Liking the new look forum! However I requested a username change many, many years ago which was accepted but it's now reverted back. Can it be unreverted please? Oh and my avatar looks crap now. But I can fix that. TIA! xx

Who: Myself (freelance), Oggy (DCC) Where: Ogof Fechan, Penderyn, Wales When: Thursday 15th November 2012 After being accosted by the extremely friendly farm dogs for half an hour of ball throwing, we got lost on the moor before finding the cave. A slight collapse in the entrance has made a...

Who: Myself (freelance), Oggy (DCC) Where: Little Neath River Cave, Ystradfellte, Wales When: Tuesday 13th November 2012 Down to sump 2 via the canal, back out via the canal bypass. Brilliant fun, tremendous cave for it's size. A bit smelly (diesel) in upstream series from the entrance...

Who: Myself (freelance), Oggy (DCC) Where: Ogof Daren Cilau, Welsh Wales When: Friday 7th September 2012 It was about time we tried a decent length trip after all the messing about on Mendip and in the Peak, so where better to have a baptism of fire but down Daren! Hearing of the entrance...

Who: Myself (freelance), Oggy (DCC) Where: Gautries Hole, Peak district When: Wednesday 15th August 2012 After an aborted trip a couple of months back due to the entrance series being sumped, we returned in earnest to have a poke around, a first time trip to Gautries for the two of us. We...

Who: Myself, Sam T (Eldon), Oggy (DCC) Where: Giant's Hole, Peak district When: Sunday 15th January 2012 Many moons ago, I was in discussion with Sam T about getting St. Valentine's sump open again. The drain hole in the dam blocked a long time ago making bailing impossible. Sam installed a...

Who: Myself and Oggy (DCC) Where: Gautries and P8, Peak district When: Saturday 25th February 2012 The main aim of the trip was to explore the recently discovered extensions in Gautries. This was our first trip to Gautries, so we weren't sure what to expect. However, upon arrival at the cave we...

Team: Myself, Oggy Location: Eastwater Cavern, Mendip Objectives: Primrose path to the bottom of Primrose pot, Unlucky Strike, Twin verticals to terminal rift, Ifold's series Fuelled on sausage baguettes from Budgens in Churchill, we arrived at Eastwater farm at 0930 sharpish. Had a nice chat...

I have been a long time member and moderator of DP, since the first month or two back in 2002. Until today that is. Having read the forum owners (c**tplaces) recent comments on UKC and his subsequent banning, I found the thread on DP discussing the banning. I added my tuppence worth and was...

Myself, Jasonbirder and Chris met up for a quick after work session last night. I was there early, so threw a rope down Whalf engine shaft, ready for the ascent. I then made my dinner on the stove, put a brew on and waited for the others to turn up. When everyone was ready, we marched over to...

In a nutshell: Met Jasonbirder and Phil on Bradwell Moor. Hunted around the field for the New Venture Mine shaft. Located shaft. Descended using Belay Bar (TM). Discovered the joy of using spits. Shimmied around hanging death and rotten stemples. Ran out of rope and had to downclimb last...

'An imposter is amongst us!', were the cries, when yours truly sneaked aboard an Orpheus trip at the weekend. Actually, I was kindly invited along by Jasonbirder, and with Warren and Pete it made an ideal sized group to tackle an awesome through trip in The Peak. Our intentions were to do the...

I haven't had anything to do with digging yet and thought I would offer my bucket hauling/rock bashing/mud plugging/sump bailing services to anyone who requires them!! Or alternatively, does anyone need a surveying assistant/tape measure holder/general dogsbody?!?! So could anyone do with a...

Like a kid at Christmas, I trotted over to Knotlow mine on Saturday with my shiny new 100m rope. I even treated it to labels and heatshrink at either end to aid identification. How gutted was I 5 hours later, to climb out of the shaft and discover a local cow had chewed the heatshrink right off...

Myself and Jasonbirder nipped over to the Peak tonight to have an explore around P8 with the intention of getting to the end. However, we were stopped in our tracks when we discovered that the fixed knotted rope at Idiots Leap hadbeen removed. This left us in a predicament as we had only brought...

Today Myself, Jasonbirder, Wazza and Oggy, assaulted the infamous Mecano Passage and won! It really wasn't as bad as we were led to believe. The coffin level about 25m in from the Knotlow end was rather wet, but the tight bits further on weren't too tight. Navigation was aided by some helpful...

After a cracking trip down Oxlow, fellow caver Jasonbirder was de-rigging and left my favourite pink 8ft sling at the top of the pitch that drops you into the West Antechamber. He thought it was an in-situ sling so left it there! The cheek! It is lark's footed to one of the P-bolts. If anyone...