Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-19 Thread James Laver
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Luis Motta Campos wrote: > Coming from you it sounds like a serious recommendation. I wonder why > you're recommending me to go there... is is this beautiful? Yes. English countryside is very beautiful. Lots of poetry talking about it. "green and pleasant land"

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-19 Thread Luis Motta Campos
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > On 18 Dec 2008, at 23:24, Luis Motta Campos wrote: >> >> If I may have a say about that, can we have something closer, and >> maybe more traditional? It might be quite a while until I have a good >> opportunity to attend a social meeting, and being this far away from >>

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-19 Thread ben
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:33:23PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > >On 18 Dec 2008, at 16:45, Dave Cross wrote: >> >>The heretics meeting will be on January 1st. > >For those without a passport and thus unable to attend the 1st Jan >meeting abroad, if there are sufficient numbers (more than one) I

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-19 Thread Martin Robertson
2008/12/19 James Laver : > In any case there's a rather nice pub just east of Bank*, so I question the > truths in what you are saying. > > --James > > * Or was I so drunk after visiting it that I thought it was east of bank? > hurrah for Balvennie & the barmaids nip!

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread James Laver
On 2008-12-19 00:55, "Peter Corlett" wrote: > On 18 Dec 2008, at 21:12, James Laver wrote: > [...] >> I'm told by some london.pmers that nothing exists north of Watford >> or south >> of Wimbledon. Surely, then, these maps are fantasy? > > They are mistaken. There is nothing north of Hampstead n

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Corlett
On 18 Dec 2008, at 21:12, James Laver wrote: [...] I'm told by some london.pmers that nothing exists north of Watford or south of Wimbledon. Surely, then, these maps are fantasy? They are mistaken. There is nothing north of Hampstead nor south of the Thames. Likewise, there are only dragons

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 18 Dec 2008, at 23:24, Luis Motta Campos wrote: If I may have a say about that, can we have something closer, and maybe more traditional? It might be quite a while until I have a good opportunity to attend a social meeting, and being this far away from London sounds a bit lame... :)

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Luis Motta Campos
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 18 Dec 2008, at 16:45, Dave Cross wrote: The heretics meeting will be on January 1st. For those without a passport and thus unable to attend the 1st Jan meeting abroad, if there are sufficient numbers (more than one) I shall host something in the north-western corn

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Luis Motta Campos
David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:45:37PM +, Dave Cross wrote: The heretics meeting will be on January 1st. Please pay no attention to the DEVILS in our midst. All right-minded perl-mongers know that our OFFICIAL, ORTHODOX meetings are on the first Thursday of the month, a

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Luis Motta Campos wrote: I am staying at the Luxury Inn, 154 Tottenham Rd, and there will be Internet connection there. If you're interested in showing me some nice english pub and some nice english beers, please let me know. insert mandatory plug for rgl. http://london.r

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 18 Dec 2008, at 16:45, Dave Cross wrote: The heretics meeting will be on January 1st. For those without a passport and thus unable to attend the 1st Jan meeting abroad, if there are sufficient numbers (more than one) I shall host something in the north-western corner of Zone 1 with an amb

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread James Laver
On 2008-12-18 20:40, "David Cantrell" wrote: > > We do now! > > Seeing that no-one will be working on that day or the day after, I've > decided that we'll go a bit further afield this time, and visit this > pub: > http://www.thedorsetlewes.com/ No-one? Two of us will be playing scrabble in^W^

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:45:37PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > The heretics meeting will be on January 1st. Please pay no attention to the DEVILS in our midst. All right-minded perl-mongers know that our OFFICIAL, ORTHODOX meetings are on the first Thursday of the month, and consequently there wi

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Cross
Luis Motta Campos wrote: > I will be in London for the first time ever between the afternoon of > the 28th of December and the morning of the 4th of January. As Thrusday > the 1st is a Social Meeting, I wonder if there will be one, or if I > should ask around for some nice Londoners for an emerge

Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Luis Motta Campos
I will be in London for the first time ever between the afternoon of the 28th of December and the morning of the 4th of January. As Thrusday the 1st is a Social Meeting, I wonder if there will be one, or if I should ask around for some nice Londoners for an emergency social. Sad to say that I