St Patrick’s Special #LBM
Last Tuesday witnessed a spectacular London Bloggers Meetup, even if a do say so myself. Well, in actual fact everyone that attended seemed to have some pretty good things to say about the night. In case you are wondering, it was the St Patrick’s special LBM sponsored by our friends at Guinness and Bushmills Irish Whiskey.
So what made it a good night?
Well, apart from marvellous cocktails, the lessons on how to pour your own pint of Guinness, the prize draw for two tickets to the Guinness Premiership rugby final, the spacious bar offering free drinks, the delicious canapés, the talk from Drew Davies on behalf of the Equality & Human Rights Commission, there were of course around 50 members of the growing LBM community in attendance. Some regulars, some new faces and some I haven’t seen for a while, all of which made this an interesting night. I enjoyed catching up with Cedric (look forward to the England v France six nations match tomorrow), Tom Dickinson, Daniel, Navin… the list just goes on and on. Thankfully there are some great photos courtesy of Peter Marshall and Splendid for you to enjoy.
For those who want more information on Drew’s talk, head to the Map of Gaps website at http://www.mapofgaps.org. It’s a pretty phenomenal project and I know Drew would to hear your reactions to the campaign. Did you know over 30 million women live in Britain and each year 3 million experience rape, domestic violence, stalking or other violence. However, one in four local authorities do not provide any support to these victims. See what you can do to change this at the mapofgaps.org.
The Equality & Human Right’s Commission is actually sponsoring the next #LBM and Drew will be coming along again to talk about this and other work the Commission is involved in. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about all their great work by registering for your place on the 24th March now.
If you are planning on enjoying St Patrick’s on the 17th March (next Tuesday) don’t forget to raise a glass of Guinness, or a Bushmills, in appreciation to Diageo for once again showing the London Blogging Community some real love. I for one, will be enjoying a Guinness Extra cold which in around two weeks time will be consumed from my very own customised Guinness pint pot, simply marvellous.
Andy
PS and I almost forgot to thank Haran, Emma, Chris and team at Splendid for doing a, well, sssuperb job!
Well done to the Splendid team. Miss you guys… but good to see you all still doing some great work. Will be at the next LBM. Promise!