Australia-Melbourne

[dECLAN]

Just look out for a blond haired handsome Hibernian guy...

[cela]

Well, you look out for two lost souls standing at the front door at 6.30 looking around nervously, hoping to be rescued by friendly forum folk!

Cheers,
Claire

[cela]

Hazel, Holden McNeil, alsy - are you still in?

Any other Melbournites that haven't posted in this thread yet?

[Holden McNeil]

Ya still in! i'll be there about 7.

edit: eep, okay things are a little crazy atm (in the sense of how i'm getting in/out of the cbd). so i'm 50/50 to coming!! if only i lived closer =)

[ReallyGoodIdeas]

Hi all,

We met up last night, Alsy, me, dECLAN and Cela met at illia, then moved onto the irish Times. Much fun was had, and it was great to meet like-minded friends in the flesh!

We'll do this again, but agreed to consider somewhere east of the CBD since those there last time were from the east. Likeminded frieds we haven't met yet, please say if this works for you. Maybe we'll meet up again in January?

How do I upload the photos? Any ideas anyone?

Joy to you
Hazel

[dECLAN]

Hi Hazel et al,

Good call! I have to say what a great time I had. Even though it was the first time we met it seemed at times as though I had known everyone for much longer.

I would definitely be up for another meeting in January.

Hazel as far as uploading the best way is to either create a private group on Flickr and post the link or alternatively upload them to a free host such as TinyPic and embed them into the thread.

Speak soon,

Declan

[cela]

Hi guys,

So good to meet you on Friday night! We had a great time, and would love to meet again in January. Hope people that weren't able to make it on Friday can join us then - tobyhede and Mark Lapierre are two I know were keen to come along, and Holden too!

Thanks again Hazel for organising the first meet for us. Hope you can all come up to the Hills for a picnic some time!

Cheers,
Claire

[ReallyGoodIdeas]

Excellent people, Claire maybe we should have the next one as a picnic in the hills? Drag our significant others along? Just a thought...
Photos (thanks dECLAN)

Flickr: Photos from hazelhavingfun

Does that work?

On the group shots, from L-R dECLAN, Hazel, Claire, Tain (Claire's SO), Paul(Alsy).
Joy!
Hazel

[dECLAN]

Grrreat shots Hazel.

I never did find out what that girls name was!

[cela]

Originally Posted by ReallyGoodIdeas

Excellent people, Claire maybe we should have the next one as a picnic in the hills? Drag our significant others along? Just a thought...

Sounds good to me! Let's confirm dates and location when our absent friends return.

I never did find out what that girls name was!

Declan, I believe it was Louisa (but not 100% sure).

Cheers,
Claire

[Mark Lapierre]

Glad to hear those who made it had a good time

I'm back in Oz now and still keen for the next meetup. Jan sometime is fine with me, as is a location somewhere East of the city. Bar None in Camberwell is a great little place.

And as promised (teased? ), here's my photos from France

[dECLAN]

Sounds good to me Mark...being a Camberwell resident

Your pictures of France look great. I have been to France many times and miss it.

[cela]

Okay, folks - a new year is upon us, and I'm ready for another catch-up. How about you?

So far Camberwell is looking good if we do another Friday night, or we could have a picnic in the hills on a Saturday or Sunday arvo.

I'm not fussed on dates or times - whatever suits everyone. How about the 19th or 20th of January?

Mark Lapierre, look forward to meeting you - hope you can make it! Holden, tobyhede, intentionengine - we'd love to meet you too.

Cheers,
Claire

[Mark Lapierre]

Hehehe, for some strange reason I read that as "19th or 20th Century"... Oh dear, who's been spiking my fruit juice?

The 20th is out for me, but either the Friday or the Sunday is good. I love driving out to the hills, but Camberwell is close, so I'm also happy with either destination. But I'd choose Bar None in Camberwell 'cos it'd mean I can drink

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and perhaps hearing about some of the things going on on the forum which I haven't made the time to read yet.

-Mark

PS: If we do go back in time, my vote is for the 17th or 18th century. I want to chat with Newton, Leibniz, Huygens, Locke, Hooke, etc (guess which series I've been reading...)

[ReallyGoodIdeas]

I'm OK for Friday or Saturday. I know I suggested a picnic in the hills, but now that I think about it, getting my daughter to come along would be impossible, and probably counter-productive anyway.

What say we do Bar None in camberwell o Friday 19th then? Say 7pm onwards? What say everyone?

joy and happiness to all!
Hazel

[cela]

Sounds good, Hazel – Tayne and I are happy with that option!

PS. How are Melbournites coping with this weather? I am no good in the heat – hence being on the net at 12.30am! Two 39ºC days next week –

Cheers,
Claire

[Mark Lapierre]

These days the lack of natural light in my flat, and the ground floor location, is not such a bad thing. It takes a few days of 30+ temps before my flat heats up, and since it's quite open for an old place it cools down again pretty quickly as long as there's a cool breeze.

Not looking forward to those two 39 degree days though. Last summer I spent a weekend in the backyard of my old house in a wading pool with my housemates under a tarp flung over the Hills Hoist. Can't do that this time

(at least the good news is the forecast will probably be wrong )

[ReallyGoodIdeas]

When we had that 35 deg day back in September just after I'd started workign from home, I spent the money and got ducted evaporative cooling! It has been the BEST investment! I keep thinking the cool change has come, cos a lovely cool breeze inside! And the power bill has hardly noticed it!

I recommend evap cooling - in Melbourne where the heat is dry, we get just as good cooling from the evap, and it uses far less power than aircond.

Yay - and I've just turned it off, cos it's cooled down! Yay!
Anyway - it'll be great to meet you Mark!

joy to all!
Hazel

[cela]

Thanks for the recommendation, Hazel - we're going to have to spring for something up here, and I didn't really want to go the aircon option (for environmental and expense reasons). We have a portable evap cooler that is pretty effective if you are in its general vacinity, so I'd be happy with something along those lines.

*goes off to google cooling options*

Anyhoo, see you on Friday 19th!

Cheers,
Claire

[alsy]

I am free for any of the days or times suggested so far.

Regarding the heat Cela, im just kind of getting use to it now. If you have a general aversion to heat, I could sugest "cooling" foods based on Chinese medicine/ philosophy. some cooling foods; Water mellon, Banana, cucumber, Mung sprouts, most sprouts are cooling from memory. There are more foods. The book i used was only a quick reference book.

I will keep a track of this thread as the week progresess.

[intentionengine]

Hi, I can make it to Bar None on Friday 19th 7pm+. Look forward to meeting you all.

P.S I've just added some new features to Intention Engine

Brendan

[cela]

Yay – alsy and Brendan are in!

Thanks for the cooling food suggestions, alsy – I definitely need to add more of these into my diet.

Brendan, the site is looking great!

Cheers,
Claire

[ReallyGoodIdeas]

yay - we'll have fun!

[evpaps]

Sounds like fun, I'll be there

BTW, does this group have a name? I didn't know what to write in my calendar. I at least need a way to ask people if they are who I am looking for.