The Fifty Ninth Republic - May Half Term beckons

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honey don’t know if you’ve seen my WhatsApp re tmrw? Hopefully you’re out enjoying the sunshine we have around here
.... well, until I typed that, it’s just disappeared!!!!

Are you meeting in real life?

Shhhh

Just to check that neither of us is Gav or a U4T plant

Well now I’m split between ‘how exciting! Proof of existence outside of these threads and a sign of easing restrictions’
And
‘They’ve been having meet-ups all along, all of them, and you’ve not been invited ‘

@noblegiraffe

Well now I’m split between ‘how exciting! Proof of existence outside of these threads and a sign of easing restrictions’ And ‘They’ve been having meet-ups all along, all of them, and you’ve not been invited ‘

I haven't been invited either noble. I'm on the side of "how exciting! These people exist outside of Mumsnet".

Good to hear, MsAwesome, my paranoia can stand down

You’ve got a nice weekend for it, you’ll have to take a photo as proof!

I've been posting on a travel/politics forum for 25 years. They meet up all the time - travelling all around the world to do so. Loads of long distance relationships have happened, children and everything. I've never met one of them! Not even the ones in the same city as me.

Have been swimming in the sea (my old shortie wetsuit it's me after this year's weight loss), and did my usual km in a lovely outdoor pool. Totally my happy place.

Nor me. I think MrsAD is my closet real life person.

^^ so @MrsHamlet is actually @MsAwesomeDragon??? Or is that a typo

That's 4 cocktails in Manchester 🤣

I've travelled to London for the MN Xmas meet before - not adverse to a wee train journey Not this afternoon though!

Why've you not met them, Rule?

I've got a good friend I met on the TES forums. I also met my DH on an internet forum back in the 90s!

@MrsHamlet

That's 4 cocktails in Manchester 🤣

Eh?

I'm tiddled typing Jan

In the sun, gardening and pottering.

BBQ is out, prosecco is chilling.... Good times!

@JanFebAnyMonth

^^ so *@MrsHamlet is actually @MsAwesomeDragon*??? Or is that a typo

I think she meant closest. I think she's my closest real life person. (I think she's been drinking!!)

I didn’t realise how much I had missed the sun. Pimms in hand. Happy family. And breathe.

@noblegiraffe

Why've you not met them, Rule?

I've got a good friend I met on the TES forums. I also met my DH on an internet forum back in the 90s!

My kid’s godmother is someone I met on TES back in the Sarah Bubb/TheoGriff days!

You're all sozzled already?

I've been to the gym with an hour on the treadmill and then out to a forest for an hour or so walk with friend and dogs. Now craving calorific ice cream.

Yes to real life meeting. I'm scared which will inevitably lead to me drinking too much too fast whilst Jan, being a driver and I suspect quite straight and sensible, sits back going goodness me they let her have sole charge of minors and she has a child?

I'm presuming she's not a serial killer but if no one hears from me...

I missed the sun but have not missed my neighbour's kids or his 90s trance music.

Could be 90's could be recent - it never.fucking.changes. I'm a bit baffled by trance. Think I got into it one night on Koh Samui a lifetime ago on a child free planet but still felt irked that it wasn't quite danceable enough.

Oh honey you’ve been to places I’ve never even heard of (Shania Twain song anyone?).... I’m much too straight!

Should we tweet a minute-by-minute account of our rendezvous?
I don’t think so

(I’m scared/excited! It’s a bit like OLD - I suspect, not that I actually know!)

Just realised I probably need to refute the suggestion that I could be a serial killer