meeting up in meatspace

I was aware that a bunch of apfers were planning to have a get together in a field somewhere sometime, but what with being otherwise engaged I hadn't registered exactly where or when. Not until I logged onto irc a couple of days back, and discovered that it was this weekend, in Buxton. And when they discovered that I'm currently not so far away, it was proposed that I should go, at least for the afternoon. Not only that, when I pointed out that I don't actually have a car as yet, da_pol offered me a lift on Saturday afternoon. So da_pol and I had a pleasant afternoon in a field outside Buxton seeing a bunch of people that I hadn't seen in meatspace for years if at all, and then had a pleasant meal in a local restaurant with kalypso_v, followed by much cross-fandom conversation. The meal would have been more pleasant without the exceeedingly noisy party at the next table, but the food was good. :-) I'll get to see more of the local afpers later.