Another Geocaching Convert?

You know those moments when someone thinks they’re telling you about some really great secret, but you, and a load of other people already know? Various of us at St James had that experience this morning listening to Rev Richard’s sermon.
On his day off, he and Penny his wife had headed off to the Bramshill [...]

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Fifteen Minutes of Fame

So since I have a nice little device that can play video, I’ve been trawling through all the old video clips I have sitting around to try them out. One item I came across was this, our fifteen minutes of fame from early 2003 back when Inside Out interviewed us about Geocaching (see their page [...]

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Back Searching the Countryside with Mapsource GB Topo

Over the past few months I’ve been thinking that I really should get some more exercise. One of the ways I tended to do that, before I worked at SSE was by Geocaching, however over my time there with the extra time I was spending travelling, plus a lot of other demands on my time [...]

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Garmin Vista-64 Support

Although I’ve been running a 64-bit operating system on my laptop since new, one of the big annoyances is the general lack of support that hardware manufacturers have shown towards the 64-bit platform. As a result, I’ve had to keep a 32-bit install of Windows around for a number of tasks, one of the main [...]

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Geocaching Online Logs

I’ve been pondering an curious question recently – should Geocachers be allowed to read the logs for caches that they have not found? The reason for the question comes from looking at the logs for our Oracle Microcache, which is now reactivated after the hassle last month.
The most recent logs clearly show the issue. [...]

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Speechless

So here I am going through the e-mail, and I get a log for our Oracle Microcache which is an APS film canister hidden in the centre of Reading. Not uncommon as we get a steady stream of visits. Then I actually read it…
I’d overheard a conversation about this cache sometime ago, so got to [...]

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Can Anybody Explain This?

Someone takes a half used disposable camera from our Geocache.

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Why Can’t People Read?

The busiest one of our Geocaches causes the most annoyance.

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Tower Open Day 2005

The annual opening of the Church Tower is lucky with the weather.

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Queens Oak Pictures, Take 3

The third batch of pictures from the Queens Oak Geocache.

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UK Topo Data for Garmin GPS

The Scottish Mountaineering Club provide some unofficial and free UK topographic data for Garmin GPS.

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