dr1819

How did things go? Where are all the pictures, list of attendees, recounting of the meet???

Nigel

I am surprised we have not had a brief report yet too!

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Dr. Shoe

It was great. Full report to follow...

shakedown

Yeah, really enjoyed it. Was good seeing people from my last heelmeet (26th Jan 2002) and a whole bunch of new people. Look forward to seeing the pics. I'm hoping to arrange/come to an Oxford/Reading heelmeet soon. Managed to grab a pair of boots before one of the shops closed (see below) "Oh my God!" blurted the lady sales assistant as I tried them on LOL. Apparently she hadn't seen a bloke buy something from the ladies section before. As ever, it was entertaining watching the reactions of passers-by! I'd recommend anyone to come along to these heelmets as you couldn't get a more sound bunch of people.
http://www.tawny.f2s.com/bought.jpg

euchrid

My verdict on the Heelmeet (my first one too!):
It was great to meet so many forum members and put faces to the Usernames. As bruce forsyth might have once said – “what lovely people!”

I thought the day went really well. There were a few logistics problems (including my own when I started off in the wrong Starbucks – D’oh!) but Heelfan did a sterling job of rounding us all up. Kudos to him for maintaining a semblance of order during the day.

Some real laughs were had watching the reactions from the people who noticed the heel-wearers in our party. They ranged from disapproving tuts, eyes-raised-to-the-heavens, wry smiles and looks of complete bewilderment. Priceless! It was amazing though how many people didn’t notice anything. Talk about tunnel-vision!

The shopping was enjoyable. It was mostly just furtive browsing on my part as I’m still pretty green with it all. I almost got to try on a pair of boots late in the day but I couldn’t do up the b****y zip. Hopefully I’ll have better luck next time.

The socialising was excellent, the topics of conversation jumping all over the place. Who says we're all obsessed with heels!?! We ate and drank pretty well too - lager in the afternoon and an eat-as-much-as-you-can Italian buffet in the evening. The perfect combo!

Thanks to Jo, Shakedown, Mel, Heelfan, Firefox, the fogborkenvv’s, kneehighs and to all you other attendees for making it a day to remember.
It was my first meet, but it definitely won’t be my last!

shakedown

"Good game good game!"
Funniest look I think was when we were in Dune. Watched the shop assistant help someone for about a minute, then she looked up and saw us lot and then suddently froze!
Nice one to kneehighs and Heelfan for organising it all.
Also well done to euchrid for trying on a pair in a shop for the first time!

xaphod

Yes, all went well.

I arranged to meet kneehighs at Waterloo station from the Paris Eurostar. Sitting on the balcony of the Reef Bar, I was surprised to see Fogborgenv and his wife joining me. Kneehighs appeared shortly afterwards and we went to Euston Novotel to book him in and drop off his luggage.

Kneehighs wondered about the Harvey Nichols ad on the tube, so we Brits had to explain subtlety to him. Oh, BTW, with the characteristic British subtlety comes the reticence. .... KH, your compliment about arranging the event for the 13th especially because I said I was free was noted and much appreciated, even if I didn't show it very obviously.

Lots of mobile phone calls later, the use of the expression 'where are you?' became tiresome after a while, organised the total meeting of 18 attendees outside a pub off Oxford street. After more drinking and group photos the need to feed became more pressing, especially in Fogborgenv's wife who has an impressively healthy appetite. We eventually repared to Paradiso, the Italian restaurant which we monopolised for the next couple of hours. They're normally used to me appearing there wearing heels for lunch, by myself, and were quite surprised to see a huge bunch of heelies there.

Fogborgenv suggested that we have informal lunch meetings there, in the week, every now and again. Yep, I'm up for that.

Various people departed to do some more shopping, but many returned to the Novotel bar for an evening relaxing. Louis needed to catch up on some sleep before some serious clubbing. OH WOW, Louis, that outfit you came back downstairs wearing, the corset, the jacket, the metal-tipped boots, you wear it well man.

I hope you night birds had fun on the town, but me, a country boy had had enough of the city racket for one day, so decided to wander home.

For those who want the pics, Kneehighs has plenty on his video camera, so I guess these will appear when he gets to somewhere he can download them.


Best wishes, all, in the hope that there are many more meets like this.


Xa

Stormie

And "Oh my God!" blurted the girlfriend when she saw the picture.

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luxxyheels

Post pics :D

Dr. Shoe

I went up to the London meet;
We all met up in Oxford Street;
There were twenty heelers there;
You should've seen the public stare;

:o

Heelfan of course was wearing heels;
And brought Jo and Peachy in his wheels;
Xaphod turned up rather late;
'cos he'd gone to meet Kneehighs, his mate;



Euchrid, Shakedown, Dougal and Si;
Helped make the time fly swiftly by;
Heelius made the gang complete;
Like us he was wearing heels on his feet;

:)

We looked for Micha and A3;
But they had gone quite wrong you see;
Along with Jan they'd got lost;
And had to wait, that was their cost;



First we met in a certain caff;
And sat around and had a laugh;
After which we got some grub;
Then sat outside a local pub;

:drinking:

We tried to pull out all the stops;
And went around the local shops:
I tried on heels and here's the news;
I bought nothing, not even shoes!



Fogborkenvy brought his missus;
And introduced her to all of us;
They had met Xa at Waterloo;
Then came along to join us too:

:D

While the rest were getting their heely fix;
Firefox did some magic tricks;
Calv then found himself in luck;
And found a place to park his truck;



Can't remember the names of the rest;
But for being great guys they were the best;
We had some laughs, we had some food;
And magic tricks, (some almost good);



Then it came time to say goodbye;
With heavy heart I had to fly;
All the way home I was feeling bad;
'Cos to leave so soon was really sad!

:(

Tara XXX