1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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Which UK party location would suit you?

London
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Oxford
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Birmingham
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Another location! (best indicated in a post, below)
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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Cholmondely wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:47 pm
ffutures wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:49 pm
OK, we seem to have come to a halt here
Any chance of seeing you at the dreaded do?
Unfortunately not - I sell old photographic gear and other collectables, and Sunday is always a very busy day for me - I generally go to multiple car boot sales, and pack a lot of stuff I've sold on line in the evening.
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Re: July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party

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Cholmondely wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:56 am
Others
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Would love to be there... but you're holding this shindig on the opposite side of the planet from where I live.
If you can arrange for it to happen in Australia, that would work much better for me... :mrgreen: :twisted:
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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Diziet Sma wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:08 pm
Would love to be there... but you're holding this shindig on the opposite side of the planet from where I live.
If you can arrange for it to happen in Australia, that would work much better for me... :mrgreen: :twisted:
I’m hoping someone can bring a tablet so I can attend over Zoom or something.
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Diziet Sma wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:08 pm
If you can arrange for it to happen in Australia...
We could tax that!
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Re: July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party

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Diziet Sma wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:08 pm
Would love to be there...
phkb wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:44 pm
I’m hoping someone
Wildeblood wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:50 pm
We could tax that!
Gentlemen,

there are a whole group of you on that side of our planet.

As mentioned before, I'd be perfectly happy to bung a little dosh into your collective kitty if you wanted to organise your own get-together. As well as the three of you, there is also DAJT who surfaced briefly a year or so ago (and who wrote the original Windows version) and various others...

Cholmondely wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:38 pm
I'd also be happy to help subsidise a round of pink gins somewhere in Australia - and also in Europe (Germany).
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Cholmondely wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:22 pm
there are a whole group of you on that side of our planet.
The last time I drove from Sydney to Brisbane the road sign said 999 km.

(And that would be the easy bit. :mrgreen: )
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cFJizM1LqKs
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Wildeblood wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:43 pm
Cholmondely wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:22 pm
there are a whole group of you on that side of our planet.
The last time I drove from Sydney to Brisbane the road sign said 999 km.

(And that would be the easy bit. :mrgreen: )
I thought you were pretty much all in Sydney, with just one or two outliers.
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Cholmondely wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 4:59 pm
Wildeblood wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:43 pm
Cholmondely wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 9:22 pm
there are a whole group of you on that side of our planet.
The last time I drove from Sydney to Brisbane the road sign said 999 km.

(And that would be the easy bit. :mrgreen: )
I thought you were pretty much all in Sydney, with just one or two outliers.
Nah, Dizzy is a Queenslander.
IIRC, that sign wasn't near any particularly specific location. I think they just put it were it was so people could pass it and say, "Less than a thousand kays to go now, dear."
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cFJizM1LqKs
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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Surely participating in such a party would be an unparalleled experience (for me). But it takes me near three months (ideal) only to get a visa... But I don’t give up on this idea - besides, one pilot invited me to visit for tea ;)
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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timer wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 8:05 am
Surely participating in such a party would be an unparalleled experience (for me). But it takes me near three months (ideal) only to get a visa... But I don’t give up on this idea - besides, one pilot invited me to visit for tea ;)
How about organising a "Roolite" do somewhere closer to your end of things?
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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Cholmondely wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 11:10 am
timer wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 8:05 am
Surely participating in such a party would be an unparalleled experience (for me). But it takes me near three months (ideal) only to get a visa... But I don’t give up on this idea - besides, one pilot invited me to visit for tea ;)
How about organising a "Roolite" do somewhere closer to your end of things?
They already have one. So far it's just the two of them in their secret man-cave. :mrgreen:
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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hiran wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 11:20 am
Cholmondely wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 11:10 am
timer wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 8:05 am
Surely participating in such a party would be an unparalleled experience (for me). But it takes me near three months (ideal) only to get a visa... But I don’t give up on this idea - besides, one pilot invited me to visit for tea ;)
How about organising a "Roolite" do somewhere closer to your end of things?
They already have one. So far it's just the two of them in their secret man-cave. :mrgreen:
Nope. There are oodles of them. Even here, on our English BB, there are oodles of them. And we've only seen a smidgen of what they have created...
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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7th July, Tottenham Ct Road ... I might well be able to do that. I was sort-of planning a trip down the road to the Plains of Englandshire, so a bus into London (or for that matter, Oxford) is do-able.
Given the number of "I can't come in person, but could Zoom in ..." messages, would one of the attendees be able to commit to bringing a laptop (and speakers/ microphone?) so that the Zoom contingent could have a seat (in a corner, next to a power point). Does the pub have WiFi? Common, but not universal.
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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Interesting... Great idea and well done for organising something so cool.

I've reached out to drew and daddyhoggy to see if they're interested.

For myself that London is a logistical problem, but if I can work that out I'll do my best to be there.
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Re: 1pm 7th July 2024 - Oolite Anniversary Party (London)

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Selezen wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 9:40 am
For myself that London is a logistical problem, but if I can work that out I'll do my best to be there.
My geography of London is pretty vague (Overspill town boy - I generally need to be paid to go there) but, IIRC, tottenham Ct Road is approximately aimed to between Kings Cross/ St Pancreas for trains up the East coast, and Euston for trains up the West coast, and has at least two tube stations on or within spitting distance (Tott.Ct.Rd and Goodge Street) There's at least a third fairly close - I remember visiting an oil company about a job in Tanzania and dodging both University College and The School of Tropical Medicine - which was appropriately worrying - before exiting to Goodge St.
I can't actually remember any pubs along there - I was looking for interesting electronics - but I'm sure the target won't be too navigationally challenging.
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