First off I do apologise for the wonky and badly taped sign on the door, if you knew just how painful it was just to do that though you would be a little more lenient. Needless to say having pulled something in my back a week ago anything that involves bending or moving generally is extreme agony. Iburofen does appease my angry back, but limited to three 400mg doses a day at least four hours apart when the angry back has munched it's quota it does like to take it's displeasure out on me.

Crippled back aside I think the day worked well, @shanibeer did the hard work of getting you all to my executive coffee shed on the day - all I did was turn up and provide a cold buffet of sandwhiches, pork pies, sausage rolls, cake slices and and two massive fruit platters - oh and soft drinks plus coffee - and everyone seemed to be well into enjoying some coffee!

The excellent food I sourced from Weaver Rooms in Dean Clough, they did an amazing job in 2020 and again they excelled I know everyone enjoyed it because the food was for 15 people and it was pretty much cleared out by the end! If anyone would like to show appreciation on their socials links are

https://en-gb.facebook.com/www.theloomlounge.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/the.weaverrooms/

Cost for the food I covered with my Hive Witness rewards from @c0ff33a witness so thank you all for supporting my Witness current rank 47 - any Witness should be able to justify why they deserve votes and I hope this event gave my voters good reason. Also thanks to @slobberchops who donated the HBD from his meet up post to go toward the food cost.

It was a superb day despite my painful back, seeing familiar faces from the last meet up and also meeting new people - the hardest thing as the host is trying to keep everyone happy and full of coffee means very little time for chatting and hanging out.

Thank you @shanibeer for organising, @stevenwood for help with set up and being an amazing interesting person to chat to, @slobberchops for bringing @onw and also @goblinknackers , @rimicane who was new to me but I already know I need to keep an eye on her posts, @shmoogleosukami returning again and always someone I can relate to because we both relate to tech and run Witness servers, @molometer who I instantly recognised from his YouTube and HiveBlog but also has an interesting back story - because he knew @oldguyphotos before me and together they took me on this Blockchain journey, @dandays who was just super interesting to chat to, some people have just this rare skill that they can talk and just hold your attention completely - and he really has it. I loved his story about how he visited a coffee plantation in Costa Rica with his wife - and they use mosquitoes to pollinate coffee plants and attract them by planting banana trees close the coffee trees. Amazing - I did not know that! And of course @livinguktaiwan another face to a name I have known and interacted with for years.

Super day, amazing people and I am sure we can make it bigger and better again in 2023 my back allowing......