Lance Ambu

I like McToys and americans... ... especially with barbeque sauce Yours faithfully, Crunchy McDevitt (PS has that US moderator gone away yet?)

Thanks After Christmas the house is coming down with batteries for all the kids' stuff and although I'm constantly recharging the NiMh's I keep mixing up fresh and flat batteries - hence the need for the coloured cases. I've ordered 6 items and including P&P it comes in at less than a tenner, so I'm hoping the VAT isn't an issue. Coincidentally that makes the unit price £1.66. Cheaper than the ebay listing referenced above

Is that because it is shipped from the channel isles or some obscure royal mail thing? I found a couple of us based web sites (including the one linked by the maufacturer) selling the items at six dollars !!!! So the uk price plus P&P seemed reasonable.

At a recent cache I claimed a set of batteries, only to discover they were in a handy little case. A quick web search found the manufacturer and then a UK supplier who is selling them cheaply at the minute. As usual, I have no connection to the product or company, but just wanted to let the group know of a handy little holder for the GPSr food. edited to add link to product page

Here Here! Or there there, I hope the shoulder improves, Paul. Congratulations on the 100th, hereinafter refered to "Wee Binian the hard way - in tennis shoes" What next, across the Andes by frog? I can only say I had trouble keeping up with Paul on the way to the ice house and at his rate I'm sure his 200th won't be too far into the future. Cheers

Happy to help

Living as I do in, or is that on, The political football (Northern Ireland) I must say that the political versus geographical debate is not new and most explanations seem to concur. In the interest of impartiality could I suggest a green background with NI floating above it, no Republic of Ireland and no England, Scotland or Wales. I can see why UK flag is appropriate and I can see why exclusion of RoI may be problematic. And furthermore inclusion of RoI plus Union Jack is simply not correct. So is there a win/win here? not if flags are involved, methinks. I promise not to be offended whatever is produced but believe that the designers ultimately have to decide for the sake of expediency. Good luck PS if they land in my caches I will probably keep them for the rarity value

Dear Jeremy@GC.com I must report another case of vandalism. Some nutter has spray painted every rock with the time in large red letters, except this one, where he left behind his lunch box. Please track him down and place a laptop on his lap until they sizzle. yours concerned of Belfast

I agree that it's a bit cheeky, well very cheeky in fact. I really don't mind how many I find or don't find. Certainly if I have a long fruitless search I will be disappointed maybe even annoyed with myself, especially if the cache is there (annoyed with others if it ain't where it is supposed to be). My very first find was a DNF, if you know what i mean, which I didn't log at all for fear of looking stupid. If I had logged a find instead it would have been particularly meaningless. I with you on this Klaus - keep it accurate. If you find it log it, if you don't DNF. If you go back and find it twice, post a note.

Drool, Hmmmm gadgets. I'm not sure if the LED conversion is focusable (spelling?) and here in N Ireland Halfords are selling Maglights up to 3D cells for under £20, price reduction on all models. Maglights are still my favourite. Key ring LEDs are fine. Battery management is the main point. I have seen a 6 cell maglight ruined when leakproof batteries weren't and the torch had been neglected for some time. Shouts to wife, stage left Darling, could I add one more thing to Santa's list?

Welcome to the madhouse. Norn Iron, you say. Well, we really are a friendly bunch. Drop me a note if you want to meet up or check out the guide to most N Ireland caches written by WLW on this site Chocks away, and all that

I agree. You are right. But, and it is a big butt, I was using it in the aural form where it sounds exactly like sick (with or without carrots). Where did me put mine copy of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"? My fave quote from The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perin: CJ "A cliche to me is like a red rag to a bull, Reggie. Me and Mrs CJ avoid cliches like the plaque."

Why, oh why must I suffer the innane scribblings of the posters (sic) to this forum. They ramble on at great length before they get to the point. Sometimes they miss the point altogether. They still don't recognise the irony. Rather than an educational exchange of views supporting a common theme, they introduce levity and humour at every turn, often diverting the more erudite from their reflections. I do not pay my licence fee in order to be force fed inferior posting. I demand that all posts should be submitted in advance to the moderator and a rating or star system applied (suggestions welcomed) I suggest 1 star for a topic completely unrelated to geocaching, all the way up to 100 stars (congratulations on attaining 100 stars) for a topic relating to geocaching, including technical references to equipment, the beauty and/or complexity of a cache, at least one reference to another cacher using their personal name and a treatise on the precise shape of the earth at a specific point several years ago, corrected for continential drift and the prevailing wind. My system, herein after to be named the Fungus the Bogeyman system after a popular childrens book I read when I was a child and it might add a certain charm and mystique (a more mysteriquious way of spelling mystic) to an otherwise boring system that could more simply be called a system, would not end there(add a star if you didn't have to reread that last bit). The moderators will be charged with ensuring that all posts are factual exchanges, on topic and concisely put, are the order of the day. Straying into supposition will probably not be tolerated. Thread drift will have no meaning other than the angle of deviation of twine suspended at one end in a breeze. Concise will rule out posting from lumberjacks. Humour I will deal with as a separate issue due to the importance of its absence. Humour is in the mind of the writer. We do not all subscribe to the mind set that permits humour to classed as the best medicine. Indeed most of us would deny ever having have read the Readers' Digest, not even when they were at the doctors last week. It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. Frowning, someone lost in concentration, slightly puzzled perhaps, or just deep in thought. Deep Thought, now there's a name for a computer. Smiling, an innane facial expression of someone unable to understand the seriousness of their situation. Big smile, now there's a face just asking to be slapped. To sum up Submit your post for moderation and scoring by Fungus the Bogeyman. Do not read posts scoring less than 75, unless it matches your IQ Do not read posts scoring less than 75 unless it is your intention to criticise the posts for scoring less than 75 Remember that people will soon learn to appreciate being told what to write about and will doubtless thank you in the future. PS Yesterday the sun set 3 minutes early compared to my etrex data. Has anyone else noticed that big hills appear to speed up time?

Was it hijacked? - Steady, now! I'm only joking. Seriously, though. It is funny, isn't it? Keep doing it until people stop posting captions. Perhaps every couple of weeks would prevent burnout for the caption writers and give the non readers a chance to not read something else. That way when they don't read the captions, they'll appreciate them more.

1 Oh s***! It's starting to freeze 2 HH, being new to caching, was regarded as still wet behind the ears 3 While you're looking for the "Submarine Ammo Can Cache" could you get me some elbow grease and a tin of stripey paint? 4 Water plaice for salmon to hide a cache 5 Ooops, there go my contact lenses

Do you remeber the days when we used to write <snip> on everything? I digress. When I went to school my physics teacher would always emphasise the need to use units correctly. Hence his oft asked question " ... apples, oranges, what are you talking about?" Now I see that it isn't even oranges - it's pseudoranges! Bring back real oranges, I say!

19:55 I see no cottages. Delete the ad link from your page, insert a text note, upload the page and see if the text appears. Work up to your solution from there. eg link to an existing ad that you know is on the server. I know that's basic advice, but it's all I have. The source code doesn't show an ad, that I can see, nor a space for the ad. No one else seems to see the ad nor does the page appear incomplete. Good luck

Commentator: "Oh dear I think he's spooked! Dolly just has to get the last shepherd on to the bench to win the rematch of "One man and his dog" Well, hello Dolly, Dolly, Dolly. "It might have been a woolly jumper to you. To us it was aunty Wendy, get him girls!" Don't make any sudden moves. They can smell fear you know. By a cruel trick of fate Madaxeman realised that statistics are more than numbers. 50% of same sex cachers, hunting in moorlands on sunday morning, while wearing white t-shirts are mauled by groups of 2 or more rogue sheep. Well Kevin? You finally get to meet the rest of your family. (Work it out yourself, nearly any of those in the photo could be saying this - Lance) Da, she's making eyes at me I only have eyes for ewe Who's looking sheepish? Whose flock's that?

I'm not sure. But it would certainly be a diesel, ohh and it would have a working door handle An Observation from the wife "Is it cheaper to buy a new one than clean out the old one after the Great Northern Cacheing exedition"

Hmmm, I tried that and the trig point was 15 feet to the left of where it should have been. QED

1 "Are we having fern yet?" 2 Hint: hidden under a small child 3 "Nice try son, but you're still not as good as my spaniel" 4 "Don't be silly, there's no quicksand in the forest!"

(Jumps up and down waving) "OooH I know, I know. Please sir, ask me. I know." "But I ain't telling"

A postcard would be no problem Er .. perhaps one in return would be nice. Oh I don't know, maybe a life size poster of your avtar, if it's not too much trouble

Car windscreen frozen at 7pm tonight. A cold rain now (11pm)

Our local macdonalds has WIFI so you find, log and complain about the McToys all in one go. I'm lovin' it