wow being at work at 4 right before a 4 day week really really sucks
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
✝️🔙🔜On me way
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Wait really??
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
Yep!
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
great!
― Fizzles, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
me too
― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
I am currently an 18 minute walk from the alehouse and I'll be setting off in a few minutes.
― Tim, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
At the inn now, couldn't spot anyone so getting a drink and standing outside
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
Omfg I am waiting for a call from the GP who was supposed to call between 2-6 and still hasn’t but I can’t get on the tube until they do. Apparently I’m 3rd to be called. Then I will be on my way from south Kensington. Ugh.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
I have arrived and did not see a blue man, so am inside waiting to get near the bar. How do you people live with this shit tbh
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
Me and fizzles there in 5
― woof, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
Ah, bunch of us on your left once you get that drink
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
Still at work in Z4 W London. :/
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
To the left of the bar or coming out of the bar? I am a short guy with long curly hair and glasses, sweating and confused, holler if you see me
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
x-post
And you're the designated photographer! (I was hoping for photos)
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
To the left of the bar
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
wins i can see u stay where u are
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
Omg so many ppl
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
I think we're sorted out now, but I look a bit like Jordan Rudess in a bad wig, if that helps.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
I might follow imago over later if my lesson finishes on time... I wonder if wins will still be frozen by the bar.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
wins is back at the bar, good luck wins
― woof, Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Some of these people are still there.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
nah we left. we kidnapped wins tho
― imago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
I was gonna stop by at 11.30 to see if anyone was still around! But there were complications :( hopefully next time
― nashwan, Thursday, 18 April 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
I left kinda abruptly but it was good that I did, my train literally pulled up as I arrived at the platform! Was good to see everyone
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 18 April 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
deep apologies for forgetting yr book daniel, d'oh!
i looked this morning and can't find yr email though :(
lovely to see/meet everyone as ever
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2019 09:09 (five years ago) link
This was so much fun! Thanks for organizing ENBB.
To the East End truthers at the event: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/television-actress-catherine-fuller-visits-the-east-end-of-news-photo/3428593
xpost mark I'll try sending again
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 April 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
Aw it was, right? So glad everyone came out. Hope you all have lovely long weekends!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 19 April 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
What a lovely evening. In true bank holiday reprobate form I missed my train and am now having a curer in a pub in E3 that has a penguin pb on every table, hungoverly attempting to read Sarraute
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Friday, 19 April 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link
Sounds like the epicentre of literary signalling/performative reading.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 19 April 2019 11:24 (five years ago) link
That FAP for UK politics thread:
https://youtu.be/bAXLCwJCugA
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 April 2019 11:26 (five years ago) link
lol
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Friday, 19 April 2019 11:27 (five years ago) link
xp the books are not really for reading I don’t think, but they are a nice touch in an otherwise fairly standard Young’s pub (The Sarraute is mine and is also not really for reading, I have decided in my wetbrained state)
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Friday, 19 April 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
your attempts to explain Sarraute to me, a layperson, at 9am after a night of drinking, were quite heroic I thought
― imago, Friday, 19 April 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link
wait was there also a friday morning FAP
(i am hard at work back at the hawkwindface)
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
there was a Friday morning Fancy A Stroll
― imago, Friday, 19 April 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
Later in the morning I did fancy a pint tho
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Friday, 19 April 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
re tv actress catherine fuller visiting the east end
there ARE some slopes down towards the lea e.g. from upper clapton road, plus chatsworth road and homerton high street both have quite a gradient at some points (tho not built-up points and the architecture looks wrong plus that narrow pavement still looks very unlondony to me)
also did she really "make friends" wIth a toddler -- I THINK NOT
lol when i GS-ed streets with slopes in london's east end i found THIS:
https://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/old-streets-of-london.jpg
from this site -- which has similar cellar-window arches but is not identified by name on the "east london history" website -- plus a subsequent tineye reverse search locates this street in BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS ffs.
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
in conclusion fuck getty images iirc
― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
mark did u get my mail
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 10:27 (five years ago) link
no! you must have a wrong address for me
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 11:05 (five years ago) link
i just sent it to you via internal ilx email
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link
I'll be in town on May 9th.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:40 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm killfiled by everyone, aren't I.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
come to dublin instead
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 3 May 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
oh ill be in town with the mrs at beginning of august btw dnfiyhm
I was thinking about this earlier today! Mostly I was thinking "when is Tombot in town, again?"
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
So, what are we doing then?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 3 May 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
Somebody ilxmail me and I’ll share my phone number so we can start a WhatsApp chat or whatever. Would prefer not to do all the planning on thread.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
Or just say where and when and I’ll turn up.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link
that is the day i get my ears syringed!
but not in the pub, on pub-time, so i will be available and possibly agog
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 08:12 (five years ago) link