+qrang Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Tomorrow the World! (See http://www.cacherstats.com/cgi-bin/Ranking...;GroupSize=100) Quote Link to comment
+NickandAliandEliza Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Blimey - when does he eat, drink and sleep? That's good going. Well done. Who leads the world at the moment then? Quote Link to comment
+mickyz Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 http://www.cacherstats.com/Rank1-125.html Almost 37000 finds . Quote Link to comment
+NickandAliandEliza Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 http://www.cacherstats.com/Rank1-125.html Almost 37000 finds . .......professional cacher? Quote Link to comment
+bones1 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Well done Alan and Susan, only one more to go now,the world,patjeff and the corgis bones1. Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Even more impressive when you know that his finds are all his own. Some 'high-number' teams consist of two or more cachers who find caches separately but still log under one team name! Well done Alan! That's one hell of a lot of torches err... caches I mean Mark Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 (edited) I had a feeling he'd edge it before the end of the year. It's been my privilege to cache with Europe's No.1 cacher quite a few times and I promise, he does find time to eat! Things are planned like a military campaign though, and he does invest a lot of time and money in travelling the country to cache- as well as place over 120 himself (Chiltern Hundred ring plus others- hardly a micro amongst them) and -even more remarkably?- maintain them to a high standard. He's also held up the Chinese economy single-handedly by buying the country's total output of small torches to leave in caches... All this and a nicer guy you couldn't hope to meet. This is to say nothing of Ladysolly/Susan's massive contribution to 'Team Solly'. Not only with carefully packed bags of coffee, milk, water and delicious foody supplies, but as a talented cacher in her own right. Much love and applause to them both from me, with my mere 3600-ish finds :laughing: Edited December 7, 2009 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
+maxkim Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Big congrats from us as well.... we met in a pub (where else!!!) near Hemel Hempsted... LOL. Cheers MaxKim Quote Link to comment
+smstext Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 A very nice man who I have met once and who has done most of my caches and couldnt happen to a nicer person. Quote Link to comment
+HouseOfDragons Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 I'm impressed I've never met him but he said some nice things about a series of caches I set so clearly he must deserve the accolade of being #1! Quote Link to comment
Mittellegi Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 And No.6 here: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2254492/top-gr...-history?page=4 Quote Link to comment
+Jonovich Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Much Kudos to the Doctor! Let's hope the Chinese don't do a product safety recall on them infamous mini torches... I'd hate to see him have to go back to all those caches Jon. Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Thanks to everyone for their congrats. I'm pleased that a Brit is number one in Europe at last - the Germans have been at the top for too long :-) I shall have to get a Union Jack to wave at events. I was also flattered to make number six in the "Top 10 Great Britons in IT history". Yes, I do find time to eat. And even sleep, a little. Although ladysolly is getting a bit fed up with my 6am getting-up-time. Quote Link to comment
+goldpot Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Thanks to everyone for their congrats. I'm pleased that a Brit is number one in Europe at last - the Germans have been at the top for too long :-) I shall have to get a Union Jack to wave at events. I was also flattered to make number six in the "Top 10 Great Britons in IT history". Yes, I do find time to eat. And even sleep, a little. Although ladysolly is getting a bit fed up with my 6am getting-up-time. Arise, Sir Solly! Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Arise, Sir Solly! It can only be a matter of time; Facebook campaign, anyone? Quote Link to comment
+Stuey Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I was also flattered to make number six in the "Top 10 Great Britons in IT history". Big respect to you! Sandwiched between Sir Arthurc C Clarke at #7 and Sir Clive Sinclair at #5. I was interested to see that Arthur C Clarke is credited with the idea of geostationary satelites.... so it's nice to see another Geocaching related topic in there too Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Thanks to everyone for their congrats. I'm pleased that a Brit is number one in Europe at last - the Germans have been at the top for too long :-) I shall have to get a Union Jack to wave at events. I was also flattered to make number six in the "Top 10 Great Britons in IT history". Yes, I do find time to eat. And even sleep, a little. Although ladysolly is getting a bit fed up with my 6am getting-up-time. Arise, Sir Solly! When we got the Queen's Award for Technology, all the other antivirus folks around the world were calling me that :-) Quote Link to comment
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