I remember visiting CS in Cheam (or North Cheam) in early 1976 for my first wetsuit, they moved north soon after. Don't recall the garage, but their spare bedroom was full of gear

Whoops. My mistake. Turns out it wasn't Joan. Although she saw it fairly soon after it appeared, she tells me it wasn't her who reported it as there was already a Somerset CC van parked next to it with its orange safety light on, waiting for traffic lights to be set up.

I believe this was first noticed a few weeks ago by Joan Goddard of the MCG (it's not far from our cottage). She parked up to make cars pull out to avoid the hole, called Highways, then remained at the roadside until they eventually arrived to cone it off. The temp traffic lights were on red...

Speak to Tim Francis, I assume you are in the MCG newsgroup

Just a thought. Maybe make sure someone knows where you are going and when you are due out. And that they know how to call out Cave Rescue.

Use a search engine, rather than the search function on the forum

Mine arrived today. A journey of 12 miles from Kendal, about 1 mile per day.

Might help: https://www.cave-science.org.uk/publications

https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/ambient-temperature-of-british-caves.4646/post-66138

300 + 200 days. She left part way through and spent 6 days camping outside the entrance "After 300 days of voluntary confinement, Beatriz briefly walked out because she felt, according to sources familiar with the project, “the noise of the router in her brain,” alluding to the computer and...

What was the uncensored name of Blue Pencil Passing in Swildon's?

Scroll down to where it says: J-RAT'S BEQUEST In the weeks leading up to his death, Tony Jarratt very generously donated his remaining stock of the fourth edition of “Mendip Underground” and Herbert Balch's classic “Mendip - Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters” to the Mendip Cave Registry and...

https://variety.com/2007/scene/awards/filming-planet-earth-1117966581/ For “Planet Earth” producer Huw Cordey, who spent 10 straight days living in a cave to film a single six-minute sequence, that’s amateur night. “It was like mountaineering — underground, in the dark,” Cordey says of the...

Perhaps the manufacturer could? http://www.ethomasandwilliamsltd.com/

Er.... Bat Passage was discovered in, I think, 1966