pub locations

our reflectives are nearly always at the cornubia (unless there’s a specific reason to go somewhere else). the socials have mainly been at the commerical rooms, on corn street. last time we had the social at the cornubia too (new management: now open on sundays). this seemed to work well.

the cornubia is our default pub for the reflectives. do we also want to make it our default pub for social meetings? if not, do we want to revert back to the commerical rooms, or somewhere else? remember the criteria is: open sunday 5-7pm (reliably), BS1, real ale, decent wine, no loud music…

greenbelt flier update

sunday 3rd august: finished (?) flier design:

if this isn’t working properly look at: http://flickr.com/photos/lindseyandjenny/2727962501/

back:

what do you think? this needs to be moreorless the final design due to time constraints. small ammendments can be made though, so constructive criticism sought. it would be great if someone could bring a printed copy tomorrow.

 july 18th:

we had a chat today about various things to do with greenbelt. we made a few provisional decisions, with the proviso that everyone had 10 days to comment or object (seeing as we operate by consensus). those of us there tonight agreed that:

• we will print A6, double sided postcards. the front will be a better version of the above (so long as it isn’t perfect!). the back will look like an actual postcard, so that people can post it to someone who maybe interested in joining threshold. we will also include some more info on the postcard side, such as the first paragraph on the front page of this website (bea to email jenny).
• next time (august’s reflective on the 4th) we will bring whatever contribution we want to put towards printing in an envelope. people can also email (threshold@infinitarian.com) to leave an iou, if they can’t make the 4th. there is no pressure to contribute anything, and if you do feel pressurised bring an empty envelope! whatever money is contributed will effect the number and quality/ recycledness of the fliers we produce (with a sensible limit if much money is contributed…).
• our august social is cancelled, but we will replace it with a meeting at greenbelt. our greenbelt get-together will be on Sunday at 7:30pm in the organic beer tent. we agreed to provide an optional reflective activity based on the jigsaw session. people will do this in their own time, while we chat to those who want to find out more. at the end we will construct a big jigsaw. we will need jigsaw templates, instructions, pens and scissors. those on table saving duty will cut out jigsaw shapes, so that they are not drunk by the time people arrive…

please comment:

greenbelt get-togethers

We have been having discussions about doing something informal at Greenbelt (Christian arts festival on the August Bank Holiday). Our ‘event’ won’t be in the programme and will probably involve sitting around a table in the organic beer tent.

Greenbelt also coincides with the date for our 3rd Sunday of the month social. I think it would be quite nice to stick to our normal time and make the beer tent the venue for August’s Social (this would be 5-7pm on the Sunday evening). What do other people think?

Also, if we decide to keep the normal time for the social, do we also want to do a quick reflective at another time/ at the same time/ not at all? If we wanted the reflective at a different time, I think Saturday would work (and then interested people could join our social on the Sunday). How many of us are likely to be at Greenbelt? Will  anyone not going to Greenbelt be miffed if we move the social to Cheltenham?!

Once we’ve discussed these questions, we’ll set a provisional time. I’ll then liaise with Gayle to find out if the time clashes with anything we may want to go to (or things other threshold-potentials may go to). If you have anything to add to the list of things we don’t want to clash with let me know! The list I have in mind is: anything by other Bristol groups, The Garden Brighton, Ikon/Pete Rollins. This link may help you add to the list: http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/lineup/. 

At some point we need to design and print some type of flier. This has already been debated online and in person so I won’t add to that discussion here (see http://thresholdbristol.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/leafletsfliers/).

Monday 5th May 2008 Meeting at Llandoger Trow

Just to let you know that because of the Bank Holiday our usual pub for reflective sessions is closed. So we have decided to meet in the Llandoger Trow instead. Sorry for any confusion.

where and when to meet

We’ve just come back from the Cornubia for a social. This was a good pub according to most of our criteria, but they shut at 6pm on Sunday. They seem open to staying open slightly later for us, but at the moment we’re really too small to ask such a big favour. However, they did say that Mondays there are quite quiet. Is this somewhere we’d like to go for our reflective sessions? Also, should we be thinking about having our social session on a Monday too? It seems to be really difficult to find a city centre pub that’s suitable and open on a Sunday. An argument for this is that everything could be simpler if we end up meeting in the same place, on the same day of the week. I’m sure there are reasons against this, so please comment.

We did commit to exploring different pubs for a few sessions. Please suggest where we should go for the next reflective session. This will need to be a relatively quiet pub, in the city centre, with real ale! This is the minimum requirement…

are we happy with chosen pubs?

richard wrote: I haven’t made it to the Portwall Tavern yet so can’t comment on it as a venue. Was there a strong reason for not just meeting in the Llandoger Trow on Mondays as well as Sundays?

bea wrote: It was the balance between wanting nice beer and a nice venue – the LT is large and has lots of cubby holes suitable for meetings, but the beer is rubbish – PT has nice beer but is small…

jenny wrote: Perhaps we should swap over which pub we use for what? The PT is fine for a social and the LT would have more privacy for reflective sessions. We’ll meet at the PT tomorrow night though.

lindsey wrote: the current pubs don’t really work. I propose we try a different pub each time over the next 6 or so meetings. Then we can make a decision based on our experiences of warmth, accessibility, noise level, beer, space etc. As long as we give plenty of notice this shouldn’t matter. I propose the royal navy volunteer as the next venue. If there is consent (no-one objects) Jenny can send out details in a facebook event invitation nearer the time/Phil can e-mail. In the meantime lets keep thinking of alternatives.