Furmeets, for those who aren't able to decipher the meaning from the word, are social gatherings of several furries, just to have fun and meet one another. I really cant think of any way to elaborate upon that further. =:P
Being a traditionally shy fur, I was very reluctant to turn up to meets for a long time, as...well... groups of many people = meep for a rabbit. This pretty much covered most of the time at university too, where meets in the same city were avoided with near obsessiveness.
This finally all changed with the first trek to a London meet in January 2005.... well okay not quite. The experience there didn't exactly attract, and it was another year before I showed up again... which was also none-too-pleasant. Don't get me wrong, Londonmeets are great for a lot of folks, it just seems something about them doesn't wash with me. However this was not the end of things. Around early 2006, I started trekking out to the Northernfur meets, and I've been going along to most of them since. The following shows all the photos collected as I've gone along, complete with commentary and tidbits of the happens over these weekends.
Perhaps this'll help give those shy folks up North a bit of a feel for things, as we're always welcome to new people. =:) As always, feel free to fire any questions at myself, or if you can fill in any names then please do so (I am terrible at remembering names, alas!). Comments can be made on any of the pictures, and registered users can upload their own.
Additionally starting from the end of 2008, there are a series of what I call Furmeet Latecomer Guides on this site for NorthernFur main meets. Basically they are designed to show a photographic route to help people find their way from the train station to the meet pub, incase they happen to arrive an hour or two late and miss the main group. I do my best to keep these uptodate for each of the main meets throughout the year. For meets where it changes often but organisers don't provide the information until the last minute, I've taken these off to avoid confusion. You'll have to chase them up instead! =:P
Latecomer Guide Chester - (Valid Chester Jan 2009)
Latecomer Guide Manchester - (Valid Manchester May 2009)
Latecomer Guide Sheffield - (Valid Sheffield June 2009)
Latecomer Guide Liverpool - (Valid Liverpool September 2009)
Furmeet Guides by Terence Enteirah Burridge is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.