FAP Oxford

Tuesday or Wednesday are good for me. What time were you thinking of?

What's that pub hidden round the back of the NOC in Headington? The Gardener's Arms or something? That's supposed to be nice. Or how about White Hart in St Andrew's Rd - I haven't been there for yonks.

White Hart in St Andrew's Road? I've never been there. Where's St. Andrew's Road? I'm always happy to check out new pubs.

back of the NOC
Are you perhaps referring to the Butcher's Arms, CJ? That's near the NOC.

White Hart is nice, cosy, olde thatched pub. Go up through Headington (Brookes on yr right), and at the Windmill Road traffic lights turn left into Old High Street (Somerfield is on your right). Go to end of road, turn left. White Hart is a couple of doors down, opposite St Andrew's Church. It always seemed to be full of nurses from the JR.

White Hart comes with a glowing recommendation from one of my colleagues. We should DEFINITELY go there!!!

Who wants to meet Chairman Mick next weekh

But the White Hart is within easy walking distance of the Oxford Tube stop in London Road (by the shops) for visitors from afar.

as can be seen here on Multimap (White Hart is orange circle no. 23)

I have no other birthday celebrations planned :-(

7pm is grebt -see you then!

I've just e-mailed CJ: she's on holiday at the moment I believe, but will hopefully see the email and/or ILE on her return.

Toying, tentatively, with the idea of Oxford drinks ... with strangers off the internet.

Does that appeal to anyone?

Can we do a river walk, as well? I would come to Oxford for a river walk and a FAP.

I've no idea what FAP stands for ... I hate to think what I'm letting myself in for.

Climbing the Wittenham Lumps and making arcane sacrifices to obscure deities of bus schedules.

I'd be up for this.

I was thinking a quiet pint on a weekday evening so if it was awkward and we needed to leave we could announce jauntily that we had a busy day at work tomorrow ...

:(

Oops. That wasn't supposed to be so *rejecting*, Branwell with an N.

This isn't going well, is it?

I'd be up for this. Sounds fun!

Are people thinking hill or town centre pub?

I'd definitely be up for a town centre pub meetup.

Thinking maybe Royal Blenheim or Far from the Madding Crowd?

Right then ... there are three of us. That's enough to warrant drinking. How do these things normally proceed?

The way these things proceed is, you suggest a day and time and the rest of us endeavour to be there (he suggests, lazily)

Tuesday 3rd? Wednesday 4th?

^ That was a fail, wasn't it?

yeah sorry

I'd be up for this. I've been busy writing my dissertation since christmas, so haven't really had a chance to do anything. But from next week I'm free.

No need to apologise. I wasn't sat in a pub waiting for people to turn up ...

Only noticed this week that Far From The Madding Crowd has closed (from 24 Jan, apparently).

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jan/19/top-10-craft-beer-pubs-oxford

gah horrible pubs. except the Library and you're doing the Library wrong if you're drinking craft ales on the ground floor instead of watching some grubby band in the basement imo

had lunch in the St Aldates Tavern a while ago, everything swimming in grease served on impractical non-plate surfaces

fishcakes served in a soup bowl full of nauseatingly rich buttery sauce. was supposed to come with samphire but they'd run out, so we were asked if we'd like salad "instead", but then charged extra for the salad (a small plastic beaker of unidentifiable wilted greenery)

ham, egg and chips: 5 chips served vertically in a beaker; ham served on a slate; an egg in a mini frying pan with a centimetre of oil still on top, still cooking far beyond "well-done" in the hot pan, but how are you going to decant anything that oily onto a flat slate?

but maybe the craft ales are fantastic, of course

tbf I haven't been in the new gastro-Kite

not sure it can live up to its previous run-down 80s timewarp incarnation, with Racey playing on the jukebox (yes! in 2014!) and regulars in Def Leppard and Thin Lizzy t-shirts eying us suspiciously

I live in hope that Beerd will eventually revert to its original name of The Grapes. This has happened to quite a few pubs, e.g. The Cape of Good Hope.

To be honest, apart from its stupid name, I would say it has got better, with the addition of nice pizza.

I need to check out the new Kite too. The Jam Factory is horribly overpriced.

The Chester used to be good, until they decided to start taking reservations on ALL the tables, often forgetting to put the signs out to that effect then coming over and telling us, which was sodding annoying.

god help us that in a town with a massively young high-income population, in 2016, the craft-beer scene can be described as 'emerging'

the jam factory's an ok place for a bar attached to a provincial arts center

lol i was going to complain 'last time i was in oxford the fucking board game cafe had a better beer selection than most all of the pubs', i see the fucking board game cafe is on the fucking list

Toying, tentatively, with the idea of Oxford drinks ... with strangers off the internet.

Does that appeal to anyone?

― djh, Saturday, December 27, 2014 6:57 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm pondering this again. Who's in?

* Revived because someone somewhere has suggested they are interested *

Booked up until after Easter, but after that....definitely.

We could even check out the brand new Up in Arms in Marston. OK, not *technically* brand new, it was the Somerset until four years ago, when it seemed destined to become housing or (at one point) an Islamic centre.

This sounds a good start to a plan.

Good-ish continuation to a plan: mid-week suit you? May 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd...any of those - pick one, djh.

I will come back to you.

Anyone else interested?

a passing spacecadet? Johnney B?*

* who has told me his new user name on several occasions, but I keep forgetting....

Bumping despite this being desperate and socially awkward.

Putting this here rather than on specific band pages but ... having a sort out and have a couple of Primitives posters (from around the first album), a Bjork tour poster (circa Vespertine), two for Autechre's Untilted and a Rachel's one (with a bat on it). They've been in poster tubes for years and aren't in lovely condition but if you want and could collect from Cowley or Kidlington, you're welcome to them.