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    South East Meeting

    in Real Life Meetings

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    I'm really keen, and I can see this idea unfortunately slipping away with trying - possibly too hard - to get all interested parties together. [Trying to please everyone, and actually pleasing no-one?]

    I've very little experience of trying to help organise such a widely spread group. How has it been done before? A poll with a matrix of choices, with the highest count being the one used for time and location?

    ...

    I'm also keen as mustard for some mini-meets to happen this year.

    We had a couple last year that I 'sort of' organised.

    (Reading & Bluewater: The threads are probably still accessible if you want to see who did what & when)

    As I recall, all I did was make a suggestion (of venue + month). The actual date was then decided on the basis of whether enough people were interested & could make it.

    I prefer to meet up on a weekday myself, as weekends are usually booked up with family stuff. A weekend meet is probably workable as well though if there's enough notice.

    If no one else had kicked off with a suggestion/invitation by end of this week, I was going to post one myself at the weekend. I'm happy for someone else to start the ball rolling this time though.

    Just stick your head out of the minaret and start chanting! ;)

    What is your take on these?

    in For Everybody

    Posted

    They are hopeless. Just think about how many stunning, classy, well-designed, well made and (most importantly) wearable "real" shoes you could buy for that amount of money! What would you prefer - one pair of those in your wardrobe or the dozen+ pairs of Prada's, Louboutin's, Miu Miu's, Manolo Blahnik's and Geiger's you could have instead.

    Partners thoughts of you wearing womens footwear?

    in For the guys

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    My wife totally hates the idea of me wearing anything to do with women's shoes. She doesn't want me to even think about it. Not even for a second.

    Mine is the same unfortunately. Last Saturday evening, after arriving home from the 2008 HeelMeet, I gave my wife a brief and watered-down description of how it went, what went on, etc.

    She was horrified to hear that I had taken a pair of stiletto-heeled boots with me and had sat in the Miller drinking a pint (or two! ;) ) while wearing them.

    (I didn't mention that i'd also gone for a stroll down Oxford Street in them :cool1: )

    Anyway, we then got into a discussion as to why I "do it". I couldn't really answer that question but I mentioned various factors and pointed out the double-standards in society over what woman can wear on their feet (i.e. anything they like) vs. what us men can wear (a narrow range of dull, functional items) and so on but it was all to no avail - she remained unhappy/uncomfortable with the idea. Then I asked her a question:-

    "Is it the heels that are the problem? Would you be comfortable with this if I was wearing flat-soled womans shoes or a pair of womans trainers?"

    Her answer was "Absolutely not" - which I found very interesting. It indicated that she hasn't got a specific dislike with me wearing blatently female items of footwear - it's with me wearing anything that isn't a 'male' garment. The thought of it somehow diminishes my male-ness in her eyes (or her mind).

    I know that this is a deep-rooted, subconcious feeling that she has, so there's no way to convince her otherwise.

    I can't see us ever getting to the situation that Heel-D, Johnieheel, thedesigner and other HHP guys enjoy with their partners. I just have to let things continue as they are and hope that she will come to realise in time that this is just something harmless which does not and won't ever affect our day-to-day relationship.

    As Frank Spencer used to assert - "I'm a Man, betty!"

    I shall have to start doing the same!

    South East Meeting

    in Real Life Meetings

    Posted

    As for what's keeping me away, it's me. I'd like to meet some of you guys, and would like to participate in heels too, but I guess I'm just not ready to take that step yet.

    Shyguy,

    I may well be your nearest (non-lurking) HHP neighbour & I'd be happy to assist you in an introduction to the HeelMeeting crowd.

    Drop me a Private Message sometime if you want to get together for an extra-mini-meet somewhere low-key where we're both anonymous and can get lost in the crowds (like, er... Bletchley?).

    Failing that, keep a lookout for me in MK Shopping Centre - i'll probably be that shifty looking bloke skulking about in the New Look shoe dept. ;)

    South East Meeting

    in Real Life Meetings

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    I was one of the berks from Bucks! :cool1:

    Yep, Lakeside or Bluewater would be good for me.

    Watford or Camden would be good also - easier/quicker for me to get to them than the others actually.

    Some other places were also mooted - Stevenage? Uxbridge?

    I'd be game for those, although I know little about them. Do they have large shopping precincts & decent outdoor areas?

    If no one else has proposed a date/venue by end of this month, I'll 'stick a marker down'.

    A day in April seemed to be popular. It would probably have to be sometime in the first 2 weeks of April for me if it's a weekend meet.

    Any chance this idea could be progressed?

    I know of at least 3 of us in the Herts area. At least one other in Milton Keynes, one or two more in Bucks (or was it Berks? ;))

    I'm sure there's a couple of members in North London too. Watford seems central ... But I'm up for a 30-40 mile journey in any direction.

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