The Earthlings Birthday Meal 2013 will be held on Saturday 9th February 2013.

This will be the 15th birthday, the 12th birthday meal.

There's no England Rugby match that day (it's the Sunday, in Dublin).

Unless anyone has any better suggestions we'll meet at: Pontefract Castle on Wigmore Street (W1U 1QB) from 6pm. Perhaps we could try ringing them to find out if the downstairs area will be open.

We've been to ASK for a couple of years (56/60 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2RZ Tel: 0207 224 3484). The world didn't end, so ASK presumably works as a plan. There is a potential alternative venue: ASK, 121/125 Park Street, London, W1K 7JA, Tel: 0207 495 7760.

*Note, this has not yet been booked. If it's getting close to the time, please prod Ganesh or book it yourself!*

Earthlings who will Attend:

1. Ganesh Sittampalam (babysitter booked)
2. Amanda Kerr-Munslow
3. Stephen White
4. Tom Womack
5. David Ball
6. Tim Bagot
7. Tim Ricketts
8. Caroline Lynagh
9. Jon Chin
10. Tristam Fenton-May
11. Angharad Fenton-May (babysitter now in place)

Earthlings who can't make it:

1. Alex Gough (Hemispheric Incompatibility)
2. Tim Greaves (Bit late for me in Nodnol at the moment!)
3. Dominic Hargreaves
4. James Green (clash of birthdays)

5. Jonathan McDowell (Continental Incompatibility)

6. Patrick Moore (North/South Incompatibility)
7. Juliet Kemp

Earthlings who haven't said either way:

1. Janet McKnight

2. Simon Huggins
3. David Woolger
4. Simon Chatterjee
5. David Sheldon
6. Martin Ling
7. Caroline Lynagh
8. Ian Lynagh
9. Dave Higgins
10. Nick Burch
11. Arthur Bullard
12. Stuart Adamson
13. Paul Duff
14. Mike Mason
15. Mike Ricketts
16. Chris Venus
17. Matthew Byng-Maddick
18. Adrian Chadd
19. Stephen Gower
20. Niall Harrison
21. Meryki AK Horton
22. Toby Jaffey
23. Roland Kay
24. Rebecca Luckraft
25. Caroline Pearson
26. Kake Pugh