FAP London

Sadly not for me, especially not Wed 2nd. I might possibly be able to do Thu 3rd, but probably shouldn't due to work.

I might be able to come on the 3rd

Ok let's tentatively go for Thurs.

Any other HH, South London locals?

Me! Can't do any nights next week unfortunately

"If every time I lost a case I was called on to resign I would probably have never had a practice," says Geoffrey Cox.

*smile at camera*

oops ha ha

probably in for this tho, WHENEVER

Cool let's see where we're at. We could delay till end of month.

The soon to be sacked Geoffrey Cox also welcome.

Drinks are on him, though - literally or not left to individual taste.

(I could also make this!)

i think i can make this (effortfully walls five metres down road) tho like stet next week not amazing.

thread is lacking plax imo.

be good to see Andrew F who i conversed with for about two minutes at the last FAP where both of us were present. the rest of you i can take or leave obv.

Next Thursday would work. Since it sounds like some can’t make it we could do another towards the end of the month/start of Nov?

Sounds good.

Let's go for the commercial

I agree with Fizzles.

So are we doing this thing then?

I am planning to be there (though the chances are I won't make it until about 7.30).

Fuck, I'm not sure about this one, plus it's tomorrow!

I will swing by, but probably not for long.

Will be there by six-ish I reckon.

See you then!

Fizzles? Farrell? Poo?

No worries if this experiment in non-central drinking yields low numbers or you all want to do something at the end of the month I'll be at the commercial reading over a drink anyway.

I hope to attend.

All being well I'll have a finished copy of the book I've been working on for a couple of years - I did the final print run last night.

Ooh that’s exciting. PF I was just coming to check if you were.

I'm going to have to play this one by ear I think. Might see you later. Will be there at 7ish if I am coming

Aw hope you do.

Will prob get there around 6:15

Cool

Or 6:50 because the trains fucking suck.

Cool, just got to the commercial now

Good group of us here now! 👍

regards to some 😘

"Is E____ terrorising you?"
"She's doing as she does"

That almost went horribly wrong. All the trains from Herne Hill were cancelled but I managed to get a bus and 2 tubes to London Bridge and my train arrives in 7 minutes. then in theory I get a bus from Tunbridge Wells and I get home about 2:30 if I'm lucky...

Once again I completely avoided talking to Fizzles. I swear I'm not doing this deliberately

Blimey, for once things are working out, if my train existed I would be arriving at Hastings now but the bus actually turned up this time and just stopped at Battle so I might even get home before 2!

Hope you got home ok

Thanks all for a nice eve

I had a fine time, thanks all.

Fizzles, this was the book I was recommending: https://www.influxpress.com/attrib-and-other-stories

Thanks Tim. And it's always a real pleasure - doubly so to see ilx faces in your familiar local. Colonel Poo's frosty high-hatting of me notwithstanding.

having popped back in the commercial while waiting for a chinese takeaway i realise pinefox’s pleasantry about Belly was in fact anchored in the actual music they were playing.

I had a fine time, thanks all.

Fizzles, this was the book I was recommending: https://www.influxpress.com/attrib-and-other-stories🕸

That book sounds quite worth looking at!

Fizzles, if I mentioned Belly it was because they were playing 'Feed The Tree'.

Ah, yes, that's what they were playing the other night as well.

Eley Williams has enormous fun with the sound and look of language, and the heft of words and their relation to perception and memory. Normally I'm a little wary of the poeticisation of prose, but I don't think that's what's happening here. It reminds me more of Robert Louis Stevenson's approach to sentence construction, where he recommends an awareness of the patterns of sound across sentences. Love and loss are specifically realised through this prism of language and thought, which makes their representation more elliptical than more conventional representations of those emotions, but more pointed, more tender, with a bursting sense of things felt but not directly expressed so that, to quote Isaac Rosenberg, they are 'understandable but still ungraspable'.

A brutal comedown.

Thanks to everyone who has come to find me in Brixton - now having lunch in Morley’s - out and about again at about 1 pic.twitter.com/CiJsiFOVhb

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 8, 2019

should have been stony-faced next to a white person in the third pic

also sorry we didn't show up, organise another one and we will do our best

When’s the next one? I’d like to go to one eventually...