Well, God willing, I will be in England November 5-11. I’ll be hanging with my man Norman Dannatt and touring Clarke Tinwhistle. The flight is booked. With sufficient interest, I’m hoping we can assemble a gathering of UK C&F members. Let’s begin here, trying to guage interest, and then, in the Fall, I’ll send something out to the newsletter email list.
How do you spell “gauge”? “Guage?” “Gauge.”
Oh well. One of those is probably the American spelling and the other the British spelling.
Registering an interest.
Seeing yer trying to gauge it 
I thought the English spelled it “gage.”
Scared you, didn’t I, Dale? You were thinking, “Oh no, Blackhawk wants to go!” 
Hmm.. 5th November eh? We could meet in the cellars beneath the Houses of Parliament,Barrels of Gunpowder optional! 
Seriously though,It would be kind of interesting to meet fellow Astronauts-I mean Chiff’n’Fipplers- in the flesh! 
Pencil me in for after the 5th- I have tickets to see Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings in Newcastle that night (yes,THAT Bill Wyman!).
Registering an interest…unless it’s in London which is in a crazy place for most of the UK and wall to wall traffic. Somewhere in the middle…and a weekend? Don’t ask a lot 
Trisha
Some of our number are at the Willie Clancy week…so someone bump this in about a week?
Where in London were you thinking, Dale?
Hey, maybe the Positively Testcard has a gig around that time! My wife went for a visit there in early June, but I’ve never made the trip…
Well, Norman lives in Kent, and I believe that’s where the Clarke factory is. I’m open to guidance about a meeting place that would work for most. I’ll be there over a weekend, so that should work.
Dale
Nano using his best Cliff Claven voice:
Um, Blackhawk, “gage” is something one smokes at the risk of legal entanglement. Nowadays fallen out of usage, it was a common term in, I believe, the '20s and '30s.
“Cliff”
NORM!
Blackhawk, I have to correct your spelling yet again.
That’s N-O-R-M-L.
Aargh!
Kent might have been an option, given that that’s where the Channel Tunnel (direct rail link from Brussels) pops up, but it looks as if I’ll be many miles away in Greece that weekend.
Registering an interest Dale.
I look forward to it, hope I can make it down.
Jetboy
I would be most interested in coming. It’ll be yet another excuse for me to come down from Bangor and visit one of London’s many salsa clubs.
I’ll seek an opinion from my hosts about a good location.
Dale
definitely interested Dale, hope you find somewhere with cheap beer!
I see no reason at this juncture why I should not be able to attend.
I kind of favour London as a venue, all the railways and roads seem to lead there, but then I’m crazy.
Just back from WC Week, literally about an hour ago, and I want to tell you all about it but my brane is smush right now from lack of sleep and travel weariness so I’ll have to hold off for a couple of days.
Met up with Avanutria, Azalin, Eldarion and MurphyStout, made a bunch of new friends (and we might have some new recruits to the cause), had a total blast, and I might have learnt a thing or two about whistling too.
Glad you had such a good time. By road from here is in excess of six hours. Mostly wall to wall traffic. Birmingham is more central…worth a few nanos thought maybe and pretty accessible. Must be more than two of us over in the West…
Trains?
Trisha
Ah! You guys would come to Birmingham, Alabama? JUST FOR ME???
Dale