beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
Hallo mongers, I'm Mallory and I don't really do any Perl. But my husband does, and we'll be in London (a first for me) on the weekend of the 24th of June and was wondering if there'd be a possibility to just drink some beer and hang out with some Perlers somewhere that weekend? Dakkar suggested I ask here :) cheers, Mallory
beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
Sorry, wasn't subscribed so couldn't reply. >What area will you be in? What tourist crap do you want to do? We'll be in a cheapy Mccheap hotel "Sani" which is by Shepard's Bush (or, that's the nearest terminal), and as for tourist crap we dunno really. At least the Natural History Museum and maybe 221b Baker Street. Further, I guess just see "London". Since we get to the hotel late on Friday (we hope around 9pm but you never know with trains), I dunno if Friday night is best or Saturday... we're also in town Monday evening as well. Anyway I dunno what's the best manner to pick an evening... I assume whichever the most people can attend? And we have no idea what a "good" pub is in the area. If there isn't one, another area should be fine. Cheers, Mallory
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On 1 Jun 2011, at 15:02, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > Hallo mongers, > > I'm Mallory and I don't really do any Perl. But my husband does, and > we'll be in London (a first for me) on the weekend of the 24th of > June and was wondering if there'd be a possibility to just drink some > beer and hang out with some Perlers somewhere that weekend? > Dakkar suggested I ask here :) What area will you be in? What tourist crap do you want to do?
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On 1 June 2011 15:02, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > Hallo mongers, > > I'm Mallory and I don't really do any Perl. But my husband does, and > we'll be in London (a first for me) on the weekend of the 24th of > June and was wondering if there'd be a possibility to just drink some > beer and hang out with some Perlers somewhere that weekend? > Dakkar suggested I ask here :) > Emergency! Emergency!
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:34:23AM +0200, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > Sorry, wasn't subscribed so couldn't reply. For future reference, that's not actually true. Non-subscriber mail hits the moderation queue, and human non-subscribers usually then get whitelisted so that they don't need further moderation. Now, you likely won't see a *reply* unless you're subscribed, but that's a different colour of bikeshed ... :-) > We'll be in a cheapy Mccheap hotel "Sani" which is by Shepard's > Bush (or, that's the nearest terminal), and as for tourist crap > we dunno really. At least the Natural History Museum and maybe > 221b Baker Street. Further, I guess just see "London". > > Since we get to the hotel late on Friday (we hope around 9pm > but you never know with trains), I dunno if Friday night is best > or Saturday... we're also in town Monday evening as well. Historically Friday has proven to be a bad day for attendance. Starting after 9pm in London on any night isn't going to work - the public transport turns to pumpkins by midnight, even if you find a pub that has a licence past 11pm, hence everyone will go home. So of your options, that leaves Saturday. > Anyway I dunno what's the best manner to pick an evening... I assume > whichever the most people can attend? And we have no idea what a > "good" pub is in the area. If there isn't one, another area should > be fine. Usually the best way is to get a (sort of unofficial) "sponsor" who simply declares that it's this pub at that time, and people show up. What actually happens is that this person: -4: is reasonably well known (for -2 and -1) -3: has some idea about pubs, or sounds out the IRC channel to get a sane idea -2: can attend themself, and be recognisable -1: has some idea about who else will attend, and gets rough confirmations and then 0: announces it 1: arrives 2: tries to ensure that everyone else finds each other to ensure that people actually end up in the same bit of the same pub. It's not essential to do any of the above, but without everyone having phones *and* everyone knowing every other potential attendee's* phone numbers (in advance) it tends to be helpful to do it. It happens that we have visitors that weekend, so I can't be sure that I'm able to make it, so I can't volunteer to organise anything. Nicholas Clark * There are currently 920 e-mail addresses subscribed to this list.
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On 6 Jun 2011, at 10:34, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > Sorry, wasn't subscribed so couldn't reply. > >> What area will you be in? What tourist crap do you want to do? > > We'll be in a cheapy Mccheap hotel "Sani" which is by Shepard's > Bush (or, that's the nearest terminal), and as for tourist crap > we dunno really. At least the Natural History Museum and maybe > 221b Baker Street. Further, I guess just see "London". A list I wrote while on the tube going to pick up my then girlfriend: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2009/08/emergency-london-tourist-stuff-updated/ Baker Street is not on that list. The fish and chip shop on Lisson Grove should be.
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On 6 Jun 2011, at 10:34, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: [...] > Anyway I dunno what's the best manner to pick an evening... I assume > whichever the most people can attend? And we have no idea what a > "good" pub is in the area. If there isn't one, another area should > be fine. The nearest reasonable pub to your hotel is the Princess Victoria, a few minutes walk east. It's what you get when you take a typical British boozer and actually clean it and serve decent beer. The prices are a bit fearsome and it's a trek even from Shepherd's Bush, which is why I rarely go there. It's not suitable for a social, but it is somewhere to wet your throat and get fed near your hotel. How about the Bridge House? It's a London.pm favourite, and it's near the Tower of London and Tower Bridge, so fits in with your tourist plans.
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:34:23AM +0200, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > > Sorry, wasn't subscribed so couldn't reply. > > For future reference, that's not actually true. Non-subscriber mail hits > the moderation queue, and human non-subscribers usually then get whitelisted > so that they don't need further moderation. > > Now, you likely won't see a *reply* unless you're subscribed, but that's a > different colour of bikeshed ... :-) Ah, what I meant was, I have no idea how to set up headers to make an email out of the blue be a reply, or get it in the same thread as the other I made out of the blue. I dunno enough about email headers. Lawlz. I saw replies easily enough on the archive. So, was apologising for basically starting a whole new thread on the same subject as earlier. -Mallory
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
So, Bridge House at 18 Tower Bridge Road, London on Saturday evening 25th June? (DuckDuckGo brought up another Bridge House in London but this one seemed correct) I'm looking at the suggestions of Nicholas, and wondering who is best as "sponsor" of this. I suppose first we'd have to know who thinks they can make it... and of them, who's a good candidate. cheers, -Mallory On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:42:13AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: > How about the Bridge House? It's a London.pm favourite, and it's near the > Tower of London and Tower Bridge, so fits in with your tourist plans.
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On 6 Jun 2011, at 12:11, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > So, Bridge House at 18 Tower Bridge Road, London on Saturday evening > 25th June? (DuckDuckGo brought up another Bridge House in London but > this one seemed correct) That would be the one, yes. > I'm looking at the suggestions of Nicholas, and wondering who is best > as "sponsor" of this. I suppose first we'd have to know who thinks > they can make it... and of them, who's a good candidate. If someone is willing to do it, they will volunteer themselves. I'm normally unavailable on saturdays, or I'd do it. /j
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On 6 June 2011 12:11, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > So, Bridge House at 18 Tower Bridge Road, London on Saturday evening > 25th June? (DuckDuckGo brought up another Bridge House in London but > this one seemed correct) That sounds like a wonderful plan, and I can make it! Let's have an emergency social meeting for you: >From 6pm on 25th June 2011 Bridge House 218 Tower Bridge Road, SE1 2UP http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Bridge_House%2C_SE1_2UP I shall be there, probably wearing orange. I'll try and bring a small stuffed camel with me. I'll reannounce it closer to the date. Who else can make it? Cheers, Leon
Re: beer? weekend of the 24th June in London
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Léon Brocard wrote: > On 6 June 2011 12:11, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: >> So, Bridge House at 18 Tower Bridge Road, London on Saturday evening >> 25th June? (DuckDuckGo brought up another Bridge House in London but >> this one seemed correct) > I'll reannounce it closer to the date. Who else can make it? > Count me in.
