Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed

2009-06-29 Thread dave
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

Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed

2009-06-26 Thread James Laver
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

Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed

2009-06-26 Thread Jonathan Stowe
2009/6/26 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed

2009-06-26 Thread James Laver
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Stowej...@integration-house.com wrote: 2009/6/26 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Anniversary Beer - Shovels needed

2009-06-26 Thread Bob MacCallum
That's near my folks' place, but alas I have no car and they have no immediate plans to drive to London, nor any storage space to spare. Otherwise, I would have been happy to help. Anyone have connections to Eddie Stobart? The brewery is in the arse end of essex, Mersea Island, which is not

Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry

2009-06-17 Thread James Laver
Hi guys, I'll be ordering anniversary beer today but there's one thing remaining - artwork. Last year, we were graciously donated a design by Kent Fredric of a camel going through tower bridge. This year, of all the suggestions, I think I like the idea of St. Pauls with a Perl Onion for a dome

Re: Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry

2009-06-17 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:39:43PM +0100, James Laver wrote: Last year, we were graciously donated a design by Kent Fredric of a camel going through tower bridge. This year, of all the suggestions, I think I like the idea of St. Pauls with a Perl Onion for a dome, the most. Is there

Re: Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry

2009-06-17 Thread James Laver
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) philippe.bru...@free.fr wrote: I also have in my possession a small text in Dave Cross' handwriting written on a piece of cardboard, saying roughly: The use of a glass of beer in association with the Perl language is copyright London.pm

Anniversary Beer

2009-06-12 Thread James Laver
Okay, I'm going to get around to ordering anniversary beer as soon as I come up with a venue for next month's social. If you asked for some, you should have received an email from me confirming your order. If you didn't, you forgot to email me or I've misplaced it (I searched my mailbox

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-06-12 Thread James Laver
On 12 Jun 2009, at 09:31, James Laver wrote: Cases are of 12. If you have any number of complete cases, you get to choose which beer you want for them. Please write to me off-list indicating which of the bottle conditioned beers from http://www.merseawine.com/brewery.htm you'd like (or

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-06-12 Thread James Laver
On 12 Jun 2009, at 10:34, James Laver wrote: Fortune smiles upon us as it transpires that we've got 12 cases on order, which means we can create mixed cases. If you've ordered beer and want a taste of all the beers (with the exception of the pilsner), can you show your hand and I'll go

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Bernstein
Did anything happen about this? Is anniversary beer still on? I'm guessing with June social just days away it's not happening /this/ month, but did enough people get involved to make it happen at all? /joel On 1 May 2009, at 08:50, James Laver wrote: We've almost got enough to make

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-05-29 Thread James Laver
On 29 May 2009, at 14:34, Joel Bernstein wrote: Did anything happen about this? Is anniversary beer still on? I'm guessing with June social just days away it's not happening / this/ month, but did enough people get involved to make it happen at all? /joel We hit critical mass, I just

Anniversary Beer

2009-04-20 Thread James Laver
As some of you will remember, last year I organised commemorative beer for our 10th anniversary (go london.pm!) Yesterday, a london.pm member twittered about how much he enjoyed drinking some of it in the sunshine. This evening, another member IRCd about how much he enjoyed it. And then

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-04-20 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:30:38PM +0100, James Laver wrote: As some of you will remember, last year I organised commemorative beer for our 10th anniversary (go london.pm!) We need 120 bottles to make it worth their while and they'll deliver to the june social (which will fall on the 4th

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-04-20 Thread James Laver
the same? --James P.S. why haven't I heard of other PM groups organising anniversary beer?

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-04-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:58:51PM +0100, James Laver wrote: P.S. why haven't I heard of other PM groups organising anniversary beer? Perhaps it is related to the problem of orgynising a piss-up in a brewery? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Just because it is possible to do

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-04-20 Thread Pedro Figueiredo
On 20 Apr 2009, at 22:52, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: It'll be worth it, if only to watch people throwing in a lot of money for beer in the land of cheap beer... ;-) s/cheap beer/expensive ice-cold piss/

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-04-20 Thread James Laver
On 20 Apr 2009, at 23:12, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:58:51PM +0100, James Laver wrote: P.S. why haven't I heard of other PM groups organising anniversary beer? Perhaps it is related to the problem of orgynising a piss-up in a brewery? -- David Cantrell | Cake