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Location: Kent currently, Cornwall soon, New Zealand eventua...
As the mess of stories concerning the last weekend slowly surface, it becomes increasingly clear that the central theme of these weekends is not actually spinning whatsoever; rather it is sex. Maybe I'm putting that too baldly, but the heady mess of tension that seems to have been running like an undercurrent through the course of the last weekend (which completely passed me by at the time) must surely have been its defining focus.
Therefore it is only right that the next weekend should be set over Valentine's day. If the last one was sordid and confused... let's see what new heights we can achieve with this one. Forget Jennifer Steele - I'm going to book a priest for the duration, and see what happens...
For those of you who didn't make the last weekend, but have maybe seen the jelly wrestling video... I'm not being entirely serious. Though we may never know quite how many clandestine pairings took place during those brief hours of darkness... we did also do quite a lot of spinning. Essentially, the format for the weekend is this - loads of spinners turn up during the course of the week, with the majority arriving on Friday (that'll be Friday the 13th - oh dear!), and then stay for the weekend. We go and spin in the park nearby, or head up to the sports hall to spin indoors to music (with loads of toys - balance bars, crash mats and trampolines!). Apart from that, there are missions, baked goods, laptops, videos, vegetarian food and the opportunity to get to know a whole load of the other HOPers. And 'get to know' can be as euphamistic as you like...
As per usual, I'll post more details nearer the time... blah di blah, see the other threads for info if you want it now. The major change this time is that I will be asking everyone for a fiver - this will go to buying all the paraffin and renting the sports hall and swimming pool, and if there's any spare it's earmarked for the Get Pounce To Kent Fund, on which we're still about £120 short.
Quite how we're going to beat the jelly wrestling is a bit of a mystery, however. We need some madcap scheme, preferably one both dangerous and illegal, so if you have any suggestions please post them below.
And come down for the weekend, all of you. It'll be a riot.
The Confusion Squid has many tentacles
1,269 posts
Location: middle of Troon
i'd like to come but got lots of birthday non-sense on that weekend though in edinburgh.
I'm in london at the end of the month with a non-spinner so thats outta the question too
Is sad!
next one next one!!
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1,269 posts
Location: middle of Troon
unless... the birthday nonsense ends on sat'day... no its stupid to come on sunday huh..?
BAH
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member
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Location: crapy planet thanet, United Kingdom
Yay, i should be able to make it to this one!
Please please please say if anyone needs a lift from the canterbury area coz it will make sure i get off my lazy butt!
Big hugs and smiles
xx
xx Make your own happiness by making others happy [Ikeda]
*they used to read me stories, as though my dreams were boring*
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
I'll get a train to canterbury if i have to! Otherwise, jon and konsti should be coming from kent uni
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Location: Kent currently, Cornwall soon, New Zealand eventua...
Hooray, hooray, hooray all these exciting and wondeful people are going to come down! Not that the lot of you who came last time weren't exciting and wonderful as well... but the more the merrier!
Coming down on Sunday makes sense in some ways so long as you come down early, and what does everyone think about having the sportshall for Sunday as well? I don't know what everyone else thought last time, but for me it was the best bit of the weekend, even including playing with the big poi and having jelly wrestling in the kitchen! All those toys and crash mats - you could really jump around!
(I am becoming concerned by all the exclamation marks that are creeping into this post. If I'm getting this excited already, and there's still lots of weeks to go... I may pop.)
The Confusion Squid has many tentacles
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Just go and play 'pass the pigs' Joe!
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
pass the pigs?
Methinks my American self does not get the reference.....but if I were you, Joe, I'd be worried.
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
310 posts
Location: Kent currently, Cornwall soon, New Zealand eventua...
No, no it's totally innocent I tell you. You get these two little plastic pigs, right, and then you just toss them ont... hang on, that didn't come out right.
You sort of chuck em up in the air, and then you look at how they land.
And score points.
And that's it.
Honest.
NO, I'm telling the truth, I promise you! No, not the leeches, please, please, NOT THE LEECHES, anything but the leeches, I'll tell you everything you wanna knnNOOOOO!!
The Confusion Squid has many tentacles
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
*strokes her chin* Hmmmm....we will see, Mr. Sixsteps.
My sources will tell me if you're telling the truth. If you're not......well...I just hope you like jelly. LOTS of it.
*nods to two big goons who bring in gummy leaches and approach joe*
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
runs in to save joe from peril
no really, it's an innocent game. kinda strange, but rather addicting.
i really need to stop reading these posts....i'm just getting all bummed i won't be there
oh but wait, i have other plans in the works for that weekend
and i'm sure there will be similar activities involved I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
1,024 posts
Location: london
hmm spinning and spending time with wonderful people sounds like fun im up for it if any one will fill me in with the details
1,079 posts
Location: Canterbury, UK
HAHAHA!!! POUNCE IS GONA GET LAID!!!!!!!! u go girl!!!
D.B.
X x X x X
Ship off the starboard! sound general quarters! noise and light discipline! man the cannons! GET ME THE RUM!
Master of the Free Hug Program
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Yay Brodieman's going
Is Rhiannon(sp?) coming too?
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
i'm not saying a word
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
1,079 posts
Location: Canterbury, UK
u mean u wont deny it...
D.B.
X x X x X
Ship off the starboard! sound general quarters! noise and light discipline! man the cannons! GET ME THE RUM!
Master of the Free Hug Program
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
i can neither confirm nor deny....
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
old hand
1,092 posts
Location: In a van, United Kingdom
pounce.... ( really dont know why i wrote that, you just came into my head
)Well after watching the jelly wrestling a number of times, i have realised three things. here they are:
1) Im fat
2) Im Overweight
3) I need to loose weight
so i have decided to join a gym, my local and have been going to the gym for a while, so hopefully i will be thinnnnnnner by the time the new kent comes! so any foxy poi girls (as long as ur single and not pink in pigmentation... lol sorry...) i am availble for that long valentines weekend!! so pm me with ur CV!!!
no just jokiing!! just to excited!!
arghhhhh kent again (again) i cant wait!!!..... hang on.. will i be the only person to have graced all three? can i be the offical groupe? groper? or groupe?
frodo out!!
passing through, this world still lives.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
i came into your head? i hope in a good way!
i think you could just be the official groper, go around groping everyone at the party. i can't imagine anyone who would mind
and i don't think you're fat. you're quite nice and cuddly actually
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
old hand
1,092 posts
Location: In a van, United Kingdom
cuddly is not good!!! i want to loose those creases that i seen on the back of me back!!! ugh, get a bucker!!
passing through, this world still lives.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
cuddly is good! at least some of us prefer it!
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Oooh, pounce. Are your plans what i think they are?!
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
old hand
1,092 posts
Location: In a van, United Kingdom
well pounce, if u fancy a cuddle or a little bit more, then pm me!! and i could arrange it!! think this has moved away from the threaD!!!! yeahhooo
Frodo out!!
Please stop getting off topic everyone!
this is about spinning passing through, this world still lives.
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
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Oooh, pounce. Are your plans what i think they are?!
i can neither confirm nor deny....
ok back to spinning (tho me thinks you got off topic first frodo
)I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
310 posts
Location: Kent currently, Cornwall soon, New Zealand eventua...
Aye... spinning. Honestly you lot, you're like randy rats in a room full of yoghurt.
Possibly.
Another tantalising burst of detail:
1) The dates are finally confirmed - as per usual, a small party will be welcome a day or two early to help with preparation
2) We may well have a number of magazine photographers down to document one of the nights - I'm going to be a little bit mysterious about that until I know more
3) If you're all feeling full of beans, we might as well get the sports hall for Sunday as well... I intend to finally join the damn place before the 14th, so it shouldn't cost us too much. And does anyone remember all the extra toys they kept in that special cupboard?
More later... if you're all good boys and girls.
The Confusion Squid has many tentacles
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Oh
I can't even come over on the Monday now!
I'm flying in and out of Newcastle airport, not Heathrow.
Sorry, but have a good weekend.
I'm sure we'll be online at some point anyway!
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
1,269 posts
Location: middle of Troon
yeah theres no way i can come
HOWEVER!
i will (apparantly) be in london the 2nd to the 5th of march... now class the 2nd is a tuesday!
so spittalswotsists it is!
i hope....
random murbles
BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL. 30th april ~ Calton hill - Edinburgh
SAMHUINN FESTIVAL. 31st October ~ Royal Mile - Edinburgh
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Ohh i can't wait, i can't wait.
I can come down early
to help out and such. And i got a new staff to play with...and may have some new poi aswell.
*think's she is getting a little too excited about this all*
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
Carpal \'Tunnel
4,172 posts
Location: Hastings, United Kingdom
oooooohhhhhhhhh, hopes of printing off this thread and showing my mum faded by the 2nd thread :'( it sounds like sooooooooooooooooooo so so so much fun. now thers three obsticals in my way
1) PARENTS!!!
2) getting up there. too young to drive.
3) school - evn if there was a remote chance too go id have to leave on teh sunday.......
ahhhhh! poo sticks.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
you can get there by train - bat and ball station is walking distance. If you live kent area then tattty may give you a lift
1,359 posts
Location: London/ Surrey
I'm sitting in the 24-hour computer labs at uni at 1.45am, (having missed the last bus home) and waiting to see if a friend will come out of the union so I can have a nap on a sofa while waiting for the first bus home in the morning, rather than curling up in a corner of the computer labs. Then I have to race home and BACK here again with my gear by 8.45 am to get on the minibus to go to a scuba thing....Arg.
Ah, well. Sleep is for the weak!
Sports hall? Yay! I loved the sports hall!
Although could we maybe leave the big rolley-tubey-thing in the cupboard this time? Oh, and we have to go swimming this time, I'll make sure to bring my swimming things
Photographers? Hmmm....hey Flid, we'll sneak up on her .... you get the left arm, I'll get the right...?
Oh and Joe, if you do pop.... can I please have your hat?
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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