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Anyone in the midlands?

 
  

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The Puck
21:15 / 17.11.07
Only an hour away, in Birmingham, by my count there are three active members of barb (and me the one lurking ex-poster). If you could train travel down here I'm sure we could go to an art gallery, pick flowers, or the far more likely drink in a pub.
 
 
jentacular dreams
12:34 / 19.11.07
I'm in Nottingham, just the other side of East Midlands airport actually. Count me interested.
 
 
johnny enigma
13:41 / 23.11.07
I'm in Worcester. I think we should meet up in Brum at a pub near new street cos that's going to be central for everyone who's midlands - based.

Let's do it. It'll be fun.
 
 
Princess
09:30 / 28.11.07
I can do Brum.
Who, when and where then?
 
 
johnny enigma
08:51 / 29.11.07
Someone blatantly needs to take charge of this thing. Not that I'm volunteering or anything cos I don't have anywhere near enough internet access for those kind of shenanigans.........when's good for everyone else?
 
 
jentacular dreams
22:07 / 29.11.07
Presuming we're talking weekends, I can do next friday, but after that the christmas period kicks in and it all gets a bit crazy.

So, soon or shall we make it top of the list for 2008?
 
 
johnny enigma
09:01 / 30.11.07
I presume we're talking about friday the seventh? Works for me..........
 
 
The Puck
10:24 / 30.11.07
well i'm jobless at the mo, so i got nothing but time.
 
 
Princess
15:47 / 30.11.07
Friday the seventh means signing on day, sadly. Unemployment has left me too poor for the bus, so I won't be able to afford a trip to Brum till mid Decemnber (I will have had a paycheck from my new job by then, I think).

If we have one so soon I'm afraid I will have to miss it.
 
 
jentacular dreams
10:30 / 03.12.07
Hmm, my weekend is similarly becoming complicated. How about the first weekend in January instead?
 
 
johnny enigma
13:12 / 03.12.07
As cliche as it sounds, this is a bad time of year for people. First weekend in january could be a far better idea cos absolutely nothing happens then, and I think Bellas birthday around that time.
 
 
The Puck
17:05 / 03.12.07
mine also! January's good for me.
 
 
jentacular dreams
18:44 / 03.12.07
Wicked. Maybe Saturday the fifth? Where was your idea, Princess?
 
 
Princess
19:05 / 03.12.07
Um..
tricky dicky's, the male strip club.

I was kinda joking, becuase it was mentioned in thread.

Probably not the best place to go for a quite daytime drink?
 
 
Princess
19:51 / 03.12.07
Oh, and the fifth is perfect.
 
 
Olulabelle
20:28 / 04.12.07
I can do the 5th I think and it's my birthday on 3rd January. This means I must be bestowed with gifts, or at the very least, kisses.
 
 
Princess
20:38 / 04.12.07
Lula, you live in the midlands?
I thought you were a London person. I wonder why?

Anyway, what a lovely suprise. I will bring you a gift.

Nothing good mind you, so don't be excited.
 
 
The Puck
09:03 / 05.12.07
brumlithers are a secret sect, you never know who
 
 
johnny enigma
13:46 / 05.12.07
So this is actually a booked thing?
It's nice to have something in january to look forward to, besides it not being christmas any more........where then?
 
 
Olulabelle
14:32 / 05.12.07
I am indeed Midlands based, I don't know why you thought I was London. I was Somerset once in another life...

*pines*

I will go anywhere that doesn't involve lapdancing of any kind.
 
 
Haloquin
22:10 / 06.12.07
Oooh... if this is planned as a daytime thing, me and Pacific may well be up for joining you... being as we will be in the Nottingham area on the 5th of January.

Night-time and big cities probably not such a fan though... have long trip back to Wales on the Sunday!
 
 
Haloquin
22:12 / 06.12.07
Also, art galleries count high on my list of fun things to do... although I may be strange in prefering that and picking flowers to going straight to the pub... so something along those lines before heading pubwards sounds lovely to me.
 
 
Princess
15:12 / 07.12.07
Picking flowers is a pretty hard thing to do in Birmingham city centre. It is low on meadows.

There are galleries though. Though I know nothing about them.

Would be lovely to see you both though, as I haven't had a chance to thank you properly for your care package yet.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
17:47 / 07.12.07
That was all me, Halo deserves no thanks.
 
 
Princess
18:26 / 07.12.07
Really? I thought it was from both of you.
Although I was fairly sure the 10,000 cds of comics where from you.
 
 
Haloquin
11:00 / 08.12.07
Oh, no... it was all Pacific's doing. I wouldn't want to get in the way of the absolute joy Pacific has in creating those packages. I did send love though...
 
 
Olulabelle
18:48 / 20.12.07
Have we decided where yet? If not then I think pub as galleries are fun but have more to do with looking at things rather than looking and talking with each other.

Do not know where though.

Puck?
 
 
jentacular dreams
16:58 / 23.12.07
If we're talking brum I'm afraid I don't know the are terrily well (though there's a decent city guide here), so I'll have to defer to others, but I wonder, if halo and pacific are in snottingham, might we be better off somewhere inbetween like derby or leicester (birmingham and snotts are about an hour and a half apart by train)?
 
 
Princess
21:56 / 23.12.07
I know only three bars in Brum, all of which are unsuitable. I also defer.

(If Leicester did end up being an option, then I humbly suggest the Turkey Cafe. It is a pseudo-art-deco place that does elaborate cocktails and has candles)
 
 
Saturn's nod
13:41 / 26.12.07
There's a lovely tea room at the (free entry) Museum and Art Gallery in Chamberlain Square in B'ham city centre. Has a free exhibition at present on the life and work of former slave, writer and abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano.

Lovely for veg food and tea, though possibly not licensed for alcohol, is the Friends of the Earth Cafe, which is just the other side of the city centre. Walking distance if people are reasonably mobile. Open 12-4 Mon-Sat (meals until 2.30) and 6:30-10 Thu-Fri.
 
 
Olulabelle
16:52 / 28.12.07
The FoE cafe and the tearooms are smashing but I think alcohol must also be included for the happiness of several posters here. There is a pub where the Brumalith used to meet, I will check with former Brumalith members which one it was.
 
 
gingerbop
00:19 / 29.12.07
How annoying. I was staying in Leamington for 2 weeks before christmas, working on an abomination of a show at the NEC. Sigh. Happy Christmas to all.
 
 
Princess
18:15 / 30.12.07
I am *way* excited about this.
 
 
Haloquin
19:04 / 30.12.07
There is always the option of meeting at the FOE cafe or tearooms and re-locating to a pub later on... Pacific and I will be coming by car rather than train, Birmingham is about an hour away by car, which is easily do-able (most places we travel in Wales are at least that far away).

I don't really mind where we are to be honest, but I agree with the talking rather than the looking... having said that, if we met in the tea-rooms in the gallery then anyone there early has something to do while they wait for others to arrive and it could be nice.

Is there anyone who would be unhappy starting somewhere without alcohol? Assuming we will move somewhere that is licensed eventually of course.
 
 
Haloquin
18:56 / 02.01.08
Does anyone have any further ideas? Of where we could meet? What they'd prefer?

Olulabelle, as its your birthday tomorrow would you like to choose somewhere? Did you find out about the pub you mentioned?

I know practically nowhere in Birmingham, having spent a couple of half hour slots waiting for trains there at most, so the only things I have to go on are what has been suggested in thread. Based on that, these are my thoughts;

I like the sound of the Gallery tea-room as a meeting place, and them moving on from there when we all get face-to-face and can discuss places.

The benefits of the tea-rooms are that it is near the train station and parking (according to multimap), and that it has been mentioned (but isn't Tricky-Dickies).

Possible down-sides are that (I assume) it has no alcohol, and, as has been said, its in a place primarily for looking at things.
 
  

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