Rose_Thorn
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Hehe, some good answers there (and some sensible ones too!) Okay, I get the drift - I should go ahead with the local ones! One slight problem - my daughter keeps hiding my lock'n'lock boxes because she thinks I'm getting obsessed...like as if
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Ah, they don't make'em like that anymore! Well done, ask away...
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I've got a few caches around my home area (Bury) now, and obviously there are quite a few other caches around here too. I've got a couple more really nice locations in mind, not too far away from home, but when is enough enough? Can there be too many caches in an area, and what sort of density does that represent? If somewhere is a really good spot, should it be passed up because it's not very far from existing caches? Should efforts be made to find areas a little further afield that are relatively cache free?
I'm confused (not unusual)
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Edward (has to be!)
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8 feet
I notice the length of the nose is 4 feet 6 inches - wonder if it's true to say that most people's noses are about half the length of their index finger? No, that's not the next question! Just curious.
Assuming I'm right (never a wise thing to do, but never mind) the next question is:
What's the connection between the Old Testament and Giant Hogweed?
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Scissor Sisters (well, they're not quite my cup of tea, anyway...)
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I guess it depends how sensitive people are about it, and how the comments are made. Some typos/errors can be quite amusing (like plaice for place perhaps?) and I think a little joke about that might not do any harm. If people are flaming others for errors then that doesn't seem quite right, as anyone can make a mistake and not everyone has the time or the ability to proof read the messages they are posting.
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Wow, thanks for that input! Lakeuk, either you are very clever or I am very daft (probably both!) sussing out the minutes of the appropriate meeting when I never thought about doing so - thanks for that! Yes, my topic probably didn't get that much consideration, so perhaps I should cultivate a link with the countryside officers; then approach the council chairman again with a bit of supporting evidence that a cache can only be good for the location. Ok, that's the plan...I'll keep you posted
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I've put quite a bit of time (research, photos etc) into planning a very small cache at an interesting and extremely popular location. I think it would attract a few extra visitors and would be fun to find for people who already go there anyway. It's in a park in a rural area, and I have been emailing and writing to the town council to get permission. But they have discussed it at their June meeting and say that they "wouldn't want any more activity at the area". This is presumably because it is already a popular stopping place for picnics etc and has canoeists and divers who use the river. My thoughts are that a couple of geocachers a month wouldn't hurt, as the place is thronging already. What do you think?
Should I ring up the chairman of the council and try to argue my case? Send a polite letter saying how little trouble geoacachers would cause there and they would pick up loads of litter?
Advice please...
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I would say keep your caches, unless you're having continuous muggling problems or loads of people say it's not a nice place for some reason or other. There will always be new cachers popping up in the area or the odd cacher stopping by on a trip somewhere.
Personally, I go for quality in caches rather than quantity. I'd rather visit one cache in a wonderful interesting place than five caches in dusty lay-bys. I also like caches that take some effort to find, whether it's because they are some distance from a road, are cleverly hidden, need careful navigation to get to or are challenging in some other way. I also admit that a coin or a jeep in a cache would entice me to move a cache up in my list of visiting priorities because I like those little icons in my statistics - sad eh?
I always look out for caches in areas I am visiting for other purposes, so keep at least a couple going in your area, in case I am passing through one day!
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...and....? And what....? This story needs an ending, or I will spend the rest of the week wracking my brains over it
Lacto, what were you protecting us from I wonder? Agghh - another unbearable mystery
This is too much for a part dugong person...I am going to have some toast with peanut butter and jam.
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I had a nice chat with the countryside ranger and he was all for geocaching. He gave me permission to place caches on any land in the Bury area that is managed by the rangers
The ranger at Hollingworth was also very helpful, with my daughter's cache. Countryside rangers are generally good people to involve, and the land which they manage is usually very suitable for cache placements!My Lakes cache is on NT land and I wrote to the warden. about that one.
I am having an ongoing dialogue with Kirkby Lonsdale Town Council about planting a cache in one of their parks. It took me a few weeks to track down the right person to talk to, then I wrote a letter and was told it would be discussed at the next town council meeting. So I wait with baited breath
Personally I feel happier if I have permission for my caches, but I think there are much worse things people do on land without permission than hide a little plastic box!
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Allie, thanks for that link to Plantlife - very interesting as I used to work for the Groundwork Trust and learnt about Japanese knotweed there - been spotting it ever since! The plant surveys are a very good idea and taking part is something geocachers could easily do to help the environment.
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What an entertaining thread! I think I actually have a bull phobia - I have nightmares about being charged by bulls! It can be embarassing though, when my husband, kids and parents-in-law tramp happily through a field of cows with a bull or cows and calves and I am trudging unhappily behind saying, "I really think we should have gone round..." - and if one of the bovines so much as looks at us, I am first over the nearest fence
I think the aggressiveness of the cattle is in inverse proportion to the use of the public footpaths in the area. In the Lake District one often ends up walking through cattle and they are so used to all and sundry traipsing through their field, they don't give a second glance. However, one walk I went with my brother near to Kirkby Lonsdale was dominated by escapes from over-interested/aggressive/charging bovines! It was one of those areas where the stiles were covered with barbed wire and the paths were overgrown with thorn bushes i.e. rights of way were not taken too seriously by the land ownders. I don't think the cattle had ever seen walkers in their fields before, and in the end we took to the road for the last four miles having had enough narrow escapes!
Regarding horses - mares will protect their foals and can be VERY aggressive. Again, it depends on the area though - you can wander up to ponies on Dartmoor and take pictures of the foals with no bother, but a mare with its foal in an enclosed field is something to be wary of, especially if it is a Shire horse!
I'm just glad we don't have to worry about bears in Britain...!
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Love that Pretenders song!Badly Drawn Boy sound as if they have experienced much geocaching, judging by some of their songs:
"Fall in a River", "Cause a Rockslide", "Walking out of Stride", "Above you, Below Me", "I need a Sign", and finally, "It came from the Ground". Sounds like a story we could all tell
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when your daughter confiscates your caching gear because she thinks you're becoming obsessed ("What's for tea, did you say, dear? Ermm..plenty of pizza in the freezer...difficulty 2, terrain 1...mumble, mumble..")
when you're browsing the Groundspeak forum at half three in the morning
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Commiserations! Yep, one of mine got muggled recently, and it's disappointing and frustrating, but as long as there are no TB casualties, it's not the end of the world. Of course if a TB goes missing.. THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY! Sorry for that little outburst
Good luck with your next cache: may it have a long life!
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OK, I bet many of you are just itching to finish off this sentence! Well I have been caching for over a year now, and the other day I was trying to say something to my daughter; it came out wrong and ended up with the word "cache", which was totally irrelevant. She pointed out my error and I replied "Sorry, my words keep coming out in the wrong direction," which really got her worried!
So, you know you're a caching addict when...
everywhere you go you are sussing out prospective cache hiding places...even at work!
you have "place more caches" written on your "to do" list in the kitchen
when someone stops and asks for directions, you give them co-ordinates
you customize your car with geocaching decals (you know who you are...!)
you plan family holidays in coincidentally prolific cache areas...
you never leave home without your caching bag
you set your alarm for 4.00 am when there's a new cache in your area ...
you come home from Tesco and your kids say, "Which cache did you find today?"
I think I am too far gone to get over the addiction now! OK, now post your endings to the sentence, and lets see how many people identify with them!!
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I wish you a good trip on the C2C. My hubby and I did it a few years ago, before we were geocachers! We did it over three days, and I think we'd have been pushed to do any caching as it took us enough time to find the route, particularly in the towns! In the evenings all we wanted to find was the nearest pub
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Hehehehehe...the etrex yellow....the banana.....s'funny! ROFLMAO
Thanks Paul, you have cheered up my Monday morning!
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I don't mind what people post about, especially if they are being nice to each other, so congrats threads don't bother me - but then I am just a humble dugong
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ROFL!!!! By gum, I just hand'em out on a plate, don't I?!
Anyway, thank you folks - I emailed Groundspeak and they said they had overlooked my order
so I didn't get promoted to premium member till 6 days after I sent my order. Ne'er mind, I have it now and will soon be bookmarking things and making lists and exciting stuff like that -
Sorry, no young children or heavily pregnant ladies!
Hoi, us tough northern lasses don't stop climbing mountains just because we're pregnant.
I went up Great Gable when I was seven months pregnant, and my son was scrambling up Sharp Edge on Blencathra at the age of three! My kids each climbed Scafell Pike from Seathwaite via the Corridor Route at the age of eight, so being pregnant or having young kids needn't be a barr to a mountain cache event! Thankfully, though, I am not in either category any longer - unfortunately, I don't think I'll be in the Lakes during that week - probably be there for the preceeding two weeks - so tempting though it is, I'll have to miss this event. I would like to meet up with fellow cachers some time though, so I'll have a look at what's planned elsewhere...good luck with the event anyway
Hehe, some good answers there (and some sensible ones too!) Okay, I get the drift - I should go ahead with the local ones! 
Ah, they don't make'em like that anymore! Well done, ask away...
Love that Pretenders song!
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T's pssbl t lev mst of th vwls out as wll, bt tht dos mk it hrdr nd thr's mor rom fr errr (that's room for error!) S'fn tryng to mk sns of a sntnc thgh!