From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V2 #65 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Monday, July 24 2000 Volume 02 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: 3rd Annual UK Del Fans BBQ ["Jane Armstrong" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:40:38 +0100 From: "Jane Armstrong" Subject: OV: 3rd Annual UK Del Fans BBQ I've just got back from holiday and read all the mails. However I don't want to carry on the discussion. It's all been said before - and this isn't the first time we've had "discussions" like this. At least this time around I'm not in the thick of it! However, I did want to respond to the charge of being "cliquey" - I can see it may seem that way. BUT we were all strangers once - and over the past three years we've got to know each other from OV postings. I've made some lasting friendships because of OV. I've met Del fans from all the countries which make up the UK, all four corners of the US and some from the middle, from Canada, Germany and Austria. And some I've not met physically YET but like to call them my good friends and have a great off-list relationship with. All due to this list. I've been hosting the Thursday night chats for two years now - and I like to think we make people feel welcome there. Ask George - she joined us on the chat a few months ago - and recently made the five and a half hour drive from North Wales to Dorset to meet us all. She was great and we had a lovely time. Since we started these chats we've been to various concerts and met loads of other Delfans. Quite a number of US OV'ers have visited the UK - and we've gone out of our way to make them feel welcome - I hope we've succeeded. We must have - as quite a few of you have come back for more! For the past two years I've hosted a BBQ at my place in Bracknell during August - and many people met up here for the first time after mailing each other on and off OV. The first year we raised over £700 for Amnesty International, by auctioning off T-shirts, CDs and laminates donated to us by Iain Harvie. Eddie and I will be hosting the 3rd Annual UK Delfans BBQ here in Bracknell, Berks on 27th August from 12 pm and I hope a few of you lurkers will come and join us here. That way, you can get to meet us, and maybe won't feel so left out. At these meetings we often do trades and get to hear and see rare Dels material. It's a rare opportunity to chat with other Delfans, people who understand how you feel about their music. For those of us who can't make it (for reasons of geography for example), we will have a live web chat in my chatroom (URL below) - and I hope a lot of our US friends will be able to join in the fun that way and share a virtual burger or sausage with us. We may even have the webcam going so you can see us at the same time. If you are interested in coming along on the 27th please email me off-list. Kids are welcome too - we've two of our own. If you want to stay over I can let you know details of local hotels. Oh, and Nigel is just as funny in the flesh. That is - when he actually turns up to things....... (sorry, a bit of an in-joke. He never manages to make it to our gatherings for one reason or another!) Jane PS. Jen - you asked if anyone was interested in another US fans Chicago get together a while back. Anything come of that? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join us for our weekly chat - 9pm GMT Thursdays (now with voice) on http://homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong/chat.html Please note my new URL: http://homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong Del Amitri Pages: http:///homepages.tesco.net/~jane.armstrong/Delpage.html Join The Devlins Mailing List: http://www.egroups.co.uk/subscribe/TheDevlins ICQ # 34643730 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V2 #65 *********************************