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 1966
Pickles, a black and white collie dog, recovered the football World Cup trophy that was stolen the week before. Pickles found the trophy wrapped in newspaper lying by the front wheel of a parked car in Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, South London. He was awarded the silver medal of the National Canine Defence League.
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On this day
in 1680
The London Penny Post mail service was launched. The Penny Post was established by William Dockwra and his business partner, Robert Murray. It was a premier postal system whose function was to deliver mail within London and its immediate suburbs for the modest sum of one penny. It was also the first postal system to use hand-stamps to postmark the mail to indicate the place and time of the mailing and that its postage had been prepaid.
