A Top Ten for 2007 Mystery Cache
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Next in a short series which started with "A First for 2007". The cache is not at the published coordinates.
The following short story cryptically conceals a personal top ten. You need to identify them all (A-J, given by the order in which they appear), and then convert them into numbers in some way, in order to work out the cache coordinates.
**Remember that if you are coming to this cache after picking up the clues in "Arguably the hardest bonus cache in the UK" you might be able to spot the items earlier than other solvers. The position of each item is when it is unambiguously identified by the cryptic clues in the text.**
"I Must Do Better"
Charlie Estevez was a large, lazy boy, prone to lounging on the sofa, eating enormous quantities of his favourite food (hard-boiled eggs or bacon sarnies) and watching telly. "Charlie, don't surf those TV channels," yelled his mum, Anne, from the next room. "Why don't you do something more useful instead?" Charlie thought about going to his bedroom and listening to music but Mrs Bixby, who lived next door, was always complaining when he played music late at night. Anne said that Mrs B had become sad and lonely since her five sons left home but Charlie thought she just liked to moan. Even her cat, Blue, didn't like being with her and these days spent most of his time round at Anne and Charlie's. He was curled up at Charlie's feet right now.
Apart from Blue, Anne and Charlie lived alone; Charlie's father was a gentleman "from the continent" who had passed through the lives of Anne and her sister many years earlier: Charlie was the result.
Charlie had no idea what he wanted to do when he left school. He supposed he might end up, like most of his friends, going into the army. As the light of the TV screen flickered on his face he wondered if he really wanted to be a soldier? Blue jumped down from the sofa and headed for the kitchen. Charlie did have one smart friend, John; but oddly, given his bookishness, John wanted to be a carpenter. Anne came into the room and again told him to turn off the TV. From her expression Charlie could see she meant it. An icy look it was, not angry; but totally firm and brooking no argument. Charlie got up and went to his room.
It was a typical teenager's room, with clothes on the floor and posters on the walls. Most of these were of favoured actresses, although the presence of a large poster of Einstein was perhaps a little unusual. Charlie had once hoped to be a great scientist and do something like curing cancer or solving the threat of global warming, but that seemed far too geeky these days. And anyway, how could he save the entire world when he couldn't even save one life: his own? He put on an album and mumbled along to the words, which seemed strangely appropriate: "welcome to where time stands still".
Here's some extra clues to finding my top ten and the cache
120?3810?052
alpha, bravo, charlie, delta,....
For interest, but totally unrelated to solving the cache, my top ten in order are
BHFGDJEAIC
The cache can be located at
N 51 1(C-A).(B+F+D)(J-B)(C-A)
W 000 2H.E(I-F+H)(G-I+A)
Please replace the cache carefully and don't leave any spoilers in the logs. Hope you enjoy this cache a fraction as much as I have enjoyed my top ten.
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)