EDF Drinks - Friday 9th May at The Magdala - Tonight

[georgia]

Hope this is ok with everyone...

[Jah Lush]

Well done Georgia, the venue is fine as it's big enough for all of us but I'm not sure about the date yet.

[KalamityKel]

*marks it in diary*

[bagpuss78]

sorted, see you all there! :)-D

[Keef]

Good work Georgia, pretty sure the date is good.

[mockney piers]

but that'll be three for the mag, surely many need the itinerant lushness that is the forum to visit them. the rye, the old nunhead, inside 72...

[Michael Palaeologus]

Well, yes - but the Mags is very central and more people come to the more central drinks.

I cant help thinking that 35 people turning up to Inside 72 plus their normal crowd would be a little snug.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Can't see 72 ever being a possibility unless we decide to have an early-week session (oh but the sounds!)

Quite a few people live over the Rye side of Dulwich anyway so I would say that the Rye Hotel or Nun's Head or even the new place (Village?) over that way would be eminently reachable/do-able/suitable. If it means less people (and I'm not convinced it does) then one upside is being able to talk to more people - when there are upwards of 35 people it's impossible to talk to a fraction of the people one would like to...

But that's for the NEXT time - the Mag has been chosen so let's not restart that debate... don't want the organising commitee to have a fit ;-)

[Michael Palaeologus]

"Rue side" - cool new nomenclature or did the bus bounce just at the wrong time?

[SeanMacGabhann]

bus? at 8:55?? and with that much punctuation????

Or a simple typo now corrected * ahem *

[david_carnell]

The new Page2 (I think it is The Village) is fairly cavernous so could easily hold a large gathering. Worth bearing in mind.

Still, I'm in for the Magda in a month.

[citizenED]

Agree that there are some places still to visit - but look forward to the Magdala on the 9th

[Keef]

I'm loving the Mag for this kind of night, may get in early and have a pizza to line the stomache!

[SteveT]

Magdala does it for me with that wonderful 'p1ss yeller' paint job.

[Michael Palaeologus]

But I am liking "Rue Side" has a certain chic to it, not otherwise obvious when referring to the Peckham end of the Rye.

[cannonni]

Hi all

I will be very much looking forward to it being a Newbe to the EDF. Still trying to get my head around how it all works. Do i turn up with name plate hehehehe!!!! or do I put on my bold and brave hat and work up to the first strange person I see::o what a conundrum!!!!

[KalamityKel]

Bunny ears are the theme this time round I believe ;)

[annaj]

cannonni Wrote:

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> Hi all

>

> I will be very much looking forward to it being a

> Newbe to the EDF. Still trying to get my head

> around how it all works. Do i turn up with name

> plate hehehehe!!!! or do I put on my bold and

> brave hat and work up to the first strange person

> I see::o what a conundrum!!!!

Either of those strategies would work, but the smart newbie would have a look at pictures of the last gathering http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,113115,page=1 before heading to the next one.

On the night you just approach the first person you recognise from the pictures. Also, hours of fun to be had speculating about who is who in the pictures, unless you're dorky enough to have been caught with your label on :-$ (those labels have got to go by the way!)

[SeanMacGabhann]

for a small fee, you can PM me and I'll spill the beans on who's who...

[annaj]

but where's the fun in that?

[SeanMacGabhann]

fun???? those bookies debts don't pay for themselves you know!

;-)

seriously cannonni, come along on the 9th. We've all had to do the "scuse me... are you the EDF?" thing at one point - and we're all still here

[Moos]

Hoping for a pink slip for the 9th so I can unchicly represent the Rye - thank you for organising, Georgia!

*goes off whistling*

Always look on the Ryye side of life...

[SteveT]

annaj wrote:-(those labels have got to go by the way!)

I did not realise the name tags were so offensive to you annaj.

I brought them along to make it easier for the newbies (er me) to recognise other forumistas, it was not intended to embarrass anyone and I apologise to you, and all the others who may have been labelled against their wishes.

I certainly haven't held a gun to anyones head to comply with the wearing of them.

I thought for the couple of hours which we are together it might help us all to remember more names and faces of people.

If the consensus of opinion is to scratch the use of name tags, I will immediately stop this potentially, unseemly obnoxious practice.

[annaj]

Steady on Steve, it's not that big a deal.

I just noticed in the pictures I'm the only person who still had mine on and it looks a bit dorky!

[KalamityKel]

It's a good game to start with... at least new comers will have an idea where fellow forumites are congregated even if they aren't the same ppl they started out being :))