Well, here's the plan!
Look for a slightly rotund Nelson, in a 3-cornered hat, in a Cheesy place, in a corner, looking a tad silly, sitting with a seriously drinking Indian in a banking suit, at 6pm! Joining them will be one pretend Japanese tourist, one sober and sensible (so far) German, one pseudo-Scot, one old style rocker and ........
Have a drink for me, lads!
Ah'll pseudo-Scot ye, lassie, when ah get ma hauns on ye!
Ye'll no kin sit doon for a week!
McT
And if you knew me real name, you'd think I was Irish. To be revealed at London Gathering.
c.i.
Walter
Are you saying I've got pointy ears and a thick coat?
BTW I thought anyone meeting strangers in London had to wear a bowler hat and carry a rolled umbrella and a copy of The Times, shaken not stirred.
McT
Just checked again on Pete's pub, Ye Old Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, here is the link:
http://www.professorharbottle.co.uk/pub/londoncity/cheshire.html
Sounds good to me.
From 6 o'clock Pete, yeah?
Feeling like Joswell and Bonson already.
Bon voyage, everyone.
I'm going to be staying at my brother's so I think I might invite my sister-in-law Carole to come too if that's OK. My brother can babysit. Carole's better company anyway
a good laff.
How do you say "the more, the merrier" in German, Walter? Je mehr, desto munterer?
McT
Just thinking of "je öller desto döller" which unfortunately means 'the older they are, the wilder the party'.
Your translation, McTag, is correct however (thanks to Friedrich!).
margo, And I was looking forward to seeing your black and white mane.
I'll even buy the milk. c.i.
c.i.
I'm not in Europe until June, and even then, haven't decided about London. Anyone want to meet me in Stockholm?
Thanks for the milk offer - but His Supreme Highness the Possum-cat doesn't drink milk!
Kp, you da' man !!
Yeah the Curry house will be booked - we will just bundle into cabs and get there, it is just off Marble Arch.
Margo dahling, can't lament the state of cricket in India right now. It seems that they are the only ones who can stop the mighty aussies right now, and we are just itching for revenge.
Hmm..I don't normally wear banker's suits unless I have a customer/senior management meeting - but I guess I have to keep up appearances on the A2K meet <GRIN>
OK,
I visited the Cheshire Cheese at lunchtime today. They can't book us an area for such a small number, however, the Cellar Bar (subterranean section of the pub) opens at 17:30 so I suggest we meet there at 18:00.
I can't guarantee the hat, but at least you all know what I look like from my avatar. I'm guessing Gautam's picture was taken some time ago!
I really hope I'm not working out of town on that day (I have been recently). I'm very much looking forward to seeing you all.
KP
kitchenpete, Let me talk to your boss. After all, I'm coming all the way from California to meet all of you.
c.i.
c.i.,
I'll be there - I just might be a bit late. I hope not.
Where's my avatar gone? I'll have to find it.
KP
Pete
Have a look here:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5007
Well, I might come a little later as well: hoping the plane is in time and doesn't land somewhere else, I need some time for binding my tie, getting acclimatisised to British climate, left hand traffic, no-Euro currency, etc etc
So is that it then?
Cellar bar of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese 1800 GMT 20/03/03?
Thats the twentieth day of the third month ci, not the third day of the twentieth month...remember you are in Olde Englande Nowe.
http://uk2.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=print&X=531500&Y=181000&gride=531426&gridn=181193&scale=10000&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=EC4A2BU&place=
Fine, no problem but Walter and I might be a little late. We have to find each other, check one or the other is not Saddam Hussein, and get into London from Stansted at 1600.
Walter will have a glass of mineral water (still) and I will have a pint of Sam Smith's best bitter please.
Danke
Walter will NOT have a glass of mineral water BUT of bitter lemon (and in the restaurant 'Indian Tonic water', I think).
BTW: you know that Saddam has a couple of doublegangers? (This is a German word!)
Steve, No worry. I'm familiar with all manners of how dates are posted. Besides, if 20/03/03 is not March 20, 2003, all of us will continue to be total strangers.
c.i.
Some have already met, c.i. :wink:
