Pokemon Go #3 The Cubone's connected to your...

What does everyone else do with their Mr Mimes and Jynxes? I currently have 13 Mr Mime and about 9 Junx all taking up room in my storage (running low). It feels a shame just to send them to the grinder because there's no point in powering them up.

Turns out DD also wants coins to increase her items and pokemon storage, but she's only getting in after I do, it's MY phone.

On the way home today I detoured to pop one of my guys into a space in a gym, then DD and I popped out after school for me to nab a space in a local gym - I checked it was still held by our team before we left the house. By the time we got there it was red, so I battled it to grey and popped my guy in. Literally a couple of minutes later it was back to red, so battled again and back to blue, with my guy back in. I need to hang on in there for another hour and a half to get any coins. I don't dare check in the meantime. LOL!

QueenLizIII I've seen Pikachu on the 'sightings' screen twice now, but no sign of him. If he shows up it better be when I'm on foot and have to time log in and out to get him for DD and DS as well, rather than when I'm on a bus or they'll never speak to me again.

DD and DS have an activity this evening, so I'm planning on going walking whilst they're there as I agree that there seem to be more pokemon around than before the changes so I want to see what I can catch.

Still holding 8 gyms and am amazed not to have lost the two L1s today! Maybe it was too cold out.

I have managed to refill my bag and also caught a tonne of Pokemon - need to spend some time appraising and transferring.

I've definitely seen loads today and am running very low on balls.
I've also taken down the local gym from level 9 l the way to zero all by myself in just over half an hour. Definitely a lot easier now.

Currently holding 5 gyms but can only claim in the morning - have no hope of keeping them all but hopefully at least 3!

I have pikachu on radar. cant find him

I've seen so many Pokemon today that I'm now out of balls.

I've been seeing more in the nearby bit but hardly any actually shown up, but I haven't been walking round town today. Hopefully I can get my bike sorted tomorrow so I can go for a ride round town. Really need to get to a pokestop as I'm almost out of balls and I want the bonus.

Ahhh it's so much better now, ever since Halloween 💃🏻

I have been randomly catching Mr Mimes and deleting them for a while as they are never that high CP so I caught them for the XP and then just kept the top one.

Now I have two that are over 1000CP and not bad. But I have about 125 Mr Mime candies. Oops wonder what to do with all that candy.

I am 2 candies off evolving Vulpix which pleases me: cant wait to see Nine Tales.

I cant decide to buddy, Squirtle, Bulbsaur, Machop, Mankey, Dratini, Kabuto next

I did notice more stuff coming from pokestops and thought it was my lucky day.
Have noticed a few Pokemon as well but as I was driving I had to let them go! Boo.

The increased drops is handy. Will help me to fill ds1's bag for him.

I do hope they release gen 2 sooner than later, otherwise they'll lose the interest of key players that have completed the dex already.
I'm only on 115 but it's going to be forever to get the candy I need to evolve the last ones - a fresh batch whilst slogging away at the last few gen 1s would be great.

I've lost motivation today now I've got my Venosaur

Wow - the gym prestiging changes have decimated London gyms. The 10 dragonite towers are now level 2 and the only L5 is clearly being bubble stratted.

I think gyms are only locked for you once you take down an enemy gym and turn it grey. I did read somewhere too that the prestige of a gym can also go up whilst u r battling so whilst u r busy battling someone can also slip their poke in ( ooh err mrs!). In which case i don't know what u can do to avoid that. Normally I dont fight with my defender but I wanted to put my best poke in but then also needed him to battle. Because it was quiet and cold I didn't think I needed to be so careful. Should have realised that the only other people stupid enough to be out late in the cold would be other Pokemon hunters.

Another event! Increased spawns and increased drops from pokestops for a few days

I feel your pain tumpy it has also happened to me. That exact thing. Including being in the cold alone.
Like the others I now decide which one I'll put in before I battle and don't use it for fighting.
I thought someone said the gym was locked for you for a little while though? Or is that just for an enemy gym?

tumpy that's tough! Good advice to keep a safe one to pop in quickly. I've always battled quiet gyms with plenty of time for healing, I'd be livid if all that time and potions were wasted!

Is it just me, or does Grimer lurking behind my avatar there remind anyone else of Trump skulking about behind Clinton during the presidential debates? Certainly looks more stalker than buddy to me. But I need those candies, so...

(On unrelated note, I really do like that you now get 25XP for monsters that go pouff! - still hugely frustrating, of course, but at least you get SOMETHING...)

I just collected TWELVE items from one pokestop visit!

Raging tumpy - I totally feel your pain! We never battle with the one we want to put into the gym in case of that exact scenario!

Aww tumpy that sucks. I did it once but on a level one he'd just kicked me out of!

Ok, I need to get a grip and realise that this is JUST A GAME!! And I need to rant! Have just been out for dinner with lovely mum friends I haven't seen for ages. Rather than get a lift home I opt to walk, so I can walk my bulbasaur and catch Pokemon on the way home (although I don't admit this to my friends). From my house I can see 4 gyms. 3 are always red now, 1 is yellow (my team) but it is always level 10 so no room for me. This evening on the way home I see it has gone down to level 9 so I take a detour and stand there in the cold battling. I'm wondering if I have lost my marbles, a grown mother, nearly 50 years, standing in the cold, jabbing at my phone, vulnerable. But I think it will be worth it because my timer ends in a few hours and I only have 1 other poke in a gym so it will be great to collect 20 coins for once. I battle hard and thankfully with numb fingers the prestige goes up to 50000. But then whilst I am reviving my best Pokemon to put in someone walks past. I go to put him in and Blody h**l there's no extra spot. The person who walked past must have nabbed my spot. And what really makes me mad is that is someone from my own team. I wouldn't mind so much if I had turned a gym grey and someone valour or mystic snuck in but it feels worse that it was a fellow team member. So I had to then walk all the wAy home with frozen fingers. Not happy, sorry rant over!