A geocaching get together to spend lunchtime with like-minded people. Locals and visitors, seasoned cachers and newbies, even muggle plus-ones - everyone is welcome. Come along to discuss all things geocaching, be that the highs and lows of recent caching outings, future plans in the making, stats and challenges you set for yourself, running into dead-ends on elusive puzzles, or anything else on your mind.
We all know how geocaches can take us to little-known and curious places we otherwise might not have come across. I figured events could be used in a similar manner but with a date instead of a place so I like using the event description to point out curious events and stories, various odds and sods, that I came across usually while wandering around in internet rabbit holes, and that I found interesting, weird, funny or intriguing.
On this day
in 1841
The colour of the 1d stamp changed from black to red-brown introducing the Penny Red. It succeeded the Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system, which lasted less than a year. A red ink was used to cancel Penny Black stamps. The red cancellation was difficult to see on the black design, and the ink was easy to remove which made it possible to re-use cancelled stamps. When the stamp colour was switched to red, the ink for cancellation was changed to black which was more effective and difficult to remove. However, people still re-used stamps by combining the uncancelled parts of two stamps to form an unused whole.
