York Mini Gather

[Bamy]

Hi guys. I am going to be in York on Saturday February the 25th. I will be spending part of the time at the uni at an archery competition but will definitely be able to spend some time in the city either before or after the competition. Anyone want to meet up?

(I will get more details closer to the event)

[Ian]

Well you've certainly given us plenty of notice! I'm sure we'll be available (considering we live here ;) ), though H might be working.

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

Not that I have any chance in heck of coming, but I just wanted to say I'm jealous!!! :tantrum: There are never any gathers close enough to me for me to participate in. :sad:

[KC.]

Not that I have any chance in heck of coming, but I just wanted to say I'm jealous!!! :tantrum: There are never any gathers close enough to me for me to participate in. :sad:


I'm sure that one day I'll go back to Oregon and Washington (its only been 24 years ;) ) - we could have a Gather then :)

Kath

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

I'm sure that one day I'll go back to Oregon and Washington (its only been 24 years ;) ) - we could have a Gather then :)

Kath

Oooh... that would be fun! :D

[Bamy]

*Pats Kalina* :hugs: at least you can look forward to gathering with bronzie at some point in the future.

[Jax]

*jealous too*


:erm: (but at least I have gotten to meet some cool Kters in the past! ;) :good: )

[KC.]

*jealous too*


:erm: (but at least I have gotten to meet some cool Kters in the past! ;) :good: )

One of these days I may get back to WA too ;) thats only 15 years since I was last there (Xmas/New Year 1990/91 :D)

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

*Pats Kalina* :hugs: at least you can look forward to gathering with bronzie at some point in the future.

That I can!! :bouncy:

[Bamy]

RightI have a few more details about the shoot...I start at 1 and we finish at 4pm so I can meet people after that somewhere and catch a train back to Stoke later in the evening.

[Ian]

OK, we'll have a think about where would be best to meet up, unless you have somewhere in mind (depends how well you know the place).

[Bamy]

And it now turns out the competition has been bumped back to the 4th of Feruary :roll: I can still make it whenever it is and I have very little knowledge of York I have only been there once...perhapse you could suggest somewhere we could meet up and I can taxi it there?

[Ian]

Hmm, all of a sudden it's almost on top of us! Don't get a taxi, the number 4 bus runs from the uni direct into town & is a lot cheaper! Clifford Street would probably be the best place to get off, but we'll get back to you on that once we've discussed among ourselves ;)

[Bamy]

OK I was wrong there are two tournaments in york...one on the 4th the other on the other date...I don't mind which one we use to meet up.

[Ian]

Well, since we'd already marked the 25th down, we may as well stick with that, now you're still going to be coming that day :)

[Bamy]

sounds good to me!

[Ian]

Just realised that the 25th is the last Saturday of the Viking festival, unfortunately I think all the fun parts (longship races, battle, etc.) are over by 4pm :(

[Bamy]

Aww...man:(

[Bamy]

Is there anything on the friday?

[Ian]

There will be, there's stuff happening all week, I'll see if I can find a schedule.

[Ian]

Go here (http://www.vikingjorvik.com) for details of the festival (you need to click on the black "Jorvik the Viking city" square to get to the festival info, unfortunately it's one of those annoying sites that shows the same url no matter which page you visit :roll: )

[Paulita]

Wonders if she can tempt hubby to visit his parents in Hull at the end of Feb or should she travel up there without him.

[Ian]

You'd be welcome to join us, though I'm not so sure about Woolymouse ;)

[Bamy]

You are more than welcome to come! The more the merrier. I have decided to come up by bus on the 24th so I will be able to meet people Friday afternoon/evening and saturday morning and then travel back with the Keele Archers. They lknow what my plans are so no probs there, I know there are hundreds of cheap B+Bs in the city so again, no problems.

[Bamy]

The markets n things sound really cool by the way! :ok:

[Ian]

The Viking market is always good, last year there was even someone selling bows & arrows :)

The only drawback about Friday is that I don't finish w**k until 7.30-8pm :(

[Bamy]

that isn'ta problem, I will have all afternoon to look around and if you want to meet up in the eening thats fine. if not we could meet saturday morning.

[KC.]

If the Mini-Gather's now going to be Friday evening rather than Saturday daytime/evening I can't make it.

Hope to see you for the big one in September.

[Bamy]

Saturday morning is good...apparenly we will not be shooting till about 1.45 so there is all morning...I am just coming up earlier to see the viking festival thing

[Ian]

I'll PM you my mobile number so we can co-ordinate on Friday evening :)

[Bamy]

cool. :D

[KC.]

Saturday morning is good...apparenly we will not be shooting till about 1.45 so there is all morning...I am just coming up earlier to see the viking festival thing

It may be good for someone who is actually in York but as I'm not and have other commitments the afternoon/evening on a Saturday is always going to be better for me.

[Bamy]

Ok guys the mini gather is fast approaching. I will be available all friday evening and saturday till about 1.30 - we are shooting at 2. where and when should we meet up?

[-H-]

I'm on Night shift Friday night/Saturday Morning....

So unless you get the 1840ish York to Scarborough train, you probably won't see me :O

[Bamy]

I will be around for most of friday afternoon too, I am going to get a moning bus up to york and be a tourist...ie having a look at all the viking festival stuff.

[Ian]

I think the station would be the best place (I work just behind it, so it's just acouple of minutes' walk). If you give me a call around 7.30 I'll be able to let you know when I'll be finished (since it depends on how much there is to do).

[Bamy]

Sure, no problem. (train or bus station?)

[Ian]

There isn't a bus station in York... ;)

[Bamy]

Okee. Thanks, I thought there was because I am catching a coach up there.

[Ian]

The main drop-off points for coaches are the station (National Express & some others), near the art gallery, or by Clifford's Tower.

[Bamy]

Sweet. That's good to know.

[Ian]

One day to go! :bouncy:

[Bamy]

:woohoo:

[Bamy]

Got any plans?

[Ian]

Well, there's a pub in the city centre that we always seem to find ouselves in at mini-gathers (have to have our Baileys, after all ;) ). After that we'll see where we end up going (best to go there fairly early as the centre gets very busy on Friday nights). More chance of doing things on Saturday really, but I hope the weather's better than today, cold & rainy :(

[Bamy]

Sweet (about the pub and bailies) :( about the weather. I have all saturday moring until 12.

[Ian]

Have you sorted out somewhere to stay yet? If not we have a nice (7 foot long!) sofa you can crash on (if you don't mind staying in a place that would make most student houses look tidy ;) )

[Bamy]

Crashing on a sofa overnight sounds good and thankyou for the offer. I was planning on staying in a B+B but was going to go searching when I got to York. :) :hugs:

[Bamy]

And trust me...our house looks like several atom bombs have hit it!

[Ian]

No bombs here, just lots of books (5,000 as a conservative estimate), records (500 vinyl albums, plus singles & CDs), & 8 keyboards! Oh, and we have an unopened bottle of Baileys & a nice single malt whisky here (plus whatever we might buy tomorrow ;) )

*note to self, take the keyboard off the sofa*

[Bamy]

Thanks Ian! (really must go to bed now if I have any chance of getting an assignment finished for tomorrows deadline (ie before catching the bus)

[Ian]

See you tomorrow :)

[Bamy]

Yep :)

[Bamy]

I just want to say thanks to Ian and Lady Legira for letting me stay the night. I had a really good time and it is great to put faces to names (I rarely go in the lets see ya thread). Ian has gotten me really tempted to go to Dragon con in the near future (and if I do I am just gonna HAVE to think up a good costume (or two)). I had a really great time and to top it off, I beat my PB in the archery tournament getting 441 out of 600 :woohoo: (my last PB was around the 410 mark ;). We (the team) also came away with several medals including a gold in the ladies novice recurve, bronze in the gent's novice recurve and a silver for the team.:D

[Ian]

Glad to have you Amy, and congrats to you & the team :D