Winchester/Hampshire/Southampton meet

Ok guys and girls. The Marwell zoo meet is set for the 3rd of March. Starting at 10am and ending well whenever it ends. The price is £14 for adults and £12 if you have a student card (you can get a 5% discount if you get your ticket online.)

The rough plan is meet at the entrance, have a wonder around, find somewhere to have lunch (ether bring you own or there are places to buy food there), have a look at anything we’ve missed then do a few little mini contests (I’ll tell you what they are below) and then people can hang around (I’ll try and stay as long as possible) and disperse whenever they want to /need to.

Traval wise car seems to best option (if you have one!) but there is one bus:

‘Monday to Saturday to Fishers Pond:
Brijan Tours No 8 bus leaves Eastleigh bus station at 14 minutes past the hour and arrives at Fishers Pond at ½ past the hour. (Marwell is 20 minutes walk - and the road is unpaved so please be careful)
Return journey: Leaves Fishers Pond at 15.49 & 16.49 and arrives at Eastleigh bus station 16.13 and 17.13.’

If you do not have a car and can’t get that bus then Smev has been lovely and is offering lifts to people who can get to central station and past airport parkway ect. and Nantucket1966 if offering lifts from gosport and fareham if anyone needs it. so do contact them if you need a lift.  

Contests:

All the mini contests will be down to voting and will have little prizes for each one

• Best animal photo – pretty self-explanatory
• Best deviant photo – get a good shot of your fellow deviants
• Best drawing – it doesn’t have to be an animal just drawn on the day while we are there
• Strangest thing – I challenge you to bring a strange thing with you. (Last time I did this mini contest we got someone who brought a practice pipe from an bagpipe that was pretty random (and totally impossible to play three blind mice on without cracking up) who thinks they can beat that?)

Well that’s about it. I’ll do an update closer to the time and send my mobile number out in a note to everyone who’s coming.

Attending:
Twimper
Nantucket1966 (offer of lifts)
Zaz14ispottermad
Smev (offer of lifts)

Deviants interested:
Twimper
Mish-Monster
Aki-o
Squanpie
Trippy210
SonicSaturn
Beccalicious
Harleydane
Nantucket1966
Immy-is-Thinking
DelinquentDog
Chazlene
Ulyses
Vendrava
Blondishemz
Laser-Toast