1/ I see.  It's terrible that when you have a few hours unexpectedly spare to meet people, one might not use 6 of them travelling to Manchester and back to hold your (negative duration?) social just before waking up bright and early for the (very early) transatlantic flight from the same city where the wedding took place.    
 
Repeated events can move.  One-off unscheduled time around a tightly planned event is often "wherever it happens to be". To accuse someone effectively of not giving a shit for others because it happened that they could fit in some social time but not easily in a different part of the country, is still crappy.  Just apologize.
 
2/ A few days ago is last week............ 
 
FT2
 
 
 
 

 
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:15 PM, rexx <rexx@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
I think it's fairly symptomatic of the London-centricity of many people. What is relatively easy for those living in the City to do is probably a three-hour journey or more each way for those of us who live further afield and needs planning. I simply find it discourteous (sorry) to exclude us provincials, not deliberately, I'm sure, but through lack of forethought.

And if "it was not expected even a few days ago", why do you expect me to be asking about it last week? I don't mind being criticised for many things, but a lack of psychic powers is not one of them.

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Doug



On 8 October 2012 16:58, FT2 <ft2.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
That's a bit of a crappy line to take (sorry).  "Sommone can't really care to meet people or it would have ben pre-arranged".  Quite likely it wasn't expected there would be much chance at all to meet generally, a lot of things like this are last minute because of time constraints or because somethng is resolved quicker than expected. 
 
Did you ask last week "will you have a chance to meet people while over?" If so, you'd have learned it was not expected even a few days ago, that there would be any chance for other socializing because of tight time constraints.
 
 
FT2
 


 
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:40 PM, rexx <rexx@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
If she were actually keen to meet UK Wikipedians, shouldn't she have given us a bit more than a couple of hours notice?

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Doug


On 8 October 2012 15:52, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
All,

Sue Gardner, from the WMF, is in our office today, along with a few others (Garfield and Asaf from the WMF). She's keen to meet UK Wikipedians for a drink - is anyone available for drinks in the Old Street area of London this afternoon/evening? If so, drop me an email directly!

Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992

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