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.

Meal is booked under the name of "Danesh Sittanpal" or some similar approximation of my name, for 8pm (could this be earlier next year for those with trains, babysitters, beds to get back to?) at ASK Wigmore Street on 9th February.

Earthlings who will Attend:

 1. Ganesh Sittampalam (babysitter booked)
 1. Amanda Kerr-Munslow
 1. Stephen White
 1. Tom Womack
 1. David Ball
 1. Tim Bagot
 1. Tim Ricketts
 1. Caroline Lynagh
 1. Jon Chin
 1. Tristam Fenton-May
 1. Angharad Fenton-May (babysitter now in place)
 1. David Sheldon
 1. Nick Burch (took the spare place)

Earthlings who might make it but more likely will just turn up at the pub beforehand for an hour:

 1. James Green

Earthlings who can't make it:

 1. Alex Gough (Hemispheric Incompatibility)
 1. Tim Greaves (Bit late for me in Nodnol at the moment!)
 1. Dominic Hargreaves
 1. Jonathan !McDowell (Continental Incompatibility)
 1. Patrick Moore (North/South Incompatibility)
 1. Juliet Kemp
 1. Simon Chatterjee
 1. Janet !McKnight
 1. Dave Higgins (Atlantic Incompatibility)

Earthlings who haven't said either way:

 1. Simon Huggins
 1. David Woolger
 1. Martin Ling
 1. Ian Lynagh
 1. Arthur Bullard
 1. Stuart Adamson
 1. Paul Duff
 1. Mike Mason
 1. Mike Ricketts
 1. Chris Venus
 1. Matthew Byng-Maddick
 1. Adrian Chadd
 1. Stephen Gower
 1. Niall Harrison
 1. Meryki AK Horton
 1. Toby Jaffey
 1. Roland Kay
 1. Rebecca Luckraft
 1. Caroline Pearson
 1. Kake Pugh