[Neil Diamond]

I can't see a specific thread for people's favourite memories of the weekend, so I'll kick one off.

My personal favourite was Martin accidentally eating a Green&Black's mini egg without unwrapping it, and then spending the next few minutes trying to discreetly pick bits of tin foil from his teeth

[DG Joinee NEMESIS]

PJ Collins, on 25 Mar 2008, 07:14 PM, said:

I can't see a specific thread for people's favourite memories of the weekend, so I'll kick one off.

My personal favourite was Martin accidentally eating a Green&Black's mini egg without unwrapping it, and then spending the next few minutes trying to discreetly pick bits of tin foil from his teeth

Tom going to fetch his cigar and by the time he'd reached it and stood back up - we'd scored the 4th goal.....so he lit it there and then!
:-)

genius!

[Kneller2]

....best bit, the foil. I've always been a fan of extreme eating ^^^

I have waaaay too many favourite bits....It was great escaping for a while and having a quiet meal with the bro when we were both feeling a little jaded ....probably my favourite bit of the weekend, that.

As for funny moments....there are loads and loads, but i can't think of one in particular. I'll have a wee think

[Thomas]

Silver Joinee'The Daddy', on 25 Mar 2008, 07:23 PM, said:

Tom going to fetch his cigar and by the time he'd reached it and stood back up - we'd scored the 4th goal.....so he lit it there and then!
:-)

genius!

Shortly followed by me subbing on for Ole and finishing the match whilst smoking a fine Cuban

My favourite bit was probably the Team North team building outside the pub on Friday night, most notably Worm spraying us all with his pint.

Actually, no, it was seeing my boys (and Bing) show those southerners who's boss!

This post has been edited by Thomas: 25 March 2008 - 07:37 PM

[Siobhán]

Hmm.

- The train journey and making the booklet of JOY
- The duck race - and Steve throwing his so it went the wrong way
- Sitting on Steve's legs as he and Anna worked as an awesome team to rescue the ducks (it was to stop him falling in the river - honest!)
- shopping and getting my awesome new ski jacket
- lovely chats in the pub
- Emily selling her wares in the pub
- a little bit of nose shouting in the club
- people being amazed by the versatilty of my scarf
- late night gossip session wit Jo and Claire
- Beauty and the geek
- Being amazed and drooling over the David Tenant life sized cut out
- The football, juts os many cool bits at that

Then it was less good until the train journey with the awesome company of Jo, Phil, Anna and Steve. And the crossword puzzles and so on.

All in all a superb weekend.

[Thorners (a.k.a. Claire)]

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- Beauty and the geek

He tracks monkeys with lasers!!!!!!!11!!

I'll be back with memories later, but I had to mention the monkeys.

[PJ Stevie G]

I remember watching Gerald McBoingBoing and Jane and the Dragon with Anna and Phil (via text).
And a whole load of general fun
My memory is shot to pieces.

[Pud]

It might be a bit sad but my favouite part of the weekend was watching Cody smiling and laughing and having fun.

[Worm]

I have lots of very nice memories, but my favourite is probably the Saturday night chill-out at the Trip - that was great.

The Team North annexe outside on Friday night was very pleasant as well.

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

Lots of stuff but my abiding memory is Donna throw some very cool shapes to The Prodigy and Run DMC in The Cookie Club.
I never knew she had it in her (so to speak...)

[Mr Phil]

Gerald McBoingBoing.

And "scoring" my first goal, holding my hands to my head in despair, and then seeing everyone else celebrating and then unconvincingly turning my gesture into a celebration.

Then wrong-footing Scotty for my second. That was awesome.

And winning the Modern Farming DVD for Toby.

And Rem trying to steal my shoes.

Oh, and being a leader. I was such a good leader.

[Siobhán]

Oh and and and

Claire and Jo and I knowing all the words to Boom Shake the Room or whatever it is called.

And and Steve spilling weetabix down himslef on Friday morning as he was singing the weetabix song.

and and Scott falling asleep in Cookie Club

and and Anna Sweeneys' shoes

and and Phil nearly choking on his bacon sandwich as we left for St Pancras

and and ...

I liked this weekend.

[Mr Phil]

And Matt Bee calling me Armitage.

[GJ Michelle P]

MSJSiobhán, on 25 Mar 2008, 04:07 PM, said:

and and Scott falling asleep in Cookie Club

Hahahahahaha! Well, old men do need their naps.

[Au Joinee Rory]

Zena shouting, "F— you, I won't do what you tell me!" to Rage Against the Machine in Rock City.

[Joinee Mum White]

Best bit has to be the excitement of the big bunch of emo kids in the middle of Nottingham when they were offered Easter eggs and various sweets. It all erupted into spontaneous hugging (prompted by Rory's tee shirt)

Waking up on Saturday morning and knowing that I was going to see everybody again!

Lovely chats with people I've not really had much of a chance to chat to before.

Scott nodding off and practically falling into his beer in Cookie club!

Oh, Just everything! Mum White xxx

[Au Joinee Rory]

Joinee Mum White, on 25 Mar 2008, 09:29 PM, said:

Best bit has to be the excitement of the big bunch of emo kids in the middle of Nottingham when they were offered Easter eggs and various sweets. It all erupted into spontaneous hugging (prompted by Rory's tee shirt)

I forgot about that! It was awesome.

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

I liked when Stooz crawled on his hands and knees across a table, "ouch!"ing the whole way coz of his hurty shoulders, because it was the only get to get to me to say hello. That was nice.

I also liked when me and Jo had a little sleepie on the train.

And going shopping.

[SJ heulwen]

*Chilling with Jen in the hotel with tea & telly before the rest of the madness kicked off (yep.. we're getting old!)

*nice comments about my dress (even though I thought it made me look fat)

*Extreme!!! singing and dancing to Get the Funk out on my own much to others' amusement

*hugs

*headbanging (litterally) with miss katie boo

*catching up with so many awesome people

*the pretty boy

*dancing with the aid of apple sourz

*pizza on the way home

*being sober(?) enough to blog at the end of the night

*hot coffee when it was hailing/snowing

*pear bulmers

*deciding why SiVar & I will never be together

*big shades.... essential for hiding hungover eyes & protecting them from hailstones

*carrot flowers & celery crowns

[Joinee Varwell]

Joinee Rory, on 25 Mar 2008, 11:16 PM, said:

Zena shouting, "F— you, I won't do what you tell me!" to Rage Against the Machine in Rock City.

Magnificent! I'd have come clubbing just for that!

[G.J.Knight]

Sharing a smooth tobacco with some of the northerners on friday. Tom brings good pipe......

[Silver SV Joinee Jo]

MSJSiobhán, on 25 Mar 2008, 11:07 PM, said:

Oh and and and

Claire and Jo and I knowing all the words to Boom Shake the Room or whatever it is called.

And and Steve spilling weetabix down himslef on Friday morning as he was singing the weetabix song.

and and Scott falling asleep in Cookie Club

and and Anna Sweeneys' shoes

and and Phil nearly choking on his bacon sandwich as we left for St Pancras

and and ...

I liked this weekend.

The words but not the title apparently.

Rory turning up spectacularly late for the footy

Heulwen's disbelief at the hail.

Wilf's rude gestures at the team north cheerleaders

Excessive shouting

Dancing with Emily

Cleavage tat

Tigs blissing out on the sofa

Scott's joy at the vintage warehouse

Claire going 'sod it' and coming to the club after we'd taken her home to bed

Having proper chat with Tess and Stooz

Sleepies with Lou

Sitting with Phil Hatchard and co on the way home

Biddlington Ducks

So good!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PJ Stevie G]

Being overwhelmed and happy with the orangeness of the room at the travelodge
Collecting ducks.
The return of the nose-shout
Happy emos.
Mr. Violinist man. And the fact he actually did come along to the pub.
4-1
Gaining an aunt and a mother apparently.
Being bought food and drink and generally being cared for post match. That pretty much made my weekend.

List compiled with help from anna. My memory is shot to pieces.

[Thorners (a.k.a. Claire)]

So much fun this weekend, top memories including:

Excellent chat with people I see/email a fair bit (Jo, Siobhan, Dan/Wilf, Steve, Anna, Rory et al), and getting a chance to chat with new lovely folk!

Giving candy to emogoth kids.

Mrs S teaching me the Pokiyo dance. I'm so breaking that out at the next school ball!

Tigger giving me an amazing massage. And a hungry hippo!

Lovely chats with Holly and Jude, who I hadn't caught up with before.

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Claire going 'sod it' and coming to the club after we'd taken her home to bed

Heh. I'm so glad I decided to go to the Cookie Club - it was ace and I hadn't been dancing in far too long. Joinees have got amazing moves! I also loved the fact that I was wearing a work outfit in a club, which is sure to give me the giggles next time I don it.

Being Vic's backup when the Hammerdancefight kicked off.

Knowing the lyrics to far too many ludicrous songs!

Late night chatting with Jo and Siobhan. I see those girlies a lot, and every time I see them I them even more.

Early morning chat and 'Beauty and the Geek' with J and S.

The walk of non-shame through Nottingham - where my bad geography skills turned a half mile walk into a three mile one!

The whole of the N vs S match was great. I was also amused by the fact that I'd tried not to commit to a team (as it were) for the whole lead up, but as soon as the ball was in play my inner northerner came right out. I'm so Team North. Being a cheerleader was aces, and I loved our chants. Especially the filthy ones.

4-1!!!!!!!

!!

Tigger getting (Wo)man of the match. My favourite shot had to be when wee Tigs belted the ball at one of Team North (one of the 6 foot plus boys) and they promptly fell right over. Genius!

Pub and Chinese fun - great to chat with new folk and get very VERY excited about Loverpool .

Getting 'somewhat' lost with Wilf while on a mission to find stuff and going on the giant Ferris Wheel! And loving the cheesey radio track. The whole 'being' miles up in the air, less so!

Good chat at the Trip.

Late night chat with Tigger, much of which was fairly filthy. She's AWESOME.

Lovely chat over breakfast on the Sunday, and hugs aplenty, before heading even further north.

I had such a lovely GGF - got to spend time with lots of lovely Joinees! Can't wait to see even more of people at Crispy Ducks and/ or the awesomeness that is Loverpool

Edited because backup and bachup are not the same thing.

This post has been edited by Joinee Claire: 26 March 2008 - 12:26 PM

[Joinee Bird]

I have a couple. Firstly, all the hugs...short people and tall people alike, the hugs were amazing and so needed. Thank you all.

Secondly, great to finally meet people properly, Rory, Del & Dot, Siobhan, Anna. Claire, you dont count cos we met in birmingham you 'nana.

Lastly, and no it's not funny enough to make the quotes thread, is when I walked upstairs in the pub and said "Ooh I've never gone upstairs before'! To which apparently everyone nearly died laffin', I could see the funny side but I knew what I meant. However it was the perfect opportunity to be accused of being a dalek or maybe even a cow...did you know about cows and stairs? No? Maybe you should ask Shiny about it sometime.

Well done to all those who are skilled in balloon shapes and origami, I was most impressed, though admittedly it doesnt take much.

[Joinee Varwell]

Joinee Claire, on 26 Mar 2008, 02:25 PM, said:

Tigger getting (Wo)man of the match. My favourite shot had to be when wee Tigs belted the ball at one of Team North (one of the 6 foot plus boys) and they promptly fell right over. Genius!

That would have been me.

Tigger has a bloody powerful shot (not a euphemism).

[Thorners (a.k.a. Claire)]

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QUOTE (Joinee Claire @ 26 Mar 2008, 02:25 PM)
Tigger getting (Wo)man of the match. My favourite shot had to be when wee Tigs belted the ball at one of Team North (one of the 6 foot plus boys) and they promptly fell right over. Genius!

That would have been me.

Tigger has a bloody powerful shot (not a euphemism).

Oh yes, she does. I'm sorry if it hurt, but it was hilarious!