FAP with Forest Pines on August 14th (and possibly the 12th and 13th too)

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Yes, I know I already started this thread. But I'm too lazy to find it; and also the old thread didn't have the date in the title.

I've never tried to organise a FAP before, and meetups I've tried to organise at Other Internet Places have always been disastrous. But here goes nothing anyway.

I'm going to be in London from August 12th to the 15th, and I thought it might be nice to have a FAP on the afternoon of Sunday 14th. I suggested a bit of a walk followed by food and drink. Someone else suggested drinks on one of the floating bars on the Thames. Does anyone else have any other ideas to try out?

Also, I might be up for a quiet drink-and-chat on the evening of the 12th, if anyone else is. Have to confirm that with the friend I'm staying with, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I just clicked 'Show All Recently Updated Threads', typed ctrl+F and entered 'Forest' and found your original thread straight away ;)

Forest Pines is coming to London - FAP?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

But that still doesn't have the date in the title (and rapidly degenerated into a discussion about Edinburgh's student newspaper in the 1990s)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 1 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

(bump)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

Hi! I think I'm up for walk/food/drink on the Sunday, but it's one of the rare weekends when Matt's not working so it also depends what he wants to do.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

Bring Matt along! (He's a very lucky man, etc. etc.)

― Masonic Boom (kate), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes, bring him too!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

if you end up somewhere vaguely north-eastish (london obv not newcastle) on the sunday i may come out to play in the evening, provided i am not destroyed from four days partying in the midnight sun with oslo's rabble and yoof... back into stansted at 6.30pm i think.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Bump

Are there really only 3 people interested in a FAP on the 14th? And noone at all for the 12th?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to think of some salacious gossip to start, to keep this thread going.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

you could drop hints as to who this Forest Pines person really is.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I will, as normal, be at this FAP in spirit. Or in the spirits.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Forest Pines is an arcane and mysterious figure... who hath control over... erm... all the sexbotts in London! (I'm not very good at this gossip thing, sorry.)

― Masonic Boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

I spent not only the night of my date in the same bed as a girl, but also the night after too!

That good enuff gossip?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

!!! No wonder you are ill you dirty boy.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

That's not gossip, that's just torturing us poor souls who never get any. :-(

― Masonic Boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Seconded :-(

you could drop hints as to who this Forest Pines person really is.

It's me. Duh.

(I think all the people who need to know who I am already know who I am. Which is why they're all refusing to come to my FAP, of course)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I maintain this is not why I am ill. It might be why she is, hehe

xpost

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Just relax FP. Is it a FAP or a summons? :)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

It *is* important, though. What's the point of doing *anything* if you can't socialise with people too? If neither of my suggested FAPs attracts anybody, then ~~ken c and the rest of~~ the forces of evil have won.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Aw, if you were down a day earlier, I would FAP with you. Or if I was down a day later.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Like ships that pass in the night!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

(i am lurking with an eye to attending. depends on the final details)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Right, I suppose I better pick a ship. (I had to pick a Railway for Emsk's birthday and we did good with that one, so perhaps I am good at this steering thing.)

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

If we're having a FAP on a ship, *someone* had better be good at steering.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Not if it's tied up at a dock!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

Will we all have to do our best Captain Anderson impressions for the cameras?

(or Mrs Captain Anderson in your case obv)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/totheendsoftheearth/images/450x187/episode2.jpg

Koogy, Kate, Forest at the FAP.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

(With possibly Archel and Mr. Archel lurking in the background.)

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

we'll be there but you won't see us, right

― The Lurkers, Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

hey forest pines ~~my evil forces and~~ I would have come but, as a mean twist of fate i will actually be trying glasgow :\

forest pines is blantantly the pine fox, isn't it?

(also: london people are crap with organisation as you may know - the bowling ned raggett farewell FAP thread had a woefully terrible response but people showed up anyway.)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

forest pines is blantantly the pine fox, isn't it?

no, the pinefox still posts as the pinefox.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

also he lives in London.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

see steve this is exactly the genius! a disguse as someone else while posting as your own, and while claiming to live in a different city, organises a FAP in your home town because you're visiting at the time!! Nice one Pinefox.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

also.. it would really help the turn out if people know what exactly is happening!! (where the walk is and where the drinkie goes etc)

uncertainty scares the living daylight out of ilxors.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

which makes it really ironic with the usual ilx crappy organisation technique!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

This evening after work, I shall walk along the embankment and check out the ship situation - try to figure out which ones are open Sunday, not too expensive and OK with drinks only.

(Unless of course Forest wants to stop this confusing ship business and just drink in a pub like normal people.)

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Hey, the ship business wasn't my idea!

I originally suggested a bit of a walk. A walk would still be nice. If we're going to end up along the Embankment then maybe it could be something like a River Fleet walk, or maybe a part-of-the-Circle-line.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

I take full responsibility for the ship business! But you didn't exactly protest.

Perhaps I should check my special lovely HAUNTED LONDON walking guidebook (what PinX0r kindly sent me) and see what good walks we can find around there.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, haunted London sounds good.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Bring on the spookiness! There's lots of it around the City and Embankment.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Revive yet again!

Kate, did you find your haunted walking book?

Is *anyone* interested in doing something Friday night?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 8 August 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Friday night that Forget About The Sugar club thing?

Anyway!

There are two spooky walks which look GRATE!!! The first is "Gaslit Ghosts, The Temple and Fleet Street" which is all spooky Temple stuff, and the other is "The Blackfriars Walk". Both of these leave from Blackfriars Station, so it would be very easy to do both!

Also, there is a good Clerkenwell spookiness walk (though honestly I don't need a book at this point to list all the weirdness around the Fleet)! (If you want to double up and do two walks, it's right by the Bloomsbury Spooky walk, as well.)

Shall we say meet at Blackfriars station at 1pm?

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Friday night that Forget About The Sugar club thing?

Well, even if it is, everyone should come and meet me instead!

The Temple one would be nice - and Masonic too! - but I'd be worried that it wouldn't be doable on a Sunday if all the little courts and courtyards were closed off.

That sounds like a good idea for a meet - but do you mean the underground or overground station? I know both are fairly small, so it shouldn't be hard to spot each other.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that whole station is a horrible mess and almost impossible to find anyone at, due to all the tunnels down to the embankment and Thames walk and stuff. We had this problem last time we did the River Fleet walk...

How about we meet at the Blackfriars pub itself? Even if it's closed, there's a nice little area with tables and flowers and things outside.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Is the pub next to the station? I can get the smelly Thameslink woo! (Tho I forget, does it still stop at Blackfriars at weekends? Will check.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I do not know the Blackfriars pub. Hmm.

Can't we just say something like: "in the station, outside the Thameslink ticket office" or something like that that's bound to be easy to find?

(i am assuming they *have* a Thameslink ticket office, of course. Maybe just "the overground station ticket office")

Archel: I think all Thameslink trains stop at all stations from the Widened Lines to Blackfriars Bridge, but I haven't used them for a long time so I could be wrong on that

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I think it stops at Blackfriars, but not City Thameslink.

And yes, the pub is above the Station. On the bridge approach thingey above the Fleet Canal.

(Be careful with the Thameslink on Sundays, though. I took it back from Harpenden on Sunday evening, and got off at Kings Cross to transfer to the Sutton Loop - only to find out there was no Sutton Loop that evening. So I took the next train (grrr) to London Bridge, only to find that there were NOOOOO STREATHAM TRAINS AT ALL!!! ARRRGGHHHH!!! Not like they warned me about that anywhere. So I had to take the bus and it took me two and a half hours to make a return journey that had taken me 45 minutes to get out there. Sigh.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

It is very easy to find, and apparently open at the weekend now!!!

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub171.htm

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Mmm, Thameslink has always been like that - I remember when it first started,* and waiting for hours with my parents at Farringdon for a Sevenoaks train, before we realised that my dad had been looking at the wrong timetable and Thameslink weren't running any Sevenoaks trains at all that day.

* I mean in the 1980s - before then, the Snow Hill line (the Farringdon-Blackfriars bit) had had passenger trains, but only until the First World War.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 74 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I once spent three hours on the Tatershall Castle stuck on a sandbank

They all tended to do that if the tide was a bit low, I'm told. Given that you're supposed to be able to wade across the river at low tide, I'm not surprised.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I really have to say that when planning to introduce yourself to a new bunch of people, starting off aggressive and challenging might not be the best approach.

I wouldn't say I consider you to be new people, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

i may still have cd's of yrs forest pines. you can email me yr address and i'll send you them and stuff.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

You do? I'm not sure I know who you are. Email me at this address and I'll try to work out if I know you :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I do and i did.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Bloody hell, I didn't realise *you* were on ILX too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

sorry. long time. i am just de-lurking. i shouldn't have really. too late tho.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

what "logged out, probably" said.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

ILE needs a love-in.

You should all rent out the Great Eastern Hotel for a weekend - and no one's allowed until they've made love with everyone else.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

I am not going to waste my hard-earned money paying for a hotel just a few miles away from where I live.

It is not my purpose in life to make love with everyone else.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

ooops - allowed out, that was supposed to be, but it kind of works both ways.

'Purpose in life' - that's the kind of ridiculous notion a love-in would eradicate.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

No love-ins! This is the age of Aids, not the Swinging Sixties!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Non-penetrative love-ins?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

No touching either. The only "love-in" which should be considered is one governed by the principles of "courtly love."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Non-penetrative love-ins?

Love outs?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Things it is important not to confuse #382: Courtly love and Courtney Love.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

Definition:

The "courtly love" relationship is modelled on the feudal relationship between a knight and his liege lord. The knight serves his courtly lady (love service) with the same obedience and loyalty which he owes to his liege lord. She is in complete control of the love relationship, while he owes her obedience and submission (a literary convention that did not correspond to actual practice!) The knight's love for the lady inspires him to do great deeds, in order to be worthy of her love or to win her favor. Thus "courtly love" was originally construed as an ennobling force whether or not it was consummated, and even whether or not the lady knew about the knight's love or loved him in return.

One can understand how you could get this mixed up with Courtney Love...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

no one's allowed until they've made love with everyone else.

Well, I guess that means there'll be no one at the party, then!

I'm trying to get a dog for our walk. On all our walks, especially the country ones, we keep saying how much nicer it would be if we had a dog. Emsk and I wanted to set up a dog exchange/rental organisation. I wonder if we could set one up with the Battersea Dogs Home or something.

But not these horrible little yappie dogs that people in the city have. A proper dog. Maybe a dalmation. I saw someone walking a liver spotted dalmation the other day, and it was the CUTEST DOG ON EARTH!!!

(I knew I should have nicked that enourmous dog/pony cross breed from Essex, but Ed wouldn't let me bring him on the train.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

A dalmation is not a proper dog.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Of course it should also be stressed that "with everyone else" should mean "members of the opposite sex only" 'cos I ain't having it off with blokes ew puke.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

What do you get if you cross a dog with a pony?

(fill in punchline yourself)

Won't taking a dog with us cause problems when it comes to pubs later on?

xpost: I'll have it off with anyone, male or female. I'm not fussy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

I am. My Zone 6 travelcard does not extend to Brighouse.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Brighouse? I thought Hebden Bridge was the centre of Yorkshire's alternative-sexuality culture.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

A dalmation is so a proper dog. And proof of the existence of god to some people!

Anyway, it does not have to be a dalmation. Just so long as it is not a stupid, ginger, pointy-nosed Irish Setter. (Being stupid, ginger, pointy nosed and Irish is only an advantage in men, not in dogs.) A decent pub will not only let you bring in a dog, it will give it water in a (clean) ashtray, as well. Or beer, if you want to get your dog drunk.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

I do not open a jar of Kenco to be encountered with treacle.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but are there any dog-friendly pubs where we are going?

My old local had a dog-friendly sign in the window, so I have a feeling there is probably a website that lists all the pubs that have signed up with that scheme.

Marcello, I'm sure that's deep and meaningful in one way or another, but I have *no* idea what it means.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that's true. There probably aren't many dog friendly pubs in The City. (There was that one in Islington, where Colette had her birthday party but that might be a bit far. Aparently the owner's dog has his own agent because he is so photogenic.)

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm Feeling Lucky gives me http://www.doggiepubs.org.uk/

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

Marcello, I'm sure that's deep and meaningful in one way or another, but I have *no* idea what it means.

-- Forest Pines (forestpine...), August 11th, 2005.

What it means is that I own no Beatles albums on the CBS label.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

And, no, there don't seem to be any dog-friendly pubs anywhere near the Embankment - the nearest listed on that site is in Pimlico.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

There was one in Limehouse... but that would mean we'd have to walk the other way down the river. Ah well. I will have to store my borrowed dog elsewhere.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

I prefer ken c to Forest Pines!

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 11 August 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

now now, let's all try to get along.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

if it's a nice day, surely you can just sit outside a pub with a doggie?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Some pubs don't even let you do that if they serve food outside.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Bump.

Right, I'm just going to repeat the details for meeting-up, because it's easy to miss them upthread. And then I'm going to pack before going off to London.

This Sunday, the 14th

1PM

Blackfriars main-line station

(we didn't actually agree on that last point, but I'm making an Executive Decision)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 12 August 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Jolly good! I have Kate's mobile no, but think I lost yours after my phone was nicked... cd you email it to me before you go?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 12 August 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Emailed to the address in your ILX account, Archel.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 12 August 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting the Train Station fear, but I will be there... Will there be an obvious meeting point like a ticket booth or something?

Also, if anyone wishes to join us for pubbage, have we decided to go to the Tattershall Castle for dinner and drinks (provided it is open)?

I think most walking type people have my mobile number already - email me if you don't have it and you want it, or are thinking of joining us.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 12 August 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

I am still worried that the T. C. will be prohibitively posh/expensive.

I don't know Blackfriars station very well, but I think "near the ticket office" is a good suggestion for a meeting point.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 12 August 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I *really should* dash off and pack. If anyone wants my phone number too, email me at this address - I'll do my best to check it before Sunday.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 12 August 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

i was at the tatersall castle last summer, and i seem to remember one floor is a fancy restaurant, but the outside deck bit isn't that expensive, and they have bar-ish food up there as well (like hot dogs and chips and stuff)

hope that helps...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 12 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

The Tattershall Castle is not posh. It was refitted and redecorated last year, badly, in a vain attempt to attract a different kind of clientele. It failed - still full of civil servants from the MOD and DWP (on weekdays) and bemused tourists. Stay on the outside deck, it's the least fancy. Prices no different from anywhere in WC2 really.

― clive (Clive), Friday, 12 August 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but posh != expensive and not posh != affordable. I suppose expensive and touristy is what I get for wanting to be on a boat.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

*fap fap fap*

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 12 August 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

I have spent an entire afternoon drinking with another ILXor on the Tattershall Castle so definitely not posh. The clientele is exactly as cl1ve describes it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

What we are trying to say is IS IT FEKCING EXPENSIVE!??!?!

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

You *are* that clientele!

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I WAS NOT A BEMUSED TOURIST.

And no Kate, it's not any more expensive than other bars in the area. Or at least the deck level bar isn't.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Let's all FAP at the Tattershall Castle bar then!

― Forest Pines is away on holiday, Friday, 12 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

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