Once again, many thanks for being a wonderful host. I feel bad that we pretty much demolished the gifts we'd brought with little help from yourself.

Incidently, if anyone wants to take up my recommendation I've got a copy of the Princess Bride I can post on.

Hopefully we're hear back from Mouse soonish? Have you had any news?

Holy shit. My diagnosis was a bit shit then - "You'll be fine in the morning...".

He's joined the exclusive broken ankle club.

Were you shouted at by an irate train replacement bus driver?

That was fun.

/MY/ God that was an exciting one... could've done with a few more people, but nevertheless it was great.

Thank you very very much Steve for the hospitality (no pun intended), and hope Mouse gets better. I'll upload some pics today or sometime soon - currently I'm a bit "high" due to the amount of caffeine I consumed on the way back to London.

uh!

So I broke my promise to not drink much on Friday and spent the entire journey from my house to Serg's trying not to throw up.
Then I told Serg and Elena that was going to have a non-alcoholic drink first to ease myself back into drinking but end up ordering a pint of Black Sheep straight away.
I didn't have a non-alcoholic drink until early this morning.
So I ended up not feeling well on the journey back too. (fail)

But in between a lot of fun was had!

Thanks to Serg and Elena for the lift, tea and chocolates.
Thanks to Manthorp for the floor space, the beer, the breakfast and most importantly for not getting upset at all the triple whiskeys I seemed to finish off from the bottle Serg brought with him as a gift. :-$

Thanks to everyone else for some great company, we should do it again sometime soon-ish.

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My slightly blurry photos are at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=56577

It sounds as if I sadly missed a jolly good meet.

May I once again propose a Northern Northern (Scottish) Meet, in a frantic attempt to ensure I can attend again?

I can offer a rather large floor, most probably a free doublebed room (1 flatmate should be away for a few months) and kitchen with a comfy sofa in it... most probably room for lots.

Edit: In an attempt to be as good a host as Mr Manthorp I will cook sausages the day after. They may well be from my local butcher, but they will be of the sliced sausage variety, not from linked sausages. How is that for a selling point, 40% cow fat and sinew in a roll....

I propose a Northern Northern Northern Northern Scottish Northern Meet.

In Wick.