The #NBYTweetup that was planned for tonight has had to be rescheduled for Friday 9th July.

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I haven’t managed to write much on our Tweetup on Friday 9th April I’ve been really busy. But we meet in Monty’s Bar and fun & laughter was had by all as well as serious conversations.   Montys Bar put aside a table for us to make sure that we all had somewhere to sit.  @simonmiddlemiss & @LinzMiddlemiss sat at the table, ignoring the reserved sign – but luckily it was for us anyway!

Thanks to @simonmiddlemiss @LinzMiddlemiss @peacockpete @emmersimms @GrahameCoach @jimmillen @multimedian @fairywishes for coming along and making the evening great.

Next time we need to make sure more people come along and we need more photos.  I promise to write up the next tweetup in more detail.

We held the second tweetup on the 12th February at Document House, in Newbury.

@peacockpete was the first to arrive and greeted @fairywishes & @TheSourceress with warm kisses – was a bit unsure if he should do the same to @multimedian (it was decided that the likelyhood of spilt drink would be too great). @TheSourceress was wearing her ‘twitter’ T-shirt & I was wearing my little @fairywishes broach – so no real help in identifying myself to new people.

It had been tweeted that we should meet upstairs but @GrahamCoach @Fibroaction & @simonmiddlemiss did not notice this and we had to go down & collect them!

A great turn out with seven out of the eight who came last time coming again. Unfortunately @Nigel_Morgan couldn’t make it. Luckily @emmasimms @JWWLaw & @jimmillen joined us to make our numbers up. We hoping that the numbers keep increasing with lots more people being interested in joining. Keep an eye out for when the next tweetup is. We welcome anyone who is based in the local area or who is visiting. We are a welcoming group, even if we are all a little mad – well I’m mainly talking from my own experience. I’m definitely mad, but welcoming!

The topics of conversation ranged from how to take a good picture; port drinking; good wines; commuting; computing; divorce and how to carry eggs in handbags! Many of these conversations were happening at the same time. Lots of wine and drink was had making this a relaxed, fun and enjoyable beginning to the evening. Then Document House started their DJing set which soon had us shouting at each other and a decision was made to move on.

We then went onto ‘Queens’ where some of the group had tea & coffee but most continued drinks and a little chat. I have to say I then went home and can not write what happened next at the Tweetup- next time I vow I will not go home so early – but I have heard that @peacocpete, @emmasimms & @GrahamCoach went onto Montys until the small hours drinking yet more wine and I believe dancing was had. When questioned the trio can not give me a very complete picture of what occurred, but insist they were well behaved and had a great time! I think there was a lot of love shared.

Please look at the picture gallery for some photos that were taken on the night. Next time I want more cameras and more silly photos. We could have had loads of @peacockpete as he spend some time practising how to have his picture taken but I think we have enough.

We are also going to add a caption contest I think.

Some suggestions for future events are a wine and cheese night and a themed event where we all have to wear something that relates to our twitter name – not sure what the people whose handle is just their name could wear. Any more suggestions please let me know.

Tweetup December 15th at “Montys” in Newbury

This was our first tweetup.

8 people turned up:

• @TheSourceress
• @fairywishes
• @Nigel_Morgan
• @peacockpete
• @GrahameCoach
• @SimonMiddlemiss
• @fibroaction
• @multimedian

We eventually found each other (with @GrahameCoach taking a little time!) and then went to a corner to chat.  @fairywishes was given the dud chair which meant that the chair collapsed under her, a feat that everyone managed to repeat once the drinks started to flow.

@Nigel_Morgan and @peacockpete managed to keep everyone entertained with their many risqué stories.

The evening was a huge sucess with many new twitter friends being made.  We hope everyone can come again.

Newbury Tweetup has a website! Thanks to @multimedian

Please come here to find out about us.  Also we need your help and input to develop this site and give you what you want.   What do you want on here?  Let us know.

Remember to bring your camera to the next tweetup on Friday 12th Feb.  We need lots of pictures to make the site ‘pretty’.

We are interested in information about Newbury and information about yourselves – what’s new in your life?  We will post details of other local events and relevant groups to keep you in the loop.

Hopefully we will get to meet you soon – we’ll try not to be too scary.  @TheSourceress and @fairywishes