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    What caving related thing did you do today?

    Been there, done that!!
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    Sue Perkins goes caving

    According to the Observer TV programme listings for this week, on Friday / Channel 5 Sue Perkins, on a 'personal mission to experience hidden Thailand' goes up north 'for some terrifying caving' (sic) which, she says, has grown in popularity since 2018's Tham Luang cave rescue.
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    **Rock fall** Alum Pot

    I once did something similar in GG Main Chamber, with a similar result – scared the shit out of us!
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    **Rock fall** Alum Pot

    Morning Ian, that sounds scary, and I'm glad you weren't injured. Out of curiosity, can I ask you a question? Some time ago I set up a picture of someone climbing the waterfall in GB Cave, with me at the bottom with a camera and my daughter with a flash-gun, while somebody else was supposed to...
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    Photography Showcase 3 per week limit

    3 little cavers in a big cave:
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    AI Wezzit

    Anything to do with Herring (as in Red Herring Series)?
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    Good smoke for testing drafts?

    I assume that what is needed is something to test draughts; although, oddly, someone who creates drafts (preliminary drawings or texts) is a draughtsman/woman (which logically should mean someone who creates air-currents) in UK English.
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    AI Wezzit

    Stag-in-Box-in-Wood Cave? (Why does everyone say some variant of 'This will be easy'?)
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    AI Wezzit

    Is there such a place as 'Gnome Pot'
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    First Aid Kits

    What would you advocate for carrying 'stuff' through a cave, JAshley73?
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    Bernie's under new ownership!

    The eighties? I'm talking before that!!!
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    Bernie's under new ownership!

    . . . when we had crap, heavy lights, crap clothing, crap equipment . . . ;)
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    Photography Showcase 3 per week limit

    Oh – did you find anything up there?
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    Wezzit?

    Just an aside, but Trogger's picture of Short Drop Cave reminded me of this one:
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    Caving article in The Spectator

    Thanks for your reply, Pete.
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    Caving article in The Spectator

    I agree it's a good article; but maybe it would have been even better if there had been at least one photograph of some of the beautiful formations down there?
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    Wezzit?

    Fernhill Cave?
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    AI Wezzit

    Pegleg Pot?
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    Friday joke - WARNING - contains swearing.

    Did Alan have a brother called Cnut?
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    Wezzit?

    Langstroth Cave?
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