ZombieCake
Well-known member
I'll start with the following. Any other freely available audiobooks or other entertaining things?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fnPn9Xr7fI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fnPn9Xr7fI
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Help us work out the future of the Inglesport Café
We've been trading since 1977 and next year will be our 50th anniversary.
The café has been part of that for a long time, running quietly in the background for years, and we don't think it always gets the credit it deserves as a genuine community hub. But we need to be straight with you: the café is under real pressure, and we’re not sure of the best path forward.....
This'll Keep You Occupied For a Couple of Hours
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RobinGriffiths
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Some more newsletters:
https://www.abercavers.co.uk/?page_id=3792
https://bec-cave.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=68&Itemid=508&lang=en
http://www.catmhs.org.uk/past-newsletters/
http://www.ccpc.org.uk/newsletters.html
http://www.chelseaspelaeo.org/publications.htm
https://croydoncavingclub.org.uk/pelobates
http://www.goes.org.uk/html/articles.html
https://www.orpheuscavingclub.org.uk/newsletters.html
http://www.rfdcc.org.uk/
https://www.swcc.org.uk/joomla-swcc/club/newsletter
Also loads of radio shows on Fourble. Not entirely sure about copyright status, but they are mostly hosted at archive.org which appears to be a legit organisation.
https://www.abercavers.co.uk/?page_id=3792
https://bec-cave.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=68&Itemid=508&lang=en
http://www.catmhs.org.uk/past-newsletters/
http://www.ccpc.org.uk/newsletters.html
http://www.chelseaspelaeo.org/publications.htm
https://croydoncavingclub.org.uk/pelobates
http://www.goes.org.uk/html/articles.html
https://www.orpheuscavingclub.org.uk/newsletters.html
http://www.rfdcc.org.uk/
https://www.swcc.org.uk/joomla-swcc/club/newsletter
Also loads of radio shows on Fourble. Not entirely sure about copyright status, but they are mostly hosted at archive.org which appears to be a legit organisation.
Speleotron
Member
This will help pass the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcldHxHFpo
Martin Laverty
Active member
Anything to correct or add to the links to add to the right hand side of http://caving-library.org.uk/catalogue/links.shtml ?
AR
Well-known member
Before this all kicked off, I was meant to be doing a volunteering day at the BCL. Having had a bellyful of training courses on Pluralsight, I've remembered a job which remains incomplete, which is indexing Nellie Kirkham's notes. From recollection I think we'd got through seven or eight (the thread will be lurking somewhere here) and the scanned docs are up somewhere on the PDMHS website - I'll check that and resurrect the original thread.
Pitlamp
Well-known member
OK, I'm bored already . . . .
Got "house lassitude" and struggling to find motivation.
So I sat down yesterday and jotted down a some things off the top of my head, which may be a way to use up this unexpected free time. They might not work for everyone but it may give a few ideas. I'm sure readers of this forum could come up with others.
1. Read some of the classic Yorkshire Ramblers Club journals, from a Century or more ago; they're excellent and they put our modern caving endeavour very much in context: http://www.yrc.org.uk/yrcweb/index.php/journal
2. Go through all your gear and systematically check / mend / arrange to replace as necessary, probably via online shopping at the moment. (I would imagine our valued caving retailers are now having a hard time and would really appreciate the last one of these.)
3. Do some research of caving literature and plot projects for when we're all OK to play out again. This could be as simple as glancing through caving guides, or more in depth via caving journals, surveys, etc. (Remember how the way on in Wookey 25 was spotted in a video film a few years ago?)
4. Write up outstanding articles for your club journal - and / or consider writing something for Descent (as the next 2 or 3 editions are likely to struggle for news).
5. Dig out and draw up those outstanding survey notes.
6. Write your caving memoirs.
7. Make sure any gear which can deteriorate is stored optimally (especially stuff which needs to be away from UV wavelengths in the dark).
8. Design and make a new item of digging gear, ready for when the time comes. (Hours of fun can be had by perfecting a "flopjack" for example.)
9. Ransack the shed / garage / loft and do some loving restoration work on all those old carbide lamps, paraffin stoves, Tilleys etc. It's therapeutic and they make great ornaments in cavers' houses, even if not used again in anger.
10. Make a list of all the things that often stop you getting out caving and attend to these now, to free up time once the whistle has blown.
11. Make a conscious effort to stay fit - but don't overdo it as it can have an adverse effect on the immune system.
Finally - and perhaps most important . . .
12. Consider volunteering to help others during the Coronavirus crisis, either via some local effort or through the NHS Volunteer Responders scheme: https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS
Got "house lassitude" and struggling to find motivation.
So I sat down yesterday and jotted down a some things off the top of my head, which may be a way to use up this unexpected free time. They might not work for everyone but it may give a few ideas. I'm sure readers of this forum could come up with others.
1. Read some of the classic Yorkshire Ramblers Club journals, from a Century or more ago; they're excellent and they put our modern caving endeavour very much in context: http://www.yrc.org.uk/yrcweb/index.php/journal
2. Go through all your gear and systematically check / mend / arrange to replace as necessary, probably via online shopping at the moment. (I would imagine our valued caving retailers are now having a hard time and would really appreciate the last one of these.)
3. Do some research of caving literature and plot projects for when we're all OK to play out again. This could be as simple as glancing through caving guides, or more in depth via caving journals, surveys, etc. (Remember how the way on in Wookey 25 was spotted in a video film a few years ago?)
4. Write up outstanding articles for your club journal - and / or consider writing something for Descent (as the next 2 or 3 editions are likely to struggle for news).
5. Dig out and draw up those outstanding survey notes.
6. Write your caving memoirs.
7. Make sure any gear which can deteriorate is stored optimally (especially stuff which needs to be away from UV wavelengths in the dark).
8. Design and make a new item of digging gear, ready for when the time comes. (Hours of fun can be had by perfecting a "flopjack" for example.)
9. Ransack the shed / garage / loft and do some loving restoration work on all those old carbide lamps, paraffin stoves, Tilleys etc. It's therapeutic and they make great ornaments in cavers' houses, even if not used again in anger.
10. Make a list of all the things that often stop you getting out caving and attend to these now, to free up time once the whistle has blown.
11. Make a conscious effort to stay fit - but don't overdo it as it can have an adverse effect on the immune system.
Finally - and perhaps most important . . .
12. Consider volunteering to help others during the Coronavirus crisis, either via some local effort or through the NHS Volunteer Responders scheme: https://www.goodsamapp.org/NHS
Judi Durber
Member
Will we all have hair that long after isolation 
Any photo's of chaps who can compete with that? Might have to go back to the 1960s to find any (at a guess) :-\
Any photo's of chaps who can compete with that? Might have to go back to the 1960s to find any (at a guess) :-\
PeteHall said:Well I knew I'd either seen it here, or the Mendip Digging Facebook group, but a search for "diggy diggy hole" didn't reveal where...mrodoc said:
I'll have to get in touch with them and organise an audition for my son once all this has blown over
I think this may have been the first appearance: Mr S Pole goes digging down Eldon...
Pitlamp
Well-known member
PeteHall said:Judi Durber said:Will we all have hair that long after isolation
Not sure what came over me, but I shaved my head after Boris' big announcement. I figured I'd cut it again when we get let back out; I really hope it isn't as long as those guys by then!
Pity we can't persuade our leader in Westminster to do the same; I don't think he has the first idea how to use a comb!
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