Christmas Meet Up for all the Gin Hags (and Wine Witches and Vodka Vixens)

[HepsibarCrinkletoes]

Righto, we're at that time of the year again where a Christmas Piss Up in London Town is needed. I propose a date a few weeks before so as many as possible can join in - how about Saturday 23rd November.

This has only been mooted last night, so I've not even got a venue as yet, but I have some ideas. I will, of course and usual, try to make it an easily get-to-able-near-a-traveldodgy place so that those that come into London can take advantage of cheapy rooms in advance.

So...please can y'all start putting names down so I have an idea of numbers initially and I'll get cracking with a venue in the next week or so. Further down the line I'll put the usual FB Group together (for those who are both on FB and happy to join) - I won't be posting the venue on MN as I'd prefer the hairy of hand not to know. Those not on FB I'll chat via PM near the time.

Heps and I are going to find a venue on Thurs, but of course we will need to try the gin in each. Well I will, would want to let folk down. Priorities and all.

Hmmm

let me consult

That's so kind of you Pistey. Make sure it's the quality stuff. None of this bathtub paintstripper please.

Oooh - I'm in the group now.

.....now need to see if I can find the budget and negotiate the weekend away. Plus find someone who's prepared to volunteer to share with me

Linky to FB page again in case anyone is too lazy to scroll - heaven forfend.

I've just requested to join the group, I'm NS :)

Me too. DPH

me me me! Would love to come and meet you all. I do have building work and 8 month old non-sleeping twins who are permanently attached to my norms but am hoping fingers crossed that they will be either sleeping or no longer permanently attached to me by then. Am Sarf London but happy to travel.

D'ya know, I haven't been on the tube since January? It's fucking weird.

Have also just requested to join the FB group. I am EC

I'm guessing that ConfusedPixie's initials IRL are NS...?

FreeButtonBee I have weeks, nay, months when I don't even leave my fucking postcode. It's grim You must come.

I also love how your autocorrect changed "norks" to "norms"

May I come? I'll even let porto off the trials of having to share a room with me.

(And, erm, I could sneak back my leather jacket from you, hepzibar, thus stopping DH's twice-monthly questions as to its whereabouts and my state of utter sobriety at the last meet-up ... )

I only got the bus with the babies for the first time last week. The awesome older ladies of Brixton had a field day with them. 'Twas hilair.

Sorry, yes, it was to whoever was doing the fb group so that they knew I wasn't a normal randomer just an mn one

I once went to Manchester to meet a bunch of women I had never met before and stayed the night at one of their houses.

LRD! You definitely have to come. We need a touch of sophistication :)

Ahhh 'sophistication' is what we're calling it now?

DH called it 'wandering halfway across London pissed then calling me with your raucous mates in the background', but I assume it is the same thing.

Looking forward to meeting you too buffy.

Funny that Trills 'cos I did too except I shared a room with one of them

Ahahaha LRD it's in an envelope by the front door alongside another envelope with BOF's boots. Packaged this very afternoon and being posted after I've dropped the urchin at school.

What happened with the leather jacket LRD?

And, dear Dances as you're my list compiler extraordinaire, would you mind awfully doing one of your alphabetically perfect lists for me so I have a decent idea of numbers. Thanks treacle.

She left it at the pub and I selflessly went back the following day to eat lunch collect it for her.

Oops. Sorry, hep, I still haven't paypaled you the money. I will get DH to do it if you remind me where to send it.

I am such a twat.

bella - oh, nothing dramatic, I just felt the need to leave it in the pub cos I was pissed, then hepsibar sensibly suggested that at 3am I'd probably be best staying at hers and retrieving said jacket from the pub in the morning, but my pissed homing instincts had kicked in an I decided it would be a really good plan to get a taxi across London and catch the night bus back home. Which got me home at about 6.30 am.

Well we all do stupid daft things! I left my iPhone at the venue the Xmas before. Got back to the dodgy (after walking bloody miles before we managed to hail a taxi down) and it was then I realised I didn't have it.

ShirleyKnot and Trills were brilliant and with the help of the waitress from the venue and a nice taxi man we managed to get it back.