Mudchute City Farm | ADHD Social | Everyone Welcome
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YAY!-DHD Goes Feral
Saturday 29th August, 1200hrs onwards
Mudchute → Greenwich
£2 (booking fee) + whatever you spend later
A full Saturday of livestock, light walking and eventual pub-based decline.
We’ll begin at Mudchute Park & Farm, 32 acres of countryside on the Isle of Dogs, surrounded by the sort of buildings in which very serious people move numbers between columns.
There are sheep, goats, pigs, llamas, donkeys and various other animals who have, for the most part, avoided LinkedIn.
### 1200 – Crossharbour DLR
We’ll meet outside Crossharbour DLR and walk over together.
If you’re late, we’ll post where we are.
No police inquiry will be held if you're five minutes late.
### 12:00–3:00pm – Mudchute City Farm
We’ll spend a few hours wandering around the farm.
There is no major agenda beyond looking at animals, talking to people and existing temporarily outside the normal administrative framework. A head's up, the animals may have greater executive function than you, but we get to go to the pub later. They don't.
There may be a small and entirely unnecessary Yay!-DHD Farm Challenge.
Possible categories include:
Which animal most closely resembles your present internal condition?
Which animal would you trust to complete and return a form correctly?
Which animal appears to have already accepted the essential tragedy of existence?
Which one would make the strongest middle manager?
Which animal should be given control of the group finances?
No prizes of significance will be awarded. We bask in mediocrity here at ADHD Towers.
You are also entirely welcome to ignore this and look at a sheep, idc.
### 3:30pm – Departure
At around 3.30 we’ll leave the farm and walk through Millwall Park towards Island Gardens.
From there we’ll cross beneath the Thames through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel.
This will be a gentle walk rather than an endurance event.
We’ll stop when necessary, regroup when necessary and lose approximately one person every twelve minutes before finding them again near something interesting.
Eventually we will emerge in Greenwich, altered only slightly by the experience.
### Around 4:00pm-ish onwards – Pub
We’ll then go to The Gate Clock.
To my chagrin, it is a Wetherspoons.
This decision has been made following a rigorous assessment of London drink prices.
There will be food, booze (if you degenerates like that kind of thing) soft drinks and chairs, and the profound loss of hope!
The remainder of the afternoon can then develop naturally into the familiar social pattern of five conversations occurring simultaneously, one person returning from the bar with an entirely different group of people, and somebody discovering at 6:17pm that another attendee also has unusually strong opinions about a highly specific subject.
Stay for one drink, dinner, several hours, or until some internal mechanism informs you that you have finished.
### Cost
Mudchute is free to visit, although organised groups pay a booking fee, so we’ll charge £2 per person towards that.
Anything after that is just whatever you choose to buy.
Drinking alcohol is entirely optional.
### You can join partway through
You don’t have to attend the full migration.
Farm: join us around midday.
Walk: join us around 3pm.
Pub: join us in Greenwich from roughly 4pm.
We’ll post our location during the day.
Wear sensible-ish shoes if it has been raining.
As always, there’s no requirement to remain with the main group continuously. Wander around. Sit somewhere. Change conversations. Take ten minutes alone. Arrive late. Leave early. Accidentally become very interested in a goat.
The day has no performance targets.
Yay!-DHD is meant to be a space where people feel safe and at ease. Not everyone is looking to connect beyond the event or pursue anything romantic, so please be mindful of that and respect boundaries at all times.
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