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Sheesh!!!! I'm a bit behind on all these, I should, however, like to add my congrats and best wishes to ALL new centurions.... ....dodgydaved + terribletwos dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote:I might not agree with all you have to say, but I do agree with your right to say it. with the additional proviso..........or the way you chose to say it.......I also dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Yup, The Garmin Roads and recreation software shows one of my caches as being North of the very busy and Electric Waterloo/Reading line when in fact it is South of the line!!!!!! I just made a big WARNING on the cache page! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

If you save or print cache pages off in advance, as I USED to before to-day, check the cache still exists before you do a nice 2 mile round trip walk to find it.......(blushes deeply) dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

All the very best to you, Isobel and I will not be able to make it I am afraid as it is our 22nd Wedding Aniversary!!!! We think you chose the best day of the year to get wed!!!! Dave & Isobel dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

I use Anquet Maps and I can certainly download my tracks and routes etc, from the Garmin eMap onto the OS map. dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Now then lads (and lasses?) get your ba back into finding lunch boxes dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote: Anyone else willing to share those red-face moments with us all? When you climb up a hill to a virtual, make sure you either know the details you are supposed to get or take the cache page with you. It saves you sending off a triumphant description of what you found only to be gently told, yes, but that wasn't what I asked for, and then having to change your smug found it log for a note........ ........Long Distance Call yesterday! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Come on Guys, Chesterfield nearly did it in '97, and we're coming back!!!!!! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote:Originally posted by Team Paradise:Don't think MaryE's husband would be too pleased either ! _If you can see the 'light at the end of the tunnel', it's usually a train coming !_ ........and I once sort of met Neil, near a brick edifice on a hill side.....big bloke! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Will cache for food. I hope not, not un a UK cache anyway, see guidelines dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote:Originally posted by hydee: quote:Originally posted by candyflip:Nope, Slytherins got lot's of pseudonyms. In response to candyflip....it is funny that you would try to lead others to believe that F@@@v and Di account could be a Syltherin pseudonym. Because F@@@v and Di and Candyflip were created by the same user and it was not Slytherin. If you are going to try to point fingers go stand in front of the mirror first. hydee Thanx for that Hydee you lovely little rana temporaria (I think) you!!!! Guys, we've had enough sniping how's about giving it a stop eh? dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote: We would be prepared to take on admin role but only only in support of (not instead of) Dodgy Dave - who gets our nomination. We don't have huge amounts of time to do approvals but can keep an eye on the forums most days. So I suppose the answer is a Yes we will stand (but their are better candidates out there). Chris Bear rescues a speciality! London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Cachers, I do not know if this is the correct way to do this, but here goes....... It would seem to be appropriate if someone in our community would be prepared to approach Groundspeak and suggest that: a) My Self, dodgydaved Team Slytherin c) Chris 'n' Maria..........and d) Ideally a cacher or cachers to look after the interest of our Celtic (ie Scots, Irish and Cornish) friends if they so wish. ........? dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Hey Bill, Way to go, glad to see you back, keep on the road to recovery and get out caching in the healing fresh air/rain! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Posts: 195 | From: BUXTON, UK | Registered: March 01, 2002 .......In my atlas certainly north of aforesaid waterway.......Oh adopted Derby Tup that you are!!!!! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote:Originally posted by Slytherin: Looks like you offer has been taken up Dave. OK I've said I'll have a crack, but what happens now?. quote:If we are to replace three cache approvers, how about having a regional split with one in the south, one in the north and one for Scotland and N. Ireland? ................... If there is support for a regional split I would be happy to cover the north of the country, with DodgyDaveD doing the south. Sounds an excellent idea!!!!! Scotland, Wales, Ireland & Eire (?), North of the Trent and Mersey Canal (Arbitrary and debatable, moveable feast?), South of said Waterway. quote: I cerainly agree with Tim & June that we need to return to sanity on the UK forums or risk losing them. I think most of us agree with that.... quote:I know that Groundspeak are having to moderate the forums themselves at the moment and I'm sure that they have better things to do with their time. No doubt, So, what does one do now??????? Alex. --------------------------------------------------- Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout..... dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Hmmmmm! I use Anquet Maps, admittedly with a Garmin eMap and not a Magellan, but I have downloaded from my GPSr I am sure. I seem to remember at one time, before CC.com published OS map refs on the cache page, I used to download waypoints from MapSource to the eMap and then upload them to Anquet. You have to be very careful though to change the datum thingy from WGS 84 to OSGB at the right time, and then remember to change it back again before you go out caching (or my famous 70ft out will be more like 270ft out or something, a techi person would tell you which!) dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote:Originally posted by el10t:Yes its being slept on while all the useful comments that have been made on this forum are thought about. Rich _mobilis in mobili_ That answers Q2 for Steve from Team Paradise, but how about Q1. What about the future of UK Admin, both the moderation of this forum and the approval of caches? Where can we as a community safely and successfully go from here? I would offer to have a crack at it myself until I am allowed to go back to work, but: a) I have very limited Internet Access. I have nothing like the experience of others. c) I do not have the erudition to argue the case for geocaching politically as others have so obviously done. d) I am afraid I would probably be TOO ready to censor those comments and posts I thought to be inflamatory or counter-productive. So that does not really help......... dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Hiya Zcat, Lovely one and well done. I feel as though I am falling behiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnddddddd!!!!!!! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Here's my X dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

There is now a void and a need for rationalisation. Threads are threr for thanks, yes I agree, but for us to continue as a community we need some leadership and a continuation of the many good things that have been initiated in recent months. We need our moderation team back. Come on you cachers who know and respect those who have moderated. Ask them to return....... dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

quote: ....We also showed up at DopdgyDaveds gaff and moved his wheely bin for him but he was slurping ale down his local. Charming! .....and at any time between 2000 and 2300 (or so) on a Monday where else would I have been??????? dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

There would appear to be a nucleus of community members who are prepared to let their own intransigence and pedanticness destroy a lot of postitve work that has been done by T & J to further the cause of caching in the UK. Whilst I have to agree that it is your right to voice your opinion on these fora I also wish to reserve my right to differ quite totally with the views you seem to represent. In recent months the calm reason and sense of T & J's moderation work has quietly pervaded these fora. The work they appear to have done in promoting the sport with HCC, the way they have worked to allow moderation of UK caches to be placed in UK hands, the peacekeeping work that was done when there was dispute with another web based group. Geocaching is a relatively new organisational group in UK, perhaps 24 months old (?). There is a proven history in the formation of a group that is often summed up as Forming, Norming, Storming Re-Forming. If, as a communnity, we are at the Storming stage let us very quickly move on to re-forming and surviving. To survive we will need both the fresh ideas of new members, but importantly the reasoned conscience of people of knowledge to counterbalance the militancy of others. I can understand, fully, whu T & J have done what they have done. I think the criticism that has been recieved, from some members, has been positive and creative. Unfotunately I feel others have voiced their opinion, and re-iterated it, in a way that is totally inappropriate and damaging. I hope that T & J will, in the fullnes of time, be able to re-consider. Dave Draycott dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

WOW!!!! Looks on in awe, and I was hoping, but not expecting, to clock my 200 inside the first year!!!!!! Well Done John. dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!

Well Done!!!!! Bob, all the best and cache well!!!! dodgydaved PS I'm getting there, slowly!! dodgydaved I'm NOT lost, I know exactly where I am, I'm here!