London ILB - FAP?

I'm 75% sure I'll make it but won't be there until a little later than usual.

Would be good to see you :)

Which Royal Oak, what time? Probably can't make this Thursday as my partner's working late and I have to do nursery pickup that day. But I'll try if I can!

I'm unlikely to be there, health does not permit.

Sorry to hear this Tom, get well soon

Chuck - Royal Oak in Tabard street, near Borough

Obv no worries we will do another FAP late summer. Do shout about dates that are good for you when it's being organised too.

Tom D - get well soon.

How do you find each other and do you only allow certain people in? Do you have to wear a badge? (These are hypothetical questions.)

I think most of the people who go to ilb faps are the same crowd who know each other? The last one I went to I knew about half the people going so I just showed up and hoped that one of the people I knew would turn up. Then others came and then we all froze to death.

All ilx people allowed (non-ilx allowed too but they might not be able to follow some of the conversation, or even get to it, how would they know of it).

If a new ilx person who has never been to one of these turns up we can have a book on the table.

In or outside btw?

In or outside btw?

Royal Oak is an inside pub.

Have you ever had a FAP in one of your wonderful parks and how late in summer would such an event be seasonable?

Do they serve beer in parks?

We could get cans, but these FAPs have always been in pubs.

Youn if you come maybe we could put this radical ideas into action. Are you in London sometime this summer?

The questions were hypothetical. If the hypothesis were to be tested, it would be in September.

It’d be excellent to see you, Youn - goodness knows how long it’s been. I might even be tempted out of the ale house and into some park.

I'm just gonna ask, since I can't puzzle it out: what does FAP stand for?

Fancy a pint

Ah, thanks. Given the context, I figured "pint" was in there.

FAC in the Park

The other problem with parks is you have to sit on the ground.

xpost - that's where I gather all the old action happened ...

I still remember the glasses and the half pint glasses.

cup?

wear jeans or white trousers worthy of grass stains?

The other problem with parks is you have to sit on the _ground._

big bag of cans blanket 😑😑😑

I'm a frequent FACker in the park during the summer, which is fine as long as I don't bump into Duncan the LOUD window-cleaner or the mentally ill guy who keeps giving me updates on his legal situation after throwing someone's phone into the road during a heated argument about dog shit.

tbf this is the main topic on ILB also (the dogshit is some book i will never read)

lol i am drunk after the residents assocn AGM ignore me as per

Looking to get to pub at 630 or so.

Ok. I am in town this afternoon as I have a half day so if anyone is going earlier let me know.

Gyac if you have time to kill you could catch the Gursky exhibition on Bermondsey Street, it's only a 10 minute walk away and open til 6.

I reckon 7.30-8 si realistic for me.

The following are in our outbox, free to any FAPpers who want them, just let me know and I'll bring them along

William Heinesen - The Lost Musicians
Ebba Haslund - Nothing Happened Lucy Ellmann - Things Are Against Us
James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Kenzaburo Oe: Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness (four short novels)
Patrick Modiano: Suspended Sentences
Dasa Drndic - Trieste
Fiona Mosley - Elmet
Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Seville Communion
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Elif Batuman -The Idiot
Sabhattin Ali - Madonna in a Fur Coat
Birgit Vanderbeke - You Would Have Missed Me
Carlos Labbe: Navidad & Matanza
Peter Benson - A Lesser Dependency
Georges Perec: "53 Days"
Willa Cather: Lucy Gayheart
Peter Stamm: The Sweet Indifference of the World (tr Michael Hoffmann, which might tempt someone)
David Keenan: This IS Memorial Device
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Ingvar Ambjornsen - Beyond the Great Indoors
Robert Graves - The White GoddessJulian Ayesta - Helena, or The Sea In Summer
Naoko Takahashi: Not So Too Much of Everything
Denton Welch: A Voice Through Cloud
Nancy Mitford: Love In A Cold Climate
Ashley Hickson-Lovence: The 392

David Keenan: This IS Memorial Device 👀

(this is not a bid)

my meet-up w/my sister has been postponed so i can be there 5-530ish

Dasa Drndic - Trieste
Peter Stamm: The Sweet Indifference of the World (tr Michael Hoffmann, which might tempt someone)

Yes to both. I love Stamm but haven't read that one!

Tim: I think I'd like the Perec from you if possible.

Very good choices!

Feel like the ILB jury was split on This IS Memorial Device, but I liked (what I read of) it.

👀

OTM

I liked quite a lot of the books on that list; TIMD wasn't one of those.

No Bobby Gillespie memoir, no credibility.

That was a keeper, obv.

I had no prior knowledge of David Keenan so I went in with open 👀

Ok so I’m on way to lbg probably via Borough market? It’s hot as fuck so going to whichever pub I can tbh? Let me know if any of ye are there around 5 (I saw you saying you could be early mark)

I am here

Tom D I am sorry you’re not well, because you would love the tiny kitten in this pub

How did public houses come about and what did they drink at different times during their evolution? (I am also very happy indoors and sympathize with the difficulties encountered when sitting on the ground (hardness, damp, insects that might be friendly or unfriendly, etc.), but the upside is that you can bring a variety of equally attractive (non-)alcoholic beverages and snacks to please all tastes, whereas in a pub it seems only right to drink beer. And there might be ducks or other birds and lakes and bushes and the smell of grass and blue sky above. On the downside you might have to invent your own pub games.)

This was great!