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Cheers Newcastle! Ace day all round, thanks for organising. Great fun and loadsa good polo. Bring on S.H.I.T 4!

Please put your photos online if you have any.
Obviously, look us up if you're in town.

+1 to both

Good to see you all and thanks for the dancing, drinking, attempted danny macaskill impersonations and amusing drunken ramblings with apple turnovers. Hopefully be back down to Manc soon and get some more polo in. H. x

That's an impressive and articulate argument.

That's fine by me (personally speaking). Don't see any reason women should have to be the only ones pulling people up for acting like cavemen with no manners. This is our bit of the forum, respect that or go start your own thread about bits of the male anatomy that you seem to be so interested in.

Bontrager Inform WSD. Or something the same that won't wear out after 6 months :(

NDC go back to your cave.

Just about recovered from the epic amounts of skidding drinking dancing and arm wrestling.
Was ace to see everyone and have some amazing polo played on (albeit slippy) home turf.

Couple of flickr sets here that people have sent links to. enjoy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesrobertson/sets/72157627093905663/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonkyknees/5947627243/in/set-72157627218154972/

Registration is open!

http://ukchamps2011.edinburghbikepolo.com/index.php

Hey, be good to see some of you at this. Particularly as the UK champs probably won't come this far north often.

http://www.ukchamps2011.edinburghbikepolo.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205641662805463

registration opens soon, keep an eye on the website.

dibs, pmed

@thismuchiknow - you willing to post or pick up only?

thank you guys, was ace to see you all again. some proper quality games.

Not sure whether there are girls playing in cambridge but don't let it put you off if there aren't. When I started polo in manc I was one of the only girls playing regularly and still really enjoyed it. The great thing about polo is things like strength and speed on the road really don't make a difference to how good you are at it. Not saying you can't get macho posing at polo, but it's hard to be macho when you're running a spinny gear on a beater bike and riding in tiny circles waving a mallet with a yellow drainpipe stuck on the end.

So, my twopence worth as a female mechanic:

I've had bike shops tell me to my face and behind my back that they won't employ me because I'm a girl. I've had some shit experiences working as a mechanic and some great ones. I'm currently working in a lovely shop with 2 female mechanics out of the 7 or 8 that work there. Yesterday a woman brought her two little girls into the workshop so they could see that there was a woman working there. Which I found kinda funny, but also quite nice and promising.

@enid - pm me re evans (or anything else) if you want, I'm avoiding too much employment related chat on a public forum, but am more than happy to bitch/answer questions out of the public domain. good luck with it all!

just seen Le Mallet Jaune on the list for the london open. "Plum Deep" (fuck knows why, at least plums are easier to draw than sharks) have just registered, bring it on. looking forward to seeing you guys, who's playing as the 3rd?

I've got loads of spray paint that needs a new home as well, can't be arsed bring it up here. blue red yellow white purple i think. 's still at my place in mcr if anyone wants it.

Damn, someone dint think that date clash through very well. Anyone else doing munich/berlin? And is that road trip idea still happening?

this:

http://www.lhbpa.org/londonopen

is the london open, registration by 30th June, no cap on teams. come on, you know you want to... at risk of stirring the bag of worms or whatever the phrase is, who are asbo (maybe) down?

Any of you guys thinking of doing the London open? Edinburgh gonna be sending a coupla teams down hopefully...

Woody, made you an admin of one of the old polo fb groups in case you want the members off it or owt. think i was admin of another too, but I dunno where it's got to

shit mate. glad you're ok. heal up soon. x

^ha! not surprised - apart from Nasty, theres very little helpful knowledge floating around in that shop

+1

(bitchiness from far away ftw)

I'll be around bits n pieces to pack and get stuff returned to people, just unlikely to be enough to make it to polo or owt

Wasn't meant to be that sudden. Sent a bunch of CVs up to see what would happen n I got offered a coupla trial shifts the next day. So provided I don't manage to bollocks them both up, then yeh, I'm not really gonna be based in manc anymore. Kinda weird.

Anyone who wasn't out tonight to listen to my drunken ramblings... I've got a coupla trial shifts at jobs and stuff in Edinburgh so I'm not likely to be around much anymore. Sorry I couldn't leave in a decisive, tap-out kinda way, but yeh, I'll be back a bit so hopefully see people then. But otherwise, good luck, take care n i'll see you when the new EFG incarnation comes down to kick your asses. 's been good. xx