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A joint birthday party with samoth and ninjagirl. The usual type of party at the usual place. BBQ garden party (overflowing into the park behind the garden, if the mood strikes). Bring your own booze, BBQ food and sleeping bag if required. We will supply the BBQ coals and the bad internet. Toys of most varieties (including fire) welcome so bring them along. Limited crash space available (sofas and floor). No class A drugs or smoking tobacco in the house, please. Feel free to bring along some music. :)

At:
The boys' house (ask if you don't know)
Cheltenham

When:
Saturday 1st September from 2pm(ish)

Right, I've finally spoken to Cardiff Castle with respect to the Medieval Banquet I'm proposing for my 30th. At present, they have a tour operator provisionally booked for 40 of the 104 places on the first two and most promising dates we were interested in - 18th August and 1st September. The trouble is that the tour operator may not know their final numbers (and may pull out altogether) until a week or even just a couple of days before the event is due to be held, so this makes planning a bitch.

So, the current plan is to go for the first date: 18th August 2007. If this falls through, we may still be able to go for the 1st September.

The problem is under capacity, rather than over capacity - they require 40 people to make the event worth doing. At present I have around 20 people for either date.

So, I've asked ev1ldonut and kissycat1000 to pimp the event on their journals - I'm sure there are others who would be interested in coming along if they knew about it. Tell your friends! Better yet, BRING your friends!

I'd like to start collecting payments on the following terms:

1. If the event doesn't go ahead I'll refund you all in full.
2. If the event gets rescheduled and you can't make the new date I'll refund you in full.
3. If the event makes the 40 capacity minimum and goes ahead, but you can't make it, I'll refund you in full, with the following exception:
4. If the event makes the 40 capacity minimum, but you dropping out after you've paid means we'd be under capacity AND it's less than 2 weeks to go to the event, I'll have to keep the money to cover the costs.

The exception is necessary otherwise people won't have enough time to organise (cheaper) transport to the event. It's no worse than buying a ticket for any other event, after all; you could still sell your ticket onto a friend to recoup your costs that way.

So, with that above, can those of you who are interested in attending a Medieval Banquet on 18th August 2007 at Cardiff Castle do three things:

1. Fill out the poll below, stating you intend to pay and indicating how many people you represent
2. Pay for that number of people in full (@ £35 each) to the following sort code: 40-22-12 and account number: 41440845, with a reference of your livejournal name or other name I will be able to uniquely identify you from. (Don't worry, this is a savings account that can only transfer money to my account)
3. Update the poll to reflect your payment.

Due to the amounts of money involved, I cannot make exceptions to the above or promises of payments from anyone.

[Poll #1001134]

I'll update this post as I confirm receipt of money from people.

( List of people I've confirmed receipt of money from )

Quick reminders/notice of events in chronological order:

Poker night happens fortnightly on Wednesdays (from 30 May 2007). Turn up at 8pm, finish at 11pm-ish, playing Texas Hold-em, £1 to buy-in for the whole night, cash in at the end. Posts usually happen a day or so before to get an idea of numbers.

UPDATE: Card/Board Games weekend on the 30th June / 1st July; let me know if you want to come along and/or require crash space :)

UPDATE: The Tewkesbury Medieval Fayre now appears to be on the weekend of the 7-8th July. So the cave party will now swap to be on the 14-15 July instead (instead of on the 7-8 July as previously announced). Please check your diaries and confirm on ev1ldonut's latest post if you can still make it!

gashinryu is holding his 40th birthday party at ev1ldonut's and my house on Saturday 21st July. We're planning to go to the Joust beforehand so the party won't start until 8pm. Come to one or both! Please comment on his post with your interest.

UPDATED: The medieval banquet plans to celebrate my 30th are currently being suggested for the 18th August 2007. Please go and look at the new post on the matter. Point anyone you think may be interested at that post!

After several painful experiences with 'traditional' firelighters, and as this was the OMGWTFBBQ party, I decided to try ( the quicker approach )

I think I'm just about recovered now. My house was cleaned before and after; it's cleaner than it has been for months! Thanks Phill and gashinryu :)

Let me know where your pictures are and I'll link to them here:

• My pictures
• rikrose's pictures
• synthclarion's pictures
• ninjagirl's pictures

samoth and ninjagirl and I are celebrating our respective birthdays starting at 7pm on Saturday 2nd Sept at my place in Cheltenham. Come to the TTT Party and have some fun! kissycat1000 has already mentioned it on her journal here. Feel free to link to this post; it might be nice to leave a comment if you're intending to come (certainly I need an email address if you want the address of my house). Crash space is first come, first served - special requirements excepted. Usual rules: no hard drugs, no smoking in the house, bring your own drink/food (possible BBQ)/bedding/entertainment including fire poi etc/music/friends (especially cute ones) :)

Hopefully see you there :)

dylan wishes to announce Dylanstock 2006! It will be two days of bikes, photoshoots with cute girls and hifi: July 5/6 (yes, that's Wednesday and Thursday next week). If the weather's good we may even go to a beach somewhere :)

So, who's up for it? Comment here with which you're interested in and which day(s) you're free! We can work out arrangements when we know who's interested in what and where they are...

That was so much fun. Trying to describe it reminds me of some verses from Baggy Trousers (which of course was played at one point).. Anyway, enough waffle - pictures are here.

Then, in a moment of brilliance inspired by wrapping the cake, I believe - you'll see that lee_chaos got wrapped in tin foil in the pictures.. well ev1ldonut got wrapped in cling film by sepheri and miss_anthr0py.. and then unwrapped as well! This has to beat the previous ice-cube incident... ;)

Video details: Wrap: ~2.8MB (~34 seconds long), Unwrap: ~3.8MB (~47 seconds long) in Bink .EXE format - right-click and 'Save As...' to download; double-click to play in Windows. Other OS users can view/edit it with free RAD tools.

There was much arse-groping (god there were some fine arses there, oh yes..) and dancing and merry making. A good old knees up. I actually stayed up 'till the end of the party - first time ever! I managed to not have a hangover (just tiredness), and the house got cleared up quickly the morning after. Thanks everyone!

Sorry for the folks who couldn't make it - you missed a corker..!

I forgot to mention it's now just under:

two weeks

Until kissycat1000's Oh birthday party at mine. Be there :)