ONE GREAT BIG MEET UP!

[Newbarnsleygirl]

Would anyone be up for it?

Could it be arranged somewhere in the middle of the country?

And would Carrie and Justine be interested?

I vote for no kids - any excuse to get away

Would say Midlands or Staffs would be quite central - would take some organising - could you do it in a hotel type place organising a dinner in a banqueting hall or am I going a bit OTT? Then we could have numbers on badges and it's a competition to guess who is who! Oooh, I am getting carried away!

I would love to go without kids too but not sure i could manage that.

No, they're good ideas Gobbledigook. Thats the sort of thing I had in mind.

How about August?

Aye - gives me time to work up a tan and lose a bit of pork!

you haven't got long enough

Wah, wah, waaaaaaaaaaah

We need more mumsnetters.

COME ON EVERYONE!!!

Cant do 30th July, that week or the 6th August, on hols & DS1's birthday.

Can do most others tho.

It's not too difficult to arrange, as long as everyone says they are defo going, and pays a deposit, we did it at xmas there was about 15 of us for a meal and we paid a deposit, if you didnt you didnt go, simple.

Choose an area, Midlands is the middle supposedly, adn there are loads of places in Brum, or Staffs, there's Leicester, Nottingham, these are still quite Midlands (ish)

I can do without kids or with, not a problem as long as I have loads of notice.

I like the idea of a badge, but maybe do an Alias of perhaps kids names/MN Name.

I think the best thing to do is to keep the thread going for a few weeks and if anyone wants to search for some hotels or if you know anywhere that could accomadate everyone then that can be looked in to.

some will be dead agin it!

I might appear anonymously - lurk on the thread find out where you are, and snap you all arriving with my digital then post all the piccys on member profiles ...

Jools you wicked

I dont care I'll post me own pic on me profile

If peeps against it then they dont have to come, Simple

I don't expect everyone to be up for it but I'm sure they're will be a fair few that do.

Might conceivably be easier to tag onto some kind of existing event - for example WOMAD 2005 in Reading at the end of July, or some other, smaller / cheaper event - even just a country fair or something... that way food is organised, entertainment laid on, toilets are in place, non MNers can find stuff to do etc. etc.

Keep me informed

Would love a whole family meet up..........hell I would even camp for you lot (ask my RL friends, if that is a sacrifice)(it is)

BUT and here is the important part....only Mummies in a certain area after 8/9 ish

seems interesting, though how I'll manage it with 5 kids will make me laugh.

Couldn't we all meet in Jamaica? lol

camp sites generally I searched for Birmingham and this site is about 5 miles from Brum but right by Mway network.

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I might just bring eldest 2 i think.

Really not sure about camping, but will stay at a B&B nearby and let you all sniff my shower-clean armpits and stroke my freshly-washed hair

I propose Jeffersons here

and staying at Travel Lodge here

I'd possibly be up for it, depending on dates, facilities etc.(might draw the line at camping unless I know axemen/ ghosties/ ghoulies / scary things are banned.)

Wouldn't York/ Nottingham/ Manchester etc. be more central, if you count the Scottish contingent? Brum sounds awfully south to me (as a Kent girl).

i dont suppose it really matters as long as its close to motorway networks and easy to get to/find.

Beety's wasnt that central

I'd go if MTS was going lol

I'm not going if MTS brings her 18 kids

Some of you guys just can't read names can you