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We drove back for Callington yesterday along the A390 back to Gunnislake.
I eyeballed the boxes through St Ann's Chapel.
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Trouble is, No24 isn't there any more. I seem to remember that they took that one away some years ago, but I sort of forgot.

Next week, I'll be doing the boxes. I'm going to make a note of Victorian, Edwardian(s), Georgian(s) and Elizabethan.
I'll make a head-count of them all.
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may be even a "Charlie Boy" box

Who will be the first one amongst us to bag a King Charles PB
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Mick F wrote: 17 Mar 2023, 9:26am If the land was flat, it would be easy peasy to work out the shortest way of doing this.
If it was easy it wouldn't have been one of the Holy Grails of mathematics for over a century. Currently, exact solutions aren't possible beyond 85,900 points, and simply working through all the permutations by trial and error isn't possible beyond 20 points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travellin ... an_problem
Mick F wrote: 17 Mar 2023, 10:26am Note that it's 23.33miles and with 2,974ft of ascent.
Sounds like a happy couple of hours eh?
But where's your evidence that it's the shortest route?
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Shortest?
Dunno, not used trial and error for it, but knowing the area extremely well, I know which way I will go.

The issue is the ascent and using easy ascents. Not that I can do "easy" ones, other that I can pick and choose which ones.

One of the problems I have, is that a route up Colley Cliff from the village to No3 at Okenhays and No4 at Sandways Crossing over the railway, is that there has been a landslide up Colley Cliff and the road is completely closed, so I'll need another route, or a rethink about which is the first section.

Just here.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.51341 ... 384!8i8192
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Doing some research online, there is no info about the road closure.
However, the road is actually closed!
Loadsa signs up about it.
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Done a bit of construction on BikeHikUK and I can not do Colley Cliff, and it takes 24miles BUT with 3,25ft of ascent. :shock:
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Walking the dog (in the pouring rain) earlier, and was going to have a shufti at the landslip. Before we got there, a friend drove towards us driving a big 4x4 pickup. He stopped for a chat, and I asked him if the road was clear now.

No it wasn't, but he managed to get through and many (normal) cars have done too, and riding a bike would easily get through.

:D :D
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I walked up the hill yesterday with the dog, and took these photos.
No problem for a bike. :D

Forecast is for sunshine and showers tomorrow, so I'll be out on Moulton doing the 'boxes.
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Mick F wrote: 22 Mar 2023, 2:46pm I walked up the hill yesterday with the dog, and took these photos.
No problem for a bike. :D

Forecast is for sunshine and showers tomorrow, so I'll be out on Moulton doing the 'boxes.

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Sadly, won't be happening today! :cry:

Won't happen on Friday or Saturday either. Stuff to do today, I have to be driving tomorrow and Saturday ferrying Mrs Mick F, but Sunday is looking good. On top of all that, I'm still redecorating the livingroom. Long complicated process.

Not only being busy, but the weather forecasts aren't good until Sunday.
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Well .................

Off I went this morning, and the ride was hard work in the extreme. Not only because I'm out of shape for cycling, but due to the massively steep climbs.

I didn't complete my task today. :oops:
However, I cut the last leg short and just headed home - via the pub!

Meanwhile, there was one postbox No4 removed in Calstock village centre at Levines shop (now closed), and two I never saw. One of them is perhaps removed, and the other I turned off before getting to it, mistake!

Here's the list so far.
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Cleve 18 I didn't see, and Rising Sun 1 (yes it's a place, not a pub!) I missed out by turning off too soon.
I cut short and didn't do 25 to 32.

18.15 miles done, and with 2,973ft of ascent.
That's 163.8ft per mile. :shock: :shock: :shock:
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PS:
GR is George 5th
VR is Victoria
X wasn't there
E2p is E2R on a post
E2R is in a wall
E2ps is E2R a modern one on a post with a sticker.
E2c is a E2R clamped onto a wooden post.
Most of the boxes are set into a wall.

There are six Victorian ones so far.
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Update.
It's been chucking it down these last couple of days, and likely to do so all this week, so I won't be cycling. I'm not a glutton for punishment! :wink:

One of the boxes I missed the other day, I was doubtful that it was actually in Calstock Parish. I finally found a definitive map and lo and behold, the box is a few yards OUTSIDE to parish boundary. So I'll not be going back to it.

Here's the map, with my annotation of where the box is.
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Here's the Google streetview of it.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.49762 ... 384!8i8192
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Done them all now. :D :D

33 of them, 1 to 24 last Sunday, and 25 to 33 today.

I was chatting about this "post boxes" thing the other day, and making the point that there was a likelihood that George VI post boxes didn't exist. After all, he didn't reign for that long, and it most? of it was during WW2 and all that. Cast iron would have been in short supply perhaps.

However, today, I fount TWO George VI boxes. Two different designs as well!

Screenshot of my list, and two shots of the G6 boxes.
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Mick F wrote: 2 Apr 2023, 1:53pm ...
I was chatting about this "post boxes" thing the other day, and making the point that there was a likelihood that George VI post boxes didn't exist. After all, he didn't reign for that long, and it most? of it was during WW2 and all that. Cast iron would have been in short supply perhaps.
...
"King George VI post boxes in the United Kingdom":
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... ed_Kingdom

covers all four countries, and for England lists them by county.

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