h2g2 Garden

• On Sunday 28^th April h2g2 is three years old, and to celebrate The Editorial Team invites the community to the h2g2 Garden for a glass of 'something cold and sparkling', the celebrations begin on Friday at 3PM.

An Invite to the Sense of Place Launch Parties

• Everyone is invited to mingle at the, A Sense of Place Launch Parties. I say parties, as there is no less than four of them for you to join and help celebrate the launch of the A Sense of Place radio program on Sunday 28^th April, at 12 noon, on BBC London 94.9.

• Manchester Mini Meet Mark 2
  
  The The Flat Cap and Muffler Club are holding the second Manchester Mini Meet on Friday 3^rd May, time to be arranged.
  
  "Come along and meet interesting people, have a few giggles and beers (Non alcohol drinkers welcome too of course), over at the Salisbury, off Oxford Road followed by a trip to 3SM's spiritual home, the Lass o Gowrie."

• Brisbane Meet May 11th 2002
  
  If your hometown is Brisbane, Australia, and you would like to meet with your fellow researchers then the Australian and NZ Researchers homepage is where they are planning a Meet for Saturday 11^th May.
  "Starting at 1pm at the beergarden of the RE in Toowong;
  then over to the Regatta; on to the Orient then by ferry to the Story Bridge, and by then if we're up for eating dinner back over the bridge to the Valley for Chinese."

• Reading Meetup May 11th 2002
  
  If you live anywhere near Reading The Fish and other h2g2ers would be delighted to see you on11^th May. Details and sign-up fora can be found here.

• Scottish Spring/Summer Meet 2002
  
  Plans are well underway for the next Scottish Meet. The date is now firmly set as 11^th May, the venue, this time, being Edinburgh. Hie along to the Scottish Summer Meet 2002 page to sign up, make suggestions for activities or to find out who has already expressed an interest.

• South-west England Meet 2002 (child-friendly)
  
  The main meet-up is to be at The Eden Project, on 22^nd June 2002. As it is a long way for some researchers to travel, we're going to make a weekend of it! If you have any other ideas or suggestions, please let us know.
  
  This is going to be a family-friendly/all-ages meet, so researchers with children, or young researchers with parents(!), can all come along and have fun! For more details visit the South-west England Meet homepage.

• Hampshire Meet
  'Somewhen during the course of the year we hope to organise a meet up for all researchers in Hampshire. We are thinking of holding it somewhere in the New Forest and would like to go to a KFC (Due to the availability of sporks). If you know of anywhere then please suggest it.'
  
  With these words Happy Little Elf introduced the possibility and two threads began. Visit the Hampshire Meet page to sign up and also
  check out this
  forum.

• The Pennsylvania Dutch Meet
  
  So far the only plans appear to involve meeting somewhere in south-central Pennsylvania during the weekend of 2^nd - 4^th August. It's still early days, though and we're sure to have more details soon. More information and a chance to sign up can be found Here

May Day tradition has it that you should leave a basket of flowers at someone's door... and then run away before they discover the deliverer!!!! The recipient is left delighted, amused, and curious. You can have the same effect with your h2g2 friends thanks to the Hermes Messenger Service -

Delivering at the Speed of Hermes.

The date for the celebration of May Day this year is 6^th May

Started way back in the summer of 2001 H2G2 Radio- 42 FM - The Community's station! is about to take on a brand new lease of life.

"We're set for a re-launch in May, and have quite a number of staff, but we still have position's to be filled - we want people to take the small jobs like cleaning, guards, receptionists.. there are only so many of us who can be technicians and engineers!"

If you love rain and cloudy skies then take a look at the Society Against Weather Discrimination.
"For those of us who abhore hot sunny days. For those of us who love the rain. For those of us to whom 'fine' isn't fine."

Write a message to the community on a brick and see it preserved for posterity on the h2g2 Wall.
"Messages need to be quite short, and there is NO advertising, but you can choose your own colour."

The Cheshire Grin has been re-opened and everybody is invited to pop in and have a drink and chat, or join in the Pub Quiz that runs from Tuesday until Saturday every week.

The Environmental Society welcomes all h2g2 and sense-of-place site members, to the brand new Environmental Society. This hopes to be a place where members of all the various dna sites can come together and meet others with an interest in the environment.

A welcome new addition to h2g2 is this recently formed fantasy land conceived by Mystrunner. Aspiring knights should grab a charger and ride, post haste, to The Gateway to claim their knighthood, position and place in h2g2 fantasy history.

This new club lists its proposed goals as:

1. To bring together motorbike riding researchers so we can discuss bike stuff, organise H2G2 MC ride days, race days (spectator or participant), and of course pub research.
2. To provide a reference point for motorbike related guide entries, issues, and advice.
3. To have a club patch and smiley for club members available on H2G2. And some more motorbike pictures.

Featured in a Post article, this new venture aims to award members of the H2G2 community for outstanding service to the English language, though wit, word play, or a particularly apt, imaginative, or fitting turn of phrase during conversations or entries on H2G2. They are to reward verbal dexterity, rapier wit, or just a delicious turn of phrase!

Read the piece and then hurry to The H2G2 Wilde Awards page to submit your nominations.

The GerMania Connection has re-opened its doors and is seeking any researchers based in or around Germany with a view to possibly arranging another meet. Please get in touch if this applies to you

The newly founded Bureau of Missing Researchers has been created by Aljiis to keep track of which h2g2ers have gone AWOL and which have returned to the fold. If you know of someone who has disappeared or, more happily, returned to h2g2, then please drop by and let Aljiis know.

The Orchard, a new group for Mac users, is now up and running. The general idea is to get you Mac users in touch with each other as a source of mutual support and amusement. So, don't be shy, stand up and make yourselves known!

• purplejenny has set up the People for Peace page.

• a girl called Ben offers an insight into meditation on her
  
  The Loving Kindness Meditation page.

• The new, improved Post Links Page
  points you towards the best of h2g2. Everything from information and campaigns to eating and drinking venues, virtual lands or clubs.

• The Post Archives are a repository for all things Post related... now revamped and divided into easy-to-follow categories, they are ever expanding and well worth a visit!

All entries for this feature should be mailed to shazzPRME. Please mark the subject

'Announcements'.

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