Be Excellent To Each Other

Like a Prime Minister hanging on to office, our Tuesday night fun continues from 8.

Giphy "october":
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iPad be dead. Will be there once there’s enough battery to start the mother up.

It's Tuesday! That can only mean another Tory leader BeeX Zoom call, from 8. Over 102 supporters (unconfirmed).

Giphy "another tuesday":
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We'll be in our hotel at Stansted this evening so may or may not be able to join depending on our movements.

Kids mainly, that is. Not bowels.

Like a disgraced and horrible Minister, our Zoom call is back after just a week. 8pm as usual.

Giphy "disgraced minister":
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Gify nailed it

To be fair, there were lots of targets for it to hit!

We may not be there this evening, we have a sick little boy and after a bit of a nightmare travel day yesterday we're all a little frazzled...

Who is that?

The gif bot, innit

Like a billionaire desperately clinging on to his bad decisions, our Tuesday Zoom is back tonight at 8pm. See you there.

Giphy "burning $44 billion":
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We probably won't make it tonight either, things have been absolutely manic here the past few days and Jem's been flitting around all over the country so we need an evening of proper 'downtime'.

Still, if you'd still like some Gaz-sanctioned fun... this thread is for you!

Wifi and boiler problems needed my attention this evening, but it sounds like we might have not had enough for a quorum tonight anyway. Hopefully, normal service will be resumed next week.

Like being bitten by scorpion on TV, our Tuesday Zoom call is back before you've even noticed.

On from 8.

Giphy "scorpions":
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I've set up a room for tonight from 8 for those who are around.

See you all later!

Don’t know if we’ll make it. Turbulent times with teenagers…

Hi everyone,

I was about to set up a space for tomorrow then realised it clashes with a couple of football games that might draw a bigger crowd (Iran v USA; England v Wales).

Do people want a call tomorrow or should we give it a miss*?

On a more general note, I've often said that I'm happy to keep these things going for as long as people want them. For a one-off thing during lockdown, it's lasted pretty well and I still enjoy them. Having something regular makes it easier for people to come and go as they feel like it rather than a fixed monthly/quarterly/Plutonian orbit that means if you miss one that's it for a while. I definitely want to have some over Christmas and into the New Year.

Giphy "football":
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*there's probably a football joke in there somewhere but couldn't get the pitch right when I tried to tackle it.

FFS Giphy. That's not going to win people over.

I'm around, likely to just have the football on in the background, personally. But it is a perfectly fair reason to skip a week.

Yeah, I'll be watching the football, if the quiz is going on after the game is over, I will probably pop on for the last hour or so

Let's have a week off and see how things look for next week closer to the time.

I'm still planning to do this tomorrow if people are around.

We should be there this week

Yay!

Details posted in the usual place.

Giphy "19 days left":
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Sounds sinister, Giphy.

And I should even have a round!

It's cold out there so let's have a comforting Zoom call to warm our cockles. Tonight, 8.

Giphy "warm your cockles":
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Won’t make it unfortunately, two sick kids and a triceratops wearing us out.

Five sleeps to Christmas, so still time to get yourself onto that all-important Nice list. Alternatively, have a fun video call.

We're on Zoom from 8.

Giphy "reindeer games":
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Going to write a festive round, of course

Nice one!

I have twelve festive questions too!

Giphy "festive questions":
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Great fun last night, thanks everyone.

As mentioned in my round, here's the Wikipedia page on Santa's Tomb. Perhaps something to keep in the back pocket if you want to traumatise young children, even though he probably didn't end up in County Kilkenny.

Anyone around tomorrow?

We’ll probably be around!

Happy Held-Over Bank Holiday to all who celebrate!

See you all at 8 tonight!

Giphy "last of 2022":
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We won’t make it after all I’m afraid, too tired after a manic couple of days! Have a good night!

Start as we mean to go on! BeeX Zoom call from 8 tonight.

Giphy "2023!":
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I won't be around tomorrow night but will set up a room for those who want it.

We may not be able to make it to any of the Tuesday night zooms now

Our TKD lesson now finishes at 20:30 so we won’t be sorted until around 21:00 once the kids are sorted and into bed.

I guess we can join for the second half though

No probs. Things change and all that.

Always welcome to join for however long you can or want to.

Details for tonight in the usual place although I won't be there. Stack the chairs nicely when you leave.

Maybe we should think about changing to another day, if Tuesday's are tricky for some.

Set up a meeting for tonight. I've kept it at 8 but we might want to move it later in future. See how things go.

Giphy "freezing cold tuesday in january":
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I'm going to believe that's a nose, Giph-boy.

Related to Malc's thread, would people want to try a later start on Tuesday?

I've set it up for 8 as usual.

Take a break from the cold and jump on.

Giphy "it's freezing out there":
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After almost three years and just over 1,000 days we ended season 1 of BeeX Zoom Calls last night.

Thank you to everyone who's ever joined a call, written a round, or generally just aided making Tuesday nights that bit merrier.

We're keen to keep something like this going, but in a new form, as we've all enjoyed seeing each other outside of Cottage.

Giphy "this is not the end":
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PS: who is George Ezra?

Thanks for hosting for so long Kern. I'm sad my schedule has prevented me from joining for so long. But I had to let someone else win once in a while

I think he's the guy that keeps trying to get me to convert to his religion. A Buddha pest.

I too am sorry I had to start missing this on a Tuesday. I genuinely enjoyed seeing you all and I think it was a great idea from the get go. Thank you Kern for organising and hosting it.

Maybe a one off every now and again would be good? And let's now forget where it all began... Look at all those people!