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I'd be glad anyway but as the dad of an overexcited 6y old whose first TB is in there I'm even happier (It's a red nose heading in the general direction of Amarillo, if he'd let me make the very well worn CD into a TB then United could have kept it ) Thanks for your efforts and the lift!

Just for info, 0.7% of people with new diagnoses are male...about 300 a year. I suppose it's a pragmatic whatever raises the most funds (which go into the overall Cancer Research UK pot) but I agree that it seems odd to exclude people

Nice non-event Good to put some faces to names. Thanks for organising it

Haven't made it to one of these before but hope to get at least one of us there Still not sure I've got the hang of this 16 real ales part - you'll have to demonstrate

Ambridge is where The Archers is set and I decided that they needed a cache on the footpath across the village green. I suppose it counts as a virtual traditional although they did get a webcam recently...

It helps if you listen to "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" already but try Mornington Crescent starting 15 min 16 secs in. (The link is to "The last programme" so it will probably change to the wrong edition in a day or two but is working Sunday night...)

You know what it's like around here - they're going for the FTA (First to adopt). They'll be lucky if they don't have people turning up on their doorstep with headtorches at two in the morning

We spotted the RJ Mitchell TB in a cache in the Lakes when planning a trip. (The designer of the Spitfire) Its mission is to visit airfields but didn't think it would mind a detour to see his birthplace - a very ordinary 2 up 2 down near Stoke...

Hurry up with the photo - this boy standing on my shoulder is really heavy

Used them a couple of times - fast, good and reliable every time (they do a 4xAA box to recharge an iPaq or run it for several hours for those embarrassing moments too )

Otterboxes etc as discussed in another thread are all but bomb proof - if you just need cheap waterproofing then an Aquapac can literally go in the bath or even a day walking in the Lakes.

I see the last four logs all have the GPS struggling under the tree cover which wouldn't help, especially if you aren't sure what you're looking for and the sort of places they often end up. We haven't done many but it does get quite a lot easier after the first few when you start to tune in to the usual suspects. Everyone has their own way of doing this but when starting with youngster in tow I looked at every log/clue/spoiler photos/the lot to try to be sure of a find before there was any suggestion of feeling dragged out into the woods to get bored. Our youngster got hooked anyway but we helped the brainwashing along by "rehearsing" some of the first ones - ie I did some of them first then we went back another day to "find them." I still might if the logs said anything like "brilliant hide in cunning location - took ages over 2 visits" but he's getting better at spotting them than I am anyway Have fun

I've had this message sometimes with an iPaq/MM/Navman sleeve setup. Have you tried the Memory Map support forum? Variable but can get good responses from company techies Some rs232 queries already

The last one of these we used had a plaque on stating that the bloggins act of year whatever had been repealed in year something else so the theoretical offence didn't exist anymore anyway. The defence rests your honour

Me too please (or me three please to be accurate )

We had to wait for a crowd of muggles to disperse from a cache today as they'd been watching a cow swimming up the canal before it was retrieved Cow rescue was already underway when we arrived so we were no help ourselves. No I didn't have my camera The Plough - Phecda Having said that it looked like it was a real cow but it was at a tricky aRRKS cache and now you come to mention it...

When are they going to give up - it was an acorn when they started looking for that micro...

Are there any stats on GCUK about the last time nothing happened?

BBC news yesterday... "A shoe thought to be at least 2,000 years old, and the oldest in the UK, has been dug up at an English quarry. The Iron Age relic was found in a hollowed tree trunk at Whiteball Quarry, near Wellington, Somerset. The reason for its presence in the well or spring is a mystery." Obviously the shoe TB was the only thing to survive as ammo boxes in those days would be a goatskin quiver or similar. Now thats a slow FTF

I had the OS 1:25000 for The Lakes from Memory-Map and it came with aerial photos of the region. The aerials are unashamedly a toy almost all of the time but you're right - I was surprised how often my tracks were straying from the footpaths on the map but flipping to the aerials showed where the paths actually ran and it emphasized that there are some pretty big blips

Another variation would be wondering when & how it could be suggested that an owner recycles a once popular cache that has now had 99% of the finds it will ever get... Not really relevant to me as a not particularly active newbie in a reasonably cache rich area - I've got enough excellent caches within 15 or so miles on my first couple of pages to keep me going for ages. I presume though that those with hundreds of finds are driving for miles to get to fresh caches which is probably why any new cache here (Cheshire) seems to get 3/4 of its finds in a scrum in the dark in the first 2 hours after it is approved Rather than just packing more caches into an area, current owners could be prompted to turn their old and now seldom visited cache into a new multi or add some tricky micro stages or a challenging puzzle in a slightly different part of the already approved area or just a different traditional. You'd then get logs saying "Thanks for bringing me back to this lovely nearby area that I was last in 2 years ago.." and get a new find for the number chasers, new FTF etc without their driving past 50 caches that have been long done by most active locals. You might wind up those who have nearly cleared their county or whatever but gain a flow of local caches for those who have long cleared a fifty mile radius without people resorting to putting a micro on their nearest bit of waste ground. Classics or popular/active ones would obviously stay and active owners could presumably opt to leave them alone - but they may want to enjoy placing and sharing a new cache without the hassle they had of getting the permission to use that site originally for one that is long done...

We can get it down to a 14 day old Wasn't much help but there was an aRRKS micro to find so neither was I She's up to double figures at 10 weeks old and at this rate we think will catch Seasider by the age of 25y