Monday 3 August 2009

Blogger Meet Up

So on Sunday 2nd August at 4pm, eight fabulous bloggers bit the bullet and met up at Savannah Jerk (formerly known as Mr Jerks) in Soho for some food, drink and some chat. The group included Keysha of The Cocoa Diaries, Janice of Mad News, Michelle of Fantasy Ride, Yinka of Vex in the City, Didi of The Virtues of Beauty, Ashanti of OMkari, Karen of K.Hart and moi. Over some superb Caribbean cuisine we discussed music, make up, twitter, facebook, blackberries, celebrities and everything else in between. A fun time was had by all and it was really great putting the faces to so many superb blogs - apart from Ashanti and MsQuiche - who I knew them from before. I will admit I was a bit nervous meeting the bloggers, my first fear was - would anyone turn up? What will talk we about? What if we run out of things to say and there is this awkward silence? My fears proved to be totally unfounded because as soon as everyone arrived the noise volume at Savannah Jerk raised by 200 decibels. To say we were the loudest table would be putting it mildy and as customers came, eat and went London Bloggers Massive were still there taking up space. Eventually we shifted at 8.45pm when the Savannah Jerk staff started clearing up and giving us ‘get the fuck outta here, I wanna go home and put me feet up’ looks. We bade each other farewell and promised to meet again very soon.

Look out for the next Blogger Meet Up in autumn. If you are a Blogger and would like to join us in our meet ups then please leave a message and I will drop you a line when the planning commences.

Bloggers in the pic from left to right: Janice, Yinka, Michelle, Karen, Keysha, Ashanti, Didi and Me.

13 cool comments:

Shanti said...

Great write up. Can't wait to do it all over again!

Sara (The Makeup Snob.com) said...

thats soo cool that you got together! Looks like a blast with an amazing group of ladies!!

Sara www.themakeupsnob.com :)

Unknown said...

I had a great time, it was so much fun :-)

queenofsheba said...

Ooh it looks & sounds like it was fun...i'm definately up for the next one!

Janice aka Miss Mad News said...

Brillian write up Ronke! had a blast. Look forward to the Autumn meet up!

Unknown said...

BTW I love how the woman who took the pic for us caught my double chin in all its glory!!! SMH!

Laverne SoFrolushes said...

Sounds like the night went well. Hopefully I can be a part of the next meet up.

Ella Gregory said...

Yes I have seen the Marie Claire cover, it looks really good, although with Eva Mendes how could it not?

MsQuiche said...

Thanks for organising luv, I had a fantastic time. Funnily enough I was also a bit nervous about coming too, even though I've known you for a while, as well as Yinka & Michelle. But thankfully there weren't any awkward silences (except for that 30 second gap when were trying to digest our grub) and we all got on superbly. Look forward to the next one.

K-HART said...

i agree with all of the above comments. big pat on the back ondo lady for initiating this meet up.

i'm glad i came out and look forward to the next one.

mwah! x

p.s all you can see is my teet in the pic lol

Unknown said...

sounds lyk it was gud, meeting up with bloggers is such a cool idea!

...i'm a blogger 2 *cough, cough* lol

Ondo Lady said...

Shanti: Thanks, roll on the next one

Sara: How did your blogger meet up go?

Vexinthecity: Ditto

queenofsheba: Looking forward to seeing you at the next one

Janice: Ditto

SoFroLushes: Can't wait to meet you at the next one

Coco: Yes Marie Claire has up the stakes and the design is more on point

MsQuiche: Thanks, I had a great time too

K.Hart: Thanks a lot

Short 'n' Sweet: Hey drop me an email and I will def invite you to the next one

Anonymous said...

What a great idea! A brilliant way to network and make friends!