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Firelanterns

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  1. Thanks for your responses - appreciate the support - and apologies for use of the wrong forum ! - have re-posted in the UK forum... shows how behind I am in the geocaching world... hope to catchup soon ! All the best Darren (aka Firelanterns)
  2. Geocachers, I felt I owed everyone an apology, geocachers, reviewers and moderators, for the demise of Flonopoly. So here it is.. I planned meticulously, designed and setup Flonopoly, with the help of fantastic reviwers, being a realy enthusiastic geocacher for a good while - I was proud of the result. Then without dwelling too much life pretty much fell apart with family, work and illness - and I'm afraid to say I just ignored everything geocaching related - which is something that as a cache finder I used to hate in other cache setters ! I'm very sorry for letting this series go to waste - and to those that never got round it, again, apologies. I'm back in the land of the living now, although won't be able to get round london to maintain this lot. I may set the odd new cache, and will certainly try and find some again - but I don't have the resource to keep Flonopoly alive. A couple of cachers emailed me asking if they could take the series on - and I'm afraid I never even responded such was my state of mind. If there is anyone out there who would like all the planning stuff and logo's I did, I'd be honoured to pass it on - and let someone else may be re-name it and make it their own. You can email me through geocaching or feel free to send me an email on ds@firelanterns.co.uk. If someone takes it on, I'll post it here. So for all the frustration of this series falling down - one last big apology - I'm very sorry. To those that did some or all of the series - your logs made me very happy, and to you, thank you. All the best geocachers.. Firelanterns (aka Darren)
  3. Dear The Tigglets, I have just posted a note re Flonopoly - I'd welcome you taking it on - pls see my other post - and once again, huge apologies for the massive delay in responding.. All the best Firelanterns
  4. Geocachers, I felt I owed everyone an apology, geocachers, reviewers and moderators, for the demise of Flonopoly. So here it is.. I planned meticulously, designed and setup Flonopoly, with the help of fantastic reviwers, being a realy enthusiastic geocacher for a good while - I was proud of the result. Then without dwelling too much life pretty much fell apart with family, work and illness - and I'm afraid to say I just ignored everything geocaching related - which is something that as a cache finder I used to hate in other cache setters ! I'm very sorry for letting this series go to waste - and to those that never got round it, again, apologies. I'm back in the land of the living now, although won't be able to get round london to maintain this lot. I may set the odd new cache, and will certainly try and find some again - but I don't have the resource to keep Flonopoly alive. A couple of cachers emailed me asking if they could take the series on - and I'm afraid I never even responded such was my state of mind. If there is anyone out there who would like all the planning stuff and logo's I did, I'd be honoured to pass it on - and let someone else may be re-name it and make it their own. You can email me through geocaching or feel free to send me an email on ds@firelanterns.co.uk. If someone takes it on, I'll post it here. So for all the frustration of this series falling down - one last big apology - I'm very sorry. To those that did some or all of the series - your logs made me very happy, and to you, thank you. All the best geocachers.. Firelanterns (aka Darren)
  5. All, Thanks for your patience, and once again apologies for not keeping up on maintenance due to my personal circumstances - if you've emailed me and i haven't responded, again, i apologise ! All caches (bar 1 - park lane - missed it!) - have now been checked and replaced - and thanks to Master Mariner for sorting out 2 of them (including a positional change!) life is now a little better, and i'm back on the caching trail again - and i WILL keep on top of this lot - flonopoly WILL NOT DIE ! - indeed, i still have the plot for a bigger london series i was going to do 8 months ago before things all went horribly wrong - if i've got the balls and the time i may get this one up and running as well ! Thanks again to all - especially the reviewers for holding off archiving my little slice of London ! All the best Darren (firelanterns - and its just me!)
  6. Hi All, firstly thanks to rodz for checking in with me and prompting me to write this... Big apologies to all you cachers out there who have struggled with my un-maintained caches - up until June time i was on the case with maintaining everything and replied to every email i got with queries - i know how annoying it can be to search for a cache to find it not there !. I have had a total personal nightmare since early June, family health issues and horrible situations, and have quit my job also through that becoming a disaster as well - i'm afraid everything fell by the wayside, including friends and geocaching whilst i got through this. Things are getting back to normal slowly, family crisis becoming easier to manage, and new job within a couple of weeks (subject to a final interview with Cisco on Monday! - any cachers work for them ?!) Anyway, enough of my personal issues ! - i'd like to apologise to everyone, i assure you i have not abandoned the series, but as unfortunately "firelanterns" is just little old me, i have had no-one to fall back on to keep things going. I still have the geocaching bug - give me a couple of weeks to get things back up to speed, and flonopoly will be resurected. Indeed, there are 3 caches in the east end that i hid but haven't published yet, and was half way through planning my next London mega series - possibly better than flonopoly - when all this happened ! - that will probably have to wait till next year to finish unfortunately, but i WILL get there ! If you feel you've had a mare with flonopoly drop me an email and i'll send you a pathtag as resompense ! - honestly, please do, i appreciate some people have put effort in and struggled with the "geo-litter" ?! Once again folks apologies - and thanks again to rodz for emailing me. All the best Darren (firelanterns)
  7. As the cacher responsible for setting 2 of the most recent Greenwich Park cache's (Cache Ahoy and Greenwich Herbs), I feel I should add my penny's worth of comment... I too will always try and seek permission for a cache if I think it's necessary(and out of courtesy even when i don't deem it necessary!), and in the case of these 2 I did write a hard copy letter and have sent 2 emails to the park authorities to try and gain permission. As the reviewing team had the park marked as "no permission necessary", having had no response to my letters(no surprise), and seeing cache's already present in the park anyway, I went ahead, responsibly (I think!) in 2 park boundary locations. I am also a "friend of Greenwich Park" and have been for 10 years. It appears that Master Mariner was at least a little more successful than I in getting a response, albeit a negative one, when applying for a new cache in the park. First point to make - I have absolutely no issue with Master Mariner then notifying the cache reviewers that there was an issue with Greenwich park cache's. When I was notified by Graculus that the park authorities didn't want cache's in the park, I archived them straight away, and removed the physical boxes within a few days. The responsible thing to do, and following the guidelines of geocaching. So - permission or no permission ? - I think cache setters like myself will often try (and often fail!) to get permission as it seems geocaching is a long way off some people's radar ! so PERSONALLY I see no harm in respectfully placing cache's in areas that MAY not need permission, such as Greenwich Park. However, some geocachers take great pride in gaining permission, and see this as part of the cache setting challenge. Who is right ? - to my mind both of us, it's just interpretation of where permission is and isn't necessary - and giving it a go, again respecting the rules of the game and the places where cache's could be hidden. 2nd and most important point - it's wrong to have a pop at cachers for doing the responsible thing and following the rules, when a rule is clearly pointed out, as has been here. It may be unrelated, but Master Mariner has seen fit to archive all his Riverside series of cache's around Greenwich Peninsula, and (forgive me for meddling!) I think I speak for the masses when I say that's a great shame, as it is an excellent series of well maintained and well thought out cache's - with, from what I understand, permission to be there. So - for now, I'll leave my cache's archived, as I have no permission for them to be there. I'm going to send the log books to the park authorities and try and explain exactly how good caching is at getting people to places they may not usually visit, and maybe suggest working with THEM to set caches, it may take some time, but hopefully i'll get them re-instated. What would ALSO be good (and forgive me again for meddling!) is if whoever started throwing mud around about what is and isn't right could have a re-think, and maybe address that - as currently Greenwich has not only lost it's park cache's, but well over a dozen more good cache's that have been archived for some unknown reason but i would guess to make (quite rightfully) a point. Whether this is unrelated, or whether those concerned change their respective minds or not who can say, but for the good of Greenwich Geocaching, I hope something gets resolved..... I'll get off my soap box now.... Good caching folks ! Firelanterns.
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