[cancelled] The Smart Festival 2013 !

[brulaw]

NOT good news    , I look forward to getting together with as many " forfourers "  as I can at the smart festival ....... Hmmm ,  Well if something can be arranged I'll do my best to be there .

[Fox]

Oh well.

Least said about my opinion on the 'why' the better.

[funkydoodycool]

They much have heard FDC was thinking about attending 

That was my first thought.  I was gonna go in the Audi.

[CrazyG]

... I was gonna go in the Audi.

Blasphemy....a heretic no less !  Hang you head in shame boy........      Only kiddin...

[evilution]

birmingham?!
the heritage motor museum at gaydon?

I assume this is a 5 minute drive for you.

You are about to discover why I stopped trying to arrange smart meets.
Everyone wants it on their doorstep, there is always somebody doing something else on the dates you suggest, people cancel at the last minute or just don't bother.

Probably better to just attend S2smart's next BBQ, at least then the 3 forfour owners that do bother, aren't busy etc won't be rattling around on their own.

[mr singh]

birmingham?!
the heritage motor museum at gaydon?

I assume this is a 5 minute drive for you.

its not a 5 min drive for me add another 1 hour 55 min drive to your 5 min and thats how long it would take me to get there!

its hardly a 5 min drive from leeds to birmingham

[Problemchild]

S2smarts BBQ is a good idea

Brum is good for lots of people as its central

You know what, petrol is too expensive - let's just have a Skype conference call while sat in our cars

JJ

[CrazyG]

As for a BBQ at S2....one is possibly coming up very soon...
especially as the Festival has been cancelled. I'll let those interested
know as and when Rob conforms it with me.

Otherwise....Evil is without doubt completely right...

We can't seem to organise a 'major' meet just for ForFour's, so then...
why doesn't someone in an area/region (North/South/East/West) of
the UK 'grasp the handle' and organise your own area meet ?

Mr singh, why not try to organise one up in 'your neck of the woods' ?
And someone/anyone who lives to the East or West of the UK...? ?
Come on everyone, why not ?  We might even manage to get them
all to be on the same day ! But at different places, eh !

Pick an interesting venue (or offer a choice of venues) and meet for
a morning coffee, or a burger break, or lunch whatever.....
It's not that hard to do...post up on here and use the forum....

[funkydoodycool]

I very much enjoyed our little meet last year, so perhaps I will take the chance to organise another London-ish meet soon!

[mr singh]

id love to organise a meet but its the time i have a lack of. weekdays i can't plan due to work and the commute to and from work. and on weekends i have my families cars to service and look after, weddings to go to and the like

[CrazyG]

Ok then...
I'll start a new separate post for each region/zone/area, and then it'll be up to ANYONE
(or more than one) in the area to take on board the task of arranging their own area
ForFour mini-meet.

It sound's daunting, but I can vouch that it really doesn't take much, honest.

Pick a couple of possible dates and possible venue's, then 'offer' those details out.
Plan to keep the mini-meet short time wise......but it will over-run I can  tell you.
But don't expect 'floods' of interested parties.....but do expect some who will say
yes to the event but who won't in fact turn up.... for whatever reason suits them !

As for numbers....even 5 is better than none. Our last 'little' one for London that we
did off the M4 near Reading services got just 7 of us together..for a mid morning
Sunday brunch at a McDonald's in a out of town shopping precinct. It was a great
chance to get together and chat ForFours and whatever else, and to put faces to
forum names etc. We planned for 2hours and l think we max'd out at nearly 4 !
But everyone appeared to thoroughly enjoyed it.

'Prelim' posts for the area's will be up on here tomorrow (Wednesday 7th Aug)

[Problemchild]

there just aren't enough of us tbh        (interested enough you mean [CrazyG addition]

the one in the car park last year was good and a few new people came along and we talked
through a few things over a maccy d's and was nice - long way to go for some though.

we are possibly better tagging on to another Smart meet and then there is more than just us to try and amuse

JJ

[CrazyG]

I do not rule out 'mixing it' with any other Smart meet/group get together.
In fact it's a good idea for anyone contemplating a mini-meet. Thanks for that JJ.