I suppose that, at 37, I could be considered an 'old type'...
I think I was the oldest person at the bash last week at any rate.

So, my sage advice would be this:

Never pass up an opportunity to engage in conversation with a random stranger in a pub. If there's a table with a spare couple of seats, and the current occupants look friendly, ask if you can sit down. Play your cards right, within 20 minutes you'll have discovered a mutual love of innuendo and sick jokes, and they'll be inviting you and your significant other to dinner the next weekend.

Next thing you know, you'll have a solid mate for life, regardless of whether he's in this country or thousands of miles away.

Morning Legless! How's you and the missus?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 12:37, 7 replies)

Ning Mike
.
Me and the Mrs are fine. She's working on a talk she has to give on Friday, I'm drinking wine and watching Animal Planet - courtesy of my new Dreambox and satellite system. I've hacked the pay-tv systems here so I can watch British telly.

Brit telly and Brit pubs are about the only things I miss from back home. (And you and Tourettes and the rest of my mates).

One day, we'll have to tell the story of that Sunday - from our differing perspectives. Will make a good tale...

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 12:46, closed)

We've already done it...
by the way, you fixed for anything oooh, say, next April...?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 13:01, closed)

then again...
.. they might turn into some sort of crazed stalker you can't ever quite get rid of, even if you move to the far side of the planet.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 13:04, closed)

Depends
when in April.

Anna has her final exams then. After 14 years of adult studies (including two degrees) she'll finally be qualified. And, in a weird twist you'll only find in the medical world, she'll stop being a doctor and be addressed as Miss. Blokes stop being Dr X and become Mr X.

But if it's what I think you mean, we'll be there if at all possible.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 13:09, closed)

^ It is
We're hoping to combine a very quiet do, with a few friends (no family) in a small Scottish village well known for its particular industry, followed by meeting a bunch of b3tans for a bash in Edinburgh... exact date tbc. Let you know.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 13:12, closed)

*weeps*
How do I get to one of these meetings? I always seem to miss out and I've always wanted to go and meet some lovely people. and maybe some twisted people too ;o)
(Chocolate and Wine misses her bed, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 13:18, closed)

^ simple
go to calendar, and see if there are any upcoming bashes that take your fancy.

There's a nice one that ancrenne is organising in August, in London. www.b3ta.com/calendar/event/14142

:-)
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 13:34, closed)