Entei-rah's Gallery

Finally, the first international event to appear on here, and it's the big one in Europe! Eurofurence 14 was held at the Ringberg Hotel in Suhl Germany at the end of August 2008. With a base theme of 'Horrorfurence', much fun was had, with a wide mix of stage and room events, and a million fursuiters from around the globe.

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Many skeptics insisted it would never happen (and several cynics continue to argue it didn't), but in June 2008 a determined team pulled off the first fully residential convention to be held in the UK. Hosted at the Youth Hostel in Manchester from the 20th-23rd June, the weekend was packed with more events than can be fitted into a simple description, with more fluffy fursuits than you can shake a stick at.

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A trek across the hills to the well known Welsh city of Cardiff for a Welshfur meet in November 2008. Despite a cold day, natural for the time of the year, much fun was still had with coffee, pub, a sushi bar (which had famously ran out of sushi!) and a trip down to the famous Cardiff Bay to finish off the day. With a random mix of costumes inbetween, given the closeness to Halloween!

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The first meet of the ScotFurs I managed to get to fell on the first Saturday in March (a very windy day at that). In a break from the norm, the main focus of the meet centred around Edinburgh Zoo, hence a large number of animal pictures are interspersed in the gallery. At the end of that was the inevitable plushie shopping, before some relaxing in the pub, and a trek to an Italian Restaurant for various pizzas none of us could pronounce the name of.

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Brightening up that annoying lull between Christmas and the New Year, it's the Sheffield Winter Meet. Events included the pub, with the obligatory roll of drawings and sketches mixed in with eating, drinking and merriment. After a long fursuit walk, including an impromptu merry-go-round ride, the evening was spent with a poor Pizza Hut assistant running around madly to try and serve a large group. Sunday consisted of a gentler meetup with coffee, tea and cake, followed by the 'spot the store going bust' tour, and finally a quiet evening in the pub.

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The Largest & First UK Furry Con of Less Than 50 People Based In Hull happened in the city of Hull in November 2008. Gathering together people from all over the UK, this special minimeet consisted of the usual pub and cinema events, but also a selection of other events, as well as the infamous welcome pack. With thanks to all the valued staff members for being such good sports in my random ideas! Watch out for Hullcon 2009, coming your way soon! (Ps - This minimeet may contain some tongue-in-cheek humour, and should not be taken seriously by pregnant women, people with heart conditions, or furries! ;))

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November, and a Manchester meet comes around again. As ever, packed with one of the highest turnouts in the country, the day consisted of some time at Piccadilly Gardens, before moving onto a new pub (the usual venue having gone bust in recent months). The obligatory fursuit walk ensued, navigating the streets of Manchester on a very cold wintery day, before finally moving back to the bar to spend the night. Believe me, the photos don't show the entire scale of this meet or just how far and wide everyone came to have fun, but unfortunately special restrictions were in place by the organisers we all have to adhere to. ;)

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October 2008 and another Leeds meet (coincidentally 2 years of photos too; I've wasted my life :P) Saturday consisted of a new pub, with some interesting decor, before moving out to look round shops, and regroup by the bowling alley for... pool, DDR and lots of other non-bowling activities. The Sunday return consisted of fine food, wines and a trip to Roundhay Tropical Gardens (with a Roundhay fox opposite at all times!).

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A little twist on a theme for a minimeet in York. What with York being the teashop capital of the UK, Lupestripe extends his ever reaching meet fingers by bringing The Furry Teashop Crawl. A collection of furries, many done up in their finest, smartest attire hit a string of small teashops to order...well... tea, scones, cakes and similar. Proof that you can have a furmeet without being sat in a pub all day!

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An unusually sunny weekend greeted the September 2008 meet, as well as large numbers of Liverpool university students on an open day. The day started with a restaurant trip to the ever present Kimos, before drifting up to the student bar. After that fursuiting throughout Liverpool occured, always a bit of a scarcety in this city (for obvious reasons), before heading back to wind down for the evening in a pub. Sunday consisted of food and a trip to the movies, to tie up a nice well-rounded weekend.

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The first mini meet in Huddersfield arrives on the first weekend of September. Besides being a new place, it's also the first ever Vegetarian Meet (pun intentional). In the end, no vegetarian furs could actually make it, but despite most of the group kept up the spirit. After some browsing round the small town, much time was spent chatting in the pub, before heading up into the scenic hills of the Pennines.

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A surprising break in the weather, and a move to an earlier weekend for the York meet in August. Events consisted of drinks at Lendals Cellars, as warm and devoid of mobile signal as ever (and smelling oddly damp o.o), before moving to the park for ice-cream and general relaxing. The day finished with pub grub, including copious amounts of waffles!

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A rainy weekend, but as I'm living back in Manchester a chance to pop along to one of the seven million Manchester mini-meets crops up. Despite the weather, a large number turned out, with events including pub, fursuit walking... in the slight drizzle, arcadage, cinema and fooding. So just about everything with as many made up words as possible used there to describe it all!

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One of the hottest days of the year and plenty of sunburn greeted summer in Chester. Groups were split, either to the Zoo or to the pub, with a day of fun at either place, before regrouping for an evening of chatting, drinking, surprisingly well-priced pub food, and basking in the summer weather.

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Another summer in Sheffield, and a return to the successful pub venue of last time starts the Roman themed Saturday (there was a Friday for those who were there early too). After a few hours there, interspersed with a short suit walk, a split for coffees or picnics in the park followed to wrap up a warm summer afternoon.

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Another summer in May dawns, and the ever growing Manchester meet comes round again. So many that meeting at the station was dropped, to meet at the bar instead. From there, much socialising ensued, including an impromptu fursuit walk around Piccadilly Gardens, before splitting into various groups for food or cinema action.

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A new venue, and some better weather, brings Spring 2008 in Leeds in step. After the usual pub gathering, with lots of food and drink to be had, a large fursuit walk around the City Centre took place, including some impromptu dancing with the local street entertainer. Finally to wind down the evening, bowling, with even some of that being in suit (how we got away with that, no-one knows...)

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March 2008, and a very wet weekend in Liverpool. Luckily everyone managed to take shelter inside first the restaurant, then the museum, at which all manner of tasty foods were eaten, and caffeinated beverages drunk. The day ended with the pub, showing not all days begin with them, before braving the soggy Liverpudlian weather once more...

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February 2008, and the York meet comes around again, complete with a good number of fursuiters. As such in addition to the usual pub meetings, trips round the shops, and eating out, a fursuit walk around the town took place, before finally meeting back for late night drinks and food.

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A new year, and finally a gallery from Chester on here as I trek to the furthest reaches of the West! The first day of the January meet consisted of the usual gathering at the pub, before splitting off into town for a combination of foodage, exploring of the historic centre, shopping, and a walk around the city walls, before regrouping to end the day.

Gallery dedicated to the memory of Jespah the Lion; a first time and sadly only time attendee at Chester 2008. You will be missed!

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The festive meet fell just past Christmas this time, in Sheffield once more. Events included the usual pub meet, with mingling and talking, mixed up with card games, Cluedoesque-gaming and... random coloured foam batons. The latter providing much hilarity, even if they didn't get along well with the christmas decorations. Sunday consisted of some hanging around by the cathedral, before pottering off to a small cafe for cake, coffee and chocolate. After that it was split up time, with some shopping, and others heading off to watch DVDs.

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Manchester 2007, and the first of the 'big winter 2' comes round again. A different pub to the usual made up the bulk of the day, interspersed with suiters terrorising Canal Street. After that, groups began to disperse off to enjoy chinese buffet food, and the annual packed-to-bursting Christmas Market. Sunday consisted of some more pubbage, and groups going to either Oklahoma (the quirky cafe, not the place) for fruit and oreo smoothies or the Museum of Science and Industry for culture. Sadly not the best of photos, due to a lack of the usual camera, but hopefully enough to give everyone a good feel for things... and for the huge number of folks there!

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October 2007 saw the return to Leeds, complete with a new organiser. As part of this, a change of venue to Tiger Tiger came, with fine food and drinks to accompany it. After that, and some debating of current films, bowling became the order of the day. Sunday, the more relaxed of the days, involved large amounts of pub food, followed by some town centre shopping, culminating with playing of various card games such as Munchkin whilst drinking coffee.

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Into the Autumn, and it's the meet of culture (aka the meet of rabbits). Just to show there's more to meets than pubs, there was no pub activity at all for the bulk of the day (only a few splitting off in the evening). The main part of the meet was spent in Kimo's restaurant, before pottering to the park (albeit briefly, as Liverpool police's new tactic to tackle vandalism is to ban everyone from it :P), and finally to a movie. Sunday consisted of a small group, shopping and eating fine food.

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For the last month of Summer, August, York comes around again. Lupe takes up fursuiting duties this time, resulting in terrorising innocent pub staff, and random air guitar dancing with whoever happens to be nearby. The day progressed to include a Fioxy hunt (in which no animals were harmed, though several got sore heads through cryptic clues), and finally a bowling outing.

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Manchester 2007, and a brand new half decent camera comes to the fray. Saturday's events included the usual visit to the pub, a trip round the Museum of Science and Industry and a party organised by Sil, with Sunday having obligatory Trafford Centre/City Centre shopping splitoff.

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A mini meet called on the first bank holiday of May in York. Despite the mini status, quite a large number turned up, including Greyscar in full suit. This leads to some hilarity among the locals in the town.

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The Leeds meet from April 2007, and thankfully the last full meet using the less-than-wonderful camera. Events start off briefly at the usual pub, before a move to a more family friendly venue is sought to accomodate the younger people (let it be said, we try our best for everyone). The result is a large number of furs lazing under the sun outdoors. Sunday features coffee-based-beverages in Starbucks. Highlights include the video of me performing Attenborough-style documentary with a fox puppet...

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A comparitively quiet meet this one, hence why there's so few pictures (given these were all indoors, this was also the meet that persuaded me I needed a better camera). No pub this time, a nice little restaurant is the Liverpool meet venue. After that we pretty much wandered round, splitting off into groups headed to the cinema or the museum, before wrapping up early at 6.30pm. Sunday... well no-one really showed up except me and Gravecat. ;)

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February 2007, in York. Saturday starts off in Varsity, hence the slightly more 'trendy' attire than usual, before a go-kart engined First Bus takes us off for bowling. Sunday... nothing much happened, as meet organiser Fioxy took ill, and not many others turned up.

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Sheffield usually yields the biggest of the meets, and benefits (or suffers depending on point of view) from hosting the pre-christmas meet. Events involved pubbage with added competitions, multiple fursuiters, lots of pottering around, and more coffee drinking on the sunday. There was also ice-skating on the sunday, which sadly I had to miss due to time constraints.

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A large meet in November 2006 greeted the attendees in Manchester. It's going back a bit now, so memories are vague, but pubs and outdoor gatherings made up a lot of the Saturday. Sunday was followed with coffee based beverages, cakes, and then a fursuit walk (which I unfortunately missed due to having to leave early >.<).

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The oldest of the sets of photos, set in the city of Leeds. Saturday consisted of some drinking, shopping in the centre, and finally bowling. Sunday featured more coffee, as we all dope up on caffeine again. It's needed to provide the boost for playing DS games... *twitch*

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Summer in the town, and besides the usual pub based jinx, to mix things up, a trip to Leazes Park was in order. There were many eco-friendly crowded stalls to be had there all around the pond, some selling a variety of quaint little beers (I think; I don't drink).

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A snowy minimeet (yes, you can see the 2008 weather gets more wintery the further we go into spring) greeted Newcastle once more for the start of April. Once again we increased the business of a deserted Newcastle pub by about 600% for food and drinks, before moving on to some suiting fun (with an appropriate polar bear) around Life.

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Not strictly speaking Northern Fur territory, but I didn't want to call it a 'Non-descript-Newcastle-based-group meet'. March 2nd saw a meet called in Newcastle, organised mainly by Lupestripe. Activities involved a walk around the town, leading down to the famous quayside to take us to the Baltic Flour Mill (an art gallery for those who don't know) for coffee. After that more scenic walking, before finishing in a pub for food, drink and lots of friendly chatter.

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