mellers

The thing is, Wendy, GME isn't an official part of the geocaching website. It's an add-on which jri kindly created for all of us who love it... and it sits on top of the official site. Like thousands of other geocaching add-ons do. The 'they' you mention (who make the changes) don't - and won't - test for compatibility with every possible add-on out there, because it's not part of their job to do that (and wouldn't be practical or possible). GME is not part of their company, their business or their web site and is simply something extra we use and have because we find it useful (and brilliant).

Don't give up hope! The CO in question is still actively caching and placing new caches. He has a very very high (really huge!) number of caches so as you say, he may be busy, or more likely, he's probably just forgotten. A polite second request might be in order, perhaps starting with, "I'm sorry to bother you again about this..." or I "hope you don't mind me asking again about..." and including "I can appreciate how busy you must be" or ""I really appreciate you taking the time to collect my TB." Good luck .

Good morning That area is a little far away from me and not somewhere I visit often. However, if you want to get in touch with geocachers from that general location, try posting on what seems to be the nearest 'local' cacher facebook group. The Beds, Bucks & Herts Geocachers group where I'm also a member, is quite popular and has lots of cachers posting on it. You may be more likely to get a response from that, than from here which is much more a national forum... (and is sadly very quiet). If you include a hyperlink to that archived cache like this: https://coord.info/GC7MMBZ , you'll also make the job of finding out exactly where it is, easier - and you may be more likely to get a response from busy folks. Mellers

Because of the way the game of geocaching is designed, neither Groundspeak (the business company that runs geocaching) not any attendee I've ever spoken to on a CITO has required insurance. It will usually be the land manager who gives permission for you to be on their land, who may mention it and may demand it. As geocachers we undertake this hobby (and attend CITO events) as individuals and no-one else but us is liable for our own injuries! If you want geocachers to join you on your litter-picking activities, the only thing I can think of that your organisation might consider worth paying out for on a CITO, is 3rd party insurance (i.e. costs incurred or injury caused to any member of the public, by an attendee of your event). It does sound like a geocaching CITO is really something which would be worth you including... and submitting a CITO event page for publication, the next time you want lots of local free labour! That will get lots of geocachers to join you and you might even recruit a few really local locals for your own initiative too! Unfortunately, at the moment, because of Covid-19, NO events (including CITOS) are currently being published at all. This has sadly been the case since March 24th 2020. We have had no guarantee from the UK reviewers (who publish event-pages online) when CITO events are likely to be allowed to go ahead again but my guess is around June, when all the pubs open again - or later.

Each player of the game takes part at his or her own risk so I've never had insurance at any of my CITOs. You give attendees a H&S briefing beforehand - and provide hand-washing kit if you want but that's it. Sadly, I do know that some councils (mine included) won't even entertain the idea of volunteers litter-picking on council land, without insurance. When they told me I need insurance to organise a CITO for them (with them to provide kit) I walked away and did one somewhere else. One way of getting round what's becoming a common talking point is to liaise with the local land managers who may also use volunteers for other activities. Everyone 'signs in' at the beginning of the activity, listens to the H&S briefing, then becomes a temporary member of the organisation for as long as it takes to complete the activity. Some land managers insurers provide cover specifically on this basis. Given that (as I understand it) you also need to provide proof of land manager's permission before embarking in a CITO, these days, it would make sense to ask them about their insurance provision if it's something that bothers you.

That's a DING for colleda. Over to you!

What were the names of Elizabeth's half-siblings (they were related by their father Henry VIII) who were also Tudor monarchs?

Elizabeth I

I'd love to help as this is a venerable series and an asset to the community, due to its age. Sadly, I live too far away to manage to maintain them conscientiously but have asked among both Surrey and Berkshire cachers on facebook.

DING! Over to Martybartfast.

Time for a couple of hints, I think. Poet John Betjeman wrote a poem about this town which begins... "Come, friendly bombs and fall..." and the TV series, 'The Office' was set in the sales office of a paper company there.

Which Berkshire town has the UK headquarters of Mars (them what makes the choccy bars)?

OK, so this is an answer I don't actually know, per se - but I'm going to have a logical stab based on some stuff I do know and the way the question was worded... (don't laugh at the result!) Given that Perseverance only just landed on Mars, I'm going to guess Mars is the first planet piece. I know Mars is the Roman God of War - and given that I know Jupiter was the bringer of Joy, my full answer is going to be a mismatch of all those 3 snippets How about "Mars the bringer of war"?

Well that's a DING to Mrs Marty - perhaps you can ask her to set the next question?

Who won this year's UK Masked Singer (dressed as a sausage)?

That sounds like Men at Work (Land Down Under). I think the line before was "I said do you speaka my language?!

Well I'll have a guess at the one which sent them to to the big time; 'Waterloo', then.

DING! November was the ninth month of the Roman calendar and the name comes from the Latin novem meaning "nine".

Aha! I also remember now where I heard the info lately,.. It was on the latest C4 Diana documentary (yes, I know, another one!) where they mentioned she agreed that her original interview with Martin Bashir should be aired on his birthday, so many years ago. Sticking with November and its etymology: Who or what is the month of November named after?

I want to say November... because I've been watching the latest series of the Crown and I think it may have come up. But this is only a tentative guess.

This problem is happening to me too (15:01 GMT, 06-Nov-2020). I have just posted the logs for my last caching trip, only to find that the 3 DNFs have been posted as 'Found it's - much to my embarrassment! This is happening on both the 'old' and 'new' Draft pages and using both Firefox 82 and Chrome 86. The geocache_visits file from my GPSr marks the cache as 'Didn't find it'... and when uploaded to the Draft page, appears as such - but when I go to compose the log, the logtype becomes 'Found it'. The only difference I can report from the experiences of others in this post is that I have been able to use the drop-down box to change the logtype to 'Didn't Find it' I have subsequently been able to edit the logs but this issue really needs to get fixed.

Yes - there's an easy GSAK way (but if you're not techie and don't use it, that won't help you). I'll add it here for anyone else who IS a bit techie and is interested. Simply, adjust the centre-point of your 'my finds' database to the co-ords where you had the deja vu and see what's closest. And a slightly clickier project-GC way (even if you don't pay)... using the Map Compare tool - which you'd normally use to compare your finds with a chum to plan routes where you can both find new caches. https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapCompare? Use the filter to put in ONLY your name (not the name of any other cachers too in this case), the cache location (be as specific as you want down to county level, if you can) and then make sure you "add filter" to include disabled and archived caches. Then zoom in on the resulting map to where you were and see if there's a cache there.

From the website, map the geocaches in an area around where you live,. Zoom out and look for the little green box icons which might form an irregular loop. These tend to be a 'series' of caches, deliberately placed by the CO to provide a nice walk. Click on each one to find one of them labelled No1, and find out how long the walk is (and any other interesting info like stiles, hills and cows), that the CO may have chosen to include for you. Download them to your machine, pack a picnic and go!

I've tried this today, using Windows 10 and Chrome and I get the same blank screen. It was working yesterday.

If you're using Pocket Queries to populate that map, then make sure that particular box is ticked, when you run the PQ. That is to say the That (And) I haven't found box "