Hi James, long time lurker, first time caller.
as a really crap perl programmer but an avid beer consumer, I'd be willing to swap some gut size for guru status. I'm co9 < over by Braintree >, where are you ? have an estate so possible I can get the lot in ( unless you lot are really worse than me and, reading some of the posts, that's very possible ). ta DaveN On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 13:18 +0100, James Laver wrote: > I got a call from the brewery this morning and they're not prepared to > deliver to paddington for our next social, leaving us a little bit in > the shit. Anyone got a shovel? > > I've formulated the following devious plans: > > 1. a kind, friendly soul with a car drives to the brewery/winery in > essex and drops stuff off at a convenient holding point (with lack of > volunteers, probably my flat), and I will get them to the social a few > cases at a time. > 2. Similar, except we go next weekend and people pick them up from my > house rather than the social. > 3. a team of kind people arrange to meet at a tube station in eastern > zone 2 and proceed to help me carry beer to the social via the > hammersmith and city line. > 4. I organise a social at the bridge house for september and we have > the beer then (august is YAPC, remember). > > I'm not sure I can cat-herd effectively enough to make option 3 > happen, but does any kind soul with a car fancy a daytrip to a brewery > and winery in essex, or will we have to put it back to september? > > So, shovels anybody? > > Oh and we need to get artwork that still hasn't been drawn to the > brewery by the end of tomorrow if we're going to attack plan 1 or 2. > Any artistic shovels? > > --James