Call for addresses

[fluffymark]

There will be a shiny BBQ and Party on July 17th. We are doing this properly with paper invites and everything. La. Please send us your addresses (fill in this poll!!, or comment, or email me, or something) if you'd like a sparkly pink paper invite.

Yay - I can see Venus through my multiple pinhole camera! *excited* Even if I stabbed my finger making it (got a bit overexcited making holes).

Update: Yay - we now have binoculars, and are projecting lovely images. Wooooo. :)

Comments

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

I'm doing a YMCA training thing during the day (teaching sixteen year olds to empathise. Marvellous fun), but in theory that's over by 5pm, so I might be able to come so long as I can get home in time to get back to the YMCA for 10am the next day.

If that made sense.

[fluffymark]

Come come come! Well, I'm sending you an invite anyway, sweetie. If I'm correct in thinking you live somewhere near Chingford when not in Cambridge then you're only a short busride away.

How on earth do you teach 16 year olds to empathise? *boggle*

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

I forget where you live, so it may or may not be a short busride. It will, at any rate, involve me getting home in time for sleep.

You teach sixteen year olds to empathise by shouting at them when they deviate from the rules you set them about how to empathise. Or alternatively, throw them into the middle of a bunch of tearful over-excited fives-and-sixes and see how they cope. If they start shouting you remind them that they don't. Then you continue to watch their anguish. Amazingly, this approach to empathy for smaller people seems to work quite well.

[fluffymark]

I'm in Leytonstone. You haven't been paying attention, have you? :/

I was hoping you'd be teaching 16 years using sharp pointy sticks. Throwing them into a bunch of kiddies sounds far more cruel and twisted. I assume you're not doing this just to make them suffer, though - why are you teaching them empathy?

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

I knew it was either Leytonstone or Walthamstow, but thought it best to make sure. Still have no idea about buses though! Looks like the W16 *might* do just about the right thing.

We teach 16 year olds empathy so that they don't frighten the small children they are in charge of for about seven hours a day. Which would be a good thing and stop all our custom going elsewhere. We may resort to the pointy stick approach eventually.

[fluffymark]

The W16 is your friend, and just the bus I was thinking of.

If the pointy sticks don't work, put on excess layers of goth makeup and scare them into submission, and enjoy the power trip.