Mr Nibbler

Big ups to Major Trek (but more to the point - the & Co bit) for getting their first 100 on the annoyingly difficult "Hare Today". Nice one!!!

If you put the postcode of the hotel in the zip box on the "hide and seek a cache" page it returns over a hundred caches within 10 miles and three under a mile. That should keep you busy and out of trouble If you get a pool-car.... all the best of luck with driving on the left and all the roundabouts! p.s. If you use Streetmap for an online map it comes back with a 1:50,000 ordnance survey map which is very good indeed.

It may not be this month but this log from Liar's Cache made me snigger - there are some other extravagant claims amongst the other logs too.

VikingVal: For Northern Ireland you merely need to find a postcode near where you are staying (NI uses UK codes). Your hotel (assuming you're staying in one) will have it in its address. If you can't find one do a websearch on the town and look for a shop address (Boots the Chemist or Woolworths are worth trying), local council address etc and just pop the postcode in the find box just like a zipcode. For decent maps enter the postcode into MultiMap and zoom out to a brilliant contoured Ordnance Survey sheet. Should be all you need. Have a good one, and have a pint of the black stuff for me!

You might want to move this across the the UK forums (bottom of the forums page) as a few North of the borber cachers hang out in there.

I'm 48 and my son, Mcd1, who caches on his own is 16 today. Excellent news as I can now send him out to get me a packet of fags when he's staying with me

Just the three for me as well: UK, Italy and Malta. Sadly I'm not planning a grand world tour in the near future

My sons (both on etrex camo) and my legend regularly get EGNOS lock here in Cambs. Nice to see all the Ds but doesn't seem to have any real effect on caches. The blindly stumbling about muddy woods looking under suspicious bits of innocent bark is half the fun for us and EGNOS doesn't alter our stupidity one iota.

I lived/worked in Barcelona for several months a few years ago - I don't know about caches there but book for dinner in 7 Portes while you're there. Not the cheapest but absolutely fantastic.

I have to admit that HarryKrishna's pics are quite fun and I would be happy for him to log mine (but not an FTF, obviously). Harry's gallery Also he's been extensively discussed (mostly with breathless disapproval on the main boards: Thread

stonefisk: do tell us what prompted this thread - my guess is there's a story in there

Ooh err - what a lot - very well done indeed!!

I found a TB in a cache which thought it was in a disabled cache (about 6 months) in another local cache. Got it going again and by pure luck met up with the owner that same night to discuss a forthcoming cache event.

Oh dear - another one hooked. Enjoy (according to my wife) our obsession. And happy caching

A confusion of geocachers

I've read most of William Topaz McGonagall's "poetry" and a biography (my sides nearly split). I can recommend not "The Tay Bridge Disaster" but "The Miraculous Escape of Robert Allan, the Fireman". Full version follows. 'Twas in the year of 1858, and on October the fourteenth day, That a fire broke out in a warehouse, and for hours blazed away; And the warehouse, now destroyed, was occupied by the Messrs R. Wylie, Hill & Co., Situated in Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow. The flames burst forth about three o'clock in the afternoon, And intimation of the outbreak spread very soon; And in the spectators' faces were depicted fear and consternation; While the news flew like lightning to the Fire Brigade Station. And when the Brigade reached the scene of the fire, The merciless flames were ascending higher and higher, Raging furiously in all the floors above the street, And within twenty minutes the structure was destroyed by the burning heat. Then the roof fell in, pushing out the front wall, And the loud crash thereof frightened the spectators one and all, Because it shook the neighbouring buildings to their foundation, And caused throughout the City a great sensation. And several men were injured by the falling wall , And as the bystanders gazed thereon, it did their hearts appal; But the poor fellows bore up bravely, without uttering a moan, And with all possible speed they were conveyed home. The firemen tried to play upon the building where the fire originated, But, alas! their efforts were unfortunately frustrated, Because they were working the hose pipes in a building occupied by Messrs Smith & Brown, But the roof was fired, and amongst them it came crashing down. And miraculously they escaped except one fireman, The hero of the fire, named Robert Allan, Who was carried with the debris down to the street floor, And what he suffered must have been hard to endure. He travelled to the fire in Buchanan Street, On the first machine that was ordered, very fleet, Along with Charles Smith and Dan. Ritchie, And proceeded to Brown & Smith's buildings that were burning furiously. And in the third floor of the building he took his stand Most manfully, without fear, with the hose in his hand, And played on the fire through a window in the gable With all his might, the hero, as long as he was able. And he remained there for about a quarter of an hour, While from his hose upon the building the water did pour, When, without the least warning, the floor gave way, And down he went with it: oh, horror! and dismay! And with the debris and flooring he got jammed, But Charlie Smith and Dan. Ritchie quickly planned To lower down a rope to him, without any doubt, So, with a long pull and a strong pull, he was dragged out. He thought he was jammed in for a very long time, For, instead of being only two hours jammed, he thought 'twas months nine, But the brave hero kept up his spirits without any dread Then he was taken home in a cab, and put to bed. Oh, kind Christians! think of Robert Allan, the heroic man For he certainly is a hero, deny it who can? Because, although he was jammed, and in the midst of the flame, He tells the world fearlessly he felt no pain. The reason why, good people, he felt no pain Is because he put his trust in God, to me it seems plain, And in conclusion, I most earnestly pray, That we will all put our trust in God, night and day. And I hope that Robert Allan will do the same, Because He saved him from being burnt while in the flame; And all that trust in God will do well, And be sure to escape the pains of hell.

I think it's ten then it goes to "geocacher". So get going with those posts!!!

Nope - I was logged in - but I've fixed it now. Did a complete re-install of Firefox. Cheers folks. Closing thread.

I've just got a new machine (fan failure and cooked processor - too painful to discuss). Most things work alright but I can't see any avatars in the forums - obviously a setting is wrong somewhere but I haven't a scooby what to do about it. Help please!!!!!!!!!!

Very well done indeed!

Hang on - just checked out www.keenpeople.com "an open community of GPS users, hikers, geocachers, outdoors enthusiasts and friends." Maybe you registered with them aeons ago then discovered GC? Beat me to it Stuey!

If you don't know what it is I'd go with your normal routine and dump it.

A meeting (ie quaffing ale in a local hostelry) was held on Sat 14 Jan 06 attended by myself, Daytribe, Major Trek & Co and Mcd1 to discuss the proposed event (also in attendance Merecats who were visiting Major T). Mcd1 and I had spent the day in the area of the Cambs/Norfolk/Suffolk border to look for a suitable location. Thetford Forest was brilliant but nice looking pubs open all afternoon were thin on the ground and the map/Google earth recce'd circular walks along rivers were either not now rights of way (bit of a surprise that!) or were singularly lacking in charm. As a result some decisions were made, which may not be to everyone's liking who have previously expressed an interest. An event will take place on 22 Apr 06. It will be held in Ely, meeting location to be confirmed. Hopefully three caches will be set for the event. It will run from about 11am to 6pm (or longer as thirsty cachers desire) but caches may go live earlier in the day. A pub will be sussed out (and Daytribe have some ideas on this) which will be open throughout and will not be fazed by (hopefully) large-ish numbers of people demanding food. To those who wanted something more central or local to them all I can say is sorry - but if this works then we may organise more around the region with an emphasis on each of the counties. Next step is to set up a cache event page - I'm working on it - honest!

Absolutely brilliant - very well done indeed

Here in the UK things are rather different: we have tens of thousands of miles of dry stone walls and they are still built and maintained by a dwindling pool of skilled craftsmen. Some of them are intricate in their construction and are almost works of art. The Geocaching Association of Great Britain even feels the need add this to their guidelines for placing a cache: "No cache should be placed in or on a dry stone wall".