MCL

January 19, 2004

Definitely add my congratulations to the piles.

January 16, 2004

Well you learn something every day. I must have been thinking of something else when I wrote that, but I can't for the life of me recall what it was...

Thanks, Chris.

January 15, 2004

The one in bedfordshire is close to where I live (I mean, 20 minutes drive) and I went to see what was there. It is the middle of a farmer's field with no apparent marker at all.

However, investigation on the OS website does tell us that the block is about 80cm down. In fact, I guess that's what the "buried " bit means!

The Centre, simply refers to the Ordnance Survey offices (their Centre, in much the same way that Manchester has an "Arndale Centre" ). It doesn't actually mean it is in the centre of anything. It's just their central headquarters thats all.

January 14, 2004

Of course, it never took anyone (not even me) 200 years to find a cache yet...

Mind you it sometimes feels like 200 years when you are actually looking for the dratted thing!

January 6, 2004

Is it legal to put other cachers comments written in the cache log book "on line" if the cacher has choosen not to do this themselves. Is there an understanding what ever is writrn in log book can be put into the public domain?

Or have we misunderstood the post?

The easiest answer to this is to put a disclaimer in the front of your logbooks stating that comments written in the book may be displayed online at some later date, and that writing in the book will be regarded as acceptance of those terms

I make all my old logbooks available as PDFs on the relevant cache page.

December 29, 2003

Yeah yeah, well done Peter. Again.
We seem to be congratulating you on an almost monthly basis now.

This can get a bit tiresome, y'know

Thats why I stopped. Its not that I don't care, its just that I can't type fast enough!

December 26, 2003

Happy Christmas to everyone on here, even though I am typing this at ten to one in the morning on Boxing day, and yes, I am actually at work, not home.

:mad:

December 26, 2003

Oh for goodness' sake! You are doing caches faster than I can type congratulations for the old milestones...

December 15, 2003

Lovely touch, the banknote.

You can just see the headlines can't you...SADDAM HUSSEIN FOUND IN HOLE IN GROUND....

..Pretty far fetched huh, even for The Times...

:lol:

December 15, 2003

DAN & PID: We're just waiting for the sun to go down on us...

:lol:

Actually I have to say that post from Ben was one of the funniest things I have read in a long time....

December 12, 2003

ha I forgot about that little episode To be honest though, I don't think he EVER wants to go there again.

Hmm yes..

I do indeed have the lid (well I think I still have it somewhere..) but really I don't think the cache position is *particularly* good, mainly because, as Team Nia admitted to me last year, the wooded area it lies within is very very dense and "little-red-riding-hood-and-the-wolf" type of thing at almost any time except the deep winter. This makes it a very variable cache, which really needs its difficulty and terrain ratings modified on a month by month basis as the seasons shift. Those photos on the web page were taken at about the only time of year when the locality does actually look like that. Any other time you need night goggles....

Its not the sort of cache I would place, to be honest, because of the reasons I mention, but if Dan, you want to resurrect it, just be warned that it is likely to be a headache for you to maintain.

December 11, 2003

Blimey. You ask for a second round of congratulations and you get it.

I guess thats what it means to be a geobuddie!

December 10, 2003

Me! me! me!

I want a thread of congratulations all to myself too! If he gets one why can't I?

I'm going to stamp my foot if I don't get one!

December 5, 2003

I don't mind the concept of multi's per se, but I don't like ones that take a whole afternoon to do for no apparent reason.

I am happy to do (and set) what might be called minimultis, that is a cache that requires collecting several clues from a neighbourhood, but my preference here is that such treks take no more than 15 to 20 minutes to do. This means that a cache can get you to appreciate the centre of a village or the inside of a building (thus giving you the benefit of the local interest) without just being a trad single cache. My feeling is that multi's whose parts are miles apart could just as easily be separate caches in many cases and I have done a few of these where you end up wondering why this cache you are doing is a multi at all.

But having said all that, just occasionally a real cracker of a multi comes along, and the one that springs to my mind most readily, is 'Mission Impossible (beds)' which, although I sweated over it for a whole weekend, was worth it in the end!

December 5, 2003

Absolutely fantastic, Mark.

December 1, 2003

I am pleased to announce the availability of my second logbook, now retrieved and scanned in, from my second cache.

It is available as a PDF file from this location, and comes from "Almost on the Boundary"

My thanks to all those who took the time to hunt the cache and write your messages for us all. I don't place many caches, but the ones I do place seem to turn out quite popular, and that is thanks to all you lot, not me!

That black teddy bear on the Tim and June page is in fact a little punched hole, I discovered when I got the book back. Quite incredible. Of course on the real page the hole is on both sides of the page, whereas in this scan, it is only on the T&J page. A little judicious touch-up with Paintshop Pro!

December 1, 2003

I know there are times (especially when night-caching) that I have felt quite vulnerable when out alone.

Yeah I get that too. Its normally the fear that Dan and Pid might have chosen to do the same cache that night...

I've been in a forgotten graveyard at comedy-o'clock in the morning with them so I *Know* how scary it is.

December 1, 2003

How much warning do you get for placing a cache in Scunthorpe?

December 1, 2003

I'll be there.

November 9, 2003

Well thankyou everyone for your kind words, and yes, Dan, it does seem like only yesterday I beat you to the cache at Crossroads. I still have that rare coin, sitting in front of me on the desk here.

I notice that nowadays it doesn't seem to be the thing to do the old list of best/worst/hardest/easiest etc etc... like we used to. Maybe this is one reason I took so long to reach 100, just so I could cop out!

However I must also congratulate Wronskian for his 100, and also Huga for his 200. Sam is right about the planning though. Originally we had planned to do SimonG's Quantum Re-entanglement (we were the only ones to have done his original Quantum Entanglement completely, including the final Part 2) but the day before the hit, Simon checked his cache and reported to us that parts of it were missing. So we had to hurriedly change plans and decided to do a multicache that we could split up into groups to do simultaneously, in the same sort of way that we would have *had* to do Simon's one.