Tag: openbenches
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Ruth and I stopped at Hanley Swan for a picnic lunch on our way home from our weekend of Argentine Tango classes. Within seconds our lunch had attracted a large flock of ducks from the little duck houses on the village's adorable duck pond.
But better yet: I managed to catalogue like eleven memorial benches around the pond and the village green, all previously unknown to OpenBenches (@openbenches@botsin.space): #46341, #46342, #46343, #46344, #46345, #46346, #46347, #46348, #46349, #46351, #46352!
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A slightly dried-up duck pond with ducks and cute like pontoon duck houses.
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Geohashing expedition 2026-09-13 51 -1
A successful geohashing expedition to a swampy area near Woodstock, despite an incident during which I was attacked by a wasp whom I'd attempted to squash using my genitals. (Yes, really.)
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Four OpenBenches
Despite Google making it harder for me to do so 🤬, I managed to add not one, not two, not three but four new memorial benches to the OpenBenches database during a dog walk this morning.
A particular excitement was adding my first bench with two plaques.
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Found GCAWR04 Take an Allotment Break
The family and I are staying in Lyneham for a couple of weeks following the flooding of our house (on the other side of Witney). This morning the younger geokid, the geopup, and I came out for a walk to find this geocache as well as to explore Milton-under-Wychwood and tag some of the memorial benches for OpenBenches. We sat near the cache and the geokid immediately found it. Looks like we're the second signatories of the New Year: somebody beat us to it on 5 Feb! TFTC.
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OpenBenches reaches Tenerife
This weekend, I helped OpenBenches extend its reach to Tenerife, by finding and photographing a bench in the memorial garden for the Dan-Air Flight 1008 disaster. Almost-simultaneously, Terence Eden shared a blog post about the cost of running the OpenBenches service. Taken together, that feels like an excuse for me to plug the project (again)!
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While adding an entry to OpenBenches (openbenches.org/bench/36677), I was struck by how much of an impact this woman - Jane Gregg - must have made on her local community.
In this community garden in Bampton, in the Lake District, a bench dedicated to her includes not only a plaque summarising her achievements but it's also been hand-carved with the words "Jane an amazing human."
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Top of a simple wooden bench; an attached brass plaque on the front side can be seen, but is illegible from this angle. But on the top, somebody has carved "Jane an amazing human."
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Geohashing expedition 2024-05-09 51 -1
A lunchtime dog walk (while posting a parcel) took me to a geohashpoint near Standlake Allotments.
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[Bloganuary] Playtime
Do I get to "play" in my daily life? Absolutely. For this Bloganuary prompt, I'm looking at the ways in which I play.
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Just discovered @openbenches (openbenches.org), which tags the locations of benches with memorial plaques. If I could #indieweb webmention my checkins to them, I'd totally promote a new GPS game based upon them. #indieweb #indiewebcamp