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Aug. 28th, 2017 11:30 pmIt's been a very busy Bank Holiday weekend, particularly as I was working on Monday. This didn't stop me from enjoying the sunshine by going on a nice canal walk with Wolfie, completing the section between Farsley and Apperley Bridge, having met the route we had taken on a previous walk. The route did start to look familiar and it was a very pleasant stroll, although having to move out of the way of cyclists on the towpath did start to become annoying. Aside from this, we had some fun upstairs with mummification, something I had been meaning to do for a while, before settling down to watch an interesting documentary on the Pakistan/India border while sharing a Mexican box meal from ASDA. Oh the glamour!
We were torn as to which furmeet to attend on Saturday - York or Sheffield - with us eventually opting for the Steel City. There were a few reasons for this, but the main one was to bring closure to an unfortunate incident which had happened at the Leeds Meet the previous weekend. We got to speak to all those affected, along with Raven, who had been running the meet and with a new plan in place, we are hopeful that such things will never happen again. While in Sheffield, Raven also gave us our new Leeds Furs lanyards designed by Lapres and they were absolutely stunning, a real fantastic addition to the meets. We may be getting more knocked up in the near future. The meet itself went very well - we got to speak to Oracle again, which was great, while we also won the pub quiz by three points, securing a huge bar of Galaxy choclate and some Nerds as our prizes. Being the legal geek that I am, comparing the US ingredients with those on the EU approved sticker was interesting - something we may have to get used to going forward - while we also spent time with Cosmo's parents who were into rugby and really digging the furry fandom. Cosmo is 16 and they were delighted with the creative confidence building nature of our group, and it was good to hear first hand just how positive the meets can be perceived. While in the bar, we also got to try a large number of the new American beers BrewDog had in, which was good too.
The walk was quite a good one, although I did have to push Grem into going into the Sheffield-by-the-Sea exhibit. I tried to get a few of the fursuiters onto the rides but alas this was a non-starter. Still, it was an enjoyable day and we left the meet around 5pm feeling rather happy, with our destination back in Leeds to see Entei-rah, who had been to York. I got the feeling that this may have been his stag do, but I am not too sure, either way we hooked up at the station and ended up in Pieminister for dinner. This was surprisingly quiet considering previous times we have been, but the pies were as exquisite as always, making for a very satisfying dinner. We then took Ent down Wellington Street to a new bar we were thinking of approaching to host the meets, before we had a final glass of wine in nearby Veeno before Ent had to take his train to Durham. We were tempted to stay out for Leeds Beer Week but having had a full day of drinking, my financial situation not being particularly great and me needing to be up early in the morning, we wisely decided against it.
I was headed to Manchester on Sunday, to a friend's house on the outskirts of the city. The plan for the day was to get gunged, with me feeling a little guilty for bailing on a party two weeks ago due to last-minute work pressures. I arrived around midday and soon we were in his kitchen, mixing up poster paint, hot water, a cellulose-style compound and J-Lube to create four huge buckets of different colour gloop. We had pink, green, blue and orange. It took us about three hours to make it, with us needing to mix it every 15 minutes to ensure it thickened. As we did - using a drill and a cement mixer - the fluid shot everywhere, necessitating a lot of clean up before we even got started. As we waited, we covered the bathroom in cut up bin liners for easy clean up and once everything was ready, it was time to be covered in 40kg of slime. I had never been gunged so much before - I previous record being about 10kg at SLOSH in June - and it was very exhilarating, particularly as a ladder was used to get greater height. The consistency was perfect and just sloshing about in a bath of it was incredibly exciting. Less so was the cleaning up, which took a good hour and a half of vigorous brushing, which I had to do naked having just washed all of the gunge away. Indeed to get it out of the bath I first had to scoop it up with a jug and then my hands, which took quite a while.
After we were done, we headed into Glossop, a market town in rural Derbyshire where we went to Pico Bar. They had an outdoor area here by a stream and there were a number of doggo friends here. They were all great fun and although service was slow due to undermanning, the food itself was fantastic, but then a fish finger sandwich always is. I bought my friend a meal to thank him for the gunging, and we opted for a dessert too, which was a nice red velvet cake with a kids' portion of ice cream. It was a nice way to end the day and indeed it was nice to see another part of the country I had not yet visited, making for a very pleasurable day all round.
We were torn as to which furmeet to attend on Saturday - York or Sheffield - with us eventually opting for the Steel City. There were a few reasons for this, but the main one was to bring closure to an unfortunate incident which had happened at the Leeds Meet the previous weekend. We got to speak to all those affected, along with Raven, who had been running the meet and with a new plan in place, we are hopeful that such things will never happen again. While in Sheffield, Raven also gave us our new Leeds Furs lanyards designed by Lapres and they were absolutely stunning, a real fantastic addition to the meets. We may be getting more knocked up in the near future. The meet itself went very well - we got to speak to Oracle again, which was great, while we also won the pub quiz by three points, securing a huge bar of Galaxy choclate and some Nerds as our prizes. Being the legal geek that I am, comparing the US ingredients with those on the EU approved sticker was interesting - something we may have to get used to going forward - while we also spent time with Cosmo's parents who were into rugby and really digging the furry fandom. Cosmo is 16 and they were delighted with the creative confidence building nature of our group, and it was good to hear first hand just how positive the meets can be perceived. While in the bar, we also got to try a large number of the new American beers BrewDog had in, which was good too.
The walk was quite a good one, although I did have to push Grem into going into the Sheffield-by-the-Sea exhibit. I tried to get a few of the fursuiters onto the rides but alas this was a non-starter. Still, it was an enjoyable day and we left the meet around 5pm feeling rather happy, with our destination back in Leeds to see Entei-rah, who had been to York. I got the feeling that this may have been his stag do, but I am not too sure, either way we hooked up at the station and ended up in Pieminister for dinner. This was surprisingly quiet considering previous times we have been, but the pies were as exquisite as always, making for a very satisfying dinner. We then took Ent down Wellington Street to a new bar we were thinking of approaching to host the meets, before we had a final glass of wine in nearby Veeno before Ent had to take his train to Durham. We were tempted to stay out for Leeds Beer Week but having had a full day of drinking, my financial situation not being particularly great and me needing to be up early in the morning, we wisely decided against it.
I was headed to Manchester on Sunday, to a friend's house on the outskirts of the city. The plan for the day was to get gunged, with me feeling a little guilty for bailing on a party two weeks ago due to last-minute work pressures. I arrived around midday and soon we were in his kitchen, mixing up poster paint, hot water, a cellulose-style compound and J-Lube to create four huge buckets of different colour gloop. We had pink, green, blue and orange. It took us about three hours to make it, with us needing to mix it every 15 minutes to ensure it thickened. As we did - using a drill and a cement mixer - the fluid shot everywhere, necessitating a lot of clean up before we even got started. As we waited, we covered the bathroom in cut up bin liners for easy clean up and once everything was ready, it was time to be covered in 40kg of slime. I had never been gunged so much before - I previous record being about 10kg at SLOSH in June - and it was very exhilarating, particularly as a ladder was used to get greater height. The consistency was perfect and just sloshing about in a bath of it was incredibly exciting. Less so was the cleaning up, which took a good hour and a half of vigorous brushing, which I had to do naked having just washed all of the gunge away. Indeed to get it out of the bath I first had to scoop it up with a jug and then my hands, which took quite a while.
After we were done, we headed into Glossop, a market town in rural Derbyshire where we went to Pico Bar. They had an outdoor area here by a stream and there were a number of doggo friends here. They were all great fun and although service was slow due to undermanning, the food itself was fantastic, but then a fish finger sandwich always is. I bought my friend a meal to thank him for the gunging, and we opted for a dessert too, which was a nice red velvet cake with a kids' portion of ice cream. It was a nice way to end the day and indeed it was nice to see another part of the country I had not yet visited, making for a very pleasurable day all round.
