Heya,
CK and I are hosting a splunch on Saturday 18th June 2022 from around 6pm in London!
Event details are here: https://umd.net/calendar/london-uk-splunch-saturday-18th-june-202

If you've not been to a splunch before it is just a low key social occasion, no sploshing, no play, just a chance to meet like-minded individuals.

Please do come and join us for some drinks and maybe food later on. Location is a lovely pub in Angel which is dog friendly and serves food til 9.30pm!

Feel free to message CK/me or comment here if you have any questions. See you all there!!

Sounds like fun

Looking forward to trying to attend this, finances permitting!

I'm going to be in London that day for an evening event so would love to come along and say hi!

Had a great time at the Birmingham Splunch.
Hope to make it to this one. Thanks again to CK for organising it so well.

Yayyy will be lovely to see you!!

I'll be there!

Will be there and will be good to see a lot of you guys and gals again after the past few years dramas

Pretty local to me too

This sounds awesome. I might try and come down to London for this

Thanks for the warning, I'll give security a heads up

Thinking of having this start earlier to make it easier for people who travel in! Would that be helpful?

I felt 3.30pm start in Birmingham worked as it's a bit after standard hotel check in time and not too early.
Also, if anyone want to get there early anyway there's nothing stopping them.

I would love to come along but finance my be a problem
would love to meet you all..

It would for me.

I'm not sure what time the last train home is yet (probably 21:00) and I won't be able to stay over in London.

OK the venue is now booked from 3.30pm!

Depending on how many mud scenes we've managed to shoot by then, going to try and make this. Earlier is better for me as can come down on a morning train and then get one back 9 or 10 pm, so could possibly still shoot on the Sunday if weather good.

Would be great to meet you, but I can definitely see the need for making the most of the scorching sun whilst it lasts!

Leeds Splunch, which I know it's more local to some, will be two weeks later on 2nd July, I will get around to making an event for it.

Will Try and make it for the earlier start

Looking forward to this. It'll be my first splunch

It's been so long since I've been to one of these I was only thinking the other week it would be nice to have another one in London that I could attend
Suddenly it's on the calendar then I realise I fly to Egypt two days before for a one month holiday so we are not going to make it
If it was a week before I would've been there

Coolio. If I'm still in London by then I'll be there.

Though that's a big if at the moment, it's 50:50 as to whether I'm staying in London or moving AND if I'm gonna be moving then it's 50:50 as to whether I take that as the cue to go do the World Tour I had planned to do back in 2020 (which proved to be excellently timed with Covid) and if I did do that tour then it could be 50:50 as to whether I find somewhere I then want to emigrate to permanently anyway. I mean having moved all round the country growing up, being diagnosed as Asperger's as a kid, then have it changed to ADHD and dyspraxia in adolescence and probably a little bit non-binary I've spent a lifetime used to being the outsider that travelled between social circles without really belonging to any of them and always being on the move. Being a bit of a nomad already being able to change the scenery and learn from new surroundings may override any homing instincts.

But anyway whilst I'll be there if in London, it's pretty much odds even on me being pretty much anywhere by that point so shall hold off confirming any attendance at this point.

Ach, I have a thing. I will keep an eye out for the next one though!

OMG!!!! Actually in London that day...but by 6pm will be with non-sploshy friends. Grrrrr....really wish it was a 1pm job. Anyone around fancy a coffee/beer early on?

The venue is booked for 3.30pm, scroll through the thread

Sounds good!

Still hoping to make it to this, although might need to play it by ear at the minute.

Well gosh darnit; I have a wedding to attend that day!

I am intending on returning to a Splunch this year, but sadly not this particular one. I'll keep an eye out for the Leeds one, or any others that get planned

I can't believe this has come around so quickly!

I best book my train ticket -- looking forward to seeing everyone down there.

Less than a week to go, I'm so excited.
There's been a lot of talk about train and underground strikes but I do not believe that it is going to be on our Splunch date.

Please get in touch if you have any questions.