Lydford Locators
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Sue - sounds great to us. If we can all shift the colds that are currently residing at our house - there will be 2 Junior Locators with us (9 year old girl and 8 year old boy). Looking forward to seeing everyone again this year.
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For any Holiday Inn Priority Club Members out there who are looking for FREE accommodation -
Holiday Inn have just added Holiday Inn Harrogate (just 1km from the event) to their PointBreak list, meaning that rooms are available for no money, just 5000 points. Unfortunately they don't have any family rooms available, so we won't be able to take advantage of this deal, but they do have several dual occupancy and even wheelchair accessible rooms up for grabs.
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Fantastic achievement Ali, big respect from us here.
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We were hoping to come along to the event tomorrow, but our daughter has sprung out in a load of spots which look like they could be chickenpox - but she's otherwise okay.
Do you think it'd be okay if we came along with her anyway, or should we all stay at home?
Simon
Unfortunately, if it is chickenpox she's infectious until all the blisters have formed scabs and you really need to keep her away from others. It's particularly nasty for pregnant women in their first 20 weeks of preganancy when it can cause birth defects. Sorry to be the bearer of bad new, but better safe than sorry.
Hope she feels better soon.
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How about people that log a DNF when they either didn't bother looking (eg due to muggles, or didn't have time!), or tried to find a puzzle cache after brute-forcing / second-guessing where it would be?
And those people who don't log their DNFs!
Perhaps they're too embarrassed to admit it, but if a proper search has been fruitless it helps the owner know that there may be a problem with the cache and also lets other cachers know that it may be a tricky hide that needs extra time to find (something our geokiddies are not always great with).
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Well done to you all, a great achievement - and we were proud to see a fair few of our caches in that final push!
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Although we put a map package onto our GPS, we still prefer the good old OS map which can always be found for free at your local library. And of course you can always print off the relevant bit of map from the cache page with a handy little arrow pointing to the location.
We even have some caching friends who haven't got a GPS - mind you there find rate isn't great!
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Well done Wendy
Likewise we were worried about whether you'd get through the protesters, but as we didn't spot you on the News we decided you must be OK! Phew.
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Be careful if you pick any of our Thames Path series as the current flooding might not go down well.
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It is possible to walk north out of Oxford along the lovely canal to Wolvercote (where there's the very smart Trout Inn with good food and real ale) and then come back along the Thames Path. It makes a good circular walk on level terrain (6km + depending on where you start), it'll give you an excellent feel for the area and you'll notch up quite a few caches along the way. We've done it and highly recommend it.
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Ditto from us, well done reaching the elite 1k club and keep uploading your fantastic photos!
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Grandma Locator fell whilst caching on 3 September (GC10T8K) and sustained multiple breaks in her right leg which ended up having a stack of metalwork bolted inside. She has only just got out of the wheelchair and onto crutches, and it could still be another 6 months before she's walking unaided!
At least it stopped the kids moaning about every tiny scratch and sting they get whilst geocaching.
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A big thank you to everyone who posted here and emailed us directly, it'll certainly keep us quiet for a while whilst we try to inwardly digest it all.
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Does anyone know if there are any family rooms at the Cedar Court? I've just tried looking on the hotel's own booking site, which won't let me choose any children at all, and expedia just says the hotel can't accomodate the number of people I want to book if I try there...
If not, I guess we'll have to find a more family friendly hotel nearby...
Apparently they have no family rooms.
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Flyers printed as we're off caching this morning, could that be a FTF (first to fly)?
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Well done everyone on the Committee. I know you've been through hell and back recently, hopefully it'll get easier from now on.
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Congratulations Celia & Ron, welcome to the elite 1k club.
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Our 2nd Etrex Legend has just died (both only survived one year of geocaching use) and we think that we need to upgrade to something that can better cope with the demands we put upon them. We couldn't help but think that this could be the time to go paperless, if only we could understand how to do it.
Can we have some simple advice on the equipment and software that we need to go paperless, and recommendations of suitable GPS units that are compatible with the system.
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Thank you Wendy, our prize of a lovely Nevada Geocoin that safely arrived this morning. - what a great Christmas present!
We just love coins and icons and this is a new one for us, we will admire it for a while, then release it out into the geocaching world for others to enjoy too.
A big thanks for such a great idea, Happy Christmas and keep up the good work.
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Congratulations and we too send our thanks for all the Teddies hides, they are definately well thought out hides which can cause some serious head sratching. Keep up the good work.
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I'm willing to lead a Swindon event in 2009 if there is enough interest and support available for it.
We have emailed Dave separately with our offer of support for Swindon 2009 if it happens.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the 2008 event (wherever it may be, we'll try our best to be there).
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There is a location which would be free, has lots of space inside or out, offer free camping, parking and free WiFi. I think I could persaude the manager to allow us to have the MegaEvent there, particularly if we offered to run a demo event for the public in addition to our own activities. If we had geocaching education seminars on a variety of topics, that would also help. Lacto could approve the new caches as fast as people can place them nearby. And we could sign up suitable members of the public to GC.com on the spot, helping towards our total of 500.
Unfortunately it's near Swindon (the Science Museum).
We appreciate that Swindon is a long way south, but it is very handy for the M4, rail links and Bristol airport. We've been to the venue and it seems ideal in many ways, also the local hotels are not expensive and it doesn't get full of tourists in the summer months. If Swindon was chosen, we'd gladly help out and would definately place some new caches to coincide.
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We've only just seen this thread, please add us - put us down for Wiltshire/Berkshire.
Thanks again for all your work.
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Well that's us springing into action as we have one such cache near to our home which is driving us crazy - at least we can say that Deceangi told us to.