London ILB - FAP?

game pie

lol yeah Fizzles there wasn't much about London Bridge that I could see from my search.

pork scratchings as it happens. not quite the ticket, as my nan wd say.

you know this weather gets me thinking

good

beer, shirt sleeves, books.

that's it. beer, mellow evenings, shirt sleeves, london, books, talk.

good

great, ws gonna revive at the w/end!

When?

Next week would be good for me (my last week working in London before becoming a full-time home-counties daycare dad)?

That's ideal. Not Thursday though.

Or Wednesday.

Monday/Tuesday would be good for me I think: things altogether hairier towards the weekend.

Like that previous tenant of my building Virginia Woolf, I can do Monday or Tuesday.

Tuesday?

good for me.

OK!

btw Royal Oak is hardly an outdoors pub (assuming it's not thunderstorming by Tue pm anyway). does ILB FAP need a special alternative spring / summer venue?

A new era for ILB FAPs may be upon us!

If we want to stay in the area, The George?

Curious, that doesn't show up on FancyAPint's list of pubs with garden. I don't love the george tbh - how about this (which I've never tried): http://fancyapint.com/Pub/2175 ?

yeah, got my reservations about the george too, but it seemed easy. But we can do better than easy! Ship looks good.

*sniffs suspiciously* I guess that might be ok. Also not a fan of The George.

working round here this week, something about the combo of the area, its pubs and the weather really makes me want to sit and drink and read for a while after I get off. And at lunch.

if the ship is bad we can stroll up to the george. via the lord clyde and the blue eyed maid - ilb crawl!

BELUSHI'S

Happy to go w/ship.

It'll probably rain anyway :-)

Ship is fine, obv. Yes, it'll be freezing.

Agreed, woof - god this weather gives you a thirst. The thought of sunlit daytime pubs brings tears of WANT to my eyes.

Reckon I'll make this at about 8 tomorrow, what with a meeting inconveniently scheduled for 6:30.

will be there uncharacteristically early I suspect, as I'm dodging the toad work in the afternoon.

"Think of being them"

yeah it's great thanks.

As long there is no madness (coming in from Hemel) I'll be there round 6-6.30

The Madness Out of Hemel

An unexpected addition to the Cthulu mythos.

spent a happy hour, on friday, reading the spoils of poynton by henry james, in the sunshine, by the duck pond, in queen's park, glasgow.

Anyone want to have a read of Englischer Fussball, the book that Ismael sent me? He said to pass it on, but there haven't been any takers. I'll bring it along just in case.

Unfortunately I won't be able to make this after all :(

will be there uncharacteristically early I suspect, as I'm dodging the toad work in the afternoon.

Hiding in the road like a Pasolini toad?

I might pop along as I actually have more of a connection to books these days, besides occasionally getting pished with a load of blokes who read 'em. Depends on how the day goes.

toading in west london, there about 6.30.

Looking into career as loblolly-man.

A Fap of Literary Losels.

xpost. I had to google it. I haven't knowingly heard Chariot Choogle. I'll listen to it later and let you know. it certainly sounds more appealing than sitting in our head office pretending to work.

just staring out of the window dreaming of drinking and fapping.

I can get there for 6 but unbelievably for ILB I don't have a B with me in case I need to pass some time on my own. Might have to hang around with the toad for another half an hour, at least he has the internet.

I am looking forward to this FAP
though it is a pity Stevie won't make it!

I can probably get there for six, ledge. Can't provide the variety of the Internet, can stare moodily into pint.

xpost yeah seconded - wd've been good to see Stevie before he retires to his happy garden state.

will aim for 6 then.

I am heading for the Ship now. Hope you are there!

I thoroughly enjoyed that. so nice to see pinefox tom d ledge woof xyzzz. it's always a highlight of the year.

I thoroughly enjoyed all the drunken impersonations of a poetry lecturer i have no knowledge of.

fuck the head on me this morning tho.

I had a thought while awake at 5am which was: the relative phrasal unmemorability of Hill's dense verse, a point on which there was a degree of agreement, might actually be something he shares with ... cue Fizzles impression ... "POETICS". I don't really find 'poetics' stuff memorable.

I remember looking at the Lanchester book together and finding that it was just as bad as has been said, but if anything it seemed even more irritating than I thought for its multicultural-London obsession.

At 8am on the corner of Pepys Road, Shahid opened the corner shop on the corner of the road. Mine, all mine, he thought, looking proudly around the tins of inedible English biscuits.