Well I'm sure you are all looking forward to the big day tomorrow when we recruit a record number of freshers and become the world's biggest university caving club! see you all at freshers fair, Wednesday 1 October 2003, 10-4. PLEASE don't forget to come along to our slideshow on Monday, 7.30pm, Palmer building where you can get more of a flavour of what the club's about. We should then be in the Queens Head, Christchurch Road from 9.00 onwards. Thanks, J
Hello, and welcome to rucavers, the online home of the Reading University Caving Club. This page is here to post the latest news and views from the club, and keep you up to date on what's happening. If you are new, thinking of joining or simply wish to know more about the club and its activities please use the links to the left. These will give you some background to the club, introduce you to the committee, provide information on trips and set out the type of gear used in caving and potholing. Should you have any immediate questions or wish to know how to join us, please let me know. This page is set out in this format because it can be used as an easily updated noticeboard, and feel free to post comments. If you wish to be able to post directly to the site from the internet please let the webmaster know and we'll provide permissions and instructions. We look forward to seeing you (in the dark).
J, President
look forward to seeing some of you at next weekend's Hidden Earth conference. As well as being the centre of the caving universe that weekend, the conference also marks the official launch of Speleolabs. We hope to see some of you at our stand, which in terms of quality and impact should knock Inglesport's into a cocked helmet. The weekend should also see the final delivery on the online speleoshop (this link will be working after next weekend).
Following a top level executive board meeting Speleolabs have graciously agreed to sponsor the rucavers website. Executive Director Mr Andrew Rumming welcomed the decision, stating that 'we are always proud to support the grassroots or weeds of the caving establishment. Speleolabs look forward to a long and happy partnership with an organisation close to our hearts, and on particularly drunken occasions, knees. We hope you use this site to help create an rucavers online community, so feel free to post and comment as often as possible. Oh, and buy fine speleo-goods from the usual outlets. Yeah...'
OK, fellow caving people - a bit more about how this site works.
This format has a big advantage. Firstly it acts like an ordinary website, e.g to the left you can permanently add links to pages of interest, such as what to wear, trip dates and where we visit and so on. You will need to contact me if these need changing.
Secondly, the clever bit that anyone can post to this site. You can leave comments, but also post directly if they are set up to do so. This involves me sending an an invite to someone wishing become an author (e.g. the committee. Within the e-mail there's a link to the right page at Typepad, who host the site. They then register and can post directly to this page to their heart's content. The upshot is that we don't have to rely on one person updating a website, and the thing should run itself in effect. Most cunning.
You can therefore use it to post any random thoughts really quickly e.g 'muddy tight thrusking with dribbling cornish duck pasties and ford transit fleecy flimmering madness due to carbide wellies and hilton park services speleopants'. See? Next week I shall be quoting from my new selection of underground rock poetry, 'Slave to the Cave'.
The idea behind this form of website is an early spin off from other (still top secret) work coming out of the state of the art Speleolabs Research and Development (Online) Facility. On this delicate subject, some of you may have seen an e-mail from J which contained a link to something called the 'Speleoblog'. Please be assured that anything you may or may not have seen having clicked on this link doesn't technically exist yet in real marketing terms as it hasn't been formally launched, so please ignore the wealth of fun things that may or may not be on there. But you may wish to watch that space, should you be interested in the future of apres-caving speleofashion.
Everything from this point downwards is a bit daft and has been placed there for testing purposes. I was going to remove it but will leave it up because it's a) a good example of how the site works and b) a bit silly. Please feel free to add to the comments.
Is this a pioneer of the new electric giraffe? Re: the comment attached. I don't believe you, I once tried something similar, using a small vole for percussion purposes. The timbre wasn't quite right.
Which way to Bude?
To the call centre, Bombay (see comments). Don't have one at the moment. How about an antelope playing a small harmonica?
No reason for this, no reason at all. Particularly if it attracts the kind of comments in the comments section. Bison with a Dyson?
Plenty more where these came from
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