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Week beginning December 13th you suggested, Drone? More do-able as things stand. Might be worth starting a new thread if this is to be a goer, lest this one be lost as the London shindig fades from memory.
Organizing social events is not really my thing GC, whereas you seem the ideal type. So feel free to sound out the TRF northern contingent in any manner you please. As mentioned earlier I’ll turn up wherever and whenever you like, with the proviso it’s within the confines of The Ridings
Eulogising Cartmel, Charm Park, and Cottenham while great fun will I feel lead to a pregnant pause after 20 minutes/1 pint (whichever is sooner) so it would be nice if the gathering is greater than thee and me
Well over a foot of snow here. Dorothy’s Friend lent me his big brown boots but they let me down, down, down. The poor old droning Scarecrow is nursing a bruised hip and shoulder.
I’m not sure what to make of the posts about me. Gamble seems to have me down as a 7/1 non-trier, & Glenn’s post makes me sound like the ghost of Christmas past, who came to visit Scrooge (although I think I know what he’s talking about, which is more than I can say for Gamble).
Just to say, I enjoyed the evening & it was nice to meet Glenn & Paul, & they honestly got on very well.
We had a few beers in the Bloomsbury Tavern, then introduced Glenn to the Lowlander & had a few there as well. For those with fond memories of the Lowlander, it’s very much as you would remember it, lovely range of quite potent beers, although they do have more British food on their menu now, but you can still have your Moules Marinieres etc.
We did touch upon the idea of arranging something similar in the Spring, think we had a pre Cheltenham do there a few years back. The Lowlander do actually do a really nice beer-tasting & nibbles evening for groups.
A Christmas Crawl
Your Dicken’s references Colin have
rather made my evening
and of course
if the three of you had followed your cold noses
around Bloomsbury to Doughty Street you would have spotted
a blackened edifice; Dickens earlier abode as a young man.
The image of Silvoir clearing his desk
translates into a delightful Bob Cratchit.Glenn makes a poor Scrooge in my opinion
but I am sure he appreciates your imagery.
The Lowlander was a nice second choice,
and far better fare than my one suggestion
the Strand’s Cheshire Cheese
If it’s any consolation I had you at 6/1
at the off and must congratulate you
for defying the weather and your odds.How does an eve-of-Derby night sound for the Southern contingent? I know it’s planning ahead a fair bit but I’ll be booking up for flights, etc, soon.
Either that or the Saturday night on the day of the Derby?
Having met both Colin and Paul I’m sure that it would have been a pleasant night the other night and I’d very much like to meet up and have an educated tour of London’s finest drinking establishemnts.
think we had a pre Cheltenham do there a few years back.
We did, we did. A lot of ale has passed under the bridge since then, but *I think* I recall you, JimF, Non Vintage, Grey Desire, Rory, Prufrock and Mr and Mrs Column being there – I’m sure any of those named will put this fathead right if they weren’t. Clivexx and PaulO as well? Proper good night out, that was.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
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