I endorse this suggestion!
Let's draw straws to be the first one to tell him we can't attend.
Oh, and I suggest something in the metatarsus.
I think he should break his crown.
A Yorkshireman, breaking a whole Crown? It'll never happen!
Stick me as a maybe, depending on work and anything better coming along.
May? Summer?
Make it September, when I'm up in Yorkshire for a week and I'll maybe be there and I'll personally break which ever bone you want breaking (most definitely, Jon)
Oh, and my vote is for York as the location, since it has the magic Yorkshire pudding pub and numerous other fine drinking venues.