The Night I Needed

Had an excellent night at one of the inaugural Middlesbrough furmeets this evening. Met up with Zash, Icey and Amaranth for a meal at the Toby Carvery and then for a few drinks in town. I have been crying out for furs in the local vicinity and tonight was the night that showed how great things can be in the town. It's a shame that I will probably be leaving in the New Year, what with current circumstances. It's also a shame that we didn't get a stronger community together a little earlier.

The Toby Carvery meal - where you could choose from three different meats, full veg and yorkshire pudding, with potential to refill for free - was excellent value at £5 per head. I also made numerous jokes about the Bottomless Custard Jug they were offering - particularly regarding the literal interpretation of this. After all, a bottomless jug would imply all the custard would fall out, unless the jug was in the shape of a statue of a person with the bottom cut off for some reason.

After the waitress gave me some patronising stares, we did a mini and impromptou pub crawl.

We went into The Camel's Hump - a docker's pub turned student bar - and had some cream cheese and chive Seabrooks. The bar maintained its original drabness yet had character too. It was a nice place to drink, albeit a little spartan. I had been meaning to go there for a while. It looked like 1978 in every way.

We also headed to the halls of residence, where we had some japes, including leaving threatening messages for people with green highlighter and also stealing raisin bran because it was too healthy to be in a student kitchen. We then went to Mohan's Bar where Amaranth tried Guinness for the first time and Oriental Rib McCoy's.

The night was a really chilled affair (even though Zash ate the last sausage from the sausage truck lady) and an excellent philip after the miserable weak I have had. I may be going to Darlington to meet some more local furs on Monday - why does all this happen after you commit to leave a place? Still, tonight was excellent fun and I hope to repeat it real soon.

Sometimes the smallest furmeets are the best :-)

The Night I Needed

Had an excellent night at one of the inaugural Middlesbrough furmeets this evening. Met up with Zash, Icey and Amaranth for a meal at the Toby Carvery and then for a few drinks in town. I have been crying out for furs in the local vicinity and tonight was the night that showed how great things can be in the town. It's a shame that I will probably be leaving in the New Year, what with current circumstances. It's also a shame that we didn't get a stronger community together a little earlier.

The Toby Carvery meal - where you could choose from three different meats, full veg and yorkshire pudding, with potential to refill for free - was excellent value at £5 per head. I also made numerous jokes about the Bottomless Custard Jug they were offering - particularly regarding the literal interpretation of this. After all, a bottomless jug would imply all the custard would fall out, unless the jug was in the shape of a statue of a person with the bottom cut off for some reason.

After the waitress gave me some patronising stares, we did a mini and impromptou pub crawl.

We went into The Camel's Hump - a docker's pub turned student bar - and had some cream cheese and chive Seabrooks. The bar maintained its original drabness yet had character too. It was a nice place to drink, albeit a little spartan. I had been meaning to go there for a while. It looked like 1978 in every way.

We also headed to the halls of residence, where we had some japes, including leaving threatening messages for people with green highlighter and also stealing raisin bran because it was too healthy to be in a student kitchen. We then went to Mohan's Bar where Amaranth tried Guinness for the first time and Oriental Rib McCoy's.

The night was a really chilled affair (even though Zash ate the last sausage from the sausage truck lady) and an excellent philip after the miserable weak I have had. I may be going to Darlington to meet some more local furs on Monday - why does all this happen after you commit to leave a place? Still, tonight was excellent fun and I hope to repeat it real soon.

Sometimes the smallest furmeets are the best :-)