First pre-dawn cache of the year - 7/1/2010

Had time to stop for a cache-and-dash on the way to work this morning, so chose Help Our Heroes, a microcache hidden at a War Memorial in Mapperley, Nottingham. The Memorial (and very nearly all places in the UK have them) is a tribute to local soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who lost their lives serving their Country, not a tribute to war itself.

A nice, simple find, and a sturdy container too, better than the usual 35mm camera film pots that are often used for microcaches. After signing the log and replacing the cache I decided to take a couple of photographs of the monument in the snow at 4:30 am. This one is without flash assistance;

I was about to take a shot with the flash when I noticed a police car cruising past very slowly, and as it is now illegal to "be in possession of any material useful to a terrorist", i.e. any photograph of a place where members of the public are likely to gather, I decided that one snap would be enough and returned to my car.