[Chairman 'Jamin]

To Sean (the undefeated heavy weight joinee champion of the world), Laura (the Carol Smiley of the north west), Jamie (the Andy Warhol of the joinee world), Kiran (the thinking woman's david essex)... you all rock.

Thanks also to Sean Sean-ior, Gale, Heather, Steve, the collective pilgrims, greek(?) TV, and everyone else who made the weekend very, very special.

Lots of love

Ben, Chez and Danger.

[Chez]

Thank you from me for everyone who made sure I was ok and got a seat and generally fussed around me.. Danger certainly has a lot of extra Aunties and Uncles....

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

THANK YOU Jamie for your kind hospitality

THANK YOU Kieran for my own private F1 cinematic experience

THANK YOU Greeks, for giving us Eurovisiony TV (OPA!!!)

(I don't know what "opa" means, but I'm hoping it means "thanks for the Eurovisiony TV")

THANK YOU Eurovision

THANK YOU Sean, Laura, Jamie and to anyone else who helped make Loverpool just darn wonderful yet again

And THANK YOU to everyone for being there and making it a tres fun weekend

This post has been edited by Poohbah (Gsq): 31 May 2010 - 09:35 PM

[Lethal Biddle]

Cheers y'all! It was a fantastic weekend & you're all really quite nice.

[HJCotW Spacemonkey]

I'd like to be first of the 'organising' commitee (if you can really call it that) to wade in.

Thanks firstly to everyone for coming, and making it a great weekend. I'm in a tremendous mood today, and a large part of that is down to the fact that I'm coming off the end of a wonderful weekend with a lot of wonderful people. It's nice when there's not a single person at a Meet that I'm even vaguely trepeditious about being there.

Add to that that, despite the lower attendance than the last couple of years, the fact that some of those missing were among the title auction heavy hitters, and the tightened economic situation we're living in, we still raised over £300 (exact number to follow when I've done my counting. I love counting), and you can see why I'm a bubbly bunny.

Thanks also for making my friend Sam welcome yesterday when he turned up. He though you were all lovely.

Now to specifics...

Thanks to Laura, Kieran and amie for their efforts in organising - Laura for picking up my slack and not going *completely* bat-shit mental with everything going on while I was away, Jamie for the new and improved RAoK challenge, which the boys lost by less than 10 points, despite only having done 2/3 of it (less than it sounds - the final score was 340 - 333.33 IIRC) and to Kieran for all his work throughout the whole process, from organising to completion , and his Eurovision-y heroics when it looked like all was going awry. If it is to be your last Loverpool as a resident, you did yourself proud.

To my dad for coming to do archery with everyone. That was fun. Rory is good.

To the people who stayed in the flat - Neil, Heather, Rory and Eileen - thanks for breakfast, for leaving the place much tidier than I ever anticipated, and for general fun and frolics, as always. And to Rory and Eileen, thanks for just getting on with having fun and not feeling uncomfortable in coming back late after we'd all been lame and come home. I'm lame. I know. I've dealt with it.

Ben and Cheryl (+1), just general thanks. Especially for the fireplace and loft excitement. I love you guys.

Biddle, thanks for going first. If you'd have been last, I would no longer be HJCotW. And thanks for The Marine! Next time you're here, I will take you to a big Tesco, and we'll stand and look at DVD's for as long as you want. Although thanks to Jo for dragging you away.

To all who sent in pictures of their exes, whether you were there or not - a big thumbs up. That was a good competition. Unfortunately, they got thrown out, so I can no longer do the stats, and I'm not sure whether it's ethical or anything to put them up on here - imagine the shock people would get if they did a vanity search and found us pairing them up with people!

I know I'm going to miss people out now, so will stop shortly. But firstly...

To Rich, for embarrasing the whole of Liverpool One in one fell swoop.

Thanks to Emily, Adam, Claire, Lou, Sal (who made it for Sunday only, but still made it!) who I think are the only people not yet mentioned that were at the buffet. Eating was fun! And excessively cheap!

To Jase and Boo - Jase for being, as always, the most enthusiastic RAoKer in any challenge team, and somehow managing to give away an entire pack of doilies, and Kate for your evening excitement, even bringing along a sister. I have your certificate, by the way - how should we get it to you...?

And finally (if I've forgotten you, I apologise!) to Nigel, for being our only n00b, and throwing himself into everything like an old pro. Good work sir - we hope to see more of you.

There. Done.

MoT
HJCotW

[Joinee McD]

A massive massive thanks to everyone who made it such a fantastic weekend even though I was a bit rubbish on Saturday with my surprise hangover (surprise in that it's my first in a long time, rather than it being undeserved!) and quite tired some of the rest of the time! It was really great to see everyone and to get to know some of you a little better.

I definitely had a couple of moments where I looked around and thought about how amazing it was that Join Me had brought me together with such a thoroughly fabulous group of people

Huge thanks to Sean & co. for organising it all and a huge huge huge huge thank you to Jamie for being an awesome and generous host.

Archery was freaking awesome.

[Hebba Homemaker]

A massive thanks to Sean and Laura for having me crash again (same time next year?) and in co-incidence with Jamie and K for the wonderful organisation of bringing all these folks together once again and for cinema and pub quizzage.

To the girls and honourary girls for the stupendous defeat of the boys in the Raok challange, if it wasn't for all those drinks the boys were buying Jamie there would have been a substantial difference in the scoring!!

Sean's dad for archery, it was ace fun even if I ended up paying for it in ibuprofen again.

Chez for finding the buffet and Danger for making everyone go when we were faffling around.

To everyone else thank you for being ace and not seeming to mind that I was a bit of a Mopey Moperson most of the time and providing huggage and laughs. You guys are the best!

HJCotW Spacemonkey, on 01 June 2010 - 03:17 PM, said:

... and you can see why I'm a bubbly bunny.

Chubby Bunny?

[Joinee Ems]

Mahoosive thanks to one and all for the most wonderful weekend.

Team Girl rocked and means a 100% record on RAoK Challenges this year so bring on Market Harborough!

Archery was a brill addition so thanks so much to SeanDad for that. Thanks also to Kieran for the amazing Dr Who showing as, well as the ensuing Bluray demo!

Big big cuddly thanks to Jamie for putting us up (and indeed putting up *with* us when I got bossy and moody when I thought I would miss out on foods!). The studio is fabulous and I can't wait til it's finished so I can come and be your PA/Receptionist...the only thing it needs is a feminine touch ;0)

For those of you who were there, thanks for my new favourite game... The Tell Me A Story That's Really A Film Game. I have a good one saved up so let it be noted we must play it gain soon!

Can't remember where I am now and can't work out how to scroll up on my phone, so in summary, thanks to all involved in planning this truly brilliant meet and all who were there and made it truly fab!

Ems x

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

A huge thank you to everyone! As ever I had an amazing time at Loverpool and left thinking "I need to see all of these people more. And do this more often!". Huge congrats on raising such a fab amount for such a good cause. Thank you to team Loverpool for excellent organisiness. Thank you to everyone for hugs and giggles and silly and dancing and chats and general brilliance. Thank you to Lou and Emily and Adam for suitable amounts of Bosnia enthusiasm and Israel disdain. Thank you to Cheryl and Laura for added PoundWorld goodness. Thank you Jamie for hugs and bounce. And thank you Bennett for not beating me up after my promising to text...not texting...and calling instead. Oh, and for being very sporting about the high five that became a bid. Thank you Lou for being my buddy in ex spotting (mv, mv!).

In short? OPA!

I Loverpool!

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

OPA!!!

[Au³ Joinee Jamie]

Hi Everyone,

I'll keep it brief, You're all wonderful. Thank you all so much for a wonderful weekend, I had a blast.

Particular thanks to the people that crashed at my place for being such gracious guests despite my nagging.

And to Biddle for keeping his dinner inside him for a whole long weekend.

[Au Joinee Rory]

Fantastic time, as usual. Thanks to our long-suffering hosts, the other organizers, Germany, and to Neil for saving me from myself in the title auction and bestowing on me my new title.

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Rory, you're not Gold squared, you're Gold Joinee Rory squared.

I had this maths explained to me at Loverpool...

[Au Joinee Rory]

Lou, Jamie said I could be Au², and I'm not going to argue with him. Think of it as leaving out some parts of my title. I do that anyway. Why aren't you Au²?

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Because I'm not a science geek

[Au³ Joinee Jamie]

Oooh come on Lou, join the Dark side!



Also, Rory, Rather then spend 3 minutes doing it myself, how do I make my 2 superscript?

[Silver SV Joinee Jo]

Sorry not to have got in quicker, but I went back to my parents and the land of minimal internet last week - so...

Thanks loverpool lovelies. It was awesome, as ever.

And I continue to grin at happy memories

OPA!