FG meet up!

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:57 pm

Hamster wrote: Koan!! Wow..thats quick!!!

Yeah we get snow up here.....where are you going to be living over here? it gets milder (generally) as you go south......

I should be in the London area. Aylesbury is the goal.

Guess it was kind of quick. Getting the ancestry paperwork in order was the stressful bit. Once that was done it was the first cheap flight out I could get. Bags have been packed for almost a week. lol

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:01 pm

Hamster wrote: Blimey-I am usually last minute woman myself!!!
That will the part that kicks in as soon as I arrive.

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:49 pm

Hamster wrote: Lol...You should be able to meet up with us then??

We were kind of revising it for January....

January is probably better. More time to figure out where the heck I'm going to live and get settled.

I'll drive backwards on the wrong side of the road to wherever you say.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:57 pm

Ok, so Open and Hamster have decided on January, so now where??

The Midlands?? Bristol??

We just need a venue, and some more Brits!! lol

Looks like its going to be Me, Koan, Hammy and Open! :rolleyes:

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:06 pm

Hamster wrote: I think either the Midlands or London area would be the fairest.... I would vote for the Midlands... I know some good ...um...erm..cheap hotels there... Oh...

I'll stop digging now!

:-5

We've done London already, it's a long old slog from Cornwall, not that I mind but it's just the M25, what a nightmare!

I think my braincells have gone to sleep for the night, what are you referring too? :-2

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:11 pm

I'm pretty sure spot will be there as well.

He mentioned something about how heritage places can be rented. It would be fun to come up with something unusual for location. Then again. I know nothing. I'm not even there yet.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:20 pm

koan wrote: I should be in the London area. Aylesbury is the goal.

Guess it was kind of quick. Getting the ancestry paperwork in order was the stressful bit. Once that was done it was the first cheap flight out I could get. Bags have been packed for almost a week. lol

Hi Koan, thats only 20 minutes from Jimbo and Me

Post by **spot** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:29 pm

SuzyB wrote: Hi Koan, thats only 20 minutes from Jimbo and Me :DThat's going to be interesting then! I had no idea.

"Open and Hamster have decided on January, so now where??"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edale just came up in conversation, as far as a January meet is concerned. Has anyone walked there on Kinder Scout besides me?

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:32 pm

Hamster wrote: Will you both be able to make it to the meet up?? :-6

We are going to try to book up to go to St Lucia in January but if we're around then that'd be cool.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:41 pm

Hamster wrote: Yeah I gotta meet you both-would be a real laugh. And Jimbo can show us his dancing!!

Unless you want to take me to St. Lucia??? :yh_pray :yh_pray

Sorry, no can do :-1 Our 1st holiday without the kids, yipeeeee

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:42 pm

I'm hopeless at figuring out counties and such at the moment. Sometimes it's Aylesbury, sometime Buckinghamshire sometimes Bucks & Berks...

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:45 pm

koan wrote: I'm hopeless at figuring out counties and such at the moment. Sometimes it's Aylesbury, sometime Buckinghamshire sometimes Bucks & Berks...

Not sure but i think Aylesbury is in the Buckinghamshire County (Bucks), Jim and i live in Berkshire, they are next to each other

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:53 pm

SuzyB wrote: Not sure but i think Aylesbury is in the Buckinghamshire County (Bucks), Jim and i live in Berkshire, they are next to each other

Then we'd be the Bucks and Berks! It sounds like a sitcom

Post by **spot** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:57 pm

Hamster wrote: Looks nice Spot...Have you been there?Not that hostel, but Edale yes (it has a lot of charm) and Kinder Scout yes (it has peat-bogs).

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:01 pm

As it happens, Koan, Aylesbury is not that far from where I live either. I'd give it 45 mins from my little village. We should have a Koan Has Arrived Welcoming Committee, just for the sake of having one.

:-6

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:11 pm

OpenMind wrote: As it happens, Koan, Aylesbury is not that far from where I live either. I'd give it 45 mins from my little village. We should have a Koan Has Arrived Welcoming Committee, just for the sake of having one.

:-6

That would be a novel thing for me. Usually people run screaming. :wah:

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:47 pm

spot wrote: That's going to be interesting then! I had no idea.

"Open and Hamster have decided on January, so now where??"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edale just came up in conversation, as far as a January meet is concerned. Has anyone walked there on Kinder Scout besides me?

In *January*! - are you trying to kill everybody?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:49 pm

koan wrote: Then we'd be the Bucks and Berks! It sounds like a sitcom

It's usually quoted as Beds, Bucks and Berks as they're all interlinked

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:17 pm

Pinky wrote: God that sounds like a slightly rude riddle Bryn, haha!:D

Pinky, do you know where the term 'berk' comes from?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:33 pm

OpenMind wrote: Pinky, do you know where the term 'berk' comes from?

Apparently, cockney rhyming slang - I never knew that!

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:34 pm

Pinky wrote: No I don't...please don't say it says 'Pinky' next to it in the encyclopedia:D

It is derived from Berkshire Hunt. I'll leave you to work out the rhyme.

Katy1 · Post by **Katy1** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:23 am

Ummm...and me?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:02 am

Katy1 wrote: Ummm...and me?

Wendybird wrote: Can I come too? :-3

The more the merrier and everybody welcome.

The London meet was a hoot