stick, in a woodland.

    Did not find GCAABMN North Leigh Loop #3

    This checkin to GCAABMN North Leigh Loop #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. While the geohound busied herself with the important task of collecting sticks several times larger than herself, I began the search for what I'd figured would be a QEF.
    AltA French Bulldog pulls at the โ€ฆ

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    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • A French Bulldog on a muddy path.

    Found GCAABMJ North Leigh Loop #2

    This checkin to GCAABMJ North Leigh Loop #2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Clearly I've trained the geohound well, because she found the geotrail out to this GZ before I did!
    AltA French Bulldog on a muddy path.
    This cache is definitely benefitting from its layers of โ€ฆ

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    • to GCAABMJ
    • posted 7 March, 2026
  • Found GCAABME North Leigh Loop #1

    This checkin to GCAABME North Leigh Loop #1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Coming to the "start" of this loop having come from the "end" gave the geohound and I a perfect vantage point to sight this QEF. Now it's time to find out how boggy the trail to โ€ฆ

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    • posted 7 March, 2026

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