The Guardian is running a story about micro-plastics in our rivers and water supply.  It reads as if a caver has taken a sample of water from 400m below Northamptonshire.  Gotta be a UK record, n'est pas ? If I'm honest, I didn't know there were any caves there.  I wonder which bits of the...

The SBSS had the pleasure of doing the Grand Circle trip in Aggy yesterday (Sat 22nd Jan '22) and while we were faffing in Bezr passage, i noticed that my camera had disappeared from my tackle bag  :clap2:. I was a bit hypothermic at the time as the deep water in the streamway was very very...

If anyone is going into the White River series in Peak Cavern, they will bump into my blue tackle bag at the top of the pull-through pitches (fever, terminator etc).  I left it there yesterday  (29 Jan 2011). :wall: After ascending from Block Hall, I had been hanging around for nearly an hour...

The funeral service of Bev, the Landlady at the Burrington Inn, will be at 1.30pm on Wednesday 2nd February, at Burrington Church.  Family flowers only. Any donations to go to Cancer Research please - can be done personally, or via the funeral directors: KC Britton Funeral Directors 01934...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the Bev, the landlady at the Burrington Inn died on Wednesday evening, follwing a short illness.  She had a serious illness last year but recovered to be her usual bouncy self.  Sadly, she contracted flu a week or so ago and was rushed to hospital on...

Has anyone had eye probelms after caving on the Mendips recently?  Three of us from the SBSS went down Longwood last night, getting as far as the entrance to Fanny's Rift before hearing the call of the pub.  T'was only in the pub that we realised that BoB's eye was really red.  An hour or so...