kewfriend

hmmmmm ........ let me guess ........ an Obama voter

Here are some flowers to make you and Deci feel better.

I finally received my mission today, and I have a coin ready. It'll go off over the weekend hopefully. 1. Participating: mail sent: 2. Received Name: 3 Nov 08 3. Mission Complete: pending 4. Package Received!:

No apologies on this one folks: I'm involved in negotiating a formal landowner agreement with those that control a substantial swathe of south west London heathland, a large part of which is SSSI and on which there are already many caches. Our friendly over-worked reviewers are being kept informed and inevitably some of the caches (in the wrong place) will have to be archived to allow the others to survive. As an active keen and thoroughly incompetent cacher, I personally dont want a repeat of the Greenwich Park fiasco so I have come clean to the authorities about the caches, spent an hour with the the Chair and the Chief Exec today, and am supplying them with the assistance of our friendly reviewers any additional info they require. I cannot guarantee that any cache will survive - no one can - as their senior Board has to approve or not approve, but I mindful to be mildly optimistic. The alternate was their 'uncovering' by accident, ructions and their being summarily removed, a likely outcome given the cache density. dont shoot the messenger

KewFriend and FewKinder can assure those that know us, that we were not involved

I suggest closing this discussion. I think everyone may have pontificated rather too fast and dug themselves into corners.

Phew they may even have read the thread and have now logged the cache and hopefully the coin will be logged soon. Some Garmins certainly seem to be doing disappearing tricks!!

FewKinder and myself are just back from caching in the New Forest: good experience by the way. At the Rufus Stone cache we ran into some newbies: mum, dad and five (yes five) children. Together we all found the cache and since the little one found the cache first we insisted the family have the geocoin in the cache. They were local cachers out for 'half-term' fun - just five miles or so away as it happens. The problem is this. Now a week later that we are back I checked to see not just that they had logged the cache and had a good time (NO they hadnt logged the cache), but more importantly they had not logged the geocoin - and I did explain the purpose of all the little numbers etc etc. I have emailed the coin owner, but I feel guilty that inadvertently I may have effectively trashed their geocoin by insisting the newbies dealt with it. Now here's the stupid bit: I didnt get their caching name but I think they had at least two names between them, but they may never have logged a cache. The only hope is that I did make them sign the log and explain it as part of the process. Aaaarggh!

I remember when: Petrol was 4/6d a gallon Cache was really cash Tupperware was an excuse for a ladies' night in All toys were educashunal The Hunting of the Snark was a poem A walk in the woods was an excuse for .... ? The Batmobile existed but the CacheMobile didnt Ammo cans were left behind after CCF camp and Lee Enfield was a 303 The US of A was over there and it didnt matter and of course the map was pink - and pink didnt mean gay.

RISK ASSESSMENT FORM BEFORE you attempt any geocache please complete this form and despatch it to GC.COM. Further copies can be lodged with the Coastguard, Mountain Rescue, Cave rescue, Fire Protection officer, Serious Transmissable Diseases Unit, the Electrocution Protectoratee and the Gas Insurgency Council. 1) Are you of sound mind? ( a ) YES ( b ) NO If your reply was the affirmative, that is your response was (a), then please explain in the space below why you are completing this form? 2) Do you truly believe that there are little objects circling your head beaming down radio waves that can help you determine where you are on the planet with the aid of two batteries, some string and and a keypad decorated object? ( a )YES ( b ) NO If your reply was affirmative, that is your response was (a) and your answer to question (1) was ( b ), ie negative please recommence this form and alter your response to question (1) 3) Will your visit to a geocache involve your leaving the safety of your own home? ( a ) YES ( b ) NO If your reply was affirmative, that is your response was (a) then immediately cease all activity. 4) Will your caching expedition require and special equipment to include but not exclusively: a geoprodder, a kitkat, a sharp pointed transcription instrument, a MacToy, a TravelBug. the last of these is particularly dangerous, but all will require their own risk assessment form. 5) Will your caching expedition involve you at any time being indeterminate about your precise location? ( a ) YES ( b ) NO It is particularly important that you are able to answer NO to this question as failure to be precise about your exact current location may place you half way up a cliff on the way down, half way across a river on the way down, half way across a motorway about to be flattened. 6) ....... OMG not another question .....

hmmmmm even this monster is in

Email sent - and you'll spot why its so appropriate when you read the email LOLOLOL 1. Participating - Email Sent 10/16/08 2. Received Name - 3. Mission Complete - 4. Package Received -

OMG - anythwith congrats automatically goes into spam and the spam is emtpied - eeeeeek I'll never know

Tinkerbell has told me to go and visit the London Stage One as there seems to have been a few recent DNFs on it. That is planned for this weekend: patience please (and if the stage one has gone AWOL, which would be quite an achievement given how it was secured), then a replacement is already being prepared.

just 300 more to go - aaaaargh!

It doesnt worry me that much but as far as I can fathom it: * the advanced search works fine but .... * the front page search (so to speak) resolves the first part of the postcode only *any error either in typing or trying to resolve a valid postcode defaults to the next nearest country with postcoding * the poscode database is not that up to date =================== and while we are on about google and postcodes etc, why does GE pull up all the member caches, is that because the GE GC.COM addin is only available to members or what?

It never occurred to me that trains could become lost

To pay, or not to pay: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler at the cache to offer The slings and arrows of outrageous meaness, Or to pay arms into the bank of dollars, And by not paying GC dot COM? To die: to sleep; PAY and disPLAY - I do

In this day and age, banging out email requests left right and centre is unproductive. The authorities of any available space need to chat with individual responsible geocachers and assess in the light of personal encounters with geocachers. They may still say no, but they will no longer be invited to make off the cuff and instant decisions. Be savvy - and plan your locations and requests subtly.

Of course its about the numbers. TYPING in the digits of the cache wrongly and going for a walk in the wrong county That FIRST ever cache, which was only a one star diff but was so horribly impossible to find Discovering someone else signed up at the same time is on 99 FINDS when you are still in single figures Finally admitting to your FIRST DNF, only to discover that you'd gone chasing a temp disabled cache SETTING your first cache and getting the coordinates wrong, the clue wrong and even the size of the container wrong Tackling a puzzle cache and coming up with the perfect solution - except its WRONG! You PAF and get granny by mistake! You get the FTF but someone gets the electronic log in before you do You leave your new GPS on the wrong datum and cant understand why you are 300 feet out You work in metres - everyone else works in feet and inches You dont understand what a BEARING is You start worrying that your 'cache per day' rate is getting low You start to understand ELIPSOIDs You realise that IGN maps have the geo-coords as well as northings and westings You realise you can MAKE MONEY by selling geo solutions on Ebay Your friends celebrate your 500th as way of shutting you up and I've only just started ....

Before you slam the door on this topic, dont forget GE - Google Earth.

Before you slam the door on this topic, dont forget GE - Google Earth.

WOW - and I thought it was I who had the geek problem!

Years ago I solved the Bongard puzzles for that famous Christmas cache series. For a long time I kept the final solution safe. Now I have lost the sheet of paper. I went back to resolve the puzzles and CANT DO THEM. This is really sad as I didnt know early senility onset could strike like that! I know the name of the lane for the final solution. I couldnt forget that, and I do remember the 'corner' of the road from Google Earth, but though I remember its on its was towards Stansted - for the life of me I cannot remember the village. So if you're about to log that cache - do I warrant a virtual find: it was a lot of Xmas's ago - a seasonal prezziee perhaps

Years ago I solved the Bongard puzzles for that famous Christmas cache series. For a long time I kept the final solution safe. Now I have lost the sheet of paper. I went back to resolve the puzzles and CANT DO THEM. This is really sad as I didnt know early senility onset could strike like that! I know the name of the lane for the final solution. I couldnt forget that, and I do remember the 'corner' of the road from Google Earth, but though I remember its on its was towards Stansted - for the life of me I cannot remember the village. So if you're about to log that cache - do I warrant a virtual find: it was a lot of Xmas's ago - a seasonal prezziee perhaps