Welcome

[Admin]

Just a quick line to say welcome to the new GAGB forum.

We hope that this forum will prove useful to all members of the GAGB by providing them with a method of giving us feedback and information.

Forums will be added when we have some feedback from our members about what they want.

Let's all hope for some positive things for geocaching in the future.

We are pretty sure that things will have to be tweaked and trimmed up as we go along, so please bear with us while we get this all settled down.

The most important thing is of course, visiting places one would probably never have even known about had it not been for the hunt for a hidden box and the participation of those who hid that box.

So let's keep it friendly and constructive. B)

[Paul G0TLG]

Looking forward to the friendly chat that's going to happen here

So...who else is here?

Paul G0TLG

Short fat bald bloke from Southampton

[Team Tate]

Well, I'm here!
Waiting for things to happen!
Sarah xx

[The Bennett Family]

We're here too... :

[DerekReed]

Yeehah!!

After 3 abortive attempts, I made it just in time to celebrate my birthday.

GAGB rocks...

Can't wait until it actually gets to where the founders hope it would get to be.

[marinor]

Glad to be here, thanks for setting things up

[dodgydaved]

dodgydaved has got here, moree by good luck than good judgement I think, and wish GAGB and all cachers the best of life.

Dave

[DerekReed]

Originally posted by dodgydaved@Jun 7 2003, 10:04 AM
dodgydaved has got here, more by good luck than good judgement I think, and wish GAGB and all cachers the best of life.

Dave

With 200 caches under the belt, we can only assume you knew how to input the URL for GAGB, and turned up with ease.

Now all I have to do is find out how to activate my avatar, and find out why I can't see user profiles... :P

[The Northumbrian]

The Northumbrian is watching the screen :
ps Like the smileys

[Daisy&me]

Hello from Daisy and me.

What's this smily for mean? h34r:

[Tim and June]

Originally posted by Daisy&me@Jun 7 2003, 06:13 PM
Hello from Daisy and me.

What's this smily for mean? h34r:

Hello Daisy & Me, nice to see you here.

Most of them are fairly obvious, but that one !

Looks like a smiley wearing a balaclava.

Wonder if it's something to do with the SAS

is this guy drunk ? :

[The Bennett Family]

h34r:

Surely It's Omally in his helmet......

[The Northumbrian]

And Nige has only had one today, Barrel that is :

[Paul G0TLG]

h34r: looks like Kenny from South Park!

Paul G0TLG
Sunburned, tired, muddy and happy

[Bill D (wwh)]

Just saying hello. Yes, I like the smileys too! h34r:

[fiddo]

hi also

[John Stead]

Hi to all from me too. Sorry this would have been here sooner but I've been away, partly caching, so hope I'm excused. Now another forum to keep an eye on! But to me this one IS important.

[plaid-dragon]

I'm here too; what with this and the GC.com fora, I will be lucky to get :any: work done!

[DerekReed]

Originally posted by plaid-dragon@Jun 10 2003, 05:26 PM
I'm here too; what with this and the GC.com fora, I will be lucky to get :any: work done!

I've completely stopped trying to get any work done already.

Just hope my boss and wife don't notice. :P

[Rangers of Ithilien]

Well, the Rangers managed to find their way through the woods to the forum! Hello everyone :P

[The Targett Family]

Hi there we are here too.

Thnx for setting things up, looking forward to seeing it's delelopement.

[minstrelcat]

Just thought I'd say hi too. Don't post too often in the various geocaching fora but read them regularly.

Regards,
Lisa

[dogastus]

I've just signed up and thought I would say 'hi'.

Best wishes from Newbury, Berks

Nigel.

[The Scout]

Hi from Newport, South Wales

Baz

[Omally]

Originally posted by The Bennett Family@Jun 8 2003, 12:08 PM
h34r:

Surely It's Omally in his helmet......

Could be... trouble is, you can't see the idiot grin on me phizz!

[G Force]

Hello, we just registered and it's great to be here. looking forward to a summer of geocaching.
Happy hunting everyone.

The Geisslers

[DerekReed]

Originally posted by G Force@Jul 7 2003, 07:20 PM
Hello, we just registered and it's great to be here. looking forward to a summer of geocaching.
Happy hunting everyone.

The Geisslers

Hello, and welcome aboard. B)

It was good to meet you at the HCC bash. Hope you enjoyed yourselves, and the journey back up wasn't too bad.

Derek

[Friendly Flyer]

Finally got around to joining all you fine folks.

[Gavotteers]

Here we are better late than never

[rickburt]

We have recently signed up to the forum, well is there much going on here ?

Hello from Romsey, Hampshire.


Rick & Trish

[Sparticus]

Just had to reset my account before I could rejoin the forum page. We're here now and must say Hi to all the fantastic people we have met on our searches

[Deego]

Just saying hello and can anybody tell me why I cant veiw the members section???? all i get is :-

Sorry, but you do not have permission to use this feature.
If you are not logged in, you may do so using the form below.


I am logged in so what have I done? :huh:

Brian

[Paul G0TLG]

The "Members" section gives a list of members, it isn't a section for members to use.

Back in the very early days of this forum, the moderators promised that information on who's a member wouldn't be made public, hence why this section is not available to members to view.

Paul
(not a mod here, but a mod of another IPB board so I know how they work&#33

[NetV]

Hi - I'm new to this exciting sport - Just thought I'd say hello

[paul.blitz]

Originally posted by NetV@Nov 16 2003, 03:07 PM
Hi - I'm new to this exciting sport - Just thought I'd say hello

Well hi there, and welcome!

I hope you have plenty of spare time..... coz it's now gonna get all used up caching!!! Don't expect to lead a "normal" life any more!

And you will find your whole outlook on life will change.... as you walk through some woods, no more will you say "oh, look at the nice flowers". No, instead it will be: "hey, look, a big rotten tree stump, just the sort of place to hide a cache!"

I'm sure you, like the rest of us, will be having many hours of fun!


Paul Blitz

[Sheards]

Hi,

A newbie to caching (Found 2 so far). Not the best time of year to start I guess. Looking forward to many more in the warmer weather.

[paul.blitz]

Originally posted by Sheards@Jan 6 2004, 09:12 AM
Hi,

A newbie to caching (Found 2 so far). Not the best time of year to start I guess. Looking forward to many more in the warmer weather.

Welcome to the sport!

Whilst hunting caches in winter does tend to be wetter & more miserable, at least it DOES make you get out and get some excersise when you might otherwise prefer not to.

It also means that when it rains on summer caching trips, you don't feel QUITE as bad, as you will remember how bad it REALLY was "back in the winter"!!!!

There is a cachers meet coming up at the end of the month, in Winchester: I hope you can joins us there!


Paul

[Bifter]

I'd like to say hello too!!! and the smilies are cool but no avatars?????? keep up the good work guys.......Bifter.

[Bill D (wwh)]

Hi Bifter, and welcome to GAGB. I think the reason avatars can't be used is that this site is hosted on someone's business server, and they need to keep traffic down to save bandwidth for its main purpose.

[polar69]

Well I dont know if this is the best place but.......


Hi ! Stumbled across Geocaching via a military site , found my 1st two yesterday

I take it this site is a sister site for the US geocaching website ?

[seifer]

Hi and welcome, you'll soon be hooked!

This site isn't a sister site, all the caches are listed on the main us site (geocaching.com). This is an organistaion forn UK geocachers who's aims are to attempt to get permission for geocaching from UK landowners, actively promoting the sport etc.

Seifer

[kernow krawlers]

Hi there, we are new too (about 1 month) and having a lot of fun so far

It looks like caching is going to be a huge sport. Looking forward to the future

[NattyBooshka]

Originally posted by kernow krawlers@Feb 27 2004, 12:21 PM
Hi there, we are new too (about 1 month) and having a lot of fun so far

It looks like caching is going to be a huge sport. Looking forward to the future

Welcome to the madness!

[peterr]

[FONT=Times]Hi everyone. Discovered geocaching and my first cache - the importance of being ernest by nattybooshka - a month ago.

Great fun. Looking forward to finding more and meeting more friendly people.

[pigboy306]

Hello to all waiting for my GPS to arrive so I partner and my 7 month old can get into this interesting pursuit

[GrahamSmith]

HI, all.

Just got into this, and somewhat amazed to find that someone has cached on my own stamping ground around Hopwood, Rochdale. Will be out there looking tonight with a bit of luck!
Be back to let you know how I'm going on.
Byeeeee!

Graham
(Original grumpy old man even before they got on telly)

[Ullium]

Hi everyone
I've just joined and I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you

I'm from Glasgow...are there any other members from Scotland?

Ullium.

[The J J Noodle Fan Club]

I've just been trying to change our name from jjnfc to "The J J Noodle Fan Club" wot we use on gc.com and found I can't do it!

In the process however I've spotted that it's exactly a year since we registered on this board and we haven't posted once in all that time so this post is to rectify that

BTW: Without posting how do you tell if you're a voting member or not?

[Bill D (wwh)]

jjnfc, we're looking at this, but so far it seems as if there's no way to change a user name. Watch this space.

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Bill, posting on behalf of the committee

[Bill D (wwh)]

jjnfc, it was staring me in the face and I missed it! (Thanks, Teasel&#33

I've now changed your user name as requested. In the meantime you'd set up a new account in the new name. I've deleted that account. It's better to keep your old account as that way your forum posts and preferences are preserved.

Sorry to take so long about it!

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Bill, posting on behalf of the committee