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Bêthberry · 08-09-2010, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Sounds like a grand idea! I'll get saving right away! Can someone lend me a tenner?

ppft! Just because you live in old Blighty and don't have to pay air fare . . . I'm in the market for a Tardis, so don't look to me for loans.

Fantastic to see so many postive responses here! Now just keep the date in mind.

This would be a grand way to bring together both American and European Downers. And this announcement provides lots of time for *cough* those American Downers who don't have passports *cough* to get working on that document. Can't use a driver's license for this walk!

I'm already making plans for extracurricular activities with Estelyn and I strongly suspect that narfforc will be doing a scouting run of any pubs in the environs so he can report back to us.

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...85&postcount=1

Do try to keep up Bethberry..

A two year old thread--isn't that like archeology?

*insert winking smilie here as well as I've reached my limit*

wilwarin538 · 08-09-2010, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Bethberry

This would be a grand way to bring together both American and European Downers. And this announcement provides lots of time for *cough* those American Downers who don't have passports *cough* to get working on that document. Can't use a driver's license for this walk!

Ahaha.

Can you imagine? "Yeah, we just want to cross the ocean to meet some friends." "How do you know people from the other side of the ocean?" "Uhm....a literary discussion website?"

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 08-09-2010, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by wilwarin538

Ahaha.

Can you imagine? "Yeah, we just want to cross the ocean to meet some friends." "How do you know people from the other side of the ocean?" "Uhm....a literary discussion website?"

When Lauri and I went to Britain and met Downers there the customs agent asked us if we were meeting anybody there and, of course, the answer was yes. Then he asked where we knew these people from and my mother kindly blurts out 'the internet'. The customs agent, needless to say, gave us a very funny look and proceeded to give us a lecture about internet safety.

When we Americans go to Britain for this we must think up a creative way to say we're meeting people off the internet. I still like international book club, to be honest.

Bêthberry · 08-09-2010, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

When Lauri and I went to Britain and met Downers there the customs agent asked us if we were meeting anybody there and, of course, the answer was yes. Then he asked where we knew these people from and my mother kindly blurts out 'the internet'. The customs agent, needless to say, gave us a very funny look and proceeded to give us a lecture about internet safety.

When we Americans go to Britain for this we must think up a creative way to say we're meeting people off the internet. I still like international book club, to be honest.

At NiagaraGate, when a certain Downer lost his license and didn't have ID to return to the US from Canada, I realised it had been very wise of all the Werewolfers not to admit to meeting each other through a game where they planned how to kill each other.

(The license was soon found by someone else coming across on foot from Canada, who thoughtfully turned it in.)

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 08-09-2010, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Bêthberry

At NiagaraGate, when a certain Downer lost his license and didn't have ID to return to the US from Canada, I realised it had been very wise of all the Werewolfers not to admit to meeting each other through a game where they planned how to kill each other.

(The license was soon found by someone else coming across on foot from Canada, who thoughtfully turned it in.)

I read about that.

I think that we Downers may ponder not going across country boarders with other Downers...

Bêthberry · 08-10-2010, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

I read about that.

Yeah, but I was the only Downer (and Mr. Berry) who actually witnessed the gruelling interrogation the unlicensed Downer was submitted to. (What hospital were you born in? Um, um a smial? The Halls of Healing?) Everyone else went through customs and abandoned him!

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Originally Posted by Ibrîniðilpathânezel

Alas, there is no way we could attend this. The summer of 2012 has already been booked for my first real chance to see Mountains, and even that might be financially dicey. I hope those who go have a splendid time!

That's disappointing. Our loss but your gain. Perhaps something closer to home . . .

Ibrîniðilpathânezel · 08-09-2010, 12:17 PM

Call it a literary society. That worked very well when officious type people asked about folks we'd met via science fiction clubs and conventions. There are plenty of people who I know very well that I "met" through years of regular correspondence, and only saw face to face after we'd been acquainted for five or ten years. It's the Internet and its ease and the immediacy it can foster that makes people suspicious.

Alas, there is no way we could attend this. The summer of 2012 has already been booked for my first real chance to see Mountains, and even that might be financially dicey. I hope those who go have a splendid time!

Mithalwen · 08-09-2010, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Bêthberry

A two year old thread--isn't that like archeology?

*insert winking smilie here as well as I've reached my limit*

More like a tribute to Heren Istarion

narfforc · 08-10-2010, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Bêthberry

and I strongly suspect that narfforc will be doing a scouting run of any pubs in the environs so he can report back to us.

The Public Houses of Oxford are indeed well known to me, for I have been ejected out of most of them. However, this year I will be coming as someone else..........we think.

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 08-11-2010, 01:36 AM

Loughborough, Loughborough.... that's not too far from Lal and davem, is it?

I bags crashing on their couch.

Mithalwen · 08-11-2010, 05:03 AM

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/findus.html

Not quite near but not very far.. of course everywhere is north for me but having Warwickshire born parents I know some of the Midlands well but get hazy about its northern borders ... I always think Yorkshire seems very remote forgetting just how vast it is and Sheffield low down that it is potentially daytrippable...

Geography was never my strong suit...

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 08-11-2010, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/findus.html

Not quite near but not very far.. of course everywhere is north for me but having Warwickshire born parents I know some of the Midlands well but get hazy about its northern borders ... I always think Yorkshire seems very remote forgetting just how vast it is and Sheffield low down that it is potentially daytrippable...

Geography was never my strong suit...

That's not that far, is it? It always amuses me a little when Brits talk about how far it is from one place to another on such a small island. Of course, my opinion of 'far', or even possibly 'remote', is like going to North Pole from Anchorage, so who am I to talk?

And surely they will have hotels in Loughborough. And if you book them this far in advance you could probably get a fair deal from one as well.

Bêthberry · 08-11-2010, 04:05 PM

Accommodation will be available on campus, in the Loughborough University residences according to the link. Food too. And access to the university sports facilities, which are said to be quite good. This is, I think, rather opposite to the Oxford experience. It might even be Jock Central.

Of course, those who might prefer a less formal environment can find, I'm sure, yet olde B&Bs in town.

narffie, we know you know all the public houses in Oxford. It's the ones in Loughborough we need you to canvass for us.

Mithalwen · 08-12-2010, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

That's not that far, is it? It always amuses me a little when Brits talk about how far it is from one place to another on such a small island. Of course, my opinion of 'far', or even possibly 'remote', is like going to North Pole from Anchorage, so who am I to talk?

Well I had all this when I lived in Aus - they'd laugh at my idea of far and I'd laugh at their idea of a large town or an old building. But what you have to bear in mind is the traffic density - Oxford is about 90 miles from me and I have done the journey in a barely legal hour and quarter and in an agonising 4and a half. It may be small but it is very dense.

Kath · 08-12-2010, 07:24 AM

Loughborough? Horrible place. But if all of you lovely people are there I'll very happily go. 2012 should finally have some money again too!

Hookbill the Goomba · 08-11-2010, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

I bags crashing on their couch.

If you want to do some damage, I suggest crashing into their couch with something heavier.

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 08-11-2010, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

If you want to do some damage, I suggest crashing into their couch with something heavier.

Don't want to do too much damage, as I'll want a cup o tea in the morning.

Or I suppose there might be hotels in the area... *mumble, mumble*

08-09-2010, 12:17 PM	#7
Ibrîniðilpathânezel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Back on the Helcaraxe Posts: 733	Call it a literary society. That worked very well when officious type people asked about folks we'd met via science fiction clubs and conventions. There are plenty of people who I know very well that I "met" through years of regular correspondence, and only saw face to face after we'd been acquainted for five or ten years. It's the Internet and its ease and the immediacy it can foster that makes people suspicious. Alas, there is no way we could attend this. The summer of 2012 has already been booked for my first real chance to see Mountains, and even that might be financially dicey. I hope those who go have a splendid time! __________________ Call me Ibrin (or Ibri) :) Originality is the one thing that unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. — John Stewart Mill

08-11-2010, 01:36 AM	#10
Eomer of the Rohirrim Auspicious Wraith Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,859	Loughborough, Loughborough.... that's not too far from Lal and davem, is it? I bags crashing on their couch. __________________ Los Ingobernables de Harlond

08-11-2010, 05:03 AM	#11
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/findus.html Not quite near but not very far.. of course everywhere is north for me but having Warwickshire born parents I know some of the Midlands well but get hazy about its northern borders ... I always think Yorkshire seems very remote forgetting just how vast it is and Sheffield low down that it is potentially daytrippable... Geography was never my strong suit... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

08-11-2010, 04:05 PM	#13
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Accommodation will be available on campus, in the Loughborough University residences according to the link. Food too. And access to the university sports facilities, which are said to be quite good. This is, I think, rather opposite to the Oxford experience. It might even be Jock Central. Of course, those who might prefer a less formal environment can find, I'm sure, yet olde B&Bs in town. narffie, we know you know all the public houses in Oxford. It's the ones in Loughborough we need you to canvass for us. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

08-12-2010, 07:24 AM	#15
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Loughborough? Horrible place. But if all of you lovely people are there I'll very happily go. 2012 should finally have some money again too! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”