[Musica]

Hi Nes ... such a shame you couldn't get there, it would have been great to meet you. xxx

Have to say what a brilliant afternoon/evening/night  Friday was! It was great to see some friends again and to meet some new ones too. Thank you to those who organised this. I bet Saturday was lots of fun too, sorry I missed it!  Thank you very much. xxx

[niff naff]

Just popped in to pen how much I enjoyed the weekend, seeing old friends, and making new ones,  I always arrive and leave with bitter sweet thoughts, about the time ahead, and on leaving the time spent together,  I love the short time we all share,  the laughter, the optimism, but I find it incredible sad that there are so many broken souls.  Many are healing, all at different speeds but nevertheless healing which is good, but so sad they had to be hurt.   I miss everyone very much once I arrive home, but know I will not have the wait a long time till we meet again, old and new alike.

Thank you my friends for sharing these moments from your lives.

Niff Naff

[honour]

Hello to new friends. Thank you for this weekend. Given that the life circumstances that brought us together are pretty much the worst anyone could ever have to go through it was uplifting to see all the smiles and laughter and optimism.

I enjoyed chatting. Thank you to everyone who shared their story. Each account had the script that we are sadly only too familiar with, but equally, each was unique. I left with more insight into this crazy thing we call mid-life than when I arrived.

Particularly funny was when the guy serving the food in the pub Saturday lunchtime asked the group, "you sound like you have come from all over the world, what brings you all together?" How do you even begin to answer that one? 
The get-together was fun and one of the more light-hearted moments of my past twenty months. I can truthfully say it's the first time I've been the token male out to dinner with twenty women.

Thank you to Foxberry and Voyager for putting it together.

Take care all and keep smiling.

honour

[Voyager]

Hi all

Thank you to everyone for coming along and sharing food, laughter, and yourselves. It was wonderful to see so many of us together, and to learn from each other. Not just the story of our individual situations but to see how we are all navigating our way through with grace, dignity and humour...that's a testament to us as LBS.

It was a real pleasure to meet you all...........................now then where shall we go for the next one

Much love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[arp1]

H all,

Just wanted to add my thanks to Foxberry & Voyager for organising the weekend and to everyone there on Saturday afternoon.

It was great to share experiences and feel  that you're not alone (more than an internet forum alone can do); especially when others' experiences and stories are so uncannily similar it defies belief!

I'm sure an outsider (or even MLCers themselves!  ) would imagine events like these would be morose with everyone crying into their beer/wine, but it was quite the opposite.

Thanks again and here's to the next one.

X

[Silmarion]

Ab Fab - really!!!


Thoroughly enjoyed the whole event.  Wonderful people who, despite their traumas have such solid ground beneath them (with some wicked humour thrown in for good measure!) 

Thank you to you all for organising.  Thank you for everyone for being so welcoming and interesting.

Sil x

[jilly]

I just wanted to add my thanks to Foxberry and Voyager and anyone else who had a hand in organising a great weekend.  I'll admit that I was wary and didn't know what to expect but I met a great bunch of kind, interesting, funny and compassionate people and had a really great time.  As xyzcf said on  another post, meeting up with other LBS's really is the best therapy.

Of course, if my D14 says she if off for the weekend to meet up with people she has been chatting with on the internet   I will absolutely forbid it!!

Jilly

[stayed]

Sounds incredible, like they always are!  This is the first one I have missed here in Europe, wish I could have attended but can see you all got along just fine without me...    hehehe! 

There is NOTHING more empowering then meeting a group of people who will not allow this or anything else, RUIN their lives. 

Yaaaahooooooooooooo LBSer's. 

hugs Stayed

[Chrysalis]

A belated thank you to Foxberry, Voyager and anyone else involved in organising the meetup in Leeds.

It was lovely to meet some of you again and also meet some wonderful new people (well, new to me!).

C
xx

[CrazyStuff]

I also want to say thank you to everyone who helped with the organisation of the meetup in Leeds and to say how much I enjoyed myself.  It was great meeting 'old' friends again and having the opportunity to make new friends.     We may be dealing with something horrible in our lives, yet we still have the capacity to want to help others as well as the good sense to know we can't get through this on our own.     A great bunch of people and my overriding memory of the weekend is how much we laughed.     

As Voyager said, with a straight face when asked by the pub landlord what was bringing us all together, we are a 'Special Interest Group'.

I don't know how she kept a straight face as even now when I think about it I start grinning.   It is true as we are special, we have a specialist topic and and we chose to be part of a group.      I bet the landlord is still trying to work it out. 

CrazyStuff