World Heel Meet 2006, London: Sat., May 13th - Page 12

Robert · 15th May 2006, 22:07

Here are the first photos of the heelmeet :
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Peachy (Mel) and Tara

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Peachy (Mel) and Tara again

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Euchrid, Peachy (Mel), Tara and Heeluis

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Heeluis, Shakedown and Jo

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Si and Firefox

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Euchrid, Peachy (Mel), Tara, Heeluis and Shakedown

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At lunch with Micha, A3 in the background and Heelfan next to Peachy (Mel) on the righthand side, Firefox, Si and Tara on the left hand side, the fingers on the lower left corner are from Heeluis

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Me pull on other boots

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Mr. Fogborkenvv, Jo, Xaphod, Kneehighs and Firefox

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Kneehighs, Xaphod, Heeluis, A3 and Mr.Fogborkenvv

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Peachy (Mel) and Heelfan

Robert

Smudgeur · 15th May 2006, 22:15

Any chance of putting some names to the faces?

I'm up for a lunchtime Italian in London btw

Shafted · 15th May 2006, 22:39

Great pics! While I recognize Kneehighs and Xaphod, I too would love to see names to faces as well.

Fog · 15th May 2006, 22:53

Yes it was a fun day. I came up to town with Mrs. F and because we didn't want to be up at the crack of dawn we decided to meet Xaphod and Kneehighs at Waterloo. The other reason we did that was becuase I had a makeover booked at the Army and Navy. That was fun, I was surprised that Mrs F didn't throw a major fit when I suggested it, and she was happy as long as she could come along and join in. It ended up quite subtle - I got it toned down as it started to look a bit like a panto dame - a woman of a certain age!

We duly met up with Xaphod and had a nice time chatting until Kneehighs arrived. Went up to the hotel and back down to Oxford St and met up with the others.

The day was low on shoe shops, we only went into one shop all day. That was fine by me. I'd much rather the socialising, I'm not a fan of shoe shopping mob handed, and with a crowd of fifteen or so there's plenty of scope for people getting lost. We completely lost everyone for about five minutes.

Some of us were starving, we'd had no lunch, so eventually we arrived at Paradiso Italian eat as much as you like buffet. Fine value and quality for £6.50 - and some of us ate as much as we liked.

I suggested to Xaphod that it would be a good central venue for a lunch time meet up, and promised to put a post in this part of the board about that - before I do I must work out when I can make it though.

All in all an enjoyable day for both of us. It was good to meet so many of you, the presence of a strong European contingent added so much to the day. Finally congratulations to Kneehighs for organising the day and for putting such a lot of effort in.

Arctic · 15th May 2006, 23:04

Fantastic, I really regret not being able to make it.

B

micha · 15th May 2006, 23:48

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Originally Posted by 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

Hi Tara, wonderful poetry!

If only my English were better
To express, that it was great
All guys on heels - no matter
Believe me, thats straight!

Thanks to Heelfan and Kneehighs
For doing this troublesome job
Don't need to emphasize
This meeting was top!

OUCH :D

Dear forum members, please, don't whistle too loud. It's my first high speed poem in english. Just back from London since 2 hours. More prosa tomorrow...

micha

PS What about privacy concerning the posting of pictures? My face is definitely world wide free. Pondering about the "half smiley" ...

PPS At the moment I'm a little confused. Are you Tara Dr. Shoe in the internet ?!?

Heelfan · 16th May 2006, 01:37

Report - World Heel-Meet, 13th May, London

Well, we didn't quite make the 21 hoped for by Kneehighs, due to the sad absence of FGWJON, Dougal and shakedown.

However let that not detract from the great fact that it was the all-time RECORD ATTENDANCE of 18 MEMBERS!:

Heel-D, Xaphod, Calv, kneehighs from New York, Tara, heeluis from Hamburg, fogborkenvv and Mrs. fogborkenvv, euchrid, Heelfan, Firefox, Peachy (Mel), Si, jo, Robert from The Netherlands, a3 from the Netherlands, micha from Frankfurt aND micha's friend from Germany.

It really is gratifying how amazingly the high heel movement is growing - over 2,500 members on Megaforums, and eighteen meeting in person for a street-heeling day!

We always say "Heels not compulsory", but all except one wore high heels, and some changed into a second or third pair as the day wore on. Micha turned up in pink cowboy boots, but later changed into a pair of sandals with stiletto heels so high that he actually hit his head on the ceiling of the escalator in Top Shop!

Due to the impressive size of the group, much of the time was spent welcoming new arrivers into the group, and waiting for the Waterloo Station group to join the main party. So unusually, although about five or six shoe shops were visited, I don't think any purchases were made.
The emphasis was more towards socialising, eating, drinking and chatting generally, with a running entertainment from Firefox who treated us to an array of magic tricks.

Soon after 5 pm, Peachy and I had to return to Bristol to enable Melanie to prepare her stocks of extreme heels for the Swamp Fetish Fair which was held in Bristol on the following day, but we trusted that the rest of the party would have a great evening.

Before we departed, Kneehighs asked all of the attendees to post reports of the Heel-Meets, very kindly saying that he would sponsor a prize for the best report, to be judged by him and me. The prize is a pair a shoes of the winner's choice from Mel's Peachy Shoes. Telephone Peachy Shoes
(0117 3309090) for details of her stocks.

So, all those who have not yet posted, please post your report! Those who wish to add to or replace their initial report, please post below!

All of us should extend a huge "THANK YOU" to Kneehighs, firstly for conceiving this world record Heel-Meet, and secondly for donating funds to
sponsor the winning pair of shoes prize for the best report.

Secondly, our thanks to Robert for posting excellent photos of the Meets, and to others who we hope will follow suit.

Cheers, Heelfan

Shafted · 16th May 2006, 01:45

I plan on attending the next world heel meet if at all possible. I sure feel like I was missing out.

shakedown · 16th May 2006, 06:57

Pics aren't showing up for me Robert.

Nigel · 16th May 2006, 07:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by shakedown

Pics aren't showing up for me Robert.

Nope,

Me neither, they were not there for long, I hope you can fix it!

Nigel