AFF Gathering #10 - location choice

[Deleted member]

so its now a matter of chosing a weekend in October?

 

[TomVexille]

Unlike you, Jess, but I think you missed the play on the word!

Late autumn or late spring.

Actually I think you're the one that missed hers

 

[JohnM]

so its now a matter of chosing a weekend in October?

I will be away in October, but back in about the second half of November - BindiBuys can tell me exactly when .

 

[JohnM]

Actually I think you're the one that missed hers

D'oh ! At least I did say it was unlike Jess to miss it .

 

[JessicaTam]

D'oh ! At least I did say it was unlike Jess to miss it .

You got there in the end. Hehehe.

 

[Buzzard]

Now let's hope it's when I can go.

 

[Bindibuys]

I will be away in October, but back in about the second half of November - BindiBuys can tell me exactly when .

We plan to fly in from HKG on Friday 4 Nov, I have school reunion on the Sat 5th, back in Sydney.
Flying out on Wed 21 Sept.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Unlike you, Jess, but I think you missed the play on the word!

I thought Ms Tams' retort was an excellent return of serve and PER (capitalised) may have been a touch too obvious! 'tis why I gave a "like" (heaven knows there's not much else to like about PER )

 

[JohnM]

I thought Ms Tams' retort was an excellent return of serve and PER (capitalised) may have been a touch too obvious! 'tis why I gave a "like" (heaven knows there's not much else to like about PER )

It was! The penny did drop with a prompt from TomVexille​. I was still dozy (or dozier than usual), having just awakened from my post-lunch nap .

 

[JohnM]

We plan to fly in from HKG on Friday 4 Nov, I have school reunion on the Sat 5th, back in Sydney.
Flying out on Wed 21 Sept.

Thanks BB. I'll fill in my diary for next year right now .

For AFF #10, I'll just need a day (or four) to drive back to PER from the Hunter Valley . So I can make it any time from the weekend of 12-13 Nov.

 

[Bindibuys]

Thanks BB. I'll fill in my diary for next year right now .

For AFF #10, I'll just need a day (or four) to drive back to PER from the Hunter Valley . So I can make it any time from the weekend of 12-13 Nov.

Same for us, be we would fly over for that weekend.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Perhaps it's time to start a date poll?

 

[Major]

Perhaps it's time to start a date poll?

Agreed. I prefer the cooler times of late Sep or early Oct.

Also need to avoid sporting finals and school holidays

 

[TomVexille]

Agreed. I prefer the cooler times of late Sep or early Oct.

Also need to avoid sporting finals and school holidays

Which for VIC is late Sep into early Oct

 

[samh004]

Perhaps it's time to start a date poll?

It will happen

Just dealing with other things

But you can start listing sporting events and other clashes if you like to help me when I do make the poll. Preferably with a date, not just "AFL GF"

 

[Deleted member 29185]

But you can start listing sporting events and other clashes if you like to help me when I do make the poll.

I guess we can never have a totally clashless society () but to start it off......
Bathurst 6-9 Oct.
Mel. Cup 1 Nov.

 

[Fifa]

NSW & WA school holidays: Sat 24 September - Mon 10 October 2016

 

[Awesom Andy]

Most WA areas also have the Queen's birthday on 26 Sep.

 

[JohnM]

Agreed. I prefer the cooler times of late Sep or early Oct.

Also need to avoid sporting finals and school holidays

As a general statement, the winters in SW WA have tended to start later and finish later over the last decade or so. The last few weeks have been quite mild in PER and it looks set to continue like that for at least another week.

That, in turn, means that Margaret River and such places 'down south' are quite a lot milder, making November usually a very good time to go there - and the flies, which can be bad in December in those regions, have not yet built up.

Of course, earlier in spring, around September can be an excellent time - especially in PER and N & E areas for the wildflowers. Just a greater chance of striking a rainy period then - and it clashes with sport finals.

If it wasn't evident from a previous post, I'm house-sitting Bindibuys' place in the Hunter Valley while she and MrBB swan around the world in F & J from late Sept- early Nov so I'll be on the wrong side of the country from mid-September until after then (and they will obviously be away.) Prior to that, I'll be on the Gibb River Road early June and in Africa late June-early August.

My availability becomes limited to any weekend from 12-13 November or any weekend between 19-20 August to 9-10 September.

 

[tuapekastar]

Weekends of 15/16 Oct and 22/23 Oct (less so) are difficult for me (yes a sporting event, but not one likely to affect anyone else here). Difficult, but not necessarily impossible.