Mr & Mrs Hedgehog

I do think you were very very lucky to get your money back... I've been done on eBay to the tune of £26. eBay didn't want to know. I kissed that money goodbye... There was a seller I dealt with. HE started off good. Selling items cheap, delivery OK. Then he went bad. Took hundreds of pounds of many many people from all over Europe and people never got thier goods. He ran that scan for a couple of months before being banned. I doubt if many of those poeple ever got their money back...

Well they have taken at least one of my caches... and as I don't live that close to Bournemouth anymore, I'm archiving all my caches.... sad to say that the morons have won on this occasion...

As so that's why they never got back to me... they said that they would be interested in me doing a video diary but then it went quiet...

We too are shocked by this news... We met Mark on a couple of occasions and we have nothing but respect for him and especially what he has done for the caching community.. Like everyone said..... very sad news...

No... number 5 is Jackie and Lee from Scoutabout... I know... I took the picture and then they took one of us (number 6)

Gosh I didn't know that we had the most TB's owned All bar one being hedgehogs... hope you are not all sick of them yet HAve been trying to get the record for most TB's found but we just can't keep up with Pyoung1s TB grabbing raids...

congrats from both of us.....

We also always leave a note... even if its just a line saying... took this TB left that TB...

Happy birthday and Happy 100th

Well when we found the Gatwick bug hotel it was in the open, right next to the path and easily spotted by any passer by.... or returning taxi driving trying to work out what his last fare paying passenger was doing We did cover it up before we left BTW Southampton MIGHT have been taken by someone official.... So I don't think we need to over react at this stage....

congrats from both of us

We got a cache called Mills and Boom which was just a traditional cache. However the box got completely waterlogged as the corner of the field we placed it in got flooded... So we are going to replace in another location nearby. At the same time we are going to add another part to it. This cache is designed to show off a particular location, but you can acess it from another direction and miss the mill altogether... we've been debating whether to set it up as a new cache. I guess from what you've said that you think we should as it really changing to a multi-cache as well... Would any of you submit a new cache listing is you've just changed the location of the box?

We can send you one of our calling cards... and do you want a fluffy hedgehog as well???

I agree with you mongoose about the VR boxes... we've since found 6 of them... but better not say too much...... Yes Mr Womble I think this is great news for Geocaching... like I said this is only a consultation paper, I'm really hoping geocaching makes it to the final draft. It would be so interesting to see how many councils put geocaching pages on thier web site, having seen it being specifically mentioned in the proposals. I know I'll be pressing my boss to put some on ours and it will give me a bit more ammo in my dicussions with our Parks and Leisure department, who I've been having quiet words with recently to get geocaching recognised by them....

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has released a consultation paper entitled "DEFINING E-GOVERNMENT PRIORITY SERVICES & TRANSFORMATION OUTCOMES IN 2005 FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND" snappy title isn't it The documenmt is available here Basically it gives Local Authorities Proposed Priority areas for 2005, concerining web sites, e-government etc. Ususally nothing much to write home about but section 7 Libraries, Sports and Leisure does contain an item of interest..... "Best practice outcomes in 2005 to include..... Direct promotion of, and initiatives around, healthier lifestyles (e.g. information and downloadable / interactive maps for local cycle and walking routes, geocaching initiatives)." I didn't know that Geocaching was an initiative. So to reach government target I'm going to have to put geocaching on my councils website (I'm a web developer for them for those that don't know). So I'm just off to try to get my boss let me go on a fact finding mission to find out more about geocaching.... how long do you think I'll need... a week, fortnight.. month?????

congrats from both of us

How you do so many caches never ceases to amaze us... well done to you both.

congrats from us

Mrs H and I were looking for a suitable cache to do for our 300th cache when we are in Luton this weekend... Looks like this one will do just fine

A postman who found a letter box..... surely your employers should tell you where they are???

But Victorian ones have a small opening.... so the bomb will be smaller... So surely a terriorist will be after the bigs ones.... Are you sure this isn't an April Fool??

and we've just found two.... What a load of rubbish this security stuff is.... we go over the top on it in this country.... I'm sure the terriorists are laughing themselves silly by the way some 'authorities' act.... They have acheived their aims...

Just been chatting to our GIS guy here. He think that someone has dug a pond... I'm of the thought that its something that sunken rather than raised

Very well done from both of us. That is just amazing.

I've replied to Team Piggy directly with an offer of help with this. We had also written to Team Piggy about this.