[Discobisonasaurus]

B*m holes! I may now not be going - I may be 'rescuing' a friend from the darkness... We'll just have to see how the week pans out for him. Having lost 2 friends (one a kind of bf) to suicide and having nearly gone that way myself last year, I'm sure you'll understand where my priorities have to lie.

[No_Celery]

...



Oh no! DB!

I understand your priorities completely, though, of course. Hope your friend's not doing too badly.

But I'll still do some self-indulgent ing.

[drnick]

Blimey, this is on Saturday - where does time go?

As I seem to have acquired some sort of organiser status, if anybody wants to say they are coming message me and I will create a list. It would be good to have an idea of numbers. Also message me if you want a phone number to call to say if you are late or lost.

Other than that the plan is: meet at the Cornerhouse around 11, drink coffee, decide what to do in the afternoon, have lunch (possibly Chinese) then do whatever activity we have decided on.

[Discobisonasaurus]

BTW are any other 'olders' going to any of the Northern meets ?

[Ninny]

Yeay I can't wait! My Aven-meet cherry is soon to be popped! lol

[Sootmouth]

DiscoBison, on Apr 15 2009, 08:57 PM, said:

BTW are any other 'olders' going to any of the Northern meets ?

I'll hold my hand up to this - I'm the grand of age of 42. I'll be at the Manchester meet and also hoping to be at the Liverpool one.

[Discobisonasaurus]

I so hope I can get to this one. I need a good day out, I really do...

[Miss_Shy_Newcastle]

Can't come to this one.

Anyone for Carlisle the following weekend?

http://www.asexualit...showtopic=35574

[Zanzibel]

Sad I can't come to this Manchester one I'm back home in Reading for Easter, and going back up north on Sunday!

I can't make the Liverpool one either cos i'll have just LEFT Liverpool (forever - gasp). Not doing too well on managing these!! Ho hum. And i'm living (95%) in France next year (and maybe there during a lot of the summer) so you're all a bit doomed in seeing my face again for a while haha Now if there was something in July... Maybe a London one.... hehe.... I hope I get to see you old Manchester lot again sometime though, and newies/other UKers alike. I really enjoyed the meet last year.

Oh DB I hope your friend is okay (and you too).

Enjoy the meet, whoever is going!

P.S. Just thought, if I am in France next year, you could come and meet me there .... that'd be a different very interesting cultural aven meet Heh

[opel]

oh man zan, never seems to be able to catch ya!
where about in france will you be in?

Zanzibel, on Apr 16 2009, 04:48 AM, said:

Sad I can't come to this Manchester one I'm back home in Reading for Easter, and going back up north on Sunday!

I can't make the Liverpool one either cos i'll have just LEFT Liverpool (forever - gasp). Not doing too well on managing these!! Ho hum. And i'm living (95%) in France next year (and maybe there during a lot of the summer) so you're all a bit doomed in seeing my face again for a while haha Now if there was something in July... Maybe a London one.... hehe.... I hope I get to see you old Manchester lot again sometime though, and newies/other UKers alike. I really enjoyed the meet last year.

Oh DB I hope your friend is okay (and you too).

Enjoy the meet, whoever is going!

P.S. Just thought, if I am in France next year, you could come and meet me there .... that'd be a different very interesting cultural aven meet Heh

[opel]

so? everything set fot this one yet?

[drnick]

Ok, this is the last announcement.
We'll meet at the Cornerhouse from 11am onwards.
Here's a page about how to get there: http://www.cornerhou...out/?page=22330
And here's a map: http://www.multimap.com/maps/?zoom=16&...GB&qs=M15NH

It's just next to Oxford Road Station, and about ten minutes walk from Piccadilly.

Message me if you my phone number or want to give me yours.

Sorted. Respect due. (As Stouffer the Cat would say). Apologies if this is meaningless to you.

[No_Celery]

Whoo. Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

[Cicero]

Hope you all have a great time tomorrow - gutted I can't make it! Hopefully see some of you in Carlisle next week.

[No_Celery]

This meet was amazingly awesome.

Yay for everyone.

[drnick]

It was pretty damn good. Although I am still shocked nobody had heard of the Peterloo massacre.
http://en.wikipedia....terloo_massacre

[No_Celery]

Oh yeah, of course! The Peterloo Massacre!






...
Nope, still never heard of it.

*hides*

[opel]

oh, i missed another good one!

[Davehat]

I enjoyed that. Just seems a shame it was over so quickly. It was slightly under 8 hours from start to finish with many leaving earlier or arriving later than that.

[Joshua]

Exquisitely awesome. You people may be northerners, but you sure do know how to have a good jolly. (Hey, I'm a northerner as well, I hail from Normanby, Lincs.)
A very cohesive gang, everyone engaged with one another and 2 new people. Wow!

Some superb meet up ideas. Ninny will start a Dublin/Overseas travel thread and I'll be the first one to sign up. Cassies idea of a single thread with links will be arranged. The idea of having more spontaneous meet ups with like minded people is something surely worth implementing. The meet up scene will be more frenetic in the weeks and months to come!

Thank you to Ninny for starting this thread, and thanks to the Doc for a fantastic day.

Here are the pictures:

Firstly, none of this would have been possible without Ninny, who is the smartly turned out person below. Had she not started the thread, most of us would have languished at home all day, alone and miserable.



First, the cake drawing routine, here we see SootMouth:



....and Ninny and OperaGhost.....



..and after Cassie, DaveHat, Liz and I had a go...
Ta daa.... We have.....


Unprecedented in the history of UK AVEN meets, we have a picture of an AVEN meet. I managed to con them into posing for a picture. They've all have some serious explaining to do when their mums see this.


Oh, the chap with the beefy leather jacket (it was 18 degrees today, pretty warm), don't worry about him. I asked him whether he was hot, he assured me he wasn't and he came to no harm. If you fancy any of them for a small fee I can tell you their names, and you can try asking them out. Just PM me. Oh, by that point SootMouth had left as he had another engagement.

The Doctor took us to a fabulous museum and we saw.....(guess: hard on the outside, soft on the inside....)



Armadillo! (And Owl)

We went on the 'Manchester Eye" the view from above:



One person from out group decided to add to the joviality by gesticulating with fingers from their capsule, but the golden moment didn't quite come out on camera...


So you understand, imagine you are in a car passing a bus full of malevolent 10 year old school kids. Now, imagine what they'd do with their fingers. Exactly. That's what me, Ninny and OperaGhost got from another asexual in that capsule. Next time, we will take eggs with us.


You guys are so utterly cool (even OperaGhost in that leather jacket), and it was a truly wonderful day.
Oh, I am still laughing at that one-eyed chicken joke, I know it's not that funny, but I can't help myself. I know, I might see a doctor next week if so, I'll mention it, so I know there's nothing wrong with me!

Thanks you chaps and chapesses!

[No_Celery]

Quote

One person from out group decided to add to the joviality by gesticulating with fingers from their capsule, but the golden moment didn't quite come out on camera...

You are clearly making this up.







Could you send me the rest of the pictures, pretty please? I am deathly curious.

[Ninny]

Yeay I had such a great time - thanks to all who came! I can't wait to go to my next one, wherever that might be

Great pics Joshua!! And now you've put me on the spot i'll go make a Dublin/Weekend trips thread...*toodles off*

[Sootmouth]

Great shots Joshua. I'm so sorry I couldn't stay for longer. The ride on the eye looks great, despite the rude gestures (can't possibly think which person did that...).

It was fab to meet all of you guys. Many thanks to Ninny and DrNick for making it happen.

'Til next time.

Chris

[Cicero]

Aww, looks like I missed a great day! Though am quite glad I missed the taxidermy - I see far too much of that at work. *shudders*

Great idea to make a general northern thread we can radiate out from (if I read that correctly). Maybe we can get it stickied?

I'm so excited that the northern meetups are becoming more regular and that everyone is getting to know each other. Looking forward to the next one.

[carried in bags]

seems you had a good time. im really not one for any sort of social event. especialy being sober. if the cumbria one goes well, i may do some more

[rainbow2009]

Good time, everybody
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[Discobisonasaurus]

Cicero, on Apr 19 2009, 12:27 PM, said:

Aww, looks like I missed a great day! Though am quite glad I missed the taxidermy - I see far too much of that at work. *shudders*

Great idea to make a general northern thread we can radiate out from (if I read that correctly). Maybe we can get it stickied?

I'm so excited that the northern meetups are becoming more regular and that everyone is getting to know each other. Looking forward to the next one.

Brilliant idea, I'm going to approach the powers that be with this suggestion right now!!

[Zanzibel]

Hehe looks like you guys you had a good one Glad to hear you had fun!!!

[bobtom115]

Salut les gars, Im a newbie. Nice à participer à ce forum.

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