London ILB - FAP?

I was pretty bladdered last night so will be erring on the abstemious side of things. I can prob make it for 6 or any time thereafter.

Around 6pm for me too.

Not me tonight, will try to get to the next one.

I'll try - tho work is going to keep me late tonight, so cd be difficult.

I think I'll be towards seven.

that was great - arrived late, but militant Marxist monks, london boundary variations, subtitle error song lyrics, single sex v co-ed magic schools, Cornelius Cardew, Nigel Kneale etc (loads of other stuff as well) made it worthwhile. great to see everyone, esp gravel puzzleworth - a new face in hell - amongst welcome others. v v enjoyable.

Suffering this morning. I blame Thatchers.

Woof I hope you're feeling better. tx for turning up at all in the first place.

Reading about Rosicrucianism this morning.

no, really annoyed a) to have been sick and b) to have miscalculated my sickness so that I thought I could socialise. It looked like fun! Conversation sounds A1, just what I would have wanted. But I did make the right decision - on the upward slope now, would be GOING DOWN if I'd lived it up last night.

Joining the Rosicrucians this morning. Apologies for bailing earliest even though I have the least excuse. Thx to TomD for the new display name.

So you took Leonard Cohen's advice then?

"if you don't become the ocean
you'll be seasick
every day"?

"Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
they can give you back your hope"

This was a very good time - thanks to all for having me! V. exciting to put faces to famous names, see pictures of things, confirm universal applicability of 'prog' as adjective.

http://theidiotandthedog.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/img_1284.jpg

The Invisible College of the Rose Cross Fraternity (from the Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum)

Looks pretty visible to me.

http://bayimages.net/images/22k/fountain-and-temple-rosicrucian-egyptian-museum-21945.jpg

^^^^very very visible in San Jose, as discussed at FAP and none of you believed me!

But then again, Rosicrucians in California don't really seem to do much except run esoteric bookshops and Egyptian Museums.

p.s. Thank you for being so welcoming to this Ghost of FAPs Past; I had been worried that it would have been impolitic to turn up, but ended up having a brilliant time, would FAP again etc.

Obviously I wasn't there, and maybe the conversation took this in, but there are opportunities to Rosicruce closer to home if you want, apparently: http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/peckham-rosicrucians.html

I was unaware of this last FAP but I remembered recently that this FAP thing used to happen so I suggest a FAP.

I was just thinking that we should have another FAP again soon!

Lets go for mid-march?

I have no life; I will FAP whenever (FAP forever) but I'm always in town on Thursdays so that would be best?

yes, this sounds good to me. Mid-March works, Thursdays generally good.

Lets go for Thurs 13th March at the same place and then various people (includes me) can confirm nearer the time.

yep, full-on busy atm, but things shd settle down soon.

Yay! Sounds good. Will pencil it in. Hope to see you all there. With dolmens on.

OK people I will see you at that pub for that FAP if possible

Still good for this next thurs.

Tim if you are reading - are you coming?

I will come, and if I successfully manage to contain my surliness you can tell me all about Sas Bo Bip.

:)

I'm in. Got a post-work drink I should do, so between 7 & 8.

See you all later.

Not sure I'll be able to come along tonight, sadly. Sadly for me, rather than for you, obv.

I think I also cannot attend the FAP.

I'm in. once I've tommy-gunned my entire office down.

It would be nice to be at a FAP, outside, tonight.

That didn't go well last time we tried. (Won't be able to make it myself tonight mafraid.)

sad face @ Tim.

and ledge. yeah I remember we got all ahead of ourselves with the summer weather last year and ended up dragging our sorry somewhat cold asses back to the Royal Oak.

pinefox and ledge are lubberly knaves.

What happened at the FAP?

Beer was drunk. Game pie was eaten. (Not by me, natch.) Agile Stand-ups were hated. The difference between Where and Having established. Kate Mosse dissed, at length. (And examples required of post-Name Of The Rose library mysteries.) The form and formalism of Rom-Coms addressed. St Eustice (not actually St Eustice, but TBC) had his feet dried by seals. Whether certain audiences were ready for Strokes-shagging was not established. Everyone thinks I should go and work running an international policing organisation's databases. I'm sure there was more, but I left early claiming exhaustion, at having walked all the way from Bloomsbury in the sun.

Oh, and the secret history of the gentrification of "Brixton Village" and the not-real England-ness of the "Village" real estate agent construction.

I thought it was a success. succinctly encapsulated by BB.

See you all in the (world cup) summer.

I am far too ruined today for how little I drank. :(

woof - what's that anthology of anglo-saxon poetry we talked about again?

Fairly certain it's this one we were discussing

http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/a-choice-of-anglo-saxon-verse/9780571228362

Thanks!

xp yes - it's Richard Hamer's A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse - Faber - it's been around forever in different covers (but I never see it much). Also mentioned Beowulf: A Glossed Text in Penguin Classics.

What was the Tsvetaeva you had, xyzzzz__?

got a bit of a head this morning tbf.