Oxford: firmer plans

[taimatsu]

Right. This is *nearly* a final plan; I will edit this post as the last details become clear.

I intend to visit Oxford on Tuesday 28 June. I will try to arrive between 11 and 12, and pick up some bread, tomatoes and sandwich fillings from Tesco. Then I will decamp to the Angel and Greyhound meadow. Please join me there from 1pm.

Bring something to eat and/or drink (I will not be bringing alcohol, but you can if you like it), something to sit on if you're able to (I will probably have a picnic rug but it's not very big), your friends, housemates, partners, children, parents or whatever, and anything in the way of musical instruments, frisbees, footballs, poi, LARP swords, or other playthings that you feel like messing about with. Also suncream and appropriate cool clothing; I'll lay out the rug in the shade, but it'll be hot! (In the unlikely event that it rains I'll be in the Angel and Greyhound pub.)

The picnic is likely to continue for most of the afternoon, until at least 5pm. It may morph into a pubmeet later on, or I may go for food with diffrentcolours who is the catalyst for this visit. I'll firm up on that in the next few days; if you want to spend time with me in the evening because you can't make the picnic, please say so and I'll do my best to sort something out.

If you spot any problems with this plan, or have any other suggestions or ideas, please comment. I'm thinking about how widely I want to distribute my phone number - I might well post it later on.

Comments

[chrisvenus]

I'm not around during the day obviously so make sure you do update with evening plans (and whether others are welcome or not).

[taimatsu]

Sure. It looks likely to be An Pubmeet, Somewhere. Maybe where the OxGoths are, maybe not. I just need to guess at a time. But you have my number, and if all else fails you can call me and check what's going on. I'll definitely try to sort a proper plan though :) Would OxIRC folk be interested, or are the current active people too young to remember me?

[imc.livejournal.com]

On Tuesday I will be in an exam meeting from 11am and another one from 2pm and it's quite likely they will run through, so no lunch for me (except that if that happens we do tend to get sandwiches provided).

If you happen to be still there when the meetings finish (which could be any time until about 6 — they are hard to predict) then I will join in.

[taimatsu]

Sure. Could you remind me to let you have my mobile number? There may be pubbage later in the evening, but that's obviously less great for smallclanger.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm up for it.

Twofish

[imc.livejournal.com]

If the digits add up to 57 then I appear to have it already.

On the other hand, mine can be found from my user info.

[taimatsu]

They do, and I've only ever had the one number anyway :)

There will be a pubmeet, but time and place are as yet undetermined. I'll try to make sure there's a plan in place by Monday evening, though.

[taimatsu]

Yay, it would be great to see you. I might post to wibble, actually.

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

plans confirmed - i shall be there for picnicking. see you soon !

[taimatsu]

Yay! I will be doing a modicum of food-shopping - is there anything specific you would like me to buy?

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

not particularly, other than general bread-and-stuff-to-put-on-it which i assume you'll be getting anyway - i rarely tend to eat much in this kind of weather, the heat just bakes all the appetite for food out of me ! will probably bring along some lemonade and fruit juice and cookies and Sainsbury's quiches to contribute...

btw, would you like me to provide the plastic-cuppage for the picnic ? i've got a cupboard full of the things from an event-which-never-happened many years ago, would be good to use some of them up.

[taimatsu]

ys to plastic-cuppage!

[spaglet.livejournal.com]

Lunch probably isn't doable - but the Wheatsheaf at half seven definitely is. ^-^

[taimatsu]

Apologies for earlier staccato and bizarrely-spelt response - my laptop keyboard is being extremely unfriendly. Yes please please please bring plastic cups. I will try to bring some variety of disposable plate, and some bin-bags, and a sharp knife and butter-knife.

Your food ideas sound great. I was asking because I had you pegged as someone who might have not-immediately-obvious dietary requirements, and I do want to make sure that most people will be able to eat at least something of the food I buy, though I'm not going to attempt to cater entirely for everyone. If there's not enough or not the right things, there are nearby shops to which people can dash for supplies. (I am elaborating this to reinforce my own resolve not to micro-manage this picnic, not because I think you particularly want to know!)

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

< looks encouragingly stern >
don't micro-manage !

i'm just a not-particularly-fussy vegetarian - i generally take the attitude that if people have particularly outlandish dietary requirements then they will either a) mention it in advance, b) bring along their own food that meets those requirements or c) have no right to complain when there's little suitable food, so probably not worth worrying about.

i will also bring along corkscrew / bottle-opener and some extra cutlery and napkins, for i have done the picnicking thing before !

btw, i'd suggest a birthday / congratulatory toast to libellum at some point during the proceedings ?