Thread: UK get together!

Stephen,
will sort out some pens when i get a mo........

i look forward to seeing pics etc of the event on the web site.

enjoy it all.

mark...............

Hi Mark, I can't go either - working
You could make shaving bowls too though
Where are you in our lovely ugly town?
Marcus

Great to hear this is all coming together. Just a quick question, I'll be staying with a friend in Coventry over the weekend, is it ok to bring a non-SRP member to the meet? I think this would interest him and would also mean I can get a lift, assuming he's not working that weekend.

See you all soon,

J.

Originally Posted by Makar

Mark - thanks for the offer - I reckon nobody is going to leave this bash empty handed! I think the idea of turned pens is just fine - nobody will be upset in winning one I am sure. You can send them to me but it may be easier to pass them on to 'Blueprinciple' Steve as he is closer to the event and his bag will not run the risk of becoming lost luggage on the way from Inverness! I really wish I hadn't just thought that...

Pity you can't be there but we will get lots of images up on the site after the event. Over this weekend a front home page ad will hopefully go up (okay, I need to get round to doing that!) with all the details drawn together and the raflle prizes etc.

We were going to make a print off sheet for those coming to provide good reason in any eventuality enroute to the event. For that reason and to enable an offer to go out to others at Badger & Blade and British Blades it would be good to know numbers. The venue max is 45 members. I was planning to leave it open for members here for the next 14 days or so to 'sign up' and then promote at the other sites that we have a limited number of spaces available and to sign up also. This will generate wider interest in straights, increase SRP membership and make for a better atmosphere I am sure. If anybody thinks this a bad idea (and I have asked here a couple of weeks ago with no dissent) please say now.

After the front page ad is up perhaps we can then start to make a list of firm attendees.

cheers
Stephen

Still 2 confirmed yes's from here! And the offer of help on the day still stands too.

Still confirmed here too. Will book hotel soon.

Silver i'm down in Wales now until Wednesday. With the in-laws.

Save me!!!

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Still confirmed here too. Will book hotel soon.

Silver i'm down in Wales now until Wednesday. With the in-laws.

Save me!!!

That'll account for your MSN vanishing then

Is there a link somewhere to see the prizes that have been donated Makar? I hadnt realized anything had been but a certain welsh couple tell me there are....

PS. I should have one to donate myself for you. Pics as soon as it is finished. Perhaps it could be honed by one of the honemeisters who attend in September as part of a demonstration?

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Is there a link somewhere to see the prizes that have been donated Makar? I hadnt realized anything had been but a certain welsh couple tell me there are....

PS. I should have one to donate myself for you. Pics as soon as it is finished. Perhaps it could be honed by one of the honemeisters who attend in September as part of a demonstration?

I need to get that together and will try tomorrow - there are a few pics and details to go on a front page ad for the meet. Ened up out for longer tonight than I anticipated so will try and get the link up tomorrow. Just needs pulled together from a few posts and emails etc. Around 5 folk have contributed so far plus the things Steve blueprinciple has got from Dovo and Kent etc.

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

I hadnt realized anything had been but a certain welsh couple tell me there are....

It was not us, we know nothing. We are SpikeySilver & resistance is futile

Well folks any slight glimmer of hope I had of making the meet are now well and truly scuppered .
Working 7 days a week 10,12,14hr+ on a project that will be complete in November ( hence why I've not been around much )
.. Wife is now starting some insane medication for her rheumatoid arthritis and to add to it all her mother was taken into hospital last week ...

Ahhh it's been a fun few weeks , I'm totally gutted . A UK meet ( well SRP meet ) was something I'd always really really looked forward to - back in the days when there was only a few of us UK members , I even considered going to one of the US ones

Hopefully I'll catch up with some of you in the near future
I'm still smiling tho LOL

Garry