jfm
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Thank you to BarryD for organising inaugural forum dinner last night and to Matts and Diana for entertaining us afterwards with Soltron cocktails in splendid fully-plasma-ed Covent Garden apartment, which I hope wasn't too badly damaged. We had excellent fun, Lizzie is still asleep in bed recovering, having sent me to pharmacy for various stuff.
Minor incident at the beginning, some bloke parked his van with a bomb inside it about 200yds from the restaurant, and the restaurant was then inside the police cordon. But the rozzers must have been raggies becuz they decided risking life and limb of a few stinkpotters was no prob, so they let us through and we had WC2 to ourselves, just round the corner from the bomb.
Matts "singing turkey" won the most tasteless present award, our "screaming vibrating naked woman inside a packing crate" coming second.
Fortunately no-one mentioned teapots, white carpet and Colin in the same sentence...or did they? Also. somewhat worryingly there was a digi camera (Peterg's?) in action, so bit worrid about that..... erm I think Lizzie had got her top back on before the flash gun had recharged, but not sure......?
Got thrashed at monopoly by Mark, 9yr old son of Matts and Diana. Need to watch that kid. Half way through game, I saw his tactic. He throws dice, and looks to see where that dice throw would take EITHER his counter or mine. If mine would land on somethin better, say, Mayfair, he just moves mine and buys Mayfair and I don't notice. Then, a few goes later, he switches back to his own piece. QED. Until the fourth time when I notice..... Wonder who he learnt this stuff from?
Re the bomb thing by the way, here's a clip from today's Evening Standard online edition:
"Van siege ends. A man who barricaded himself inside a van outside Chancery Lane for more than 24 hours is now being quizzed by police. The man, in his sixties, issued a series of demands to police while parked outside the Law Society's central London offices. The road was closed at both ends during the day and night-long stand-off."
Thanks again!
Minor incident at the beginning, some bloke parked his van with a bomb inside it about 200yds from the restaurant, and the restaurant was then inside the police cordon. But the rozzers must have been raggies becuz they decided risking life and limb of a few stinkpotters was no prob, so they let us through and we had WC2 to ourselves, just round the corner from the bomb.
Matts "singing turkey" won the most tasteless present award, our "screaming vibrating naked woman inside a packing crate" coming second.
Fortunately no-one mentioned teapots, white carpet and Colin in the same sentence...or did they? Also. somewhat worryingly there was a digi camera (Peterg's?) in action, so bit worrid about that..... erm I think Lizzie had got her top back on before the flash gun had recharged, but not sure......?
Got thrashed at monopoly by Mark, 9yr old son of Matts and Diana. Need to watch that kid. Half way through game, I saw his tactic. He throws dice, and looks to see where that dice throw would take EITHER his counter or mine. If mine would land on somethin better, say, Mayfair, he just moves mine and buys Mayfair and I don't notice. Then, a few goes later, he switches back to his own piece. QED. Until the fourth time when I notice..... Wonder who he learnt this stuff from?
Re the bomb thing by the way, here's a clip from today's Evening Standard online edition:
"Van siege ends. A man who barricaded himself inside a van outside Chancery Lane for more than 24 hours is now being quizzed by police. The man, in his sixties, issued a series of demands to police while parked outside the Law Society's central London offices. The road was closed at both ends during the day and night-long stand-off."
Thanks again!
