London ILB - 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.

Fizzles - http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Captive-Spirit-Marina-Tsvetaeva/dp/0875011772

i ate a lot of lentils when I got in. I feel surprisingly ok. stomach's a bit funny.

Oh, yes, friendly reminder this morning. Arthur Quiller-Couch: Not English*

*Cornish

;-)

mid-june, maybe Thurs 5th or 12th?

I won't be able to do this during the world cup..

Seeing Lear on the 5th, 12th is doable.

give him my regards.

both don't look too bad for me tho' I am sure I am forgetting something.

I've been going to Tabard street once a week these last couple of weeks to read more - was under a mountain of ILL to finish. Feel really comfortable for reading there.

Aim for the 12th then..

won't be able to make 12th but will raise a glass wherever I am.

ah, shame.

Of course if others drop out I can always move it to July.

coincidentally the 12th is not looking so good for me now - leaving drinks for a friend and future reuters malaysia correspondent.

Cool, I'll move this to July then - hope to see all of you then.

Still on?

For sure, about on Thurs 24th or 31st.

yep, can also do either.

down for tomorrow - fizzles is about.

Tom D.? anybody else?

I think… yes? I may have to check.

Cool, will be there tomorrow. Need a drink (don't we all really these days) plus I'll finish this book I'm on.

Probably should also say all fappers, old or new, ilb or ilx, are v welcome and we meet in the Royal Oak in Borough.

aye gwan then.

I'm all about booze not books but hopefully can make it

might struggle to make this - lousy work drinks, which I'm going to try and wriggle out of as early as is decent. also hot and sleepless night means only book I feel capable of discussing is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

I might be available. Shall I go?

I am not going to shine (we decided last night I should get up at 4:30 to chaperone my stepdaughter to the breakfast programme of failing TV channel London Live & now I am at work and feeling v v spacey and coffee-sick), but I will try to make it for a bit.

You should definitely come Pinefox.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I have a hunger for PIE!!

See anybody/everybody later.

yes, come pinefox. i shall claim a Very Important Meeting of Minds to try and get out of this work bullshit this evening.

or say I'm going to the Poesie Internationale Expo.

PIE meant something very different when Leon Brittan was (a very vigilant and diligent... honestly) Home Secretary.

Woof and Fizzles, thank you very much for kindly saying that you'd like me to attend. I appreciate it.

Be great for lurkers/readers, contributors who have not been to one, everybody to attend @ Royal Oak. I am reading a book called KAPUTT that I'll leave on the table.

Can anyone say when they might be at the pub?

It's a question for the ages, that.

I hope I'm going to be there by half past six, but I fear I might not be there anymore by half past seven.

eight, I hope.

Should be there by 5.30 - 6.

I am thinking of possibly going to the FAP early, and hoping to see Tim.

I might possibly then have to leave early too.

Looking more like 7 for me, annoyingly.

Tim, do you still expect then to leave by 7:30?

Yes, yes I do.

apologies for not making it - mixture of workness and cancelled trains meant it would've been half ten by the time I got there. hope good time was had by all. missed pie.

No worries - there will always be another sometime.

woof - this is the book I was telling you about - http://www.amazon.com/Mausoleum-Thirty-Seven-Ballads-History-Progress/dp/0916354059

Do you have the Enszenburger Modern European Poets, Julio? I think I may have a spare of that one.