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MEET-UP: JUNE 23rd 2018

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Posted 27 Mar 2018 at 18:26

Hi,

Unfortunately, I'm afraid I will not be able to attend this year's MOTS as I have just been booked to photograph a wedding on that day.

I was really looking forward to coming but I can't afford to turn work away at the moment. I'm so sorry not to be able to do my usually photos but if I don't work, I don't eat.

Steve

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User

Posted 28 Mar 2018 at 08:28

Hi Steve,

We’ll miss you and your wonderful photos but perfectly understand you need to work that day.

It will be good to see you, Dave.

Any newbies want to come along you will be made very welcome. It’s an excellent chance to meet up, with so many friendships made over the years.

Janet, x

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 07:15

I’ve just emailed Ann, so we’ll be there!

I did ask if it’s possible to have an Urologist talk this time.

See ya all.

Chris.

So would you like us to do the photos?

Edited by member 29 Mar 2018 at 07:17 | Reason: Not specified

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 09:28

Brilliant, Chris, it will be nice to see you and Shirley.

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 12:12

Hi Chris,

I'll echo Janet's words..BRILLIANT. It will be so nice to you and Shirley again.

You've been coming to The Mill for more years than I remember, but this will be the first time you'll stay overnight.

For you and anyone else booking rooms, the following info will help you choose the most suitable for your needs.

There are 25 rooms, 5 in the cottages close to the reception, and 20 in the block further down,

So if you're ringing to book rooms, Tel: 01455 282419 , bear this in mind, as some of you will need ground floor accommodation.

The Block:
Numbers 1 – 10 Ground Floor. 11 – 20 Upper

The cottages (next to reception):
Numbers 21, 22, 23, Ground Floor, 24 & 25 Upper.

And Chris, YES, of course we'd love to have you do the photos again., Thank you!

Ann was in touch about this the other day, when we heard Steve would be on a Wedding photography job on 23rd June.

Your offer will certainly ease her mind.

Warmest wises to you and Shirley,
Have a great holiday up in Northumberland in April,

George

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B2PCa

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 16:43

Hi Ann

I am meeting my oncologist in two weeks and i am more than happy to ask him if he would do a talk, he has done two talks before at the Mill and some might think something different might be better.

Happy to ask

Don't deny the diagnosis; try to defy the verdict

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 18:20

Hi Si,
I am sure I speak for others who have heard his talks at the Mill in saying these were much appreciated and our thanks to you for being instrumental in arranging. You will doubtless liaise with Ann of the Charity on this, as it is not clear whether she has already arranged speaker(s).

Barry

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 20:47

I am interested in attending but I don't know anyone at all and I am single but I'm sure that will not be an issue.

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User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 21:02

Nobody else knew each other when we first went, so unless you come you still won’t know anybody, it helps to put names to faces.
Have a good think.

Chris.

PS, we have George, who used to run the get together who’s a Geordie!

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User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 21:22

Rich, the first year I went on my own - John would have nothing to do with it. Some of the others will be attending alone, either because they don't have a partner or because it suits them.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 21:31

I still don't see how the weekend works, its appears cliquey (but I know definitely won't be!).

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 21:35

Put a name to faces? You lot have the most obscure names, sorry site id's so I don't know how Id know anyone!

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 22:11

I don’t know how Ann is going to do it but George always did badges with everyone’s real name and profile name, so not difficult.

Chris.

User

Posted 29 Mar 2018 at 22:35

Some people stay at the mill or elsewhere the night prior to the meeting. Others like me leave home sufficiently early for the buffet lunch. Each person is given a label to wear so you have an idea who you are talking to. You sit down at a table and listen to some talks and usually a rather baldy poem and if it goes to plan, again this year a talk by an oncologist with the opportunity to ask question on PCa. You get to chat with the people at your table and others after lunch in the bar or outside in the extensive gardens with plenty of seating provision. Some then leave whilst others have an evening meal in the restaurant at some reserved tables. Just ask somebody next to a vacant seat if it is free and sit down if it is and join in. Attendees are very hospitable. Most people stay overnight as indeed my wife and I do and leave the following morning after breakfast.

Barry

User

Posted 30 Mar 2018 at 07:24

Rich, and anyone else thinking of attending, you will definitely be made to feel most welcome and go home with new friends who understand. Something we don’t always easily find in our ‘other’’ lives.

It’s completely up to you as to whether you just come along for the afternoon on the Saturday or make a weekend of it, or anything in between. In June we are usually lucky with the weather so can take advantage of the pub garden, but the highlight for most of us is chatting to friends old and newly made. And I’m sure we were all nervous on our first visit, so we do understand.

Hoping you and some of our other members here can come along.

Janet, x

User

Posted 30 Mar 2018 at 07:28

Hi all
My wife and I will be attending this year (good winds prevailing) for the first time. Rather looking forward to it! I have no real idea what is going to happen, but I feel I'm at a stage where I can really benefit from meeting and talking with people who are also in this club. Due to budgetary restrictions, we won't be staying in the hotel or booking in for the evening meal, but we do have a camper van that makes life possible, so we will be parking 'nearby' and joining in with the afternoon and evening festivities. Hope to see lots of you there!

Graham & Mary

User

Posted 30 Mar 2018 at 08:33

George,
Staying overnight on Saturday in room 8!

Chris.

Just because you said we were! (It means we can drive home in daylight)

User

Posted 30 Mar 2018 at 13:37

Hi Guys,

There are some good queries there and a great suggestion (Si asking his oncologist Jamie to attend again...we haven't seem him for a few years, and he's a great bloke!).

Rich, the are quite a few singletons there every year, and as Janet says, you'll be given the warmest of welcomes.

I have often told people that since my diagnosis in 2005, I have made more good, true friends than I did in all the years previously.

Meeting up every summer and winter since 2007 has formed strong bonds, and the mutual support is amazing.

We make lielong firends.

It's certainly not a clique, it's a family of us all in the same struggle and making the very best of it.

Ann will be providing badges with Forum IDs and your real first names.

We've done that from the start, because it makes it so much easier to mingle and chat to folks you may have known only online.

Graham and Mary, there is an ideal spot for your camper van. At the entrance to the venue ther is very large car park which always has loads of spaces, since our folks in the rooms have parking bays by our doors.

Barry (I'm not going to call you 'Old Barry'https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif) has summed up the weekend well, and Janet has given a good picture of the 'laid back' friendliness of it all.

And I'm chuffed to hear there may be a fellow Geordie there too? That will make at least four of us now.

For the first five years, I was only one, and we had to have an interpreter to translate my welcome messages and announcements.

Finally, Chris and Shirley, I am glad you have that downstairs room 8.

It just far enough away from my room that Lynn, Kat and I won't hear your world renowned snoring throughout the night!https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/editors/tiny_mce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif

Really looking forward to seeing you all in 3 months time.

Stay well my friends,

george

B2PCa

User

Posted 30 Mar 2018 at 16:59

Hi all

I'm planning to be there for my first time. Looking forward to meeting those of you able to attend.

Ulsterman

User

Posted 30 Mar 2018 at 17:13

Gutted that I won't see you - must be about time to invite me to deliver some INSET instead?

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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