At least there would be plenty of bad dope. And anybody who fancied eating twig and hessian quiche would be in for a treat.

Anyone care to pitch a date or two?

 

What about 16th?

 

<addendum> Although I've just read Milko say that if it was on teh 9th, he could make a Northern Meat, which would be highly groovy. </addendum>

I'd love to come along and meet some of you chaps, but for the Atlantic Ocean. I've been to a bunch of internet meets, organising a good number of them and it's true that they "change the way you think and feel towards life".

 

I'm like the opposite of Trig, in that I count the people I talk with online as some of my closest acquaintances, so there's nothing like meeting up with them in real life for a chinwag. When I was in the UK I'd pop off all over the country to meet people but now it's rather more complicated that just jumping on a train.

 

Unfortunate, because I could do with something like this at the moment.

9th would suit me. The 16th is the day after 2 separate staff do's so I may be somewhat worse for wear.

Maybe we should try to get online at some stage and virtually meat. You could buy some english beer and join us in our festive wazz.

Vote for 9th from Dave!!

Anyone else?

They do sell Bass at the local supermarket, I think.

And following on from Greg's post, I can manage Leeds, York or Newcastle.

 

York aint bad as it's just 30 minutes on the train. Leeds is manageable, but the train journey is over an hour. Newcastle is also dead easy for me by train.

They should be more carful.

 

(It doesn't get any better than that!)

9th for me is fine!!

The 9th probably suits me. although it's my mum's birthday on the 10th. I wonder if I could convince her that visiting her friend in Harrowgate that weekend would be a good idea...

Pffft! If I take the train down (which is my usual method of transport, ever since I crashed Airwolf), I pass through Darlington at a perfectly respectable time of day, and return the next day at an equally respectable time, having spent the intervening nocturnal hours in Steve's dog basket. With Steve's dog.

More's the pity....

Let's provisionally plump for the 9th, then, and perhaps likewise for Leeds - one train journey for most.

Who's up for it, then, and who wants the cat basket/snake vivarium/lizard vivarium/kip with my missus?

Yes, and I'm really glad you and Steve's dog have such a healthy relationship :)

 

I was also more wondering about saving some hassle by bogging off home later that night. From York I can get a train just after 11:30 which gets me back. With further away places, that might not be possible. And you've got the dog basket :(

Four hours on the train! Bums! That's 2/3s of my journey to Scotland. But wait! What if I come home then...

 

Ok, I'm a provisional if I can arrange to get home on the sunday and can have a place to stay and store my worldly goods.