OS meet up?

Toonie

A London meet-up sounds fun. Somewhere nice and cheap/free perhaps? I'm just on the outskirts, but can get in easily. Can do any time Friday-Monday and evenings rest of week, apart from Wednesdays.

Caterina

Cheap: a cafe, perhaps in a museum or something, where people could just have one cup of tea and sit there forever, a pub at off-peak times, one of these chinese buffets where with a fiver you can eat all you want and sit there for a fair lenght of time? Pizza Hut (dirt cheap if people share but horrid place and disgusting food).

Free: depending on the weather, a park or a museum (not in the cafe though I suppose if we want to spend zero) - some pubs do tea, I suppose that chains like Wetherspoon are pretty good for cheap or free and nobody takes any notice if only a couple of people order and anotehr seven or eight just sit at the table drinking nothing!

Any other suggestions?

Caterina

wogglemaker

How about a simultaneous (or as near as) meet up at Wetherspoon country wide - else where if people are more remote

OrkneyStar

2cats1kid wrote: »

Hi, OrkneyStar. It was Dounby House, which I guess would have been in or around Kirkwall where my grandfather was GP.

I have not heard of Dounby House as such, but there is a village called Dounby, which has a primary school, PO, GP, couple of shops, hotel, and lots of houses dotted in the countryside, so it may well have been there. Or it might well have been a house called that in Kirkwall. Sorry to not have been anymore help. We often use the phrase roon-be doon-be (meaning round by dounby, its a play on the Orcadian accent as they say Dounby as doon-bee, and round by as roond-bee!). Will bow out now, sorry for going off topic, once once again enjoy the meet up .
:wave:

Winky,_The_House_Elf

Olliebeak wrote: »

A simultaneous meet-up is a great idea, Barneysmom!

I'm in Huyton, Liverpool if there's anybody else around the area . I could manage Liverpool or Manchester, but I don't have transport so have to rely on buses or trains.

Hey I am from Huyton originally, right by the village! I now live in Croxteth Park.

May be we should arrange a Liverpool meet up and throw the invite open to others?

Winky x

Bongedone

You should have the London meet up at London Bridge and go and walk around Borough market and eat all the freebies.

You may be lucky and catch them recording Market Kitchen's outside shots. I have passed through a few times and watched them cooking.

Olliebeak

I'm starting this new thread just to see if we get any takers for a Liverpool meet-up. Just not sure how many Liverpool members we have on the forum - so thought a new thread just might get somebody's attention a bit better.

I know that Winky is fairly local to where I am and we are both not far from the city centre

I'm hoping that one of the Board Guides will move it into the main Meet-up thread [STRIKE]once[/STRIKE] IF it gets some interest .

If anybody is interested, please post on here or PM me. - Ollie

Caterina

I have had an idea for a very appropriate place for a London meet, provided it is in the daytime (inc. Saturdays).

In Blackheath, London SE3, there is a place called The Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre, with a cafe where you can get cups of tea for 60p and fav homemade cakes for 70p.

There is a permanent exhibition of old time gadgets and items, a sweet shop and all sorts of really interesting info, such as old knitting patterns, wartime cookbooks and all the sort of stuff that we discuss in this forum!

Here are more details on their website:

http://www.age-exchange.org.uk/about_us/visit.html

Please let me know if anyone is interested and we can fix a day, we do not need to book because there is always enough sitting space in the cafe.

Caterina

annie123

thats fine with me caterina, fab place haven't been there for years.
good thinking

Caterina

Excellent, let's wait to hear from any others, it would be great to go in a group and get to know each other in such a congenial environment for OSers!

I would favour a Saturday afternoon personally but can make time on Mon, Weds and Fri as well if Saturday is not a good day.

What day would be ok for others?

Caterina