MCL

Yup same from me. Good on yer. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

any adapter that purports to service the Etrex has got to have circuitry in it for reducing the 12V power of teh car system to 3V. This is not difficult (technically) to do, and costs peanuts. There is therefore no excuse for any manufacturer to make a "bad" one. I suspect the only difference in reality is the branding. And I'm an electronics engineer. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Mod Antonio, Oh if only we *could*!! Firstly, you are welcome to post here, and thanks for doing so. The fact is that caching is an activity that is also carried out by people who are not members of GC.COM, and not members of GAGB (the newly constituted association in Britain). We cannot stop people who want to go and cache and never tell anyone else about it, since we live in a free country. We can no more make our rules mandatory on everyone who might do caching than you can make any of your rules mandatory on anyone who might visit an ancient monument! All you can do is denounce someone who does damage to a monument, and possibly ban them from your site. But that doesn't stop them visiting again and doing more damage does it? By the same token, we on this site can denounce a person who's caches are doing damage or filled with dangerous items or whatever (in other words, a rogue cacher) and we can stop them from certain things like posting on this board. But even if we rescinded membership of this website, the information is still available to them, either from this site or indeed from other listing sites on the net over which we have no control whatever. I can't understand why you think we would be any more able to enforce mandatory rules on the general public than you guys are. The GAGB is striving (for the first time) to get as many different parties in the caching world to agree to and adhere to good sound guidelines, and in conjunction with the landowners, to enforce what we can where we can. We have made great strides with one pareticular landowner/manager, Hants County Council. We hope to take the guidelines that were hammered out with them, and get them agreed to by other landowners, but this is going to take time. We cannot compel anyone who doesn't want to, to stick to our rules or guidelines, whether we want to or not.Really the only people with any legal muscle in the area of enforcement is the landowners themselves. But thats not going to stop us trying our best. Please realise that what you are asking is just not possible. Sure we can say that the rules are mandatory on our memebrs, but the trouble is you don't have to be a member in order to place and find caches, any more than you have to be a Mod Ant to go and enjoy ancient monuments. Does that make sense? No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Ooh another one through teh barrier. well done. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Ben Pid:CORRECTION: 2 Leads, one for the dog and one for the Missis ..erm, what about Dan? No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Team Paradise: Who's to say there guidelines were or were not endorsed my GC.com ?... Oh I totally agree. And thats why I said in my post "Unless of course Jeremy Irish has a differenmt view"... It was to cover myself for the possibility that indeed GC.Com had xchanged teh rules officially without us being informed.

What Pharisee says above is completely sensible. I have no objections to HCC guidelines being implimented on caches placed on their land. But for a GC approver to take those guidelines, not endorsed by GC.com HQ, and start to reject approval of caches which are not in Hampshire, based on them, when the general GC guidelines woudl otherwise allow them, is just not cricket. Unless, of course, Jeremy Irish has a different view... However, thats no reason for Moss to give up caching. Thats called cutting of the nose to spite the face. I'm sure he has had many a pleasant hour out alone doing and setting caches, miles away from any of the rest of us. If he wants to stop himself doing that, then he must be mad. But then, lots of people look at us *doing* caches and swear blind that we are mad anyway... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

OK here goes: 02 is Wronskian 17 is MCL (this was my very first cache!) also... 27 looks to me like Benedict, but I might be wrong, I've only met him once. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Very nicely done. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

moi? assumptions? As someone who runs an hotel at night I can say that there is no reason for you to book two rooms. The average hotel room can fit both a bed and a cot in it Oh and then once you have done the Isle of Wight, maybe you might like to complete all the caches on the only other island off the English coast. I have. There aren't quite so many, but we did have great fun for a day.

I have had my house burgled before I ever got into caching. Now that I am a cacher and post my stats and logs on the web, I have not been burgled once! So am I to logically deduce that caching actually helps to prevent my house being broken into? You can argue it both ways. I have a personal distrust of anyone who hides behind an anonymous identity on the net. I don't do it, I never have, and I won't start now. In other words, I honestly don't believe you when you say these are the only reasons you are hiding. If they really are, then I believe you to be mistaken in the level of your concern. There are far easier ways to gather burgling details about you, than trawling through stats on here. Most burglars either do their work when the occupier is out at work (far more regular than geocaching, and easier to suss out but following you every day) or they work in the time between 4 and 6am when you are at home asleep and in the deepest slumber. In this case, once again, caching has nothing to do with it. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

As mentioned above, "Mission Impossible" definitely. I spent three days doing that one! ...and the other one would have to be Kings, Queens, warriors and Tombs No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Ah you see thats the wonder of live radio... I bet they get to it eventually. You and Yours is a darned good programme for me to wake up to... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

In case anyone has forgotten, the topic is "black bags" not "plastic bags" I have nothing against black bags, as long as they are biodegradeable, and not made of plastic. So I want to start a campaign for using black bags, nice hessian ones, to place all new caches in... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Hmm, I'm even worse.... - I maintian a Mapsource file of all teh caches I have done, which includes not only the locations of the "normal" caches, but also the locations of all the parts of multi-caches, plus the final co-ordinates of multis and puzzle caches. - I take photos of every cache I do, and these go in a separate folder on my hard drive, one for each cache, labelled by name... Then I do practically the same for all the trigpoints I do as well.... Call me nerd if you like.. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Hilarious. I must start wearing Pampers when I read these fora.... OK I have to hold my hand up and admit to being "cacher 1". We did indeed visit my cache but I would like to point out that the whole purpose of the other person doing the cache was that they had not done it yet, and should therefore find their own way there, NOT be lead to it by the cache owner! Hence the comment which discouraged one person following the other... The other point about doing the thing at such an ungodly time (although you have to admit, 2am on a sunday morning is rather more godly than some) was that on our drive home, we would in fact be passing within about 300 yards of my cache, which is otherwise 60 miles from where I live. So no matter what time you are passing, you don;t miss the opportunity to check it out, especially as a past log had mentioned it being a bit damp. Thats not so much obsession (which I might be guilty of sometimes, but not this time) as simply being practical. "What", I hear you say, "a man being practical!?". Well, it's not something that is exclusive to you ladies you know....

Ah well I can relay an anecdote about the beef extract. Sir Peter Ustinov used to tell the story of the first time his mother came to England (from Russia) and couldn't understand why every railway station from Harwich to London seemed to be called "Bovril"... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

MCL and Nzbuu finally get home to Milton Keynes at 4:25am.... The best bit of the day now? Looking at all the photos I took .... - The water fights with Omally using his enormous thing for squirting... - The Merman trying to teach SimonG to do mountainboarding... - Huga attempting mountainboarding without instruction... - The Winchester Event Chinese Dragon (taking down the frame-tents at the end)... - The ball juggling at the BBQ... - The St John's Ambulance crew trying desperately to avoid having their photo taken... ...and the rest, too humerous to mention. Thanks to all the organisers, and lets hope we do another one! No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Dan Wilson:Your bringing tears to my eyes MCL, I miss you too......... but not in the way you are hoping Dan Wilson - http://www.Buckscaching.co.uk - Stash Notes, forums & Much more... Ah you are referring to the custard pie-throwing contest, obviously. Oh and I must say Tim and June are crack shots with a water pistol I certainly hope they all miss me... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

MCL logging in to Station 2 at the HCC event. No customers yet, but the day is young! I must say I am staggered at the amount of effort and organisation that has gone into making this event happen. The only thing we are missing is Dan and Pid. And we do miss Dan and Pid... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by washboy: quote:Originally posted by MCL:I know exactly what they make it out of, which probably explains why... Oh! Do tell Well, the yeast they use in the brewing industry, once it has finished being yeast and doing its brewing thingy, is all spent and dead. The little cells of the yeast have all been burst and the resulting dead scum is all stinky and yucky. They sell that sludge to the people that make Marmite. And thats what they make it out of: the waste product of the brewing industry. The brewers aren't actually allowed to flush the stuff down the toilet (something to do with environmental health..), but they still make Marmite out of it. Excuse me, now I'm going to vomit.

I'm working on designing a machine specifically to smash Marmite jars, such is my loathing of the stuff. I know exactly what they make it out of, which probably explains why... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

You are all missing the point. The only mistake that makerofthingsup made was to tell everyone what the container was made of. Otherwise, no-one would have said a dickie bird. There is a cache near me which is not mine, which is actually a glass Kilner Jar, but since the cache page says it was something else, its been approved, and found by quite a few people. None of whome have made any complaint whatsoever. It is more dangerous to drive to a cache in your car than it is to break a glass cache container. I don't see anyone about to ban cars do I? What if on the way you were to run over a small child? Or hit another vehicle head-on after it crossed the central reservation of the motorway? Of course these things never happen in real life do they? Actually thousands of people die every year on the roads and no-one gives two figs about it. We still drive to our cache locations. Hypocrits, all of us. What we all need is a sense of proportion.

I tend to sympathise with The Merman there, in that winter caching is often better due to lack of undergrowth, tree canopies and heat! No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Just to confirm final details, Nzbuu and I will be arriving early saturday morning and available as helpers where needed. We both have GPS units. We'll be staying for the evening BBQ and then slinking off back to Milton Keynes late in the evening. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....