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)
12. David Sheldon

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
8. Simon Chatterjee

Earthlings who haven't said either way:

1. Janet McKnight

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