EuroGathering 2005 Countdown

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:25 AM

I've just gone all weak at the knees!
Giok

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:29 AM

That'd be yer age, Giok! ;)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:33 AM

Fibs, what can we do to prevent that conference trip money to reach you? Or better: that it comes in time but is labeled "trip money for your Niort9 trip" ;-)

Terry, Dubai is an arabic country. Maybe the drinks are all paid for, but they will be non-alcoholic. Please reconsider ;-)

Oakle[y|t] - I might consider moving you up but I am not yet convinced that you will come ... ;-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Terry K
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:45 AM

Andy, you can be sure that if they didn't serve alcohol I would have opted out long ago! Having said which, I did a stint of about 3 months in Libya in 1970 and it really was dry - not to be repeated.

cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:53 AM

Ask Fibs if you want to hear awful stories about Libya ;-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 05:50 AM

Hark, is that the distant sound of a camel passing through the eye of a needle? The bible didn't say you had to eat it first!!
Giok ¦¬] Still fantasising

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 05:54 AM

Hm, if I remember the story correctly, it was more like the passing of camel dung ;-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 08:10 AM

OK...here are some more lodging possibilities for those who are not catered for yet (with apologies in advance to francophones like Emma and Andreas for the lack of accents on my keyboard and my complete ignorance of the appropriate ASCII codes for them!)...

All are "chambres d'hotes":

Chantal et Michel Frere
12 rue du Port
85420 Le Mazeau (about 2 or 3 km from La Garenne farmhouse)

Tel: [phone]
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Le Pot a Lait
M et Mme Guttierez Leroy
23 rue du port Grenouillet (special prize for the person who can pronouce "grenouillet" correctly!)
Ste. Christine
85490 Benet (probably about 6 km from La Garenne)

Tel: [phone]
www.chrisgutt2003.fr.tc
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Le Petit Paradis
Marie-Noelle Houche
La Meugne
85490 Benet

Tel/Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
www.le-petit-paradis.com
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Ferme de la Longee
Eric et Nicole Barbace
14 route du Mazeau
Damvix (about 2 km from La Garenne)

Tel: [phone]
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I hope with La Bosselle in Damvix, details of which I posted earlier and where some are already booked (and where we will have our Saturday night), these will satisfy the needs of those still in search of inexpensive accomodation. If you don't have luck with these, I have the details of other that are slightly further way (but still quite close).

If anyone without their own independent transport want to visit La Rochelle (e.g. on Saturday when there's a market) or other nearby places they fancy, let me know and we'll see what we can arrange.

Peace

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 08:53 AM

Gren-oo-yay ?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 10:53 AM

Need to hear the R and the oo first John! But certainly you're in the lead... (;>)

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: GUEST,EtV
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 10:59 AM

Trying hard to work out how to get there. Looks very difficult with not getting away from school until 15.30 on Friday. Letty, I'll let you know what I sort out as soon as I get something sorted. Fibs, how we gonna make the earth move with Oakers between us? On the other hand if the movement starts in the middle we could both be satisfied!!

Cheers all

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 11:14 AM

My attempt: Grenouillet.wav (28 kB)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 12:31 PM

Emma, sorry, forgot to ask when you are travelling?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 01:10 PM

Wtf is Emma?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 01:33 PM

Surely you know as a Scot I always roll my Rs, as for the oo just imagine the sound of that camel passing through the eye of a needle!
Giok

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:15 PM

Sorry Andy.

You are not the winner yet!

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:17 PM

Andy!

You must surely know that Emma is none other than the delightful jEzEbEl (or is it JeZeBeL?).

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:48 PM

second attempt

And sorry, Emma JeZeBeL, I only knew you under the name JeZeBeL :-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 04:54 PM

This is not a level playing field, I don't know how to do those wav files [sniff sniff]
Giok

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 05:01 PM

Giok, I do them with the Windows sound recorder (which usually sits in your windows folder under system32/sndrec32.exe) and a small cheap microphone attached to my soundcard.

Now the playing field is level again ;-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 05:16 PM

Better... but you'll have to do better still to win Andy. I just feel it in my bones that Giok might be a natural (but I haven't heard him yet!)

And to make it fair Patricia and I will not take part and, for fairness, our French friend Magali will do the judging!

(8>)

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 05:21 PM

Richard, to speak the truth - the riddle can't be solved because you did not provide the most important information for pronouncing French words.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 05:23 AM

49 days to go.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 04:29 PM

Btw, will there be a raffle? If so, I have to think of a price to bring ...

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 04:42 PM

But you're priceless Andy
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 04:49 PM

That is exactly the thing I need to change if there is a raffle ...

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 04:59 PM

Why do you want a rifle?
G

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 05:05 PM

To shoot you ;-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 06:45 PM

Halló all, I just want to jump On a plaine and be with you all
when this happen, I coult try to take the Organ with me ???
hahahahaha...................
no sad but I can´t come, can´t be at all the place´s
it´s easy for you to travel around .

We miss you all ,hope to see and hear from you all soon.

I am gonna control over 220 people tomorrow night In a big Party
I just sing for them and they will be Okei..... :-)

I am gonn asing a song called " Forget me never " it´s a great little song witch I learned from listening to Elvis Presley.
sniff,sniff, .......
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 06:48 PM

A pity you can't come, skarpi. Could you at least send Rosa? ;-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 06:55 PM

Sorry I don´t know about that but , think she´s teaching
so ........?
Maybe Helgi can come I don´t know .
But we will be with you all in our thoughts.
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 02:36 AM

Back to the purpose of this thread!

48 days to go.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 04:09 AM

Porpoise!!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 12 Mar 05 - 06:47 PM

47 days to go.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 11:23 AM

What about food and drink?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 11:43 AM

Yes please, I'd love a drink!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 05:34 PM

Who needs wav-files, especially when they leed to nervous breakdowns of your computer? So did mine every time I tried to open MudGuard's files, at last a reaaly rattling one.
The problem might be solved easily: The frog is called by the Frogs: grenouille. Take this word and fix a yeah to the end. But this is utterly unimportant. The French won't understand you in any case.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 07:32 PM

46 days to go.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 04:31 AM

Does anyone want to share my car from the UK as I don;'t particularly want to drive all that way by myself. :(

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 05:59 PM

Hey Emma, I asked what details you had for travel a few postings ago. Can you let me know what's what please? My trip is looking really doubtful

Cheers

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 08:16 AM

Well, I looked on P & O ferries and I can get myself and my car over and back for £80. Prob only a bit more with someone else. I am starting a new job now I'm back in yorkshire so funds should be ok. I thought about maybe travelling early hours of friday morning/thurs night and coming back on monday or tuesday. Whichever really.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 08:48 AM

Have a look at Norfolk Line, they go to Dunkerque which is that little bit north of Calais, but they are so much cheaper, that's who I'm using to take us and the motorhome. £88 Return for a largish vehicle and 2 people.
Giok

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 01:47 PM

45 days to go.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 01:57 PM

Still stuck with school all day friday and tuesday!!!!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 01:58 PM

Eric, aren't there any flights from Leeds to Paris?
You must come!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:45 PM

JeZeBel, your offer might be Letty's salvation if she could get a cheap flight to the UK!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:05 AM

Sorry I'm late in replying to your question about food and drink Andy...especially knowing how cross you get when you don't get your supper! (;>)

There will probably be a barbeque on site with fuel available to all who want to use it at all times. Patricia and I thought of getting some basic supplies of food essentials and wine in for the benefit of all. I we get that locally in a decent quantity, it will work out cheaper per person. If people like that idea, let me know what kind of things you would lioke to have at hand and we can make up a shopping list.

Patricia will be doing a big pot of something very tasty for at least one main meal.

For eating out...well it's rural France...need I say more, plenty of good food locally!

Peace

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Freso
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:43 AM

Anyone driving from Northern Germany or Sweden/Norway? (Possibly even Denmark?) I might want to tag along, if it doesn't interfere with time/money, but I'll have to wait until I get home to check that. (Hm... I have a feeling I would probably be the youngest if I do come... ? >_>)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Letty
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:51 AM

Freso: that depends on how old you are.
I just turned 27 last Saturday.

Jezebel: would you be passing a point I could reach easily from Heathrow? Of course I'll pay my share. And I can drive too.

Letty

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Noreen
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:55 AM

100!

-Sorry I'm not coming :0(