Dan Q found GLDYYY6M Route Canal – Bridge View

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After an extended search, it was my partner fleeblewidget who, despite being encumbered by the baby-carrier harness, first spotted this well-concealed little cache. Feels like the difficulty should be 2 stars to me, but maybe I’m just going soft. TFTC.

Dan Q found GLDYAZQV Church Micro 3420…Kidlington

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Out for a walk with fleeblewidget and her baby, took a look for this cache on the way past. Nice little cache! Took the Scottish Football 2 travel bug; see if I can find it a new home somewhere…

Dan Q couldn’t find GC4KTD0 Beaumont Palace

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Muggles kept wandering past and hampering my search (which was already slowed down by the fact that I didn’t “get” the hint; ah well!). Ran out of time on my lunchbreak: I’ll have to come back another time.

Dan Q couldn’t find GC4H3P7 Alleyways of Oxford – Brasenose Lane

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Hunted as well as I was willing to, without putting my hands into anything particularly disgusting in the improvised toilet that is this GZ. :-( No luck, though: perhaps I’m not looking in the right place, or perhaps it’s somewhere that I wasn’t happy to put my fingers…

Dan Q found GLDWG38D Dogfort v Catfort – Dogfort Scientist

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Let battle commence! My first Dogfort vs. Catfort find, but hopefully not my last.

Great location, but took me a while to get the cache out of it’s hiding place – perhaps I’ve not got the dexterity that I used to have!

Dan Q couldn’t find GC3VJAT Route Canal – Dukes Cut

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My last hunt of the day, as it started to get dark and my GPSr’s battery finally died and it made a sad noise and fell asleep. The hint only told me what I already knew: my signal had been spot on! But that didn’t help me find the cache. I wondered if it might have been too high for me to see, or reach, so I climbed a tree (haven’t done that in a while!) and looked down at where I suspected it might be, but no luck. Searched a lot of places, but eventually had to give up.

Wonderful location, though: I’ll certainly be coming back for another hunt.

Dan Q couldn’t find GC4CFE3 Route Canal – Court View

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Battery was starting to get low on my phone, which I was using as my GPS and which I’d forgotten to properly charge before I left the office this afternoon, so I didn’t hunt for long… but I wonder if it might be missing, because that’s a few of us now that haven’t been able to spot it…

Dan Q couldn’t find GC3XVHG Route Canal – Plough View

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A narrowboater had moored nearby and struck up a conversation with me as I parked my bike and sat on the bench near this cache. It’s a shame he was so friendly, because it gave me no opportunity to surreptitiously reach for the cache!

Dan Q couldn’t find GCN69F Never at Sea – Grog

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Took a diversion on my way home from work to try to get this and some of the Route Canal series. Unfortunately I failed at this, my first cache of the day, when I found that the location of the cache has somewhat turned into a building site – a bustle of workmen coming and going and where I THINK the cache is made inaccessible by a pile of construction materials. Shall try again another time.