Just for my friends

The Day started of with a early (well for me it was) rise, as I had to take my other half out to do a bit of quick shopping. My eldest whose 15 today had a friend staying last night, and a couple more stooping to nite, so we had to stock up for 4 hungry lads. Back home, and just time for a quick brew, and a glance at my emails, and it was back out again, to pick up the other 2 members of the Horde, as I was taking them to Chester. The first stop, was to park up near Games Workshop, so that the birthday boy could go and get some more WarHammer (for those not in the know ,Warhammer/40K, are both table top wargaming, which involves, asembeling and painting of the game figures, before playing a very complicated game). While they were doing this, I pooped up onto the city walls, to do a fellow cacher a favor, and check on a missing cache (Steps in the wall, GC92F4 by Leek) unfortunately after checking out the location, it was defiantly missing. I had brought a spare cache along with me, as this is a great cache to do, and replaced the missing cache for him, all this whilst avoiding GeoMuggle (non cachers), it was then to go back to the car as the rabble were going to Laser quest (and I hadn't a clue were it was) whilst walking back along the walls (no hints to the cache location) I was scouting out possible Locational caches (this is were you find a location which fits the quest), arrived back at the Eastgate steps off the wall, were the Jubillie clock is, went down the steps on the cathedral side, as I was intending to make a pit stop, at the donut shop next to the steps, five mini donuts for 70p later, and off to the car, were the rabble was waiting! Drove around the ring road to drop them off, it would have been quicker to walk to Laserquest. drooped them off, and back to the Rhodee car park, another walk along the walls, to recheck that I'd replaced the cache so it wasn't visible, and then it was time to go and pick the lads up. They decided that they would like to go to Mc's for a bit to eat. As the Mc's in Chester were chaotic, we ended up at the Mc's on the A55. My eldest the worrier that he is, asked me if I had enough money to get myself something to eat, and then said he'd go last in case the lads were short of money. Full bellies, it was time to head home. When I got home, I was in Major trouble, as I'd left our Trixie at home, she had driven my daughter and other half nuts while I was away (as you can tell she's a daddy's girl). As soon as fings had settled down, I had to go out to the shops, which means a visit to the local town, well of course daddys girl was coming. Our routine on going into town is to take Trixie down to the beach (as you've guessed we live by the sea) for a walk. Parked up at our usual spot, and out I got with daddys girl, and creped down to the beach, you have to remember it was pitch black by now. Well Trixie shot down onto the beach whilst I stood at the edge, 5 minutes later it was time to head home, so I called out to her. All I could hear was the sound of her paws as she ran back up the beach (remember I couldn't see her) going tch,tch,tch! All of a sudden the sound changed to "splash,splash,splash", upps, the tide having not long gone out, she'd cut across a patch of sea water still on the beach! well talk about laugh, she came into sight shaking all four paws, in the way a dog will when it gets involuntary wet, she was soaked! Being a daddys girl, and being so small, she either lays down or sits on my lap when I'm driving. I put her in the car in the foot well with my other half,and got into the car, as I was driving off, my other half let go of her, as she wanted her daddy, result one wet poodle sat in my lap. I said wet? Should have said soaking! Once we got home, it was one wet sorry sandy poodle very unwillingly straight into th shower! After being washed and dried, I finally had time to peruse the G:UK forums, which took me over a hour. Well there's the days Blog done, and why the title? Because one of my friends quired were todays Blog was!

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I spoke too soon!

Famous words, which come true all to often. After another US mod, posted in suport of the now famouse Keystone Disaprover, then a nother US mod comes on to the UK forums telling us that we're wrong. I am totaly sick of this attitude of you will do as a say, or bugger off and take your toys with you. Mind you I'm not supprised, Jeremy who owns the site has the same sort of attitude.Well this time Jeremy your paying cutomers are boycoting your forums, and going to the UK's own G:UK forums. It looks realy great for you doesn't it, another country has the majority of posters boycoting your forums. Brian (Dego) who's the mod on G:U, has already shown a great attitude, by saying "your all adults, last one out switch the lights off"

Sounds like our friendly Troll, is making a devius cache, thats if Joan can get the expanding foam out of her hair, sorry Joan but we just had to laugh when we heard. I'll have to get all the gen before it goes live, makes it a bit easier to find, especialy when you've got 2 devius cache hiders like Mark & Joan.

What a Wet and Quiet Day, Up to Now!

All's quiet on the forum front today, thank heavens. Sense seems to have returned, hopefully this time it will last, it's cold and wet outside, all the cats are snuggled down (did I tell you we have 4, Suzie, Soxs, Smudge & Tigger, the last three are elder sister to 2 twins), but Trixie our poodle (aka 4PawDrive Poodle) wants to go for a walk, ah well looks like I'm going to get wet, and I'm not even going to find a cache. time to go, as the Terminator would say "I'll be back" to post again later on. Well on further reading on GC, it seems that the UK Tsunami cache was archived by the GC laywer, if that had only been posted, straight away, it might have saved a lot of arguments, but the party line regarding the US reviewer, is still totaly out of line! The fact that he used the same message pasted in, each time he closed a thread, showed that he wasn't even thinking about the GC line, but doing in more to screw the UK community, (if your THE REVIEWER in question and are reading this, WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH the UK caching community, and that GC is supporting you, despite you screwing with their customers).

Now my event plans are screwed!

Well after exchanging, emails with one of the UK GC reviewers, it looks like my plans are screwed because of the hurra those B*****ds have raised. I was planing a double event day for later on in the year, the first a TB swap event on the ferry over to Island, and the second a UK/Irish cachers meeting event. Unless everything calms down, the Ferry event won't get approved due to it being a commercial event. What the f***k I hear you say, apparently it's because you have to purchase a ferry ticket, go figure, if your traveling to the second event, you've either got to fly to Dublin, or take the ferry, if your traveling from the UK! Hm? I wonder if I located it in the lobby of the ferry terminal, I'd be able to get it approved, free entrance, open to all. If you can't beat the b*****d's one way look for another way. As for my xmas dinner cache, well I've got around 303 days to work things out. organized a get together with a Troll for Sunday, sounds like I don't like my life, I know, but in reality, I'm meeting a fellow caching team, Cave Troll & Joan (Mark & Joan) with my other half, we're of to scout out a restaurant for my daughters 14th birthday, whilst we are in the location mark & Joan intend to replace a trashed cache of theirs, at the Anderton Boat Lift (An Uplifting Day Out). Well things have calmed down of the GC forums, so time for me to calm down, and get some caching planed, especially as Nette my other half, wants to get her No of finds up. Told you I was a cache addict!

Padlocks everywere

Ah well, what a day its been on the GC forums. Blood, tears, naughty boys and girls getting smacked, threads being locked! And all because a few small minded, (I won't) call them persons, played hell about the 2 fund raising caches for the Tsunami survivors. Result 2 Archived caches, and then a flame war, which got realy nastie. What is wrong with them, just because they couldn't get their own petty charity caches approved, they had to make sure that these to worthy eforts, for those poor people, were closed down. The only way to describe them is "Total F***ing B****rds", and TPTB at Groundspeak are no better! Then we had a US reviewer coming on to our UK forum and locking threads down, one of which was started by a UK reviewer, to allow us to sound off about the closure, stuck up "Yank", and it's rare for me to call them!

Ah well tommorow brings another day, events to plan, caches to work on, hey that reminds me, I must chase up the Crown Estate Agent re the permision I'm after for a 3 or maybe 4 part multi.