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Posted: 26th Feb 2008
I shall be there on Saturday

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 26th Feb 2008

 Written by: Pink...?


I shall be there on Saturday

your doing the mission up north again

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Posted: 26th Feb 2008
It'd be very silly if i wasn't there! must get practice staff fixed....

Thoughts arrive like butterflies...

Posted: 26th Feb 2008
I wish I could be there,especially for the fundango day. It's so much fun! Sadly no cash and no transport

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!

Posted: 26th Feb 2008
Coleman and I will be going on Saturday

Skully you'll be missed:(
Everyone else will be hugged

Me
x

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Posted: 29th Feb 2008
Hi guys, I'm travelling from London but would rather share a lift than get a train - anyone get space for me - I'll share fuel price!
cheers
Loz x

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if you're full of sh!t, at least you're fertile

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Posted: 29th Feb 2008
wow, old schoolers in the mix!

I'll be there too, should be a good un!

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.

Posted: 29th Feb 2008
Would be a bit ridiculous for me not to be there, seeing as I live a whole 15mins walk from the place....

See you all there!

Posted: 29th Feb 2008
Can anyone give me a lift please? xxx

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Posted: 29th Feb 2008
ignore that post ^^ I'm sorted

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Posted: 2nd Mar 2008
i had a lovely time, thank you

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Posted: 2nd Mar 2008
Was amazing!! Had great hoop workshop and the show was brilliant...even if some people didn't watch the last half (which had a line up including Wes Peden do a half hour act!)

Most importantly... was fantastic to see lovely people again

Oh and dance with Jo

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 3rd Mar 2008
Alice, we danced amazingly baby

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Posted: 3rd Mar 2008
Great convention!

Slightly wrecked the next day due to not quite all night shenanigans at peachi's house. Is there a man more devoted to the party convention than peachi?
I don't think i've been to a nott a convention before, only to a fundango before... So was a good first nott convention.

Bane/bad:
lack of sleep. Getting up at 5am to get there the first day... then the second day getting up at anytime was a bad idea.
Constantly squirming to be able to see the show, then for the second half, constantly squirming to make my position less uncomfortable.
People walking behind me or snakeboarding close by. I need some cone markers or something, cos looking out for people is really irritating when you're trying to learn something hard. Not small children were hurt in previous bane, and only one juggler was hit.
Do not like getting dragged out to do silly contact staff game. And silly relay game.
Must frigging practise club balancing more... I can sit down, but I never get to that part of the game! ARGH!
Not having enough time to play carcassonne, thou with the dumbass fantasy pieces they were using, don't know if I'd have wanted to.

Good/high things:
I liked the t-shirts... bright pink and textured like one of those tough DVD's. Slight reuse of a certain bjc logo too...
The Pedenator and his show with Peta Oh-Berry. (If that's the correct pronouciation.) I mean, the Pedenator, full stop.
Rob and his exceptionally silly and cool new poi tricks. Yowsa!
Jeanine and her super skillz... plus seeing her do some two ball stuff... double Yowsa!
Ed and his super skillz. Shame he had to leave so early.
Learninf from Tom Derrick and his supa skillz. Club balance madness and some ace ball on ball balance stuff.
Catching up with bams and cole and seeing cole drunk for the first time, very very very funny. A funny cute drunk.
Peachi's cats. Coleman and peachi's cats.
The show. Getting to think about how I would make a new routine while watching the show, and then just not thinking at all during wes and peter's show.
Vux and his insane diabolo stuff. Can't wait to tease duncan about it tonight at juggling.
Silvia... have so many people ogled at such intense controlled torso wiggling before? Probably, but this time I also got to.
Apex, suddenly super solid compared to when I saw the first time they did this act. Even the feet under the pulled down skirt moement...
Many girls juggling at this convention, which was nice.
Good to see Rob's doubles routine getting a good reception at this juggling convention. 'Timeless' = Great pun!
Local boy Collins really wide and clean seven ball pattern on the second day. V-beautiful.
Mini saying he liked being mentioned in my HLGBC from the SJC....
Seeing Laura again... and on rollerskates...
Seeing Gracie doing feicha... thou I think she was perhaps slightly intoxicated.
Getting some decent practise in and some good chat with friends too.
The train home being easy, and getting some sleep on it.

Talking to tom derrick made me realise that catching the bad end of a high vertical throw of my staff on the head would probably fracture my skull or worse. Might have to be more careful with 'the punisher'.

Crush:
Jeanine and Rob for their energy.

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.

Posted: 5th Mar 2008
mwaaaaaaaaaargh!

(thanks mop)

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

Posted: 5th Mar 2008
Well, I was pretty tired after the train journey down, but a few insane poi tricks demoed later I was happily lost in learning...

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.

Posted: 5th Mar 2008
generalstuff:

thanks to the Nott crew. you guys rock :o)
thanks for all the nice comments about the act :o) the growing panic in my belly as noone made a sound during my act was really quite scary... (fortunately swiftly dispelled)
on crampedness: that's why everyone who wants space should stay for day 2.
on heckling: soundman heckling makes me laugh, a lot - professionalism has its place, and it is not necessarily at a juggling convention between friends :o) and yes, i missed meg

Highs

Hanging out with the following: peter, meg, ed, teamrandall, peachi and cindy and all of the nott a juggling group, norbi, sylvia, jeanine, colebam, and many, many others. the list is too long.
Finishing the routine. *phew*
going bowling on friday, going to see notts forest at the footie on monday. best heckle ever but waaaaaaay to rude to reproduce here.
passing with ross - sorry i was crap....

Lows
er. if games weren't actually frivolous i'd put my abysmal performances in here....

goals
hopefully do a staff routine that jugglers like - check *grin*
work on my ronopoi - semi check (had a great but short session, then nothing worked after that....)
accidental goal
didn't intend to work on my clubs, but i got a couple of nice 5 club runs (40+) and backcross runs (20+). liking the new px3s

bane
was there one? maybe the chronic tiredness.....

crush:
got a few from this one :o)
peachi (looking after me so well), cindy (being ace), sylvia (hoops and hugs), ed (for falling in love), peter(just great), coleman (soooo drunk!), madmartin(naking me realise even more that cities do not rock, and for the best compere 1 word i have had ), jeanine (constant inspiration.

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

Posted: 6th Mar 2008
Indeedly, twas much fun.



Firstly, many cheers and hugs to Kev for driving us up there and back.



Loved the rollerdisco :o) And the Backgammon tournaments. And the hammocks and student food and Monday morning carve-up. Oh yeah, and the tricks weren't bad either.



Cheers Peachi and Cindy for taking so many of us juggly scamps into your abode. Sleeping arrangements was rather like a game of human tentris on 3 levels. Chris and I ended up sleeping underneath a bed with heads and shoulders sticking out one side. Mind you, hours earlier, we'd shoved a few chairs together downstairs in the university and kipped under a fluro light. Wonders!



Yay for everyone who strutted their stuff in the show.

"Be the Bunny"