For some time now, I have been threatening to organise a BBQ on the site during this summer. My house move from hell kind of got in the way a bit, but there’s still time to make this happen.
I know that many people will be coming and going from Brussels during August, but I hope that there will be one Saturday or Sunday where there are enough of us around to have a joyous time in the sun together, on the site of our future community
I imagine food, drinks, kids running around, games and general shenanigans. It’ll take a bit of logistic intelligence, but we can work out the details later. For now, here’s a poll to see if we can find a suitable date:
Le 24 août j’ai prévu de vous faire visiter les alentours du miroir pour vous y faire découvrir les lieux sympathiques: magasins, cafés. librairies…
Serait-ce une bonne idée de la combiner avec le BBQ?
The 24th of august I’ve planned to organize a surroundings visit of nices places around the Miroir…
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to combine with the BBQ?
For the ease of scheduling, shall we book a save-the-date for the 24th at 2 pm? (I’ll put it on the calendar like that for now, just to make sure it doesn’t get overbooked by accident)
Yes, looks like the poll has spoken clearly enough
@Chantale - I’ve been told that you had quite a lot of things planned for your visit/walk around Jette. Perhaps it would be a good idea to do your tour in two sessions, so that you don’t feel stressed for time on the 24th. Just a suggestion… you’re the boss for that thing
I’m planning on doing most of the organising for this event after I get back on 11 August. However, there might be one thing that should be thought of more in advance, which is some sort of portable toilet hire. Normally I would ask @reef-logistics, but I think that team is empty at the moment… could any @reeflings look into this?
@ChrisM
For the 24th, I ve only planned a visit of the surroundings of the miroir to show nice places to go, library, restaurants…
The visit of the parcs…and an icecream at Giotto is forseen the 31st of August.
So for the ones who are interested , I propose to meet at 12:45 am in front of The reef.
To make sure everybody gets the message, I would suggest you make a post closer to the date, tagging all reeflings.
During our last team community life meeting, we decided one of us would help facilitating the weekend events each month, and I’m on duty for August, so I’ll support wherever is needed, don’t hesitate to reach out!
For the toilets, in the absence of a team logisitcs, I can send some emails if somebody is happy to follow up while we are gone.
A few questions though:
how many do we think we are going to be? This is just for reeflings right?
do we need water bassins? Maybe I can ask for the price?
Are we ok if I also explore dry toilets?
Shall I enquire about a mid-term solution, like keeping it on site until the end of october?
There’s 17 adults on the poll above, with at least 5-6 kids between them. Might be a few more EMs and AMs by then as well…
Some hire toilets come with a wash basin. If not, I think we can create a handwashing area ourselves…
The more environmentally friendly the better, in my humble opinion
I’m not sure it’ll be worth the expense, but no harm in asking. We thought we would all spend a lot of time on the site this summer, but it hasn’t really turned out that way. If anyone has plans to organise other events on the site in Jette, perhaps now would be the time to say.
On a related note, we most of the related expenses will be covered by the group, but the toilet could possibly come out of the Reef budget…or not. Perhaps someone more fiscally minded can weigh in on that…
