Hopefully!

The forum will be taken offline on Monday evening. It should be back online some time on Tuesday.

Tim and Jane Allen are delighted to announce they are the new owners of ukCaving.com: We love caves, caving and all that goes with the sport and have been caving, both home and abroad, for many years. UK Caving is an integral part of the caving community and we hope our plans will improve...

And done. Let us know if anything looks wrong.

... being done now ... 5am UK time

Cave Climb have kindly returned to resume support, but we are still looking for additional sponsors.

Can you give examples?

Done. It's quite a major software upgrade (though most of the change is behind the scenes) so please shout if anything looks odd. You may need to refresh your browser cache to get everything working.

Second round of upgrade work will take place early tomorrow - Saturday 8th - hopefully should be over in an hour or two.

We have to take the forum offline later to upgrade the server OS. Hopefully it will only take 24 hours or so. Wish us luck ...

We received this message to the forum's gmail address last night. If anyone is interested, the source's contact details are below (please don't PM me!). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We manage a large area of land near...

Yes, not that we are wholly ruthless capitalists but can I echo that bit ...

Jim Darwell asked me to post up the following: Just to inform you that David Lafferty who held the record from 1966 for longest period underground incommunicado of 130 days in Gough Cavern.  Died on Saturday 2nd Oct 2010. He had been suffering from Cancer. David was interviewed on `5live`...

Actually that was an error. The "recent topics" block should only appear on the "Home" page. But if you like them on every page we can enable that ...

On the case ... may take a few days though. If anyone needs activating meanwhile, email

We have just installed Simple Portal to enable a number of changes: new menus, article publishing, etc. More information to follow!

As people probably know, UKCaving and UKBouldering run on the same server and so were a logical 2-for1 purchase for Simon and I when Bubba put them up for sale earlier this year. Over the first few months we did tend to focus more on UKB but we have now got more time to attend to UKCaving. One...

Just noticed this. Reinhard Siegl in Muscat is the local guru. http://www.trekkingoman.com/ then "Contact" 

<cough> ... ahem ... please keep this civil and lose the veiled hints at whatever. Thanks!  :)

Could you post this on the other Ogof Draenen thread ... http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php/topic,9977.0.html ... given the heat this topic seems to generate we'd prefer to only have one thread to moderate, will lock or remove any others.