Our membership is barely large enough for the existing insurance policy - a lot of work and negotiation went into that. I'm not sure we could replicate it at a national level let alone a regional level and the price we get for the cover is competitive. It's use as an access instrument is...

I was trying to work out how to respond to this in meme form. The short answer is yes, if only because if it isn't there then other, more malign organisations will fill the gap. So at the very least you need a placeholder to stop interference. I happen to think a stronger argument is all the...

You can wear your wellies on the plane - they slip on and off beautifully for security

A small part of me thinks it's a little bit of covid lag but I suspect if you go back through issues that might not bear out. I think this mirrors society at large and the decline in local news. We have a diminishing number of publications, and a diminishing number of contributors. I think it's...

[citation needed] You'd have thought property taxes affecting generational wealth are far more progressive than a tax that actively makes people from lower income backgrounds who succeed pay more than people who have lower earning potential but large amounts of inherited wealth.

Now that's an idea...

You gave me a crisis of confidence compiling a subjective list - is my opinion valid 😂 I've managed to correct your list. PS I'm too fat for Derbyshire hall and too sensible for CoH

I'd have to stop my persistent habit of swearing when interacting with cavers if anything I did was available online! I agree though I think there's a role for some of the presentations to be recorded, it sucks to have been a speaker at the event and not be able to attend half the talks I wanted...

Small package (disto battery) for pick up to go to Greece

There are multiple surveying devices coming through: You have the SAP5 coming out - though I don't think for this expedition season though Phil may correct me on that. If push comes to shove though I'm happy for you to have my SAP4 (all fully integrated with Topodroid) if needed. It's also...

It's almost as if there's a group of disenchanted volunteers who have been mismanaged or forced into a path of opposition. I didn't agree with many previous chairs and worked with many people who had opposite views to my own. About 90% of the work is uncontroversial. However this idea that 'the...

Yeah it was somewhat flippant. My bad. I'm aware this statement was written specifically to trigger me rather than to communicate with the members. There are many problems with this statement: 1) 'Publications and Information Officer (P&I) role being vacant who would ordinarily have undertaken...

Wow. Good to see the inabillity to admit your own shortcomings hasn't gone away. They kind of have to know what needs doing. The only reluctance I can see is working with a highly dysfunctional executive. We could fill all the positions if you step down

It has been discussed before but would require significant increase in data storage capacity, I did offer to write a funding proposal for the registry but I suspect a standard format/resolution/file size would be needed first. I'm not sure scanning will replace 'traditional methods' -...

Any news? I mean the lack of either the secretary or chair of the organisation offering even a simple explanation onto this thread/the website/anything anywhere is shameful. They should cop to the shoddy job they're doing but because it involves being held to account they pretend that talking...