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At some point in the summer, [holiday if possible] it would be really
nice to meet up with some fellow 'bakers in, maybe, Victoria Park,
Leicester [I am sure I have heard some bakers say they lived
locally...]?
Anyways, does anyone else think this is a good idea?
[there would, of course,
be crossaints]
Cross Saints
http://www.google.c...h=&safe=off&as_st=y
[normzone, Apr 23 2009]
Don't forget your
Picnic_20Ant_20Strip
[hippo, Apr 24 2009]
Charlie Wilson
http://www.le.ac.uk...s/maps/mcampus.html
Left of the Attenborough tower, see the stairwell on it's left to the back? That's me that is. [theleopard, Apr 24 2009]
North Vancouver's Victoria Park
http://www.cnv.org/.../3/296/Victoria.htm
[Canuck, Jun 09 2009]
[up_on_cloud_nine]
http://i122.photobu...p_on_cloud_nine.jpg
(Engineering building in the background) [nineteenthly, Jun 22 2009]
[nineteenthly]
http://i122.photobu...nthly/19thlyjpg.jpg
Wearing purple as planned, [eleventeenthly]'s shoulder visible. [nineteenthly, Jun 22 2009]
A shoulder plus the rest of [eleventeenthly]
http://i122.photobu...eventeenthly001.jpg
Further evidence for the existence of halfbakers [nineteenthly, Jun 22 2009]
[link]
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Why does this remind me of the teddy bear's
picnic? |
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I suggest the Pavilion in Vicky Park and i'll take home made and other croissants if anyone wants. |
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And lashings of ginger beer? |
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I can do home made ginger beer too if you want. I could probably manage up to about five litres and it would be slightly alcoholic. |
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Maybe, but probably not. But just in case, tell me, would this ginger beer be in any way recycled (before drinking at the picnic) ? |
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[Bigsleep] if [Nineteenthly] offers you a drink you don't ask silly questions. You down it and ask where you can buy more, only you can't see? It will be more than a drink it will be a memory to savour(sp?) |
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There's no way I could possibly drive that far...at least until I can afford my amphibious RV.
<can't help but wonder how well ginger beer ships...> |
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I've always wanted to visit the UK... sadly, I can't do it just yet. But I'll try some of that homebrew if ya can ship a case to my hotel in Portland on the 2nd so we can all raise our glasses for a toast around the world! |
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Someone should bring loaves and fishes. |
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I'm much closer to Victoria Park, London - but if I can think of a suitable excuse to drive to Leicester, I'm sure I'd be tempted to drop by. |
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Vicky Park eh? Many years ago I remember being at the top of the
outside stairwell on the Charlie Wilson building, looking out over a
glorious sunny day at the park, and being amazed at the audacity of a
couple attempting to have inconspicuous sex in the middle of a football
pitch. They were fully clothed, but her bouncing up and down would
cease whenever somebody walked past with their dog, or a Frisbee
landed near them. |
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Excellent. I remember Victoria Park from my days living in Dalston Junction - although I never had sex in the middle of a football pitch there. |
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Presumably you went for the more Freudianly appropriate area of the box? |
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Wouldn't the goal be even Freudianlyer? ("He shoots! He SCORES!!!") |
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//("He shoots! He SCORES!!!")//
Somewhere between the goal and the corner flag would be more true to life though. |
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Would it not be "he comes then goes"? |
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Aha - VIcky Park! Used to cross it every day on my way to Uni in the 80's.
Well known source of magic mushrooms, apparently.
Unfortunately, no longer in vicinity. |
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[Theleopard], are you sure about that? The stairs on the outside of the Chilly Willy face the cemetery, the Biocentre and the Percy Gee building. Vicky Park's on the other side. There's a terrace nowadays outside the coffee bar and there's a wall and a slope, but no stairs. You _can_ see Vicky Park and the rumpy-pumpy from the parkside restaurant upstairs. Incidentally, if anyone does make it, i will share my story about Vicky Park if you want, which also relates to shall we say romantic issues.
Concerning beverages, and i'm one hundred percent serious about this, if anyone at the Portland Half-Con wants, i will post my home made cola concentrate to an address there and you can add carbonated water and sugar. Any takers just email me an address and i'll send it there. It'll be about fifteen grammes of gloop sealed in a ziplock bag in a padded envelope, and i'll enclose instructions. But you need to tell me NOW or it won't make it. |
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Pretty sure it was Charlie Wilson. It was a fire escape staircase at the
back. We were rehearsing a show for Edinburgh Fringe up there and
during a break sat on the balcony smoking cigarettes and watching the
world romp by. |
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I thought you meant the outside stairs at the front. Do you mean the ones with the slitty windows on the Attenborough side? Or, do you actually mean the awesome eggbox pile itself? |
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Rigth... wow, lots of annos... |
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Um, if people could suggest good dates to do it, that would
be nice. Apart from in holiday time, I can't make Saturday
mornings [orchestra], but Sundays are generally good. Hows
about everyone else? |
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does the USA allow gloop past their borders? |
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That's actually a very good question... anybody have an answer? |
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I know the australians were highly suspicious of twiglets but then who can blame them. |
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Yes, i thought that too, [po]. However, i've sent small amounts of essential oils to the US in the last couple of years and told the GPO what it was, and it arrived fine. I could do the same with this.
Now looking at USPS postal regulations. |
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bit niggled that 21 was surprised at a good question from me - grrrrr, get 21 at play time... |
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//grrrrr, get 21 at playtime// |
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Is that a threat or wishful thinking? Because it almost sounds like an invitation ;) |
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By the way, I wasn't surprised that *you* asked a good question, I was surprised because it was so obvious and nobody else thought of it. |
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//But you need to tell me NOW or it won't make it.// |
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I would definitely like to give it a try...but if I detect the slightest whiff of almonds I'm making 21 Quest try the first glass. |
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Nice, make ME drink the arsenic. I see how it is. |
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OK, it'll be in the post first thing tomorrow. Funny you should mention arsenic though, it's a running joke of one of my patients.
[Theleopard], i know where you mean,but since i lack X-rayoid vision which can mysteriously penetrate GIFs, no i can't actually see the stairwell. However, i do get where you're coming from. For those who don't know, i.e. almost everyone, Vicky Park is the green area "above" it. |
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OK then, right now i'm thinking Sunday the twenty-fourth of May at one pm. How does that suit you people? |
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Could someone commit to making a conference
call? (I'm now unemployed and have nothing on my
calendar forever so I could certainly chat.) |
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Oh I meant someone with a camera phone? |
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[21] No, he's making you drink the cyanide. The arsenic's in
the cake. |
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From what I can find online, arsenic and cyanide both smell like almonds. The question, of course, is what do you do if the cake is an almond torte? |
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Almonds and cyanide taste similar because almonds contain a substance which releases cyanide when it breaks down. Many plants in the rose family do that, including apples and cherries for example. It's because they basically really do contain cyanide. Oh, and [up_on], thanks. |
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Ah... interesting that almonds are the only flavor that carries over, considering that cyanide is also contained in apple seeds, peach pits and mango stones. I wonder if flavored poisons could be made by extracting the cyanide from those other fruits so it could be easily blended with other recipes without the tell-tale almond flavor. |
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Actually, a lot of seeds containing cyanogenic glycosides do taste of almonds, including apple pips. The taste of almond more or less _is_ the taste of the glycosides which produce cyanide compounds. |
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Wait wait wait... cyanide is in apple pips? |
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Arggghhh... I almost always eat apple cores [well, I did,
until I had these darn braces put in...]. I'm assuming we're
not talking very much cyanide, right? |
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A teacupful of apple pips is enough to kill someone, and there's a case of someone saving up that much and proceeding to die as a result of consuming them. They were doing it as a crank health thing because it used to be thought that they prevented cancer. There's also a case of someone killing themselves accidentally with carrot juice in very large quantities.
In general, apple pips aren't dangerous, but i always spit them out despite eating the core. It'd be a bad idea to eat them if you had a serious respiratory problem or severe anæmia, but otherwise there´s no need to worry. |
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Ah well, I can't eat apples properly for a while yet anyhow... |
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I don't eat the seeds or the cores. Never saw the point, and spitting out the seeds helps ensure propagation of the species. I also like to throw the cores out the window if I'm eating while driving in the hopes that they'll feed some hungry critters that come their way. |
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Yes, i put the seeds in the compost. There´s a group of people here who wanted to grow a surreptitious fruit forest by this means. I felt this was rather halfbaked.
Have you prepared the gloop yet, [21 Q]? |
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We have enough trees at home, but at school I sometimes
drop the seeds on the field. |
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I will tonight, nineteenthly. It's in the car, in the front passenger
door pocket, and my fiance's got the car at work with her. |
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OK, well be sure to dilute it enough. |
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See my last anno on "Latte keyhole rotor" for more
on this. |
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I never did find out what happened when gloop A was mixed with gloop B. |
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I thought I would say that I've been thinking about coming down to Leicester for this, but there is engineering work on the train line between Manchester and Leicester on the 24th and I don't trust my car to make the journey right now. I hope it goes ahead and that you have a good day. |
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I don't think the 24th would be such a great date to do it
anyway - judging by the current weather, it's likely to be
quite cold, windy and possibly rainy. Save it for a warmer
time maybe? |
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OK, well in that case i suggest Sunday twenty-first of June, as i'm planning a herb walk on that day, so if you like, you can either do it before or after, or you can come with me and have a gander at a few plants and discuss them. How about that?
[Srimech], would that make it easier for you? When i first came to Leicester nearly a quarter of a century ago, i noticed there was engineering work on a Sunday when i wanted to go to Birmingham, scheduled to end at some point in the then near future. So far as i can tell, it's still happening. Maybe the problem isn't so much that it's on that date as that it's on a Sunday. In which case, would a Saturday be better, anyone? |
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Hm, it depends... I can't do Saturday mornings because of
orchestra rehearsals, but from 1 onwards, or sometime in the
holidays, I'm can probably makew it. |
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OK, right, let's say the Sunday then, 1 pm, Vicky Park on the playground side of the Pavilion, herb walk in Freeman's Common nature reserve afterwards. You can't please all of the people all of the time, can you? |
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That looks a bit easier, I wouldn't want you to plan around me though as I can't be certain I can make it at all just now. |
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OK, appreciated, but the thing is i think it's quite difficult to get any number of us together unless we're in a concentrated area of population like London or NYC, so anyone who might come is an asset. Not that you wouldn't be anyway! |
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Well, that would seem to imply the use of a camera. |
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So are we comfy on Sunday 21st? (Just figuring out where I'm going to be) and any local knowledge on parking near Victoria Park? |
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Yes, that's fine, i'm planning to be there and i'll bring refreshments. There's parking by Vicky Park gates which is, i think, free for users of the park. I was thinking 1pm. |
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The car park is off London Road and can be accessed from Granville Road which is off to the left just past the gates if you're going north along the A6 (London Road), then you turn left just before you get to De Monfort Hall. I'll link to a map. |
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Not sure where we'd find one, but a Vicky Park postcode might be handy for SatNav purposes - (if it's not 5 minutes from a tube-station, us London folk start getting twitchy!) |
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LE1 7RH is the Uni postcode and Vicky Park is on one side, so that should be adequate. LE1 7RY is the Pavilion. |
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//(if it's not 5 minutes from a tube-station, us London folk start getting twitchy!)// there speaks a North Londoner. |
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<Tooting Bec Wreck> Yeah! Wot Po Said! </TBW> |
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Anyone fancy a London one soon (north of the river)? |
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Am I north or south of London? Oh well. The walk
would be too long anyway. |
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Commiserations, [blissmiss]; I live ten minutes' drive from Victoria Park, but, unfortunately, a different Victoria Park. |
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I wonder how many Victoria Parks there are in the world. I live near Victoria Park in London, and there's one in Bermuda, and I'm tempted to believe that there's probably a few others dotted around the place - I wonder what a round-world trip between Victoria Parks might look like. |
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I guess Victoria Park is the UK/Commonwealth equivalent to the US Lincoln Park. |
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//Anyone fancy a London one soon (north of the river)?// |
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How about Tuesday 23rd June? I know it's a school night, but I'm down in London for work the next day. I probably owe you a pint from the last time, [Ian]. |
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Maybe everyone should meet in their own Victoria
Park. Obviously, Vicky Park in Leicester is viable for
some of us, but if you happen to be nearest the
Glaswegian one, for example, go to that one at the
same time on the same date and see if any other HB-
ers have come. |
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I rather like both of those suggestions - namely
a) A Victoria/Lincoln Park themed interbakethon on Sunday 21st, and
b) A few Tuesday-night drinks on the 23rd. |
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[19thly]: I'll see if I can find a tempt a few Glaswegian bakers out to Vicky Park... |
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We could maybe all try to contact each other.
[Jinbish], that sounds like it might be just about
possible. |
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Actually - I'm an eeeediot. I'll be on a train, not in Glasgow, on Sunday. I'll be with you in spirit though. |
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I can [almost certainly] make Victoria Park [Leics] on the
21st, but
won't be joining you on the 23rd. Should I bring carrot cake? |
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There's a Victoria Park not that far from me in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I'd be glad to meet up with any local bakers there. Sadly, I have no ginger beer. |
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Our Vicky Park is actually 2 parks, VP West & East, since there is a busy street cleaving the green space. I can arrange to visit either, or both, on the 21st. All that remains is to decide whether to attend at 1pm Leicester time, or 1pm Pacific Daylight Time. I much prefer the latter since the former means a 5am local time rendezvous. |
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(wipes tears of regret off face.) :-( I wish I could get
to BC. |
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Yes, [up_on], that'd be most welcome, thanks. |
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//Anyone fancy a London one soon (north of the river)?// How about Tuesday 23rd June? //
As stated in the "other place", I can make that. |
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Sounds like a good plan. By then Bob Crow should've received
enough attention to tide him over for another year or so. |
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At the risk of promoting a schism (and having worked out the round-trip time to Leicester!) can I say that if anyone wants to come to the Victoria Park in London on Sunday, I'll be glad to provide croissants. If there is a quorum, then it might be quite a nice way to spend Sunday afternoon. Perhaps organise a conference call? Anyone interested please answer in cockney. |
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If you go out to Vic Park today |
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You're sure of a big surprise. |
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If you go out in Vic Park today |
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You'd better go in disguise. |
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Every Baker that ever there was |
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Will gather there for certain, because |
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Today's the day the Halfbakers have their picnic. |
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Picnic time for Halfbakers, |
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The little Halfbakers are having a lovely time today. |
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Watch them, catch them unawares, |
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And see them picnic on their holiday. |
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See [po] gaily dance about. |
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They love to bake and shout. |
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And never have any cares. |
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At six o'clock their mommies and daddies |
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Will take them home to bed |
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Because they're tired little Halfbakers. |
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So, agree to meet @ 1pm, near Charlie Wilson building? |
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Yep, OK, and i was also thinking home made croissants, ginger beer if i can get the demijohn back from the cabin, elderflower cordial and home made cola. Maybe also hoummos. |
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I'm starting to get very envious... |
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Well in that case you're an optimist, [jinbish]. I'll take photos. |
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…and then bring them back. |
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[up_on_cloud_nine] - it was [blissmiss]'s fault |
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OK, basically bumping this, but whatever else
happens i will be on Vicky Park near the Charles
Wilson at 1pm tomorrow dressed entirely in purple, i
hope with the aforesaid drinks, probably with
(adolescent) children in tow, and with hoummos and
croissants. |
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Oh my heavens. I lost track of this idea. What a
beautiful ditty you composed.
I will be available to
talk via phone Sunday. |
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I don't speak cockney, I don't think I do.
But for [zen tom] I would try.
Bubba once told me I had an accent, but I've no
clue what kind of accent
one can garner growing up on a farm in the US
midwest.
Hog Talk-Pig Latin?) |
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Anyway, set a time and I'll answer me phone, I will. |
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Baked. Photos to follow. [Up_on_cloud_nine] and i met on Vicky Park along with [eleventeenthly] and the rest of my family at 1pm today, ate her lovely cake, drank my possibly less than lovely gloop, and there are a couple of photos which i'll upload in a bit. Hope those who are going on Tuesday enjoy yourselves. |
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Baked. Photos to follow. [Up_on_cloud_nine] and i met on Vicky Park along with [eleventeenthly] and the rest of my family at 1pm today, ate her lovely cake, drank my possibly less than lovely gloop, and there are a couple of photos which i'll upload in a bit. Hope those who are going on Tuesday enjoy yourselves.
Oh yes, and there _were_ croissants, but shop-bought rather than home made due to an inexplicable dough failure. |
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Just to report - [theleopard] and [I] had a mini one of our own overlooking Vicky Park (Hackney) and in the process enjoyed a medley of Belgian and Italian brews. A baguette was consumed and we talked some nonsense. No photos sadly, but it was a lovely day. |
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Excellent. Has [theleopard] utterly forsworn Leicester for the entirety of eternity?
About to link to a couple of photos - none of the gloop, croissants or [up_on]'s excellent cake though.
So there you go: three people who really do exist. |
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Well, 2 people and half a shoulder, anyway! |
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Thanks for all the cake praise... the gloop was nice too |
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Thanks. I'm sure Liz appreciated me spilling it all over her jeans. Incidentally, you really should look at cark, because right now it seems to be my own private group, and if you have an affinity for cooking you might like to go there. I am really planning to ionise peas too, though they will be dry. |
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