Non-Legoland Sinister Retirement Home Outing

Will there be lego elephants? Lemurs? Meerkats?

So, I'm spending most of Sat 20th in Finsbury Park pushing buttons on an old reel-to-reel, and thence to birthday drinks somewhere in Islington.

But I think I'm up for Thursday. It's the only day this week I wasn't doing anything and I was kinda looking forward to doing those things I was saving for a day when I wasn't doing anything, but now it appears I'm doing something. Which is good.

Sarah, if Saturday *doesn't* happen, we'll get together some other time. We've st an October date for moving (back) to Blighty, a bit like the abortive Troops Out Of Ireland movement.

It does occur to me that we might be able to arrange a venue close to an appropriate railway station, where working souls might catch you in the early evening, giving you plenty of time to get back to sunny Wherever It Is. Might we not?

She's gadding about London's Nuclear Ground Zero with a chum at this moment. She is also contactable at the usual e-mail address. I know Cambridge figures heavily in her plans for tomorrow, thereafter I'm not sure.

I'll make sure to mention Thursday.

And an Auntie

And the former chief of the Sinister Thai news desk, titillating the massive with tales of elephant orchestras & lady-boy boxers.

What housewarming? The Ovalteenies?

Ned, OOOOOoon is from Thailand, we know her from the infamous Sinister list. Some people have met her, but I haven't. In fact I haven't met many people from Sinister at all, despite being on it for five years. Hence the (subdued) excitement. I have met David Moore though. He gave me a Pinefox badge.

Oon is indeed a Princess, & a very sweet one at that. I know this as she spent a very enjoyable day with us Tuesday/Wednesday involving eating, shopping, sight-seeing, gig- going, more eating, watching B&STV, even more eating, watching South Park & maybe eating a little more.

Thursday still looks on the cards. I will post details here if it's up and running. If not, I've *handwritten* a list of e-mail addresses. If all goes according to plan, we'll meet up with OooOooon (and any other early birds) early on (but not that early) and then retire to the pub to meet the rest of you later on.

Perhaps we should go to the second closest pub to Paddington.

We're all crazy-ape bonkers on all-fours for THURSDAY 25TH.

I hope a few of you can make Susannah's thing. Remember Happy Hour.

Can we have a PJM plan summary?

We will revert to plan A and try to get OooOOoon to meet us half way somehwere like Reading if she's still up for it. Actually that's plan B, plan A was Legoland.

Sorry for any disappointment this might cause, but it seems daft to try and do it in even more of a hurry than it was going to be anyway. Further excuses are available on request.

Hey, I saw GINGER TIM get evicted from Big Brother.

I met Oooooon on Sunday! It was grebt! She is very hard to please when buying bagZoR! We had some duck gyoza, it was the best thing evvah!

Whereabouts in Wilts. are you, Peter? (Trying to think of more scenic place than Reading)

Oh dear. I take it from this that you're staying somewhere *near* Newbury, which isn't served by any trains in the evening, and if you go just to Newbury (which does have services from Paddington deep into the gloom), you're stuck there - yes? How disappointing.

We will revert to plan A and try to get OooOOoon to meet us half way somehwere like Reading if she's still up for it. Actually that's plan B, plan A was Legoland.

Oon agrees to this in principle (though 'Hampton Court would be better', she says). You two can sort this out by e-mail and maybe some of the rest of us can make it too? Thing is, there's still quite a few London Sinister folk Oon hasn't met, and Thursday was going to be a chance for that to happen too. Oh well - this is partly my fault for not letting her out of the house until she'd seen all of 'Filthy, Rich and Catflap' on video.

I do hope she remembered to look to the left out of the train after leaving Xstl Palys - the only way you can currently see our local dinosaurs.

Sorry about.

xoxoxo all for Oon!

I have seen Led Zep on the telly.

National Express NX402 leaves Hungerford 08.55 arrives London Victoria 11.15

National Express NX402 leaves London 18.00 arrives Hungerford 20.05

Wave arms up and down shouting 'TAXI!' at bemused cattle farmers.

Hardly ideal, in that it rules out the workers, but better than nothing. I assume the coach wouldn't be sold out. Is there anything to do around Victoria coach station? Would anyone be keen on this? Oooon is still in Edinburgh, I bet Keith's taken her to the military tattoo or something, but she seemed pretty open to suggestions.

Let me know if this possible solution sounds good enough, either here or pjmiller@wanadoo.es

I'll mail you a couple of mobile numbers.

She's leaving here on a plane at 4pm or something, for whoever's meeting her the other end: I expect David M will have arranged something shipshape and military. I'll probably be seeing her just before she goes if anyone wants me to pass any secret messages on. I'm incredibly jealous of your legoland or whatever plans: we in Scotland shall be making up with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, blueberry pancakes and lusty farmhands.

Tell her to proceed directly from Stansted Airport to South London, do not pass Four Seasons in Bayswater, do not collect 2000 calories. We've bought the hottest chillies known to Safeway, and Wednesday night is SPICE NIGHT chez Jerry-Bones.

Hello Paul! Hello Linda!

I would also like to know why Peter Miller is in Ramsbury. I spent 9 years of my life in the next village and I can't think why anyone would want to go there.

My darling wife has just read OOon's mobile message out from the top of the stairs (it's her mobile, I haven't got one). She also wants to know why you all live in London.

Which village, Tag? Aldbourne? I hear there's some rivalry with that lot, so I'm going to cycle over and punch their lights out.

Apologies once again, I don't deserve such nice e-chums.

Are there still plans for you coming to London on sat? I'm too lazy to read through the thread again.

Are you there to translate combine harvester manuals?

Sorry Mooro.

Thuzzday: if you lot are in ver Cheese then I'll nip along for a while but (i) I have been disallowed from boozing by my dentist who has left a great big hole in my head and (ii) I have other things to do that evening, unrelated to going out.

Pam will be along around 6:45 and we're hoping to see Oon (after her crazy dash around the Home Counties) after 8. We'll be buggering off before 10:30 mind, cos those last few 63s terminate at the Forest Hill Tavern in Honor Oak. And no-one wants to be stranded there. It's probably a bit like Hungerford.

Plain People of London-Sinister: this is your last chance to meet Oon if you haven't already done so. And it's a nice pub.

That story about the moon falling into the pond in Aldbourne sounds worthy of 'Basque Legends' which starts with a woman in 1969 claiming that it's impossible for a man to go to the moon, he'd fall off, only a fly could go to the moon. I wonder if anyone in Aldbourne will remember wee Robbie McTaggart? Ramsbury's very nice, people keep speaking to us.

We had a nice couple of hours with OoOOoOOoooon. You should have seen how quickly she spotted Reading casino!

Anyway, sorry once again for my failure to meet up with you all. Call me a sentimental old fool, but I think I'd really like to meet up with you all on your own respective territories, ie Preston, Stevenage, Stoke, Chesterfield, Sidmouth, that kind of thing. I am the new Dave Gorman. Watch this space.