Meanwhile...In Scotland...

Automatically resized because that's what Google wants. The full-res upload is here.

These pictures were taken by Creideiki, who you should know as the gentleman on the lower right in the group shot. If not, tut tut. He took some other photos, but I'm only going to link them.
Interior bowling alley shot one
Interior bowling alley shot two
Interior bowling alley shot three

Thanks once again to everyone who made it. If you have photos you want posted, email them to me, my email is somewhere on here. Or if you want, you can stick them on a forum. Also, if you want author's rights on here, just send me an email/comment/forum reply with an email address. Now, I'm off to have a lie down because I don't feel well.

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So I booked things. Time to revise the timetable.


12.00 is still the meeting time. St Enoch Square if it's dry. North side between Bank of Scotland and centre entrance. If it's wet, in the centre itself at the entrance between Greggs and Tesco. You should be able to recognise me easily by my massive flag, as seen carried by someone else, in somewhere other than Glasgow.

13.00 is when I've booked bowling. I've booked 2 games for people at AMF, Springfield Quay. Should be sufficient. Total cost there is £156, so that's a minimum of £10.40 (if 15 show), and a maximum of £14.20 per person (if 11 show).

16.00 is when we're due at the restaurant. DiMaggio's, Royal Exchange Square. Because we're a 'large party', they're limiting us to the set menu, which you can see here. They also want a 10% service charge, but that's fair enough.

I left space at 3PM, because folks seemed keen on trying to find somewhere to watch the episode. I don't have a laptop/WLAN/whatever, so I don't know what to do here. Also I have no idea how long bowling will take. Traditional aimless wander about the town ahoy!

If any of you were wondering about numbers, I have 11 confirmed, and 4 maybes, so everything's booked for 15 people.

Should you have any issues, or fail to find me on Saturday, I think this thing publishes my email for the former, and the latter can be solved through this file. The URL directs to a medafire upload of my mobile phone number. Password for the file is the name of the city where we're meeting (HA HA at my attempts to avoid spam bots), with capitalisation. If you have trouble opening it, you're probably on Windows so open via Notepad. It's just 12 bytes. 11 digits and an EOF.

Confirming

I did ask people to confirm by Wednesday (4 Jan.), but that seems to have got lost somewhere. I'll reiterate. Confirm attendance by leaving a comment or forum post saying "I'm going" or "I'm not going" and also leave some sort of identifier (in these comments) so I can create a register. I'll be in Cheshire most of the day, so the deadline is really Thursday, whenever I get up, but shhhh.

Forum links once more:
http://forums.rainbowdash.com/index.php/topic,9.0.html
http://ukofequestria.co.uk/threads/glasgow-january-7-2012.25/

Thanks.

Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, Dinner, BATMAN!

So, on the subject of food, here's the options. I'd prefer to go somewhere more unusual, at the risk of running extra expense.
The main locations for this could be Brazilian, served up by Tropeiro on Argyle Street or Boteco on the Trongate. The other 'exotic' choice is the Mongolian restaurant on Candleriggs. Problem is, I haven't been to any of them so quality isn't guaranteed.
The alternative is cheap and familiar things like a Chinese Buffet on Sauchiehall Street, an Indian on West Regent Street (With a less than perfect site), or a chip shop.

It's up to you guys. Can you have a look at the links and give me opinions? Feel free to give me some other suggestions in comments if you think mine are rubbish. Otherwise, I'll make a sad face.
Ta.

Change in Times

If you noticed the comments on the last post, there was a request to start later. Seeing as there was only one suggestion of a time, we're now starting at midday.

Revised plan for the 7th:

12:00 (ish) - Meet in St. Enoch Square. Wait a maximum of 30 minutes for people being tardy (late without reason. If you contact me and say you'll be late, that's different). There's normally a street market thing in the square, so you'll have something to do if we end up waiting.

12:30 - Cross the River (hiss) and head for the AMF Bowling on Springfield Quay. It's about a 20 minute walk, so ideally we'd arrive for 1 and start bowling. I have no idea how long it will take, because A - I don't know attendance, and B - I haven't been bowling in ages. I've pencilled it in as taking 1.5 hours. It will probably be less, but hopefully everyone will get a gab.

14:00/14:30 - is the time I've planned to have lunch. I'd like to go to one of the more unusual restaurants. There's two that I know of in town serving Brazilian food, and one in the Merchant City that has a Mongolian menu. I also know of a couple of buffet/set menu places and the indomitable Scottish chip shops if people go for the budget option.

I have no way to show the new episode to you. If you have any ideas on how to rectify this, go ahead.

Early Speculation

Hello all.

I've decided that there will be a pony meetup in Glasgow on January 7 2012. Glasgow is currently the largest city in the UK not to have had a meetup yet, so let's address that. There has only been one meetup in Scotland so far, and that's not quite enough. Looking at Pony UK's mapping project, there's a fair few folk in the buckiebelt, so we should have a half decent crowd.

I've got a basic timetable for the meetup, but there's a couple of things to be discussed. First off, everyone's preference for food: would you rather something cheap and bland, or more exotic and expensive. The other thing is if you would like to do anything in the late afternoon/early evening. I've left that slot free at the moment, in case any out-of-towners would like to do some shopping. If there's a strong enough demand, we could fit something else in there. Perhaps a ponyhunt or something.

Anyway, here's the plan:

10:00 (Variable) - Meet in St. Enoch Square. Wait a maximum of 30 minutes for people being tardy (late without reason. If you contact me and say you'll be late, that's different).

10:30 - Cross the River (hiss) and head for the AMF Bowling on Springfield Quay. It's about a 20 minute walk, so ideally we'd arrive for 11 and start bowling. I have no idea how long it will take, because 1 - I don't know attendance, and 2 - I haven't been bowling in ages. I've pencilled it in as taking 2.5 hours. It will probably be less, but hopefully everyone will get a gab.

14:00 - is the time I've planned to have lunch. I'd like to go to one of the more unusual restaurants. There's two that I know of in town serving Brazilian food, and one in the Merchant City that has a Mongolian menu. I also know of a couple of buffet/set menu places and the indomitable Scottish chip shops if people go for the budget option.

The rest of it is unplanned at the mo. I wouldn't like to be seen to be forcing people to stay in Glasgow after dark, because I wouldn't want to. Like I said, some people may want to go shopping, some people may want to go home early because they've got further to go. I don't know. If you'd like to do something after food, do tell me.

If you have any objections to these plans, you think that I've left something out, or you would like to attend, please leave a comment below.