TOTALY GUTTED
Have a read of Joans Blog which expresses both mine and Nettes feelings about losing our two UK reviewers, who feel that they no longer have the support of the GC Reviewer community. To everyone who reads this, I would like to take the chance of saying that these two lads, have done the UK Geocaching community over the last 2 years "PROUD", they have fought in our corner, and have brought a expanding UK community forward in leaps and bounds, and as the title says, I was totally gutted when I read the news.Lads when I finally get to meet you both in person, "I owe both off you several pints"!
As a result of this several UK cachers have started to look at alternative ways of listing their caches. Unfortunately the choices are, Navicache, a site which most wont use, as it is user unfriendly, and clunky, and even though it has been around for several years, has only manged to list about 125 caches (not all active now) in the UK, or they can list on Terracaching,. Which is open to membership, only by sponsorship of 2 members, and whose listing site is closed to non members.
As a result I have posted a idea for other members of the UK Geocaching community to think about on G:UK called Opening a Uk Listing site, open to all?, hopefully community members will think about what I'm suggesting, with out dismising it outright!
On other fronts I had a email from another cacher, who currently lives in another country, asking if I wished to adopt one of his caches, as he is archiving all his GC caches, and re listing the ones in his own country, on another site. Another Welsh cacher, emailed me to ask what the hell was going on, he'd had a email from this same cacher, asking if he wanted to take on his Welsh caches, and he also read the news about Eckington & Lactodorum, and as he had obviously not been on the forums over the weekend, didn't have a clue what had happened. I emailed a brief synopsis of what happened, which turned into a long email!
On a totally happier note, our friend Joans first day at her new job, went well, and she is looking forward to going back tommorow (well as I write this, later on this morning). Whilst Nette was talking to her, on the phone, she could hear WW III, in the back ground, followed by what sounded like one of Joans babys (her Lancashire Heeller) being murdered! It Turned out that poor Mr Bean (the only male) had been picked on by Meggi (typical female), who in turn was picked on by Emma (hurray, for Emma sticking up for Mr Bean), well Meggi, put on the act of the century, possibly the Millennium, with her squeals (once again a typical female)!
Time to go to bed, as we're going to Chester in the morning, and I need my beauty sleep (oh alright, Ugly sleep).
As a result of this several UK cachers have started to look at alternative ways of listing their caches. Unfortunately the choices are, Navicache, a site which most wont use, as it is user unfriendly, and clunky, and even though it has been around for several years, has only manged to list about 125 caches (not all active now) in the UK, or they can list on Terracaching,. Which is open to membership, only by sponsorship of 2 members, and whose listing site is closed to non members.
As a result I have posted a idea for other members of the UK Geocaching community to think about on G:UK called Opening a Uk Listing site, open to all?, hopefully community members will think about what I'm suggesting, with out dismising it outright!
On other fronts I had a email from another cacher, who currently lives in another country, asking if I wished to adopt one of his caches, as he is archiving all his GC caches, and re listing the ones in his own country, on another site. Another Welsh cacher, emailed me to ask what the hell was going on, he'd had a email from this same cacher, asking if he wanted to take on his Welsh caches, and he also read the news about Eckington & Lactodorum, and as he had obviously not been on the forums over the weekend, didn't have a clue what had happened. I emailed a brief synopsis of what happened, which turned into a long email!
On a totally happier note, our friend Joans first day at her new job, went well, and she is looking forward to going back tommorow (well as I write this, later on this morning). Whilst Nette was talking to her, on the phone, she could hear WW III, in the back ground, followed by what sounded like one of Joans babys (her Lancashire Heeller) being murdered! It Turned out that poor Mr Bean (the only male) had been picked on by Meggi (typical female), who in turn was picked on by Emma (hurray, for Emma sticking up for Mr Bean), well Meggi, put on the act of the century, possibly the Millennium, with her squeals (once again a typical female)!
Time to go to bed, as we're going to Chester in the morning, and I need my beauty sleep (oh alright, Ugly sleep).
posted by Dave the Pyrocacher @ 1:56 am
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