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Post by alanfinal on Jan 14, 2014 14:15:59 GMT
I do have another venue to try my only reservation was its 3 times the walk St Christopher's was from London bridge as you would need to get to the turning for Tower bridge
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 14, 2014 0:46:57 GMT
On both those occasions I have been amongst the last out and we have checked to make sure that was nothing left lying around, you can only check so much. What happened to Phil was because of a dishonest member of barstaff. As with us being the last out of the pub there was only staff left in there to steal his cash, this wouldn't of shown up on a visit to the pub. However you would of found out if the pub valued our custom and the cleanliness, food and drink quality/prices. When I've contacted pubs, 40+ people isn't a problem. All I was saying is with 6,000 pubs in London, we can do better than closing our eyes and sticking a pin in the map. There are a lot of people weren't happy with that pub, for lots of reasons, location, cleanliness, food, staff. I had offered to check it out. Well we had a week left to find a venue after the one I had double booked by mistake,I spend weeks researching them,e mailing them,phoning them and looking at a lot of aspects,before coming to a decision,40+ people is never a problem till you tell them your vapers or they want a £500-1500 guaranteed bar spend,How do you think it feels to have everything organized and to be able to get back to my job, car meets and all the other aspects of my life only to get a phone call telling me we are double booked sorry,add to that the travelling members who have to get to trains as easily as possible,disabled access if possible,we need our own section or venue within a pub,the days of mixing in with the regulars went when we grew to the numbers we have now,my lists go from 25+ pubs too down too 2-3,then you still have a lot to consider,nobody closes their eyes and sticks a pin in a map,by all rights the one in Kings cross had a large area no bar spend and disabled facilities and there was not time to find another + Mark had spent a good few occasions talking to them forwarded me the e mails and whoever was in charge seemed perfectly happy to have us and seemed a nice bloke,though yes it didn't turn out like that on the night,no point in checking it out with no time for an alternative,if it had not been for the BBC event I would have normally moved it a week and used the one I wanted the following week,nobody could have foretold a thieving member of bar staff,the biggest numpty was the bloke that forgot to write us into the book.
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 13, 2014 15:36:16 GMT
You cant really tell what a pubs like till you use it and we are not exactly spoiled for choice when we are up to full strength,although I understand what your saying Phil,more to the point I think we need to make sure the last person/people out checks round for a couple of mins as we lost a mod in December and a wallet in January,we carry a lot of gear which makes mislaying stuff easy.
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 13, 2014 11:24:24 GMT
More I think of it,more I realize I'm not going to forget 20 vapers and an MEP + secretary singing happy birthday to me in the street
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 12, 2014 22:41:51 GMT
And just picking out one more,I met Linc Williams from Nic Vape USA for a few hours after the e cig summit,in which time he pledged some gifts for our raffle,meant to be for December,but got stuck at customs,but here for January
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 12, 2014 22:38:40 GMT
Photobuckets getting on my nerves tonight but hopefully here's the rest link
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 12, 2014 22:27:46 GMT
With the exception of the Poldiac this was the presents from the meet again THANKS you shouldn't have I taste VTR from UKecig-store Castle dripper vicious Antz Valkyrie hybrid dripper Vision Aurora BFT and I won another in the raffle lol
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 12, 2014 15:41:51 GMT
Apologies Phil as it was me who arranged the venue so feel partly responsible. Also apologies to those who found the venue not to their satisfaction or got bad feelings about it. Obviously not a place to return to. I was just trying to help out, sorry it never worked out. Mark don't let that get you down I think we are all eternally grateful you stepped up and found a venue when I had lost mine,without you last night would not have been possible,I know your gutted you couldn't make it as your not well,but make a speedy recovery my friend and I look forward to seeing you soon.
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 12, 2014 15:22:49 GMT
Did I win the raffle?............................... No but three guesses too who did
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 12, 2014 15:13:33 GMT
Ok drawing a deep breath,because I'm so gutted for Phil and that was on top of being so overwhelmed by what you all did for me on my birthday. So we got thoroughly cold outside the BBC,but I'm hoping a small ripple turns into a large wave,John D has shared some footage hereOn to the pub,must admit I didn't notice how good or bad it was as space and people fitting always enters my mind first and I was happy at the time (on a side note I have two pubs put aside for the next meet,but I lose venues if I don't make decisions quickly and there is always so many things I have to take into consideration when dealing with a large range of people from different areas,nothing is ever perfect either) ,I originally did the meet on my birthday as if I'm honest due to many moves in my life and breakdowns in relationships I have ended up quite alone in grey Watford and I thought I couldnt have picked a better bunch of people to spend the day with,I really never expected people to do what they did with such generosity it has left me gob smacked,I honestly was close to chocking with the cards,cake and awesome presents given to me by members at the meet and those who couldn't make it ,you really shouldn't have guys I just wanted to be with you all , BUT THANKYOU ALL,again gob smacked totally really cant say it enough. I shall get up some pictures of the presents later and the pics on my phone,a big chunk of my day has been lost to sleep and I need to do a lot right now,see you later and again
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 12, 2014 14:01:52 GMT
Gutted for you Phil,really sick to read that,in fact stopped me writing for a minute cause I'm fuming that's happened too you mate
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 11, 2014 8:19:47 GMT
All my thanks in advance as its the beginning of a new day of vape meet + vape meet, doubt I'll be sober again till midday Sunday Happy birthday all you others too.
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 10, 2014 19:57:22 GMT
I might be popping into the meet just depends on how hung over I am from tonight as got some friends down from up north You'll be pi**ed then,but hair of the dog
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 10, 2014 19:55:49 GMT
I will be meeting with Jonnie earlier @ 10am in Cafe Nero regents st, should any early birds want to come in for a cuppa first as its on route and we want to talk tactics or he does link
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Post by alanfinal on Jan 10, 2014 19:49:00 GMT
Presume your coming for both bobtherandom in which case you can join the mad squad with the weather today lol yes alan, I'll be there for both. as for the weather both my transport and my job keep me out in all weather all year round so that won't bother me , oh and just so I know how much do we chip in for the meet? Good man,meets free and for free you get to go in a raffle too
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