Midlands meet up

Watch out world! The Gran's are on the march!
March, march, swing ye along!

Annoyingly the Pre Raphaelite exhibition that's on in London probably means that any Pre Raphaelite paintings that would have been in Brum won't be there. But that's not the end of the world, and a good excuse to go to London in the Autumn! Note to self; must sort out train times.

Now that the wedding is out of the way and the granny marathon - apart from a sleepover at the end of the month when DD and SIL go to a wedding in Oxford, what am I looking forward to now??
MIDLANDS MEET UP in Birmingham!

Ooh goody, I'm looking forward to it......the tearooms won't know what's hit them

Yummy all correct! Wear whatever you like, Jeni is going to put us all to shame anyway.

This all sounds very exciting, I have been away from my computer for some time so am having to catch up on all this! So we are wearing purple/green/white, is that right? Will ribbons be acceptable, if we haven't got anything purple to wear? It is still at the Edwardian tearooms at the Birmingham Art Gallery isn't it? 12.30 for 1pm.....just need to check

jeni D'ya think my purple feather boa will match your fascinator?

grrrrany you will look very fetching in your balaclava with 3 colours of ribbons flying off in all directions. Better not make them too long or they will get in your lunch!

Alison I have bought some ribbon in the colours but haven't worked out what to do with them yet. After seeing Glasgow crew, my balaclava will play havoc with my fine (thin) hair so I would have to decide whether to keep it on for group photos or not. Now thinking it should be a bit like a terrorist one with just holes for eyes as I hate seeing myself in photos - they shatter my delusions.

Jeni I think I am going to look very drab next to you! Should I buy some ribbons in green, purple and white and attach those somewhere?

It's a fascinator actually in purple!

Go for it Old we need to make an impact and shake Brum up. Of course headwear is optional and those of us who are vertically challenged should be let off.

OOOOOH! I've got a fascinator with a green feather bought in a -second hand- gently worn shop in Tetbury, my friends and I call it 'Camilla's cast-off'.
At this rate I shall look even more like Lilo Lil!

hats definitely optional. If you want to wear a hat indoors jeni we look forward to admiring it.

Reminds me of that film! The one where the men did the strip tease? My cleaner said that when she watched it, she ran round the tv set at the end but still couldn't see anything!

I wore it outside, marelli! I usually do wear a hat outdoors. Don't like cold ears, or wisps of flyaway hair blowing in my face all the time. Walking in Glasgow yesterday, I wished I'd worn gloves too, at least in the morning. Took my coat off on the walk back to the station, but kept my hat on.

I look like a table lamp when I wear a hat!

Bags carried hers yesterday!

We don`t have to have head gear, do we? Me and hats juust don`t go together!

I hope you have the specs too Jeni

You wait till you see my headgear ladies! Dame Edna eat your heart out!

I wasn't planning to book my ticket until we return from our cruise.However I've looked up train times from Nailsea.Most convenient train would be 9.29a.m. to connect with 10.00a.m. train from Temple Meads
Return trains from Brum seem to be every 30 mins.I don't have any strong feelings about return times.

Coral would certainly count. Specially a purple variety.

Jess would coral count, then I could just lay there looking beautiful (huh), I can't swim, and maybe Greatnan would come snorkelling past.
Defo a butterfly for much the same reasons as yours.
jeni I think I mentioned before that I'm hoping to be on the 9.30 from Temple Meads, provided local train gets there in time.
numberplease any shade of purple would do I'm sure after all there are 50 shades of grey.... and NO I haven't read it!