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We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Dell (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:44AM

Well, there was me, Andrea, Roy (who you don't know), mitsy (who drove us there), Rob, Dante, Sarah, Skiffle, Dave Rainbow.. umm...

Oh yes, Jasper was there too :) (with Mari, Alan the Dodo & Emma)

I'm going to bed, so the rest of you get posting :)

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: July 17, 2003 01:23AM

I saw this thread title and instantly started singing: 'We went to visit a farm one day...'


Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 17, 2003 02:11AM

oh sure, Dell, scoop WN, go ahead :-P Oh well, if we can get it put together with pictures, it SHOULD be out by tomorow night.

glad you guys had fun.

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 17, 2003 02:12AM

Dell, was Jon there? Did he make it??

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 10:11AM

he didn't, as you've now seen in other posts, I let her post this then pushed her off to bed (she then talked to me till 2am :-))


It was fun

oh yes, and now Jasper and Mari have no excuse not to come to Sheffield, They have official passports which will be duly stamped when they make it

(Alan has one too)



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 11:31AM

oh and AAC dell hasn't seen Whatever next, and didn't actually spoil your scoop, as we were all at the signing etc first

though we were late as it's a long blummin walk for someone just out of hospital, and in that heat, I was getting to the point where I thought it's have to be piggy back time.

Does anyone know why Waterstones has 2 shops on one street? The other one didn't even have a sign up saying signing at the other branch it was just closed and dark.



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:05PM

Hello, I''m new to the message board but I was at the Leeds event last night too, down the front on the left hand side, young lad with blue jeans and blue t-shirt...anyway, nice to make your acquaintences.

J.

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:11PM

Hi Jonty
just trying to think how to describe some of us
dell was the one on crutches
about 7 of us were at the back (two very tall people and the rest of us :-))
pity we didn't see you you could have come to the restaurant



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:17PM

Yeah, there was a spare place. So glad you all had such a nice time, it really makes me feel better.

NOT!! SO NOT!!!! AAARGH!!!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Bluebottle (---.server.ntl.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:23PM

Jon? Would you like to come and sit on the side of the fforum with the rest of us who didn't go and glare at the others? It passes the time...

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: splat21 (213.38.32.---)
Date: July 17, 2003 12:42PM

and it makes us feel marginally better...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 01:19PM

there were actually 3 spasres, it wasn'y yours I was giving away, we were hoping you'd get there almost up to the end

next time we need to share mobile mumbers, I had Sarah's so knew she was held up

and that Dave R missed Leeds alltogether :-)



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 04:23PM

Hi Jonty! I was the lady with the very large white hat, the glasses, the dodo and the rather baffled-looking penguin. (The penguin's a very long story...) Skiffle was the rather shorter lady in the old-gold silk shirt, and Dave Rainbow was the comfortably built chap in the shorts and tastefully loud shirt. Did you have your hair slightly spiked up at the front? If so, I can recall you because you look a lot like a good friend of mine from a certain angle. :-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 17, 2003 04:26PM

Andrea, don't worry! I was only teasing Dell! (didn't ya see the :-P -sticking tongue out??) I knew someone would post right away because they couldn't contain their excitement of the evening. Some of us knew ahead of time that Jasper would be there...hence the story, er uh, story that wasn't (hehehe, sorry Jon)

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:02PM

To be fair. Someone blurted it out on Blurty ;-)
while the rest of us were keeping the scoop for WN.

It's a story. A good story. I'm holding back the juicy gossip about Alan misbehaving until the next WN...

Jonty: I think Dante and I were sitting behind you (although weren't aware of the fact at the time).

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:04PM

ya, I can't imagine WHO spilled the beans in her blurty...perhaps the penguin isn't the only one hitting the sauce! ROFL!

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:11PM

I couldn't possibly comment...

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:16PM

Come on - Dell had already spilled it several hours before I even got onto Blurty! ;-)

Wilfred thought Jasper was wonderful, but he was a little concerned that Alan and Dido seemed to be getting on a shade too well. Still, it's hard to blame Dido for fflirting with such a handsome young dodo - a tipsy penguin just isn't quite the same! (No, that isn't the misbehaviour Rob was talking about... Alan got up to a few other tricks too!)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Dell (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:17PM

I didn't actually mention where in leeds all these people were.

& I presumed people knew he was going to be in Leeds. Hardly a big secret.

Re: We went to Leeds and we saw...
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 17, 2003 05:18PM

the secret was actually that Jasper was going to the dinner afterwards....

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