Spring Meet-up v3.0: The one where Pag decides

[methodsandmaterials]

.. And the lurkers cone out to play.

ROLL UP ROLL UP
The MN Spring Meet-up will be held on Saturday 21st May 2011 at the Clerk & Well pub in London, EC1.
Tickets are £15.00, payment is via PayPal to [email protected]

Send me a PM if you don't have Paypal; we can organise payment via bank transfer.

everyone is welcome, and there's no dress code.

Come party!!

SGB voucing for anything is a very bad sign if you ask me.

Oh fuck. Who am I going to talk to about handbags and glee?

oh jeez, my typing tonight.

although probably not inside my own handbag.
maybe i should be a time lord, a TARDIS handbag woul dbe bloody useful. though i bet you'd always find cyberman before you got to your phone...

ah, ws thinkign I'd dampened the thread by enthusiasic posting, but it's the Apprentice now..

this is like my 'dream team' of MN meet-ups.

Sodding Apprentice! I have to avoid Twitter on Apprentice nights. Soooo not my cup of tea.

The state of my neglected children and house is obviously famous. SIL has sent me a list of instructions on how to clean her caravan after we stay in it next week! Including which products to use

It's surprisingly Apprentice free on there right now. We're talking chocolate :)

I saw that Blatherskite! She sounds a bit unhinged. Id be rather offended but I think I'd take a red pen and mark a tick next to every item on her list, actually better still, laminate the list and attach a red wipeable marker to the instructions so that any future guests can use it too!

Then leave her a packet of chill pills for her to calm down with!

Oh no, they're instructions just for me. I'm named on them and everything.

"Bathmat - Blathers can you wash and give to SIL2,
Tea Towel and Kitchen Towel - Blathers can you wash and give to SIL2"

We're due to come home on Saturday afternoon, SIL2 is going on Monday, so I need to wash them, dry them, probably iron them and then drive half an hour there and back to deliver them to SIL2" My family are all coming over on Sunday to celebrate my birthday so I'll be doing it while they're here. Bedding is to be washed and ironed and returned to SIL.

Take your own bedding, bathmats, tea towels. Then you can hand over her pristine stuff as you found it. You must be wondering if it's actually worth the bother.

The implication that you wouldn't leave it as you found it anyway is really insulting.

Ooh, that's a good idea.

You're right, it's the implication that's insulting. She's a total clean freak but I know that and would have gone out of my way to make sure it was clean anyway, I don't need to be reminded to clean the bathroom "thoroughly"! SIL2 and her family are following us less than 48 hours later anyway so it's not like it'll be pristine for long. I bet she hasn't got cleaning instructions though. We are obviously the family scum bags

I'm actually completely put off going now but DH doesn't seem to think there's a problem.

Anyway, hi-jack over, let's plan getting pissed instead

I have been on a crash diet this week in order to not look like a chubby munter.

I have just been out for dinner and had sausage and mash, with a trio of puddings to follow.

I am now sat here nursing a glass of wine and a big of peanut M&Ms.

I may well wear elasticated waist joggers and a baggy top.

I am 33 btw.

I have not tanned. I have not plucked/waxed or threaded. I have definitely not been on any diets (Ben &Jerrys was on less than half price in this weeks shopping). I am neither fashionable or intellectual.

But I do a bloody good impression of a drunk person trying to be funny

So can I still come?

Let's start the ungroomed corner! My pedicure is next week along with my waxing and I'm not messing up my routine for you lot!

Oh, and be aware it's a full moon AND I'll have raging pmt. Be afraid, be very afraid ;-)

Well, I'm slightly reassured by the....erm.....maturity of most of you (year-wise, that is). I'm 44, so should fit in very nicely.

I've now started panic-buying clothes; I swept into Monsoon about five minutes before the end of my lunch break, and grabbed two random tops, but I've already decided they're going back. I really struggle with "going out" clothes, especially when I venture into the Big City, where everyone always looks so sophisticated.

Nah, we can all be ungrromed together.

Once everyone is pissed no one notices the odd stray eyebrow hair

GOML. I am currently wearing saggy joggers too. Oh...the comfort..mmmm

Meant to add I'm 29 (but feel & look about 80)

People! Stop panicking about what to wear!!

Honestly. We want you there for your wit and ability to get pissed without vomming That's all

OK so we have:

1. Socially inept / losers corner
2. Unwaxed / unplucked / smelly corner
3. Haggard / crepey / saggy corner

Can we not just lump them all together in one corner? There's no way I can be in 3 corners at the same time

Notshort

Ah Methods....that lovely Sat in Feb where we hatched this plan seems so long ago now ...

Oi!! Who is the kiljoy making up no snogging rules?

There are no no snogging rules Annie...there is always a smooch or three at a Meet Up like this

Ladies and Gentlemen,
methodsandmaterials proudly presents the line-up for the 2011 Mumsnet Spring Meet-up:

Alouiseg
AnnieLobeseder
Balloonballs
BecauseImWorthIt
BigKidsMadeMe
BigTillyMint
Blatherskite
CointreauVersial
Cornsilk
Custardo
Domesticslattern
EdgarAleNPie
EdgarAleNPie DH
Ensure
FellatioNelson
GetOrfMoiLand
JustineMNHQ
LawrieMarlow
Magna
Methodsandmaterials
MissPenteuth
Nickelbabe
NotInMyPocket
NotShortImFunSized
Pagwatch
PurveyorofBaloney
Reality
Reality+1
RebeccaMNHQ
RedHeels
Riven
Shodan
Smokinaces
Solidgoldbrass
StarsandPlanets
Supersalstrawberry
TheFirstMrsdeVere
Valpolicella
ZombiePlan

There's still time to get involved, but any updates will be posted tomorrow.
It's on like Donkey Kong