Coppers Lot

ok ok ... I was the one that got the horrid email! My first ever one made me a bit sad! I told the lovely Coppers Lot and here is this thread! I thought everyone was lovely but having taken those rose tinted glasses off I see not everyone is. a well Cat Princess xxx

Lol, I'm over it now........ just had to get it out of my system. The OCD thing is true. There will always be spoil sports, I've bumped into a couple. Thank for the chuckle, I think half the time just airing your view and then watching you lot reply or take the piss just takes the edge of the annoyance. HAPPY CACHING EVERYONE.

Lol, are those MY stats!!? if they are thats just the arrival of a like minded girl friend, not an addiction yet ;-) I'm not going to post the email as I wasn't the recipient in this case but it was a 'well at least we do it this way and not your way' type of email..... I dont think theres anything wrong with a good healthy addiction :-) but some times people go TOO far and over step the mark in an instance when there is no need or provocation, I think they forget the 'pleasure' aspect of the sport/hobby.

Always it can be funny to watch peoples faces and then discover any bugs they have and share the ones I have. We met some Americans in Prague during our holiday it was great, a picture was taken and posted on the website, TB numbers swapped and hands shaken. It one of the best parts of caching...

DO some of us take Geo-caching too seriously? This is a question that I find pops into my head sometimes, usually after I receive a sniping email from a fellow cacher who I suspect is being overly competitive or has little else in their lives other than Geo-caching. Geo-caching is a hobby: Hobby There are two definitions for this word: 1 is in relation to it being the name of a small European falcon 2 is an interest or activity that one pursues in one's leisure time, for pleasure I really enjoy my Geo-caching and it is something I do to relax, exercise, take my mind off the world, spend alone time with my son.......... but I'd never become so wrapped up in my hobby that I'd snipe at another cacher for something they've done or not done!! I personally find this takes the 'pleasure' out of my Geo-caching. So do we take our hobby TOO seriously?

I hate the press!! Talk about get the wrong end of stick and make us look bad - us being Geo cachers. I think I'll go see area intelligence for Milton Keynes tomorrow and broach the subject of a couple of hundred hidden boxes in their area so this doesn't happen on my patch...........

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THANK YOU Islander1988. SOLVED....everyones happy now

She wants it back n I want her to have it back..... how does the adoption thing work?

Never heard ot if........how do I do that please?

We have activated a Geocoin but unfortunately the owner wasn't logged onto the website, I was. Now I own it when it should be someone else. How can this be rectified please? Thanks in advance.

I follow this tact, well said sarah. We are a diverse community of people and we come in all shapes, sizes and abilities. Some are good at hiding things and poor at finding, others are good at finding and poor at hiding. It just adds to the fun in my mind.

Couldn't help contributing to this thread being a bobby. Lactodorum says it all; Geocaching guidelines cover such eventualities. From my point of view if you suspect the substance to be drugs or other 'white powder'* substances then this DOES need reporting as the local Police Force will need to know these things are happening: 1) Handle the item as LITTLE as possible, 2) NO skin contact, 3) Do NOT inhale dust or taste powder. 4) Double bag the item i.e seal completely into one bag and then seal completely into a second bag** 5) Produce item at your local Police station with your suspicions, where located, etc. 6) Note whats been done in your log and inform the cache owner via email. * Not to be alarmist but we've heard the term on the news with regard to terrorism. Be suspicious of ALL white powder. ** Placing the item in one bag may not be sufficient as one bag bursts easier than two. As far as your everyday cacher is concerned this will NEVER happen as the movers and shakers in the drug/terrorist world would place their own secret caches around the country for storage of such items and hidden at GPS co-ords no-one would find. They would not risk losing items in our Geocaches. If in doubt, report it. Use your COMMON SENSE though, please.

Quote from Headshot119: "critism welcome" There should be NO criticism. What you place in the cache is your own decision. I generally start my caches with nice swaps but that is my choice; no-one should feel pressured to spend out on quality items just because certain cachers demand them.

This thread is another case of thinking too hard about the 'game' or the 'hobby' and worrying FAR too much about what other people are doing. Conduct swapping the way YOU want it to be and forget what others are doing. If your items 'too nice' then why leave it and then complain later!? If your gonna leave 'nice' things then fine, but, you've left it and it's not yours any more. DONT complain if someone takes it and leaves nothing. There are MORE important things in life, this is supposed to be a jovial sport. A relaxing hobby. STOP stressing yourselves over trivia.

**Don't leave yourself logged onto someone elses laptop!! they make entries under the wrong person!!** Can this entry be deleted?

I personnally think your splitting hairs and thinking too much about this 'hobby'. Who cares what the term is.

*You drive out to a cache in the woods and park as close as the woods allow on a little country road. You then walk into the wood to find the cache. Found it. Looking and the list in your hand you then follow co-ords to the nearest cache in the next wood and then another. Found them. Once all three are done you realise that you didn't log where the car is and now it's dark and your in the countryside, car is at least 2 miles away..... fortunately you have an image of the road map in your head and walk the road route back to the car with a few detours on the way. ALWAYS LOG WHERE YOU LEFT THE CAR!! *You go out caching with AJRNews, rushing as many caches as possible before having to rush back to retrieve your son from nursery. On the last cache AJRNews parks his car in a ditch!! Thinking no-one will steal the car we go and do the cache and then when we get back we call the AA. Oh no, what about nursery!! Fortunately a truck comes along and the driver offers to tow the car out of the ditch so long as AJRNews doesn't sue for any damage. Car retrieved. HURRAH, made it to nursery. *You rush out in good weather to do a series. Its nice and sunny so you leave coats behind and wear a t-shirt. Half way through the series teh heavens open and a monsoon begins........... now we're a little wet.

Offer is still there....counting down the days Never been to Prague before but will be visiting lots of caches, as many as Catprincess will allow. Just let me know and I'll email an address.

This is why I use notes.....esp since most of the trackables I find go into my own cache next to the M1. No log entry and I'm always visiting.

Rollback........lovely. Some of the new features were ace, shame the whole thing wasn't stable.

When reporting a new cache: Has the number of characters allowed in the cache name been shortened?

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.6 to access the website. I'm suffering some sheer randomness when logging in. On first login the page looks something you knocked up when HTML first came out, odd coloured banners and the links look like the really old style with a line under them. Staying on for a while and it settles down but now my links on the left: Getting started, etc some are large and old some are perfect? LOVE the google maps. Noticed also that some of the gucci features like the new picture display where the webpage fades and the pic appears in the middle of the - this feature doesn't work on every page. If I log off and on later it'll be working!! Am I the only person suffering such randomness?

My first choice is always stealth. Cows like humans are unpredictable creatures, each encounter will be different to any other. Always be on your guard, always be cautious, always be aware and if all goes belly up: run like an ostrich or fight like a pit-viper.

Small box..........giant TB.................I'll stick it in there anyway!! Things in life are SO easy until you put a human into the equation