Bric-à-brac Thornlands, Queensland, Australia
By TheAmazingBlair on 30-Nov-12. Waypoint GC427XZ

I cannot see any information that suggests to me that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement - one or more of the following applies:

- Cache Owner unable to maintain cache
- No response from the cache owner.
- No cache to find or log to sign.
- It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.
- Cache has been abandoned by cache owner/cache in disrepair

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to also prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the next 28 days, just contact a reviewer (by email and include GC number in cache name) and, assuming it still meets the current guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

If there are components or remnants of the cache and you haven't already done so, please return to the GZ and collect the cache (or remnants). We don't want to litter our environment with Geotrash.

Should you wish to replace the cache after 28 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

[u]MAINTENANCE REQUIRED?[/u]
[navy]This cache would appear to be in need of owner intervention, therefore I am temporarily disabling it so as to stop it showing up on search lists and to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Geocache maintenance is a cache owner responsibility. Your prompt attention to any log that indicates things could be amiss will be greatly appreciated by all geocachers, see here http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#cachemaintenance
The guidelines advise; "if you can't check/fix it straight away then Disable it till you can." and here's how; http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235

Please respond to this situation within 28 days to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time, please be sure to post a "Write Note" log (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days so as to keep everyone up to date, or the cache will be treated as an abandoned cache and archived without further notice.

And don't forget, once you have addressed the issue, post both an "Owner Maintenance" log, see here; http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=404 and an "Enable Listing" log, see here; https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=235 to get your cache up and running again.[/navy]
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The cache "Bric-à-brac" .
The "Needs Maintenance" log is now over 28 days old and the CO has not responded.
Could a reviewer please temporarily disable the cache pending a response from the owner.

Regards

Ian & Penny

What if the CO would stop by to confirm the status of the cache, please?

No joy at all. Reckon it's dead

Perhaps the cache owner could come check this one. As there hasn't been a find in 2015.

1st timers looked around with my son will b bck with my grl who is gr8 with riddles

Had my Junior with me tonight and decided to take him here in case fresh mind, fresh eyes would turn things around. Git him to read the poem and he twisted and turned it around a dozen times and we formed a couple of theories of the hide.
However, the theories were not proven today so this secret will remain to be uncovered. Until next time...

Looked around but found nothing.

This time in broad day light. Third time wasn't the charm, however. I'll do a bit of PAF before returning.
Do you guys issue Frequent Visitor passes???

Visit #2 here, again in the darkness of late night and with no luck.
This certainly will be a daytime cache for me, evidently...

TFTH, TheAmazingBlair!

:0( DNF :0(

On our visit to Australia, visiting family in Queensland & enjoying some Geo-caching, whilst we're here.
Sadly, this was not to be a smilie for us! Had a thorough search at GZ (both at the given co-ords & other co-ords suggested by earlier cachers) but no joy :0(
Even extending our search to huge area, there was no sign of the rhyming 'clue' hide.

Disappointed; but we know we couldn't have tried any harder to find this one & with so many previous logs saying it"s not at GZ, within this area/terrain there are literally dozens of possible hides to search!

TFTC anyway

Out and about on a fine Sunday to find a few caches.
I parked close by and had a short walk to GZ.
A little bit of a search later and the hide was obvious this time. The log book is damp but still writable. Re hid GZ.
Thanks for the cache.

Found it, TFTC TheAmazingBlair.

Pretty quick find after reading the previous logs and the poem, however the log is soaked and needs replacing

Found it!

We have driven almost past this one several times a week since we started Geocaching over a year ago now. Decided it was time to turn this one into a Smilie today. After finding our way into this park and a short walk it was a quick find thanks to the poem. However, the cache, while in its hiding spot the cover was not on it. Fortunately it was nearby so after adding our name to the log we replaced this one with cover and hopefully it will stay safe. TFTC

Was well and truly beaten with this one!

Second visit and searched everywhere and was ready to raise the white flag when Geowife who accompanied me this time and has a fondness for reading and puzzles revealed where it would be.
Log is damp, seems the cache lid is getting loose... TFTC

Sszone does it again! Coordinates were off but all good!!!

This is number 30 for us. Woohoo!! Coords were off for us but we took a gamble at a likely spot and geogirl found it quickly. TFTC

Nice find! The poem was a big help, no pencil in it though so take your own pen!

Found by Sunshine Toledo and Jinga2 at 3:10pm. We have been here several times before and not been able to find this cache. This is a good cache with a good hide but the co-ords are out. The best co-ords for us were 860 and 177. TFTC

Almost gave up but re read the poem and thought about it. Easy when you think about it. Thanks for this cache. The log book needs some attention.

cache find # 1526.
The GPS had us all over the place. So we sat and just waited for it to settle and in the meantime re-read through the poem.
had the cache in hand within seconds.
TFTC.

Beat my friends to the find and won a bet TFTC

Very quick find by our geostudents. Thanks for the very clear description. TFTC

Tricky look down tftc

Quick find today. Nice quite park. Geostudents are super quick now.

Our first geocache
Found it
Pen / pencil no longer there

Found it

GPS a bit jumpy, don't need it once it hits you as to what your looking for TFTC

I have come here four or five times but failed every time to find the cache and became very frustrated! Even more frustrated to read the other geocachers's log comments stating how easy to find it!!
So I sat down and studied the poem more carefully....yessss got it! Should have done that before!
Very clever! Happy to tick it off my nearest home location. TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Yay! We found it.

Looked all around. Then we went to sit down... Amazing the inspiration that hits you when you remember the poem and the name!!!

Awesome.

Next stop on my morning jaunt around Redlands today. I pulled up in the carpark at the tail end of tuna then wandered over. A group of four energex workers over by the main road were keeping an eye on me as I walked around trying to make something of GZ. I search a few places wide of my GZ but all I found was a sleepy toad. So I retreated to the gazebo to read a few logs to try and find a clue to help me out. I started reading the cache page again and the poem, mmm I wonder. Ahh, gotcha! Added another name to the log and replaced.
A favorite from me for this one, great hide and poem, thanks AmazingBlair

Finally found it. My cousin who isn't even a geo cacher found it. I think she''ll be reconsidering.

A great day out on the push bikes with Couchmen in the Cleveland area. About 20 finds for the day, and a few kms rode, getting some good exercise and some finds for the day. We decided to do the local geocaching community a favor, replacing 3 missing caches for the day. Met up with another cacher on the day as well, great to meet you Mr Manly.
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As the name says..... TFTC.

Out with Blacklegend today on what is fast becoming our regular Thursday caching day.

I had found some in this area, he had found others, there were yet others neither had found and there was only a few that we had both found.

Knowing that this was going to happen often with crossover of caches we still covered the whole area we had chosen.

We didn't click with this one straight away so did a bit of searching around then BL read the poem and I gave the missing word and he had it in hand very soon after.

Thanks Amazing Blair TFTC SL

Out on the hunt after a meeting at Carmel college. Yes the coords are out, but between the poem and the logs the hide was found easily enough. Great spot....TFTC!

The pencil is gone so bring your own as a couldn't leave my mark

Thx for our first Cache in Australia! Easy to find. RaSa1104 from Berlin, Germany

No luck for me to find the cache - someone mention about coordinate - need check up and upgrade the coordinate please... Thanks.

What else to do after Chrissy lunch with my nieces & nephew but to head out to find a cache we soon had the cache in hand and signed the log TFTC

A well done cache. The coords are a bit out, but the name & description are pretty good. Well done.

Found at 1045 with the Staunch Gang. Our GPS unit about 19M away from the actual hiding spot. In the end we reread the description, which helped a lot. TFTC.

Found with Treking Trev. TFTC.

Gone I think-please check.

All ok-found as we were leaving.log very wet . Tftc.

Co ords were off but a re read of the description and a further hunt in the general area reaped the reward. Log a bit damp. TFTC

Thought this should be a nice, easy find. A suburban park, D1.5 hide, could be even a tick and flick.
Arrived at the scene after junior was tucked in bed, feet hitting the ground at 8:45ísh pm.

As others have noted, the coords took to middle of a patch of lawn, i.e. pretty much nowhere search-wise. So, checked out the obvious hides nearby and commenced the methodical search. Nothing came up, so resorted to use the distance some had noted as their offset from the GZ. Nothing there either.

Shelter? Nothing.
Playground? Nothing.
Trees? Nothing.
Somewhere else? Nothing...

Oh geez, after 25 mins of scratching my head it was time to admit defeat.
A few earlier finders had noted that they connected the dots form the name and the rhyme, but they didn't open to me tonight. The name is an unfamiliar part of Aussie colloquialisms that I'm yet to learn, and the rhyme remained a mystery, too.

Perhaps on another day, in daylight...
TFTH anyway, TheAmazingBlair!

No luck here.
After the last log maybe the owners should check if the cache is still there.

Going to log this as a DNF. I did find a container with paper in it, but it was burnt and the paper mush, so I am not sure if it was the cache or not. The co-ords would appear to be quite out if the logs are making sense to me too ;-(

Co-ordinates: S27 33.864; E153 16.179 (taken at GZ and checked on Google Earth)

After the Coochie CITO we joined, Egginthesky, and Karenhippo to make a few extra smileys on the way home. Co-ordinates were out, but Egginthesky was a clever egg and deduced the location from the rhyme. What a clever hide. Most people wouldn't even know it was there unless they were looking for it. Co-ordinates posted above was where we found it. TFTC TheAmazingBlair

Nice cache, TFTC.

found tonight after the event in the area.
I liked this hide a lot. unfortunately the coords were not correct, but I was able to find it after thinking about the title and reading the description.
TFTC

DNF for us at those co-ords; nothing that we could see.

Found it, agree with previous finder coords appear to be out. TFTC

Visited with TB Forkie.

Follow the clues and she'll be right.

It was wet. It was cold. It was nighttime. What else does one do other than go caching in the Redlands? Ms Maddy and I did just that and this was next on our map tonight. We parked in a nearby cul-de-sac and sloshed our way to where the GPSrs were pointing. This led us into an open grassy area, so we began searching nearby objects in the drizzle. After no luck a check of the cache page was in order. perhaps I had a language fail because I misinterpreted the hint, but it was Ms Maddy who put 2 and 2 together and we had formed a likely plan. It was nice to step out of the rain for the hunt and after examining a fair few spots we found the suspect and sure enough, below was the cache. Thanks to cloud cover I didn't take a reading tonight, but the co-ords were about 12m off for us. Not too sure about that D1.5 either, might be more like a 2 or 2.5. Either way, not a cache hide I've seen before. TFTC TheAmazingBlair

Sloshed into the dark park with Captain Terror leading the way with the spotlight. We got to GZ and had a suspicion that the cache wouldn't be there...

Dark! Wet! Cold! Great weather for a stroll in a park. My runners had barely dried out from the last soggy caching expedition.

The cap'n read out the description and he suggested we look around for some bales or hail... hmmm

I said the magic word and we were off to a location some 12m or so from the coords. Sorry but we didn't take a reading so can't post updated coords. Knock a couple of neurons together and you'll find a place to search nearby.

A couple of minutes of messing about with the spotlight (boys will be boys) and my insistence that we examine the obvious, and the cache was in hand. Prior to that it was under the cap'ns foot. Probably a D2 rating.

A clever hide TheAmazingBlair, and as you're a noob a FAVE point for your efforts

Best fix up the coords as they're well off the mark.

Great hide

TFTC a good hide well done.

After my previous failed attempt I decided that I should have another attempt

Not a worker in sight today so I started the search. The indicated GZ was in the middle of nowhere so it was a matter of searching for something that fitted the poem.

After a while the penny dropped and then it was an easy find.

TFTC.

Dear oh dear! How did I miss this last week,tonight it was an easy find,but aren't they all once you find them.TFTC TheAmazingBlair.

1630hrs. Pulled up and a muggle was sitting at GZ. We waited a minute and she decided to move on so we moved in for the search. After looking around and rereading the poem the better half suggusted something and there it was. Great hide. TFTCSL

Had a kick and a shuffle around in the dark with torch,but I think there might be something a bit sneeky going on here,will return one day.TFTC.

On our way back from vicky point thought we would find bric a brac on our way home. Found with onward bound. Very clever tftc

Found with Cleveland girl. While she sat puzzling out the poem I sat signing the log. She wasn't happy when she realised what I was doing. Tftc

Tftc amazing Blair, finally got here. Thought it might cheer up two sulky kids you might know.... Success

Worked out the hint, but just couldn't spot one.

Will return, thanks TheAmazingBlair

iPhone had me going in all different directions for this one. Then re-read the clue and the penny dropped. Still took a few minutes to find though. Ingenious hide.

I needed a find for the 12/12/12 and as I was in the Bay area this cache was the nearest that I hadn't found so a detour on the way and I pulled up only to find that council workers had two vehicles parked close to the search area and they were having smoko in the shelter shed. I approached from their rear but the GPS was indicating that i should be directly in front of them so I decided to give it a miss for today. Checked the GPS and the next nearest cache to find is 15km away. Oh well! sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Elephaba here I come. I will be back.

Parked nearby,followed my GPS directions,pretty soon realised was Iclever clue not near cache,but looked around and soon had cache in hand,clever to put a clue in a poem(?).TFTC

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Drove past on the way to work tonight - no time to stop! So close...

Went back on the way home and found it; thanks for your little note and the cache TheAmazingBlair, I did indeed find it under a ... TNLN, a great first cache.