As you can see, and apart from my younger son Raph zapping around with his footbal, it was a women only meeting tonight (and no highjacking at all this time, promise). Lots of topics got discussed, bunting got measured (Mati shrewdly acquired olympic amount of it while stocks last-ed). As during the previous two meetings, the exhilaration of getting to know one another almost eclipsed the preparation aspect of things. Aren't we a strange species: living a few feet apart, and whenever we meet at last, kicking ourselves for not doing so before. There is a special feel to having-lived-so-close-all-this-time-and-not-knowing-it. Anthropologist should look into it, really.
So, on the un-written agenda we had:
- do we wear name tag stickers or not? Decision: we'll make stickers and markers available, and all people present will wear one, and then, people are free to wear one or not.
- how do we show the road is closed on the day, since, due to high demand, no road signs are available, unless we hire them for a price. Solution: we'll say it with cars: Linda will park hers on the east side, me on the west side, and we'll have "road closed" written on a sheet secured to the car. Plus the official memo from the council will be featured in laminated pouch at either end from next week on (that's the law).
- we now have four teenagers and 2 grownups who are keen to wear a t-shirt that says "crew" on it (and actually do some useful work on the day, that goes without saying). But thanks to Alex and Jools, we will have a bit of a surprise about the T-shirts. Come and find out on the day! (be aware it won't be on the cost list though, each person is buying their T-shirt, we are having them made at "love your logo" in Dorking).
- we have an official photographer for the day, Maia. She is very young, but very very talented. She did took this photo (above), she's got a knack for getting people to look good. So she'll be taking pictures of every single participant on the 3rd, to create a vast wall of smiles, printing the best shots on the spot.
- we are now sure that a secondary party can take place after 6pm for those who don't quite feel ready to go home. We'll clear up the road and re-open it, then we can carry on in the community garden (where we were tonight). Weather behaving, obviously.
- for decorating and getting the bunting up, please be there at 11am on the 3rd. We have a few ladders, no need to drag yours around, but it's a lot of bunting to hook up!
- there'll be a wish board: we talked tonight about some of us wanting to do choir, some blues, some tap dance. Well, just in case there is six of a kind and renting the school hall becomes an option, we'll write it all down.
-be ready, there will be guest books, posters, group photos...and figuring out a mini who's-who-where (in a nice flexible way). Don't feel obliged of course, but if you are indeed coming on the day, then you'll probably enjoy being part of the memories. Don't be shy.
My sincere apologies for the rough style of this post, I just didn't have time to make it shorter.
The conclusion of tonight was: everybody who turned up is pretty exhilarated. So that's a good sign, isn't it? (weather gods, this comment was meant for you)(pretty please).
All the best, see you next week.
Constance
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