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Found GLG6FERR Constellations 2
This checkin to GLG6FERR Constellations 2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took a while for presquevu and I to get warmed-up and into the geocaching spirit, but we found this one without too much difficulty once we started looking in the right place.
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Found GLG6FEGC Constellations 1
This checkin to GLG6FEGC Constellations 1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Went out for a lovely walk with presquevu to hunt for the Constellations series. This was our first find, but the GZ was quite overgrown and it took us a while to get through to where the cache …
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Couldn't find GC1TPQM Constellations 12
This checkin to GC1TPQM Constellations 12 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. presquevu and I spent a while hunting for this, but were interrupted by curious-looking dog walkers and didn't want to continue to look so suspicious within such close range of a school. So after this DNF, we called …
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Posted a note for GC1TPPC Constellations 10
This checkin to GC1TPPC Constellations 10 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. presquevu and I narrowly missed this one - we must have walked right by it - because it wasn't sync'd to my GPSr! What a pity - looks like a great cache: we may have to come back …
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Couldn't find GC1TPH1 Constellations 5
This checkin to GC1TPH1 Constellations 5 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. presquevu and I were glad to get off the main road and back onto these lovely winding footpaths. Unfortunately we weren't able to find this cache, though: it looks like some work has been done this year to …
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Found GLG58K56 Thrupp wander #1
This checkin to GLG58K56 Thrupp wander #1 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Last cache on fleeblewidget and I's walk with her baby. Wouldn't have found it without the hint (also: not sure I agree with the size category!). Had a little explore they pressed on to Thrupp. TFTC!
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Found GLG58G8P Thrupp wander #2
This checkin to GLG58G8P Thrupp wander #2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Carrying on with my walk with fleeblewidget and her baby, we saw deer foraging for crab apples out among the trees. Found the cache without difficulty (quickly guessed what we were looking for) but the log was …
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Found GLG58G7G Thrupp wander #3
This checkin to GLG58G7G Thrupp wander #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found while out on a walk with fleeblewidget and her daughter. Easy find, but this year's growth made it a little challenging to extract from its hiding place! TFTC.
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At 4:39pm I got an email to say that the 4:30pm bus had been cancelled. I'd left to catch the bus at 4:20pm.
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Hey, decadeclub: you know what happened an *actual* decade ago?
Ten years ago, this week:
Half-Life 2 was released, over a year behind schedule. Delays had been blamed on the theft of source code from Valve's network during a hack attack, leading to many in the community asking "don't they have backups?"
Yasser Arafat died at the age of 75, after a … -
A huggy home run.
AltA huggy home run
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Posted a note for GC4Z3RZ Boundary Brook: Billy Goats Gruff
This checkin to GC4Z3RZ Boundary Brook: Billy Goats Gruff reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Just passing by, dropped off a travel bug.
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Going to a memorial service today? Help update the national record of your war memorial.
Since 1989, the War Memorials Archive has been trying to keep an up-to-date database for everybody to read, showing the location of every war memorial in the UK as well of details of the dead commemorated there. But their records are incomplete, and sadly many memorials (especially rural ones) are degrading: someday the information … -
"The Law You Won't Be Told" - jury nullification explained [4:30]
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Map of the Lounges, version 2 (moderately censored edition) [description/history in comments]
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