scottpa100

I would say Use your back button but I'm sure you've tried that. When ever the website has timed out on me in the past and I get the error message, back button has always got it back for me. But remember when the website was REALLY bad for performance? That's when I got into the habit of preparing my logs in Word before hand and then pasting it in. Crashes didn't faze me then!

New hardware too or tighter coding? I'd swear the viewing of previous caches that I've done is working lots faster. If so - well done! I like the new look too.

The website is working fine for me... navigating it merrily. The changes are visual. The structure of the web page is still the same as before. It has just been given a refresh. A lick of paint. A nip and tuck if you will. Still recognisable but with a fresher appearance.

And the OS maps still work in Greasemonkey - well, as long as that works, then the new changes are fine in my book!

Nope big time changes! Looks like version 2 is on the way! Change is a good thing....

I don't think it will be MM you have to worry about. Ordnance Survey - different matter!

I have had to download a query for each area. You are correct that 500 from Harrogate does not reach Ripon. I'm taking 300 for Piratemania (I'm never going to do that many) and then 200 Harrogate and 300 Ripon. Should keep me quiet....

But I forgot to add that i do all this and I still get gnoshed - not as bad - but still gnoshed. So I still need my insect repellent. Why did Noah take midges onto the Ark?

From what I remember the basic rules of mozzie evasion are the same as midge evasion. No perfume / aftershave - they like the strong smells. Darker clothing - just you look less attractive! Wear long clothes - less bare skin to be gnoshed upon People also say plenty of one of the vitamin B (can't remember which one) but I do recall that the active vitamin B (which ever one it is ) is in one product particularly. Marmite! Blurrrghggh!!! That's correct - I don't like Marmite! Biting insects also tend to not favour the smell of garlic and alcohol. So Italian meals all round with bottles of chianti then! With side portions of Marmite on toast. Mmmmmm.

Yep - I've been looking at a trip to the Lakes and have been looking at the possibility of myself and my Dad (geo name Daddykins) going over to Borrowdale - a good variety of caches and not really high level ones (Dad does hills, but not big chuffin' ones!)

Oops! I should have added that. Ta for pointing it out!

If you're planning this, especially as you're out of the area (er, the other side of the Atlantic!) I think you need to get some OS maps. Its not so bad for us lot, we know the that cars are on the left hand side of the road and footpaths, and what open access signs look like etc. You don't. And you won't have anyone to ask when you're doing it. ordering OS maps now will let you study and get a feel for the topography, the footpaths (remember to look at the legend to understand what a small green (footpath) dotted path is to a large green (B.O.A.T - Byway Open to All Traffic) dotted footpath is to a large green dashes path (Bridleway - a footpath also open to horses and bi-cycles.) Another important thing to note is that our maps are metric. Kilometres squares, heights in metres. The biggest thing that will restrict where you can walk is of course your three year old. You don't say how you aim to transport the kid when he/she gets tired. A buggy or one of this big backpacks that you shove kids into so that the adults take the strain? Do you have a preferred area? Open to suggestions? How much of a walker background are you? or perhaps you're going to use a car to get around. I think it would better if you got lots of different information from different people as we'll all have different perspectives of difficulty and ease of a route.

Okay - some people might not be happy where certain towns and cities are located or which region they've been plonked into BUT - I think its a good concession to common sense. I like it - I can't think of a practical use for it with the method of caching that I do - but more information is always a good thing. And besides we all play the game differently...

I'd say let it move around the country. We're all going to have personal opinions and which ever location it goes to, it's going to please some people. Annoy others. We can discuss this until the cows come home. Until someone actually says "I'll do it!" there's no point discussing it with opinions of preferred location. Once robin of Harrogate Hunters said Harrogate, yes there have been grumbles, but lots and lots of people are going. Whoever organises 2009 will have exactly the same type of thing happen to them.

The forum topic says it refers to the UK only. And before you say why should we be different in different parts of the world - that's why geocaching.com has local reviewers. People who are closer to the country in question and understand its culture and 'ways' more than TPTB do. Another example of the more local rules that affect the UK and not being applied else where in the world, is where we are not allowed to hide caches in dry walls.

Aye! I second the proposal too. I only installed PicLens at the beginning of the week. Its fab!

Just for the record, not that it makes any difference to your problem though, my geocaching.com search thingy is working fine within Firefox. Quite gutted - its been ages since I've sat by a billabong...

The problem is at your end. I'm on Firefox 3 with the latest version of greasemonkey and it all works. Sweet. Go to firefox.com, ensure you have latest version of Firefox. Then download Greasemonkey again. Follow PopUpPirate's installation instructions for the scripts (do a search on the forum) But as I say - its not Edgemaster's problem for you, for Edgey!

It'll be a quirk on your PC then - I'm on AVG and obviously receive e-mails from GC too. And they're coming through fine. I'd suggest going through the other forum that Hazel has linked to and going through some of suggestions there.

People have reported problems with this IF you are using AVG anti-virus. You'll need to update your AVG antivirus. AVG can be updated by downloading the patch from this here linky. if you're not using AVG anti-virus - er... dunno. I've not experienced problems.

Hmmm - I can see that you've done the smiley so that is the defence 'I didn't mean anything by it' but geocaching.com itself says a cache may take up to 72 hours to publish. Perhaps on the submission page there should be a financial consultants terms and conditions. "Previous performance is no indicator of possible future performance." Also moderators are subject to the same website performance issues that you are too. So if Deckers was able to publish caches at that time, he wouldn't have been able to have done anything anyhow to the website performance (which to be fair once it was reported on the website forum rather than the UK forum, the performance issue was resolved within about 90 minutes)

? For a Welsh cacher surely it would be an ammo box, a strategically placed leek, a cuddly dragon and GPS. let's hope the police don't come round whilst the photo shoot is taking place. "I can explain Officer!"

Well yeah, that's cos' he's East coast. It's those crazy Southerners and tree-hugging West coasters you gotta' be careful of!

40 feet - I hunt in metres so that's about 12 metres or so. Nope - that's about right. It just comes with practice now - you get your geo eyes. Would nature lie those sticks in that way? If the clue says rocks - look for rocks which are scuffed as people have moved them. When I place a cache I try to get stones that fit with the natural rock. Leave the moss on the outside. Leave the muddy covered bit of stone on the inside. But invariably, people who have successfully found the cache before you may not be as studious in re-hiding and subsequently lots of mossy rocks with a sudden clear patch amongst rocks. Or lots of clean rocks and sudden patch of small muddy ones are clues to something far more exciting... Yes! A butty box full of cheap plastic tat!

Pindale Farm is just on the Southern edge of OL1 so if you're planning on going further afield you'll also need OL24. HTH! As HazelS knows, I always cache with OS maps (she thinks I'm weird) and the cheapest place I can found the active maps (the laminate ones which are water proof, fold any-which way proof, sit on for a butty but keep your bum dry proof, push the nettles out of the way proof, straddle the barbed wire fence proof and indeed you can write on with permanent pen and just use an alcohol based cleaner to remove your markings) is from tesco books for Dark Peak and White Peak If you order two maps (which will come to about £18), I was able to get Free Delivery by entering 'freedelivery' (without the quotes) in the coupon codes box. Officially it says the offer runs until the end of June. But a quick Google is telling me that the offer still stands... seems maybe the website hamsters have not yet caught up with what the Director of Finance wants them to do... The normal paper maps are £6.00 each. Bargain!