Beer thirty

[j4]

addedentry and I are having a birthday party at our place on Saturday May 10th. (That's not next Saturday but the one after.) I will be 30, he won't be (any more).


When: Tea/cake/faff from 3pm, proper party from party o'clock.
Where: HERE. If you don't have our address and/or you want directions, email/comment.
RSVP: would be helpful so we know vaguely how many people we're expecting.
Partners/children/friends: welcome, unless they are likely to start arguments or try to molest my badgers.
Pets: just not practical, sorry. Unless you have some very very tiny kittens.
Drinks: there will be some (including weird shit from the depths of the booze-cabinet), but more is always welcome! :-)
Eats: there will be nibbles and (if I have time to bake it) cake, and there are various vendors of munchies within spitting distance.
Spitting: not allowed, especially at our local munchies-vendors.
Smoking: also not allowed! Not even on the balcony (my birthday, my rules).
Badgers: positively encouraged (they don't count as pets).

Any other questions that I've failed to pre-empt, please ask!


And sorry for rather short notice -- lots of indecision and disorganisation round here at the moment...

ETA: and if you have suggestions for things I should do before I'm 30, feel free to post 'em here, bearing in mind I only have a week and I'll be at work for most of it...

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the invite, and we'd love to come (I've not been in Oxfnord for, oh, weeks!), but we have a previous engagement that evening.

Happy Birthsday to you both.

[kake]

Am also previously engaged, I'm afraid.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Alas, prior engagements...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Nah, save your list so you have some cool things to look forward to doing once you're 30 :-)

I will be post-exams so have Absolutely Nothing Better To Do, but will just have come back from Edinburgh and will probably be Dead Of Train :-(

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

You have written a Will, yes?

[nja.livejournal.com]

I was feeling vaguely guilty today about being in the city and not seeing people (I have somehow found myself in the very odd position of knowing more people in Oxford than in the city where I've lived for the last 25 years), and I have no plans for that weekend. Spending an evening without spitting, smoking or starting arguments may be difficult, but I might be able to manage it. I'll have a think.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen you spit, smoke or start an argument; if you can do all three at once then I might be persuaded to relax my rules just for the sake of seeing it. Either way, hope you can make it!

[daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com]

Gah. We'll be in Leipzig. Sorry! Have fun without us.

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - we'll be on the Snæfellsnes peninsula coz of honeymoonz part 2.

However all is not lost, the post fairy has been primed...

Have a great party.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to Oxford for ages, and it'd be lovely to see you both, so I'll come down for tea and cake faff. Is there a sofa I could sleep on?

[j4.livejournal.com]

There is a sort-of-foldout-bed-thing (the actual sofabed is already claimed, I'm afraid) so I would bring a sleeping-bag if you have one (if you don't, we do, & can probably rustle up other things-to-sleep-on though some of them may be badgers). Hope none of this puts you off coming, it would be great to see you! :)

[taimatsu]

Bollocks, I'm going to be in the middle of exams and also in Manchester. Dammit.

[abi]

It looks increasingly likely that I'll be away on holiday that weekend in Devon or Essex or Derbyshire or Shropshire (we really must get ourselves organised and book one of them) so I'm afraid apologies will have to be offered!

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

If I come over for teacake faff then I can bring that Airport for you... This does sound like a plan.

I might have to borrow crash space, and bandwidth the next morning to try and get folk festival tickets though.

[lnr]

*grin* I need to do that too.

[lnr]

Mike and I will attempt to make it, and would love crash space if you can find some for us (but will also check out B&Bs). Have booked coach tickets.

[j4.livejournal.com]

You have the sofabedspace (though we won't be offended if you'd rather go for a B&B!) - look forward to seeing you! & hope the x5 isn't too miserable... :-}

[imc.livejournal.com]

My brother is exactly five days younger than you, so he's probably also doing something that day and it will be in the Cambridge area (although predictably he hasn't decided what yet). So Argh ETOOMANYBIRTHDAYS… (Also I realise I haven't got him anything yet and don't know what he wants, although I've already sorted out two other early-to-mid May birthdays.)

Things to do before you are 30: lunch? :-)

[j4.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I've totally failed to do lunch before being 30! You will just have to have lunch with a THIRTYSOMETHING (well, okay, thirtynothing) instead some time. :-) Though not sure when as a large proportion of my lunchtimes are being eaten up by running at the moment .... next Weds/Fri possibly free? Mail me & I will try to get myself organised.... :-}

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Yay Birthday!

Yes, I will be there.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! It will be good to see you, it's been far too long. :-) (Sorry I am being so slow to reply to comments....)

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Should be there.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it! :)

[juliet]

Bah, sorry, prior engagement :-(

[j4.livejournal.com]

Aw, shame! :( Hope you have fun whatever else you're up to anyway though...

[sparrowsion]

Very sad that we can't make it—will no doubt be comparing driving from Reykjavik to Snæfellsnes with the Cambridge to Oxford run.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Geography sucks.

However, I need to mail you.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Geography is RUBBISH ON TOAST, and I have yr mail, and I'm sorry I am being slow at reading/replying (to LJ and email and everything), but you've heard the whole the-badgers-ate-my-homework-and-I-am-a-big-emo-kid routine before so I will shut up now and go and read email.

[rmc28]

We are free; we hope to come subject to travel logistics. We will either go home same-day or find a local B&B.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Cool! Hope the travel logistics aren't too awful - look forward to seeing you all. :)

[crouchinglynx.livejournal.com]

I'm free, and won't require crash space; though I may have to leave at an unsociably sensible time.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Glad you can make it even if only for a short while.... :)

[djw.livejournal.com]

There, I've added you. Oh, and if it's okay with you I'd likee to come to your party (as previously stated on addedentry's post).

[j4.livejournal.com]

Hello! Yes of course it's okay, so long as you don't molest the badgers. You didn't strike me as the badger-molesting type though. :-)

[jackfirecat.livejournal.com]

I can't come 'cause I am away that w/e.

(you wouldn't believe the amount of thought it has taken to come the conclusion that that was worth saying, on some cautionary principle, given that I don't actually know you but we have said hello a couple of times and have LJ friended each other, but so what, you wouldn't realy be expecting me, but nevertheless, if I was around I may well have, so I should probably say that I'm not, or should I, etc.)

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

I hear you! -- and I'm happy to listen in person. You are explicitly invited to our next big party.

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Hope to make it. Haven't worked out logistics yet, however, and am currently dead from post-holkiday splatter, so can't be absoluitely sure.

Crash-space would be nice if you are likely to have lots, but otherwise I can find alternatives, I think.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

I would be very pleased to see you! After confusion last time I shall say explicitly that there will be room for you to sleep here, but you ought bring a sleeping bag, and you may have to share a room with someone else.

Fairy godperson did the biz

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

I can has childcare from 'II so I can look in from party o'clock to unsocially sensible leaving time. Do you want me to bring a cauldron of soup or a lasagna or somesuch, as well as [harriet vane] my own sweet self [/harriet vane] and imbibable stuff?

[brrm.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late RSVP. I'd love to come if you'll still have me, but I will also be one of the unsociably early leavers, I fear, as I have to leave early on Sunday morning for the Brooklands-Brighton MG run!

Things you should do before you're 30

Err. Invent a time machine?

[j4.livejournal.com]

I'd love to come if you'll still have me

ObFnarr: FNARR. :D

And yes of course you're still very welcome!

No Time Machines here, sadly, but 1 x Airport -- did I tell you? -- bought one off eBay and it Just Worked. Well, okay, it just worked the second time I tried it, after my dad gave it a Stern Look. :-} I can has (I does has) wireless ninternets!