The Mighty Shark
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Fantastic news....It's been quite a few years since I was last at the winter gardens but it looks like I will be visiting again in 2009. Might even try and make a mini holiday out of the mega this time
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OK how do I get it working then?
Installed it and it works ok with geocaching.com, google images, etc, etc but when I try to view my gallery through geocaching.com via my profile page
it comes up with a message at the top of the screen saying the current browser page is not yet cooliris enabled...so how do I enable it?
I'm using firefox as my browser and as I said it seems ok with all the other sites I've tried it on.
OK panic over....edited to say I got it sussed
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Nice one John and Isaac. Real celebs of the geocaching world.
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We went into the Millets in union street Brum yesterday and they didn't have any in, tried Walsall today and they reckon that they are not doing them in that store although the web site says that they do
.Nigel Merry Hill or Wton lichfield sutton and tamworth are your best bet!! Phone before you go.
Millets in lichfield and Blacks in Tamworth don't have any. I checked with them on Friday last week
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The title of this thread is: Why does caching feel different now?
The thread seems to have been hi-jacked by "persons" new to the game.
You newbies let us old farts reminisce quietly to ourselves.............
Yeah, but you won't do it quietly, will you?
I'm sorry, but us old codgers were quietly reminiscing until others jumped in............
Perhaps we can ask for an "Old Farts" forum, at least then we will not be bombarded by the perrenial "What GPS", "What should I use for paperless caching", How many cachers...", "What do other cachers...", posts.
Oh dear...now who's cage has been rattled then
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After reading the posts on this thread it seems to me like this is turning into another one of those lets start another arguement between ourselves type posts.
Why can't we all just play nicely for once?
I'm not taking sides but it seems like this perticular thread is turning into a them and us situation....and I thought we geocaching types were supposed to be a friendly lot not a bunch of arguementitive old farts
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As far as I a concerned the problem is that there is still no way of rating caches for quality.
There used to be that option on geocacheuk.com (when the site was working). That gave the option for all cachers to rate a cache so at least you had a better idea of knowing if a cache was going to be a good one.
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I just cache for fun these days.
Isn't that why we all cache? Because it's fun. I have only been caching since 2005 so I guess that makes me a relative newbie but I still get the same buzz when I find a cache as much now as I did when I found my very first cache....and yes that includes finding the micro's. the cache and dash's
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London eye Garmin coin sold on ebay for £19
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Hi folks,
Im thinknig of setting something up for geocaching in and around the midlands. Im VERY new to this and have not even got my first find yet.
Anybody want to help get something up and running?
Adam
Hi Adam.
What do you mean by setting something up? Are you talking about placing a cache or finding your first?
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People are openly trading them. Presumably you think they're scumbags too?
Some of us may well be offering them for swap but we certainly are not in it to make any kind of profit out of them
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I see we have our first coin (that I know of anyway) listed on ebay this evening
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On Tuesday afternoon I added a post on here to see if anyone fancied a swap
Late Tuesday afternoon I got a reply from one of our fellow cachers saying that they would be happy to make a swap
Wednesday morning we both put our coins in the post.
Thursday morning our post arrived and there was my letter with a large tear down one side and nothing in the envelope other than a letter of thanks for the swap.
So how’s that for a record…….muggled before it even made it into a cache by some crooked postal worker
(My apologies to anyone on here who works for our beloved royal mail I’m not tarring all employees with the same brush.) Anyhow…to cut a long story short I’m now still without my Big Ben coin so if there is still anyone out there who fancies a trade I still has an unactivated London Eye if anyone has an unactivated Big Ben
Either send me a PM or email via my profile page
Mark
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I have just managed to get my hands on a Clifton Suspension Bridge coin fresh from my local millets store in Lichfield but I would love to swap it for an unactivated Big Ben.
If anyone is interested in a swap drop me a PM
Mark
Edited to say that coin has now been taken....
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As yews were once planted to protect an area (often a pagan site) from malevolent spirits, no doubt the trees interpret modern day satellite signals as evil influences from the skies and they're fighting back.
MrsB
Yew might be right there MrsB
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In this case, I would go with the laminated copy idea (something I had not thought of, and wish I had, as I have lost a few slugs and coins now 3out of the 6 released are lost, or in one case with a geogcacher who does not reply to emails...
The Laminated method allows you to take part in the game, but also allows you daughter to take to events etc.. Rather a laminated coin "Missing" than a real coin "missing" AKA in a box.
But the great thing about the hobby is that its up to you
I had not thought of this idea until I read it on here and this is exactly what I intend to do. Prior to that I was just going to take it with me from cache to cache for others to log if they met me.
For those who disagree I say yes the coin may well have been free but the cost in time, fuel and phone calls to actually get my hands on my single coin means I have probably paid a small fortune to get one so my coin will stay at home and its laminated friend will be doing all the hard work.
At least this way it won't matter if it goes missing and everyone that finds it will still be able to log it and enter the prize draw
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I got mine at lunchtime today from Blacks in Tamworth. They had 4 of the 5 coin designs to pick from and I went for the Stonehenge coin as I liked this one the best, though I did ask if I could have the others too but the guy said not a chance as most of the 14 that they had got in today were already spoken for...lol
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oops triple post
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oops double post
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Blacks at Tamworth just called me too to say they have just had a delivery but only a total of 14 and most of those had been reserved.
They said they are to recieve one more shipment but do not know when.
I got me a Stonehenge coin
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OK I got it working. Now I just need to sort out the hyper link.......thanks...
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OK I got it working. Now I just need to sort out the hyper link.......thanks...
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Well thanks to all who have tried to help. I am so close to getting it to work but as it's now coming up to 2am UK time I think I had better call it quits for now and will try again in the morning.
As I said if I type the full url into the browser window at the top of the page it works fine but as soon as I try to open it via my geocaching.com profile page all I get showing is the full url listing and no image
Anyhow...thanks again
Mark
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Okay, once you have your link stick a <img src=" in front of the http://link and a "> at the end
<img src="http://img.geocaching.com/stats/tb.aspx?guid=04e83b3e-cb30-438c-8612-9ec83f5bbfa8">
at least that's how I do it. Might be a better way.
HMMMM now there's interesting. I tried that but it did not work either. I have just cut and pasted the url link that you sent me and it opened fine so I tried the same with my TB that opens too if I cut and paste the url but not when it's pasted onto the geocaching stats page
Which mobile with GPS?
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Hmmmm interesting. Although I'm not looking at buying a phone with built in GPS I would like to know if the Geocache navigator software is a freebie and does it work with any GPS enabled phone and secondly does using GPS on a mobile cost you every time you use it just as if you were making a phone call?