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[Jacksmania]

Who's up for a meet-up in BC?
Or Alberta, depending on how many we get.

Sign in here with your location and your preferred meet-up spot!

I'm just east of Vancouver. Anywhere in the Lower Mainland or BC Interior would work for me.

We'll probably have to look at a date in the New Year, but let's start planning now. :)

Is that my island easilydistracted? As in Vancouver Island?

19th is good. Can we start a list of who is coming and who is a maybe? I will do a list if no one else is a mug volunteers.

Yes Vancouver Island, Parksville. Whereabouts are you MrsT?

I'm in the Big Smoke... Victoria. What brings you to our neck of the woods? I came for love, my DH lived here.

My son is 3.5 and we are in central London and we hadn't yet signed him up for any schools -- so we have to get out!! :) Also, I have some in-laws on the island though how long we stay depends where our jobs will take us ?

I'm being nosy but meh! What do you do for living?

I made a list:

Jacksmania
MrsTerryPratchett
nooka
WestCoastWinnie
lazydog (if the snow is light and she is craving curry)
Kahu
easilydistracted

Stragglers:
SomewhereInCanada if it is in June
madwomanintheattic is we go to the interior

Is that right?

Sounds right to me.

If anyone is up for creating a private FB quiche, PM me your real name and what's on your picture so I can find you and I'll create it. If we all want to, that is. I belong to the One-Child Tea Room FB quiche, it's completely private, but it's lovely to put RL faces to MN names. Since we're going to meet up and all :)
And that way we can reveal more stuff about ourselves than we might want to on here.

FB = Facebook?
I am up for it! Never Pmed before - very excited
Don't have my 2013 calendar yet (MIL gives us a "Scenery of England" one each year - LOL) - but if I did the 19th would have a big circle on it.

Yup, FB = Facebook.

Need to befriend you guys first then I can add you to the group. I forgot about that.

Which does not necessarily mean that you all need to be my FB friends - I found out from another group that I can temporarily befriend someone, add them to a closed group, and then they can unfriend me but still belong to the group. Just wanted to mention that in case someone only wants to be "group friends" but not "FB friends" :) (it happened in another group I belong to, and we all agreed that was fine and no-one's feelers would be hurt). :)

I don't want my feelers hurt. I need them for smelling. Who knew?

Ummm... I didn't know that either!

Ok, we have the start of a FB quiche! Western Canada Mumsnetters :)
It's a secret group so no one can see who belongs or what is posted.

Hooray, I am in a quiche. A secret quiche at that. Stealth, if you will.

Do you have a ninja outfit and head band? :o

Quiet in here this morning...
I'm sat up in bed on my phone with DS snoring beside me, waiting for DH to get out of the shower so he can bring me coffee.
What's everyone up to today?
We're going to Seattle later this afternoon, for the weekend. Ds as ts to go up the "Space Pin" on Saturday :o.

I am waiting in for a parcel - not even for me. And I can't even get in the shower in case it turns up...

Two off school for pd day, one on half day, and a million things to do. A weekend in Seattle sounds much preferable! Are you going to pretend to be Meg Ryan?

God no, she's so annoying :o

Just again for everyone who might not have seen this - I've set up a closed FB group, for getting to know each other and arranging future meet-ups. If you want to join, please PM me your RL name and I will add you.

Can I barge in with a really weird question?
For those of you in BC familiar with Menzies Point, Menzies Bay or Mount Menzies, how do you pronounce "Menzies"? I'm giving a paper at a conference on the man they were named after and while I am pretty sure how he pronounced his surname, I suspect no one nowadays uses that pronunciation...
Any help gratefully received!

Hmmm... I would pronounce it "men-zeeeez" but I could be totally wrong. Anyone else?

I would pronounce it just like a period (TMI), menses. I'm at home with DD today so haven't had a chance to MN. She is currently sleeping!

Thanks! Pretty much as I thought, then.

OMG MrsT that made me snort out loud!!!! :o You're funny.

FB quiche up and running. 6 members so far. Anyone else?.....

We're off to Seattle in a few moments. Will poke my head in when I can.

BTW those of you with one child, (or actually more than one, we're not fussy) who wants to join another quiche that's very warm and welcoming and likes and are generally a bit mad in a wonderful way do come join us in the One Child Tea Room. One Child Topic, I think the current one is located in New England (we move virtual locations with every thread), and it's Tea Room the 34th. Don't let that scare you off. We're a lovely group.