It's Oh So Quiet

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JonW
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Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:59 am  

Hi Bio.
The Brighton meet-up group is still running. Around sixty members now though the most we've had at one hook-up is fifteen. Last meet-up was a low show but still enjoyable. Apart from the meet-up themselves I see it as a good point of access for anyone in the area who is looking to find out more about mindfulness. It costs about £8 a month to keep the site going so well worth it. And Banjo enjoys meeting new people who make a fuss over his Elvis The Pelvis quiff...
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Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:46 pm  

That sounds like a really good idea and as though it is working well. After all who doesn't want to see Banjo?
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BioSattva
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Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:15 am  

JonW wrote:Hi Bio.
The Brighton meet-up group is still running. Around sixty members now though the most we've had at one hook-up is fifteen. Last meet-up was a low show but still enjoyable. Apart from the meet-up themselves I see it as a good point of access for anyone in the area who is looking to find out more about mindfulness.

Wow - 60 is plenty. Fifteen sounds as many as I would like actually - so that it doesn't start to become a conference of sorts.

JonW wrote:It costs about £8 a month to keep the site going so well worth it.

Do you mean the place where you meet up? What kind of place is it? Does it lend itself well to the meetup?

JonW wrote:And Banjo enjoys meeting new people who make a fuss over his Elvis The Pelvis quiff...

What's your cat's name? I'm getting the feeling there is some favouritism within your household.
"Compassion – particularly for yourself – is of overwhelming importance." - Mark Williams, Mindfulness (2011), p117.
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JonW
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Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:53 am  

Hi Bio.
We tend to meet on the beach across the road where I live in Hove. The £8 goes to meetup.com to maintain the site.
Bilbo, the cat, is now living in West Hampstead. My son William re-adopted him last weekend.
It's very quiet without him. I'm thinking of buying a monkey to liven things up a tad. Or maybe a parrot.
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FeeHutch
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Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:32 pm  

Oh please go for a parrot (it is Talk Like A Pirate day today).
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JonW
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Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:37 pm  

I've narrowed the choice down to parrot or alpaca. Still undecided.
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BioSattva
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Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:02 pm  

JonW wrote:We tend to meet on the beach across the road

Brilliant. Sounds great.
"Compassion – particularly for yourself – is of overwhelming importance." - Mark Williams, Mindfulness (2011), p117.
"...allow yourself to smile inwardly." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (2005), p436.
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