h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am currently hiding in the MOSI to avoid the rain

Well thats eased off
Now in kro

I had a good time as well. I'm sorry that I haven't got much stamina for that kind of environment, but I'm getting better - I was an hour at the comic con mini meet last year, and I was 3 hours in Kro, but I was sorry not to be able to spend more time with different people. Great to put faces to names, though I didn't realise pretty much everyone was going on the walk, but Pastey and I held the fort, anyway, which was grand!

Glad you enjoyed it

I think everyone had a good time. Except for that ten minutes when I was trying to get Baron Grim to explain baseball.

Great thanks to everybody and especially Pastey! It was a very well spent time and it was good to make new friends and meet old ones again.
I am looking forward to my next hootoo meet. (In France, perhaps? Or the Nordic meet in the Netherlands?)

Ooh, yes, Netherlands! I haven't been there in ages, and I think only for a few hours in Amsterdam between flights!

Been thinking of a Paris one, or maybe Het Kasteel in Rotterdam, if Shazz and Towel Master are still running it.

Mr603- but that conversation was fasinating! (I was sitting nearby....)

I think I'm still on a sugar rush from the Fredos. Including the extra one which someone passed to DQ and thence on to me; which I had with my coffee this morning

There's some damn fine tea, coffee, orange juice, and ginger beer in Mancehster..... who'd have thunk it Felt strange being sober... but not as strange as being able to recall actually meeting people at the meet

The Walk Saturday was great; was talking to a guy on the trian, on teh way home who lived in castlefield area (err, think that's what its called), too, and seemed I knew more than he about its history, from just that walk

Sorry I didn't get to talk to everyone, there, as much as I'd have liked... and felt a bit odd leaving some of the evenings/afternoons before everyone else had the Font was great.... but I was getting so hyper on the Fredos and I think overdosing on vit C from the at that point

It was indeed a very good weekend.
Really enjoyed seeing you all.
The walk on Saturday was interesting without being boring, as was today's postpostmeet walk.
The food was good, the drinks were good, the company was good. What more could there possibly be?
Looking forward to the next one.

everybody, but of course Pastey in particular
After dieting* for 3 weeks it was nice to have a pint in comraderish company
(Okay, make that a couple. Or a few. Heck make that 42, who am I kidding?)
I think it's awesome that you managed to attend a meet without having spirits, Queen and 2legs! You have set new marks for both meets, sobriety, chronology and strangenessity

It started to pour the moment I had to leave the hotel yesterday, so I was forced to seek shelter in The Font. But once I was on the train the weather cleared up of course. Maybe that's the reason for my plane leaving Manchester late? Of course my train from Copenhagen Airport to my hometown was also late. And moved to another platform. And delayed on the way because of w*rk on the railroad...
But in spite of traveling back for 13 hours I don't regret one second that I went to this meet so again



*I never go on the waggon because that (and drinking in secret) is a sure sign of alcoholism and I really really don't want to become an alcoholic

"sobriety, chronology and strangenessity
" One trys to do what one can I didn't even drink any beer... let alone spirits actually... don't think I've drunk any spirits or wine for... four or five years spirits), and longer, for wine one doesn't need extra, stimuli from alcohol when in such good company though I do fear I'm developing a Fredo addiction

My trip back was uneventful, if rediculusly boiling hot due to no windows on the train, and a malfunctioning air con but the time went quick (four hours), as I just sort of sat on the train and closed my eyes and sort of day-dreamed/blissed out, without* falling asleep and risking missing my stops That Font bar/pub was great - just sitting round in there, all day, on the Sunday, eating, and overdosing on fredos and drinking tea and coffee etc, was loverly and relazing.... well, cept for the hard wooden bench that was ... not as soft to sit on as one might have hoped

And after all my deliberations... I ultimately never wore one of the corsets I brought with me, because... and this is so* weird for Manchester, because it was just so damn hot all the time sun.... in Mancehster.... and barely a drop of rain

Just on my way home as well
Thanks all for a great meet.

I agree about those benches in font, they are obviously designed to stop us sitting there all day.

It didn't work though

Nope, some of us even returned

we left the font early* ... circa 7 I think, but we'd been there since 11 Am... so... I'm guessing some* of you lot didn't leave unti lthey threw you out? yes... those benchs are not sufficient for ... sitting on without additional padding ahh... next time we'll all have to bring.... like those little neeling mats you get in church's but, sort of for sitting on instead actually... being called 'the font' it oughta have them... taht'd be rather cool.... hanging on the back of the bench, like they hang on the back of the pue in front, when one's in church leather ones... ba black leather... ahh. actually don't know why I'm using the Church neeling things analagy, really they're just 'kneeling mats' I guess... for.. err anyone who spends a long time kneeling... but, like to sit on damn I need a fredo fix soon

Since I am fairly well padded I didn't have any problems in that department, but I prefer having something to lean on, so I grabbed a chair whenever possible.
As for Kro it was almost yet not entirely unlike a Danish kro (=inn). I had a meal I've certainly never encountered here in Denmark, but the Frikadeller with potatoes, red cabbage and gravy looked quite close to the real thing. Probably should have tried those since you seldom get them in restaurants over here

Don't get me wrong though. I loved both places. As I did Porter Street Beer House and The Crown and Kettle.
(A Beer Street Port House might have been a nice addition but I don't think I'd have had a liver for that )

I've got bad genetics, in the self-padded-bottom area yet another reason jeans never fit me right of course... if I'd been drinking mild sedative as per useual they might not have seemed so hard, and likewise...

I'm getting strange cravings today.... for choc fredos and pinapple juice I've been corrupted

Thanks for sorting it out .. just happened to have the busiest week of my year in terms of b'days, gigs, plays, purchasing small but annoying bits of equipment otherwise I'd have stayed a lot longer.

See you lot again soon

Yes indeed, this was a good Meet! The best of all I've been to!

Good to meet old and new friends - four days in a row. .... and of course the Four Poster Bed....