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I'm going to be in London for most of the first three weeks in October this year. Is the Marquess of Anglesey still a good place to meet 'bakers? Or perhaps some other, entirely different Covent Garden pub?
The Bleeding Heart
http://www.bleeding...uk/bistro/index.php
Invented by someone French, sort of. [pertinax, May 25 2008]
Ye Olde Mitre
http://www.fancyapi...com/pubs/pub92.html
[zen_tom, Aug 05 2008]
Ye Olde Mitre - Google Maps
http://maps.google....9,0.001534&t=h&z=19
Hint: Look for the blue Mitre on the lampost on Hatton Garden, near the alley. [Dub, Aug 05 2008]
[4] ingly on flickr
http://www.flickr.c.../inglybinglydingly/
for looking at wot we look like [Ian Tindale, Oct 11 2008]
The British Invention Show
http://www.britishi...ntionshow.com/show/
Alexandra Palace, London - 15th- 18th October 2008. [Dub, Oct 13 2008]
[link]
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Good luck, have fun. Tell us if you run into any of us. |
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Should be there, with luck. Toodle-pip. |
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Thats a good spot to start with. We don't drink there all the time, just when we are meeting up!
We REALLY need to consider food next time (again!) though. |
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AWoL - believe it when I see it |
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I'll be there or thereabouts on October 1st if that's any good. |
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Food? Pah! It's overrated ;-) !?!? |
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For more of a foody focus, how about the Bleeding Heart in Farringdon? I mean the bistro-ish upstairs part, not the posh restaurant in the cellar... unless we're all feeling unusually prosperous. |
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Unfortunately, [Jinbish], my flight in doesn't land until the 2nd, so the 1st won't quite work. |
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Now, I seem to remember that [hippo] can't do Tuesdays. Are there any other dates / days of the week that anyone would like to block out? |
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I should probably eliminate the 18th. |
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Yarrr, the Bleeding Heart in Farringdon is a great place - got to get in early to secure seatage though. |
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I would love to attend. Maybe I will. I've just moved to Ireland, but I'll bump this if it looks like I'll have UK based work during October. |
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// I've just moved to Ireland, //
[wags] Was it something I said? |
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It might have been. Did you say "The west coast of Ireland is a peaceful, quiet place with lovely views and great fishing."? |
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//I seem to remember that [hippo] can't
do Tuesdays// - Thursdays now - art
class has moved to Thursday. |
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Bonjour, I may well be available for booze,
but not food. Never food. I belong to the
[Jinbish] school of thought: |
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Although, [theleopard], I have to admit that the last time I subscribed to my own school of thought (in the Marquess of Anglesey), I was a little bit red-eyed and more than a bit "Barry White" at my presentation the next day... |
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(On saying that, I think that the husky, gravelly, some-might-say-broken voice gave my talk a certain gravitas. As if delivered by James Earl Jones himself - as Darth Vader) |
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[theleopard], Arnie might disagree. |
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Date depending, I might be able to make it. |
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Hasta la pizza, bay-bee... |
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Pub's are for drinking. Restaurants for eating.
October is a long way off but I'll stick it in my diary ...the meeting that is, not October. Obviously I already have October in my diary. |
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// As if delivered by James Earl Jones himself - as Darth Vader)//
Yes,but your voice always sounds different to yourself than it does to others.
YOU may have heard Darth Vader,THEY might have got a Half-drunk Glaswegian.
Lets hope it was the other way round. |
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Hmm, Vader as a hungover Glaswegian...
"Aye, I am yer faither" |
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Loook, I'rrm yir Fayther, ken? (possible link to Irvin Welsch-Ambraic post?) |
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No, I think I've linked to my ideas enough
for one day. But thanks for mentioning it. |
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OK, time to narrow this down to, I think, the week from Monday 13th to Friday 17th, excluding Thursday 16th (for [hippo]'s art class). |
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Maybe Friday 17th would be best, because not a school night. |
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For the 'eating is cheating' school of thought I suggest that, supper having been eaten at the Bleeding Heart from, say, 7:00pm, we kick on to meet up with you elsewhere at, say, 8:00pm? I seem to remember that the neighbourhood is not short of retail outlets for alcohol. |
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I think there's a nicely out-of-the-way one with low lintels down an alleyway in the direction of Hatton Garden, but I can't quite remember. |
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//I think there's a nicely out-of-the-way one with low lintels down an alleyway in the direction of Hatton Garden, but I can't quite remember.// |
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Are you perhaps thinking of Ye Olde Mitre? |
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Yes, that was the one - thank you. |
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YOM - Is nice, and It's not hard to find, once you know it's down a dark-ish alley... and is guarded by Cerberus... Oh, and FYI - it has been closed on one HalfCon attempt (But that's OK - There's another pub - Coach and Horses? - the other end of Hatton Garden) - Linky |
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{I was kidding about the Cerberus bit} |
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YOM Closed on Saturdays. Pretty sure Fridays is OK. |
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Has anyone got three ordinary dogs and some duct tape? |
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Hmmm, I've been planning to visit my friends in London sometime soon and they live mere blocks from the location you've picked. Not committing yet, but there is a possibility... |
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OK, I'm in-country and booking a table at the Bleeding Heart bistro for 7:00pm on the 17th. Would anyone like to commit, so I can guess the right number to book for? |
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7pm is a little early to get in from the Outer Sticks, but I'll do my very bestest. |
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I have a meeting down that way on the 14th. If only... |
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{Plus, I am a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society - which has a branch round the corner from the Bleeding Heart} |
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//I am a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society //
Does one have to be a full-blooded Caledonian to qualify for membership, or does marriage suffice? |
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Actually, nationality is irrelevant; your membership fees are what count! |
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I will do my very best. We have a Golf Society Day in the Sticks but if I cadge a lift they can kick me out at a local station.
I also have the opportunity to crash in London as well which is nice... |
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Would it help if we pushed the supper back to 7:30, and then the pub to 8:30? |
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I'll be there - [jb] if you're around on the 14th and start to feel thirsty, give me a call! |
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Thank you, [zen_tom]; any other takers? |
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I shall be there. It doesn't really matter on the time - I will either get back home from Golf and get a train up or ask a friend to drive and kick me out at Edenbridge. 7 or 7:30 p.m. is fine.
*EDIT* Your email from administrator@moun....... bounced back either 'cos it was
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You might like to try that again now. |
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Enjoy yourselves! I'll be passing through at the end of November in case anyone is in need of going out for a beer. Which seems likely knowing you lot. |
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Despite actually living in London and therefore not having the travelling problems the rest of you have, I'm unlikely to be able to make it on the 14th - or if I do, it wouldn't be until late-ish. Just in case, does anyone know which pub you'll be at yet? |
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I think the 14th is currently looking a little bleak (unless [jb] is suddenly overtaken by a massive and overwhelming thirst), with the preferred date of choice appearing to nudge itself towards the 17th. |
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Well, I'm going to be in Sussex on the 14th, so - with apologies to his grace the '[bish], I'll have to stick to the 17th. The staff at the Bleeding Heart had difficulty with the idea of a pseudonymous booking, so the table we have (still at 7:00, unless advised otherwise) is in the name of Griffiths [who he? - Ed.] and I'm still expecting to be hanging around the bar of Ye Olde Mitre from 8:00-ish. |
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You'll easily be able to recognize me as the one you haven't met before, 5' 11", receding fair hair, mad staring eyes, brown moleskin jacket*. I should probably devise some corny red-carnation-type token as well, but I haven't yet. Will think about that further. |
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*No moles were harmed in the making of this annotation. |
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//I should probably devise some corny red-carnation-type token as well//
How about a stylish demi-croissant butonniere? |
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Well, the original reason for setting up inglybinglydingly on yahoo (was a good choice then, pretty much the worst choice of service for that sort of thing now) was to post pictures for recognition in readiness for planned drinkies in a pub. Nowadays, of course, there's flickr. There's even the extension of the original inglybinglydingly group there [4]. |
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and you couldn't mistake the little fat red one with the aerial... |
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How should I fit the aerial to the carnation? |
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I'll be there. Are we expecting a Po? |
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(No worries [ptnx], hope y'all have a fab time!) |
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I think [Awol] and [po] are really the same person... I know them both, but I've never seen them both in the same place at the same time. Come on! Prove me wrong. |
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BTW - I may be going to the British Invention Show at Alexandra Palace beforehand [linky]. If anyone would care to join me? |
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//I know them both, but I've never seen them both in the same place at the same time//
Or maybe we're both just a figment of your fevered imagination.
Kind of like Paul Bettany in that Russell Crowe movie. But more attractive. |
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Is there a reasonably definitive show of hands and time for this?
I am teeing off early in the morning and will be able to get back home before getting to town so no worries time wise.
Location is still the Bleeding Heart I guess. |
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