London ILB - FAP?

I am doing a phone interview at 6 - but should be there by 7.15 or so?

You will know me easily. I am a large woman with glasses and long red hair, usually accompanied by a tall bloke with glasses.

the Fox's nose is very distinctive.

Oh, it's just me? .. I thought as much.

Hey, did any drunks guys come over to your table, like, "Oy! Wot you prats doin' readin' in a bar?? You're all lucky you got so many pints in front of you or I'd kick everyone one of you asses!"

And someone always woke her at the right stop.

The FAP was grand.

The Irish folk at the FAP were much keener on coemdy Irishness than the other Irish ilxors.

We discussed Donnybrook.

they are TRAITORS!

Books were.

Have had lovely holidays. Now, back to the books.

ILB FAP: 2009 edition. I'd be fine for a drink any day next week Monday-Thursday.

As for pubs: maybe go for one along Borough High Street?

Monday or Thursday would work for me, and Borough High St is A1 for me too.

Thursday's best for me - working a 12 hour shift the other days. Borough High St always a good place to go for a drink.

hey julio, im gonna be down in london next week so pl post details here - hope to come along

i don't live around london. tho i am heading up there for the weekend for the meltdown concerts and maaaay still be around monday/tuesdayish. can't say for sure, though.

hey Ward! This is good timing - hope to see you too. We'll keep details here.

thomp - Oops I knew about meltdown but didn't know if you were going to be around later that week.

Unless Gamaliel can make it Monday (doesn't look like it) I'd say next thur? Looking at the options how about this one just off the main street - Old King's head - but if you all have another option in mind then do tell.

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub473.html

I'll revive thisILE thread now for casual ILB-ers (or otherwise) who might want to come along.

Unless Gamaliel can make it Monday (doesn't look like it)

I really can't unfortunately. Awkward customer I know - the toad work. I will have an ILB FAP by myself on Thursday if it's not possible for others though, to make sure I pay my alcohol/reading duties.

That's not awkward at all! See you and everyone who can come next Thursday.

Should be at the Old King's from six-ish, I shall be reading and drinking if I don't see anyone.

I'll say which book on the day :-)

Might bother to do a 'Balkanized' ILX London FAP thread over at ILE on the day of the meet.

And thomp - if you're in London later this year etc let us know and we can arrange a FAP (although I might see you on Sunday, I guess?).

Will def be along on Thursday, and will similarly post book-holding details (tho' Gamaliel and I can identify one another - we go back)

I might be back from Brighton in time for this FAP. Then again, come to think of it, I guess I don't know anyone who's going to it.

Pinefox we have been in the same FAP several times. I think you also have talked to Ward Fowler.

bit odd how the board has an entirely different clientele to last time. feels a bit like housesitting.

but, yeah, see you sunday maybe. i'll be hanging around the bar reading the bantam edition of dhalgren, i should think.

New generation, innit?

I shall look for the Dhalgren (bantam ed.)

did anything happen with this FAP?

it's nice to know that people think they've been at a FAP with me, but I doubt that I could walk into a bar and say 'hey, aren't you xyzzz__?' I don't think I can even pronounce it.

It's on Thursday. xyzzz is usually my last utterance of any evening in a pub.

No problem, Tim.

I'll have a better idea, xyzzz, in a couple days as plans firm up.

No problem.

I'm available Sat and Sunday.

Sat'day is possible for me.

It's possible for me, but only evening, could do after 8ish..

Sunday I can do from 6.

Both days work for me!

Saturday I can't get there til 8 or maybe later - Sunday can get there any time.

So on Sat we can have more ppl than Sunday.

Alfred - Sat eve ok?

so, is tonight on then?

That works.

I'm in the Tower area, just me know where

Royal Oak in Tabard St.

oh shit, will try and make this!

See you all later

Indeed

Wonderful time. Thanks, all!

No problem, enjoy the rest of your time in London.

Sorry I couldn't think of anywhere interesting to go in London despite having lived here for 20+ years.

lovely to meet you Alfred, don't make it 30 years next tine

Oh damn, I'm too far away from London to have joined anyway, but Alfred in the UK!! Amazing!

Let us know if you are ever about in London emil.y

Oh, for sure. Would be good to chat books and shit with you lot.

Also Tim, have you talked about your book anywhere else on ilx? If not, tell us more about it!

Thanks for asking!

It’s “my” book because I’m making the thing by hand rather than having written it! It’s “An A-Z of Work” by David Arnold*, a memoir of David’s time working in a power station in the 80s and 90s. It’s in 26 shortish sections, one for each letter of the alphabet. https://thehalfpintpress.wordpress.com/an-a-z-of-work-by-david-arnold-2/

It’s about the end of collectivism in the English working class against a backdrop of an array of characters and as seen through the eyes of a young man.

Or it’s about what it was like to be a young working class man, seeing the characters around him against the backdrop of the end of collectivism in the English working class.

Or it’s a series of lightly-drawn character studies, focussing on the pleasures and tensions of rubbing along with friends and colleagues, against the backdrop of the end etc etc.

Or as it says on the website, David Arnold went to work in a power station in Kent in the ’80s, on the YOP scheme out of school. He worked there for more than ten years. This is a reflection in twenty six short pieces about work, class, the people who’ve stuck in his mind, and what the hell was going on at the time. There are strikes, redundancies, ghosts, chess, evenings in the pub, workplace bullying, Thatcher, Weller and more.

I’ve typeset and printed the whole thing by hand and now I’m sewing it all, which is turning out to be more time-consuming than I’d imagined. That’s somewhat ironic because the end result is less physically unusual than other books I’ve made (https://thehalfpintpress.wordpress.com/projects/ ) by which I mean, it’s a bound book.

* David Arnold is a musician but he’s not the fellow who collaborated with Björk, he is the guitarist in the Medway band The Claim.

That is very cool - been poking around your website and I adore your design style, it's so good.

How about a fap in September?

As usual my availability depends on work, caring responsibilities and therefore where I'm going to be in September isnt' clear, would be nice to join you if I'm around.

I had a jury service (interesting enough in and of itself) which actually gave me the on-the-bus time and waiting around time to finish a couple of books, it's a miracle.

Would be good if you joined too Tim.

Let us know. Am flexible, possibly except the last week or September (will confirm by end of August).

Just seeing what people's abilities are like now.

Will bump thread later this month.

September is going to be cooler and I do want a ginger pig sausage roll, in theory yes, in practice I’ve been useless but will keep an eye for dates

🤞

Best bet for me for now is the two weeks in the middle of the month (ie w/c 7th or 14th)

Ok let's go for that, on Wednesday as I believe Fizzles can't do Thursdays

16th? Annoyingly 9th tricky for me.

xpost

Correct, though if I really moved, i could be there for eight on Thursdays, so don't close it off if it's easiest for most people.

I should be ok for most Wednesdays in September if that's what we end up going for.

not sure what I'm doing for most of September, call it 50/50

Let's go for the 16th/17th, for now

Are we still ok for [picking one] 17th as Wednesday they have pub quiz iirc

yeah that’s fine, i’ll head over after my early evening commitments. i can’t abide pub quizzes i really can’t.

Grand, hope to see Tim CaAL and others then

Ahhhhh, not sure, got a dental appointment the next day.

It will be fine x

dental appt the next day! Tom! if you don’t want to see us, you can just say!

big ole lager belch on yerman or yerwan’s face and all will go swimmingly i’m sure. it’ll help turn back the foul concoction they make you drink when you have to swill out.

That's the best part of a dental appointment.

we can get you pink gins?

Actually I like my current dentist a lot, he looks about 18 and strongly resembles Pierre van Hooijdonk.

Oh Tom 💔

17th good for me, looking forward to say hi!

(unless tickets sold out eve 16th for other the thing i'm in town to see, in which case eve 17th not so good)

ticket obtained for 16th so 17th it is

👍

Yeah I think I can make 17th, good stuff