FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

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FMUK Get Together - 20 April 2013

Yes - Eating and drinking
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Yes - Just drinking
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10%
Yes - just to meet and chat!
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Yes - Eating and drinking, with plus one
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Yes - Just drinking, with plus one
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Yes - just to meet and chat, with plus one
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#581 Post by yogi » Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:20 pm

Belated thank you to Diane65 for suggesting the Hummingbird bakery, me and OH have just popped in there on our amble up to Euston. Very, very tasty and very, very filling. :D

I grabbed a few pictures in case no one took any.

Shame no one waited for us, we were only a day behind! :P
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#582 Post by asamaic » Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:30 pm

cliveas wrote:Don't forget Megatrain /Megabus!
Whatever you do, do not attempt the Megabus all the way from London up to Scotland. There's, er, moneysaving and being ridiculous. And yes, speaking from personal experience! :oops:
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#583 Post by asamaic » Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:32 pm

yogi wrote:Belated thank you to Diane65 for suggesting the Hummingbird bakery, me and OH have just popped in there on our amble up to Euston. Very, very tasty and very, very filling. :D

I grabbed a few pictures in case no one took any.

Shame no one waited for us, we were only a day behind! :P
I'm even later than you two, I haven't been to the Hummingbird bakery yet! ;)

Good to hear so many recommendations, I shall have to wander past some day and try a cake myself. o/
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#584 Post by baty » Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:15 pm

o/ Thanks to pxc and Diane65 and Jeanelle for all their hard work in organising it all so well. We had such a lovely time meeting everyone. Beate, thanks for all your work.
Sorry rawr_xoxo but you looked so like my neighbour's daughter that I felt I was staring. She had finnished uni last year (engineering) and is having a year off and travelling around Australia, New Zealand, Fiji & finally going to America. I thought I was seeing double!

To the Dorset crew, the beach you talked about was possibly Barafundle Bay in Pembrokeshire, lovely talking to you.

Thanks to everyone great day, great people great weather.

So, looks like Manchester next, fantastic. Just need a date to get the travelodge, travel & vouchers sorted.
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#585 Post by Diane65 » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:25 am

baty wrote:o/ Thanks to pxc and Diane65 and Jeanelle for all their hard work in organising it all so well. We had such a lovely time meeting everyone. Beate, thanks for all your work.
Sorry rawr_xoxo but you looked so like my neighbour's daughter that I felt I was staring. She had finnished uni last year (engineering) and is having a year off and travelling around Australia, New Zealand, Fiji & finally going to America. I thought I was seeing double!

To the Dorset crew, the beach you talked about was possibly Barafundle Bay in Pembrokeshire, lovely talking to you.

Thanks to everyone great day, great people great weather.

So, looks like Manchester next, fantastic. Just need a date to get the travelodge, travel & vouchers sorted.
So pleased that you had a good time and we will get organising a date asap. The Ramada group also do £20 deals including the Lowry hotel which is 10 minutes away on the tram plus the added bonus of seeing Media City which we can include on the sight seeing tour for those who want to come on that (we will only incorporate things that are free as I do appreciate that people will have spent money getting here). We'll try and avoid school holidays so that most people are around.
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#586 Post by baty » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:37 am

Thanks Diane65 will be looking at The Ramada and keeping it in mind. o/
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#587 Post by Doris » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:37 am

Thanks to prettyxcool and Diane65 for organising the event.
Also thanks to jeanelle for the name glasses.
It was lovely to put faces to names and learn how to pronounce some of the user names.

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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#588 Post by andrews » Mon Apr 22, 2013 7:40 am

What a cracking day out we all had! :D

It was lovely catching up with friends - long established, and recently found.

Thanks to everyone who turned up. What a fabulous, energetic, intelligent, sociable, thoughtful, generous and talkative group of people we are! :D
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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#589 Post by andrew.falconer » Mon Apr 22, 2013 8:48 am

Just wanted to add my thanks on behalf of the OH (Avisute) and myself. Sorry that it was on fleating visit and that we had to dash (an hour later we were stood with about a thousand other people do a syncronised dance by a hugh boat in canary wharf...very strange).

Anyway was lovely to meet a few of you and to the people we didn't get an opportunity to our apologies. Perfect excuse there to do another one ;-)

Massive thanks and see you at a screening soon...

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Re: FMUKCON - Saturday, 20 April 2013 - London

#590 Post by weliveandbreathewords » Mon Apr 22, 2013 9:26 am

Sorry rawr_xoxo but you looked so like my neighbour's daughter that I felt I was staring.
I didnt even notice :P
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