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Snow Day!
Jan 5th
Woke up this morning to find moving the car quite interesting (I moved 3 foot and then got stuck!). Finally heard off the school it was closed today because of the weather so 4 months in to teaching and already a snow day 
Today now need to do some lesson planning and also try and solved some of the issues with wordpress on the explorer website. Despite this site and the explorer site being set up identically, the explorer site seems to dislike being updated…at all.
Hopefully will be able to find a solution 
Gareth
Update again
Jan 2nd
I’ve moved over to wordpress completely, instead of part wordpress/part pure php.
From simply a content management side of things, it makes everything a lot easier
Hopefully more content will follow
Unfortunately moving over the blog has meant all the photos I had uploaded are gone….will see if i can fix that
New Car!
Dec 24th
I picked up my new car today – a 2005 Ford Focus Ghia. It’s really good and works a lot better than my old fiesta 
Will put some photos up once this snow budges….
Oooh!
Dec 19th
Just been messing around on iPod touch and found the Wordpress 2 app!
Looks good, as far as writing and comment admin goes. Would be good to be able to add and update plugins etc. But is good anyway.
I’m hoping to try and keep this blog up dated a little more, and also move my site over to wordpress completely, instead of just using it for the blog part.
Hopefully will update again v soon!
Gareth
More caches!
Oct 29th
Today we spent time in Ambleside and grabbed a few caches there. There is a few older caches and some newer ones, the first one being Ambleside Amble. We weren’t too sure what this would be like given some of the DNFs that were on the cache page. Luckily we had it found within a minute of getting to GZ. We signed the log and moved on, getting some numbers for a multi that we’d part worked out at home. There was 31 places to visit in Ambleside, but given the fact we didn’t have too much time we cheated slightly and managed to narrow it down to two locations to visit – the Market Cross and the Salutation – each opposite each other. When we got to the Salutation there was two possible locations for the cache – one near the Stock Ghyll Cache and one near where we parked – perfect.
We headed off upto stock ghyll and got the cache there and had a quick search to see if we could find the multi cache at the coords we’d worked out. It wasn’t there so moved off to near where we parked and found the cache within a few minutes of searching.
On the way back to the car we grabbed Post Haste Ambleside and drove to Hayes Garden World for lunch. After lunch went on a bit further down the lake and grabbed the new YHA cache, which wasn’t well hidden at all, and also the Galava Fort cache.
This was all for today, so headed off back to Low Briery
Geocaching in the Lakes
Oct 26th
We’re up in the Lake District for a week so are doing some Geocaching whilst here. Sunday we managed to grab a few in Keswick, which we missed last year. Nothing too much to say about these as they were just micros, although one, Post Haste Keswick GC14E4K did have us searching for a while as the coords brought us to a bridge over a road so we weren’t too sure which level to be looking on!
Today we got some around Whinlatter (A Taste of Lakeland GC14E4K) and then a few near by including GC14E4K where there were some fantastic views!
Finally we tried for another drive by micro, but were too many muggles nearby to attempt. Maybe next time
Blog Is Back
May 6th
After a rejig of the website and moving the blog to a subdomain (blog.gsellis.com) a number of the features (for example media) stopped working. This was a bit annoying as i’d modified the theme I use accross the website to that of the blog for a bit of a better look. Anyway with all the work I had on I didn’t have time to go through and change all the references so i’d left it until now. I first tried a reinstall, but as I had to reimport the old database I still had a few things to change, which are now sorted.
The theme is not finished for individual post views, but I hope to sort that soon – it shouldn’t take too long, but I want to finish off the uni work before i do anymore
Gareth
Pimp That Snack!
Mar 6th
Today we gave making giant Cola Bottles a go from the popular site PimpThatSnack. It was quite easy to prepare and now are waiting for the jelly to set so we can add the lemonade part . Here’s pictures so far….
Boiling Coke
Cut bottle lid off
Pour into bottles (we had too much for just the big one!
Now our cola bottles are setting ready to add the lemonade top bit
Geocaching
Mar 5th
We went and found a few caches today – 5 in total and had to DNF one:( We missed FTF but had fun anyway. One cache even had us wading through a river….in March! It was freezing
Deadlines
Dec 1st
I haven’t had chance to post as much as i wanted to recently, as i’ve had a lot of work on with different assessed work, dissertation and also applications for jobs for next year. So far I’ve applied to Marks and Spencer’s IT graduate scheme and am in the process of completing other applications. hopefully will be succesful
