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London Meet, British Museum 21/11/2009

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falcon123 said:
I hope to come if the trains are running into St. Pancras! FCC have cancelled 48 trains on the Bedford to Brighton route today. The journey in was pretty grim this morning. As they failed to run a service into Kings Cross from Peterborough and Cambridge last Sunday this could be a possibility. The intention is then to get a tube to the nearest station to the BM that has a service! Although it is near Kings Cross my (slowly) recovering leg means it is a walk to far ? sorry Aymes. Happy to meet up with anybody arriving at StP/KingsX as lots of coffee shops at St. Pancras. Bit early for the champagne bar! Flexible about arrival time. My regime means lunching about 1:00 p.m. though.
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I'm coming into Kings Cross, and planning to get the tube mainly because I have an appalling sense of direction and I think I'd get lost otherwise! I'm fairly flexible on time, and I'm quite happy to meet up. 🙂
 
I'm coming into Kings Cross, and planning to get the tube mainly because I have an appalling sense of direction and I think I'd get lost otherwise! I'm fairly flexible on time, and I'm quite happy to meet up.
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Hi Randomange, happy to meet up and lead the way. I recently went to the Dominion near the BM to see "We Will Rock You".
 
falcon123 said:
Hi Randomange, happy to meet up and lead the way. I recently went to the Dominion near the BM to see "We Will Rock You".
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Oh, cool! I went to see that a few months ago. :D I had no idea it was anywhere near the BM, so that shows you how bad my sense of direction is...😛
 
Its all getting very exciting!!
 
Hiya

Helen P/Sugarbum, shall we meet at tott court road around 11ish then?

Outside mcdonalds would be easy??

Let me know and i'll give you my mobile.
 
Northerner said:
Just out of interest, how many of you have never met someone 'in real life' that you only know from the internet? I've been using the internet since 1991, but when met Sam and Tez when Sam moved to Southampton I realised that was my first time!

I was nervous, because you really don't know what people are going to be like as we do tend to hide our personas a bit on the web. But I found them to be just as I expected, except even nicer. When we had our second meet and ChrisP and katie came along I was nervous as well. I didn't know Chris very well because he hadn't been on the forum for long, but I found him to be a really lovely bloke - none of us stopped chatting for 5-6 hours and were all sorry when it had to come to an end!🙂

My only slight worry about the London meet is that there are so many of us we will not get a lot of time to get to know each other properly. I'm a very shy person (believe it or not!), but it's not like we are complete strangers - we have a lot in common and already know quite a bit about each others ups and downs! It will be a great day!🙂
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I had never met anyone from the internet before I came on here either, and never really wanted to. I'd much rather naturally meet people in 'real life'. But I feel like this is a completely different situation because we all share something in common and want to learn from eachother or just meet people who have the same condition as us (as a lot of people go years without meeting another diabetic!).

I'm a bit scared too northe because i'm very shy too (as you know... before a couple of drinks anyway 😉 or before I know someone) and it sounds like there are a few people going now so it will be difficult chatting to everyone. Should be good though!

Is ChrisP coming to this meet-up? You're right, he was lovely! 🙂
I haven't seen Sharpwaa recently either, hope he can still make it.
 
katie said:
I'm a bit scared too northe because i'm very shy too (as you know... before a couple of drinks anyway 😉 or before I know someone) and it sounds like there are a few people going now so it will be difficult chatting to everyone. Should be good though!
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I'm looking forward to it but also very shy, glad that I am travelling with Viki so I won't arrive on my own. Hoping to get to speak to everyone though.
 
I doubt very much I'll be coming :( I've just had my last lot of pennies for 3 weeks so unless the train company accept peanuts :(

I hope you all have a fabulous time though!
 
Shelly has told me she is coming and going to meet up at 11am so I have added her to the list on the first page
 
hi Nikki just a quite spot lawlessd said there going and i cant see them on the lost
 
Sharpwaa has deleted all of his posts??? Anyone know anything??

Anyway as we seem a bunch of softly spoken things, maybe everyone could have a think about little games like you do on team building exercises, or stupid pub games to get the juices flowing??

I thought I might have a can of stella on my weetabix for breaky to get me to be a bit more lively!! Only joking don't worry! I don't eat weetabix😛

Wasn't nervous then saw the ratio male to female! Guys no one can drop out we need all the support we can get!

See you soon (It's no tomorrow is it? Oh phew no had a paddy then🙄)

Rossi:D
 
Hey all,
Sorry for my late reply... I am still coming! Thanks for putting me on the list anyway, guys! I get the train into Waterloo but am pretty London savvy so happy to meet at the BM at 11.00. If anyone needs a hand getting from Waterloo to the museum, am happy to meet up beforehand!
 
NTIL said:
Hey all,
Sorry for my late reply... I am still coming! Thanks for putting me on the list anyway, guys! I get the train into Waterloo but am pretty London savvy so happy to meet at the BM at 11.00. If anyone needs a hand getting from Waterloo to the museum, am happy to meet up beforehand!
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Hi Natalie, we won't be arriving from Southampton until about 11:45 as we're cheapskates and the ticket was ?1! What is the best way to get from Waterloo to the BM? The 59 bus sounds the best option, but do we get off at Holbourn? Or is the Tube better?:confused:
 
I think the tube and bus are equally good options... I'm going to use the tube (and get off at Tottenham Court Rd), purely because I don't like buses (my balance is pretty rubbish so struggle to stay upright - without alcohol(!) - on them)!!

You're right that the 59 is the one you want... and you would need to get off at Holborn. It's cheaper than the tube as well, so I would plug for that if you have no pre-existing bus phobias!
 
Bus is good but timing of journey is a lottery! Bus is also cheaper than tube!
I think I'll strecth the legs and walk it, I enjoy walking round London Town (it's about 1.5 miles)!
 
lawlessd said:
Hiya

Helen P/Sugarbum, shall we meet at tott court road around 11ish then?

Outside mcdonalds would be easy??

Let me know and i'll give you my mobile.
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Hi - sounds good, London Transport permitting. I'm possibly the world's worst timekeeper, even though I always have good intentions, so prob best to swop numbers so I can let you know if I'll be late, and you can mosey on without me........... 😱

xx

xx
 
rossi_mac said:
Anyway as we seem a bunch of softly spoken things, maybe everyone could have a think about little games like you do on team building exercises, or stupid pub games to get the juices flowing??

I thought I might have a can of stella on my weetabix for breaky to get me to be a bit more lively!! Only joking don't worry! I don't eat weetabix😛
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I was about to say (before I finished reading your post), would a drink on the train be completely inappropriate to get me more chatty? :D What a bunch of alcoholics we are!


I'm tempted though...

😉
 
katie said:
I was about to say (before I finished reading your post), would a drink on the train be completely inappropriate to get me more chatty? :D What a bunch of alcoholics we are!


I'm tempted though...

😉
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How did you feel when we met up in Southampton Katie? I think it was a little awkward to start with, but after a few minutes everything was fine...and after we got some beer it was fine and dandy!

The difference with this meet is that there are going to be a lot more of us, so it may not be possible to chat to everyone as much as we'd like, I think. Might take a couple of cans of Stella along for the journey, mind:D
 
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