User:PaintedJaguar

44 / m / 52,0

I'm originally from Sheffield, United Kingdom, but moved to Cambridge, United Kingdom in 2001. I've recently moved to Ely, although still work in Cambridge. I discovered geohashing in 2012 completely by accident whilst trying to find out some information about tide times on the North Norfolk coast, and Google sent me to the 2012-09-02 52 0 expedition page. I'm not sure why I'd never heard of it before, given that I'd been reading xkcd since before the original geohashing comic was published!

I don't have a car, so most of the hashpoints I've visited have been reached on foot, bike or by public transport.

Hashscot

I've decided to geohash with a small pink toy caterpillar named Hammersmith (after the London Underground line). Don't ask. After a while, I also started taking along an unnamed blue knitted mouse that doesn't have any eyes (again, don't ask), although sadly the mouse was lost during the 2016-05-15 52 1 expedition. Oh, and MrsPaintedJaguar often geohashes with me as well!

Aims

I've decided, quite randomly, that my long-term geohashing goal is to complete a Minesweeper Geohash achievement that includes both graticules that I've lived in, Cambridge and Sheffield. In order to achieve this (without buying a boat), I'll have to centre on the Northampton, United Kingdom graticule.

Expeditions

When/where	Expedition count				Meetup with	Description
	Total	Success	Failure	Sat meetup
2012-10-14 51 0	1		1			In a field near Thurrock football ground
2012-10-14 51 -0	2	1				In a park in southwest London, close to Chiswick Park tube station
2012-10-21 52 0	3	2				At the end of Teasel Close in Haverhill
2012-10-31 52 0	4	3			Benjw	On the bank of the River Cam in Chesterton
2013-02-03 51 0	5	4				Outside a house on High Wych Road, near the town of Sawbridgeworth
2013-05-12 51 -0	6	5				In shrubland near Waltham Cross and the Lee Valley; also very close to the M25
2013-06-02 52 1	7	6				Just North of Winterton Dunes on the Norfolk coast
2013-06-30 52 -0	8	7				The end of Gery Court in Eaton Ford, about one mile west of St. Neots town centre
2013-07-20 52 0	9	8		1	Benjw	On Plantation Road in Sawston
2013-08-03 51 -0	10	9				On Birchwood Way, near How Wood station, just south of St. Albans
2013-08-03 52 0	11	10			Benjw	The west bank of the River Great Ouse just south of Kings Lynn, at the appropriately named Eau Brink Road
2013-08-04 52 0	12	11			Benjw	On the west bank of a canal near Outwell, in Norfolk
2013-08-05 52 0	13	12				The front lawn of Cambridge University's Faculty of Education, on Hills Road in south Cambridge
2013-09-11 52 0	14		2			The middle of a field adjacent to the River Cam near Waterbeach
2014-06-29 52 0	15	13				In the middle of Sluice Road, between the River Great Ouse and the village of Denver, a couple of miles from Downham Market
2015-08-08 52 0	16	14		2	Benjw, Sourcerer	Just off a dirt road in Fulbourn, near Cambridge
2015-09-19 52 0	17	15		3		On the Icknield Way long distance trail, on a track near Honington Airfield, somewhere between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds
2015-09-29 52 0	18	16				On a footpath between Foxton and Newton
2015-10-17 52 0	19	17				The middle of Snettisham Common, near the coast of The Wash
2015-11-05 52 0	20	18				A small lawn just inside the grounds of Homerton College, Cambridge
2015-11-08 51 -0	21	19				On the entrance road to Chells Park, Stevenage
2015-11-14 52 0	22		3			In a field near the village of Lolworth, just off the A14 outside Cambridge
2015-11-14 52 -0	23	20				In a field between the villages of Lolworth and Boxworth, just outside Cambridge
2015-11-30 52 0	24	21				Alongside the ruins of St James Church, on the outskirts of King's Lynn.
2016-01-02 51 -0	25	22				Next to a roundabout just south of Wandsworth Bridge over the River Thames.
2016-05-15 52 1	26	23			Sourcerer	Halfway across the River Yare at the end of the cut at Hardley Staithe, Norfolk, UK. Boaty McBoatface!
2016-09-27 52 0	27	24				In the middle of Coldham's Common, north Cambridge.
2017-07-31 52 0	28	25				On a public footpath just off Dunstan Street in Ely.