Be Excellent To Each Other

Ah-ha! Was that ever announced?

I'm not reading any posts.

Yeah. About 3 weeks ago.

See the second bit, I guess



“I don't eat potato salad. So five times zero is still zero. Sorted.”

— Miss Malabar

Won by maths.

Hmm... my August has just become more free.

Room for 1 (possibly 2) more? We'd be hotelling it.

Sure.

Is that what they want? Mad.

Where did you book in the end?

We're coming up on the Friday* and they wanted £46-50 per night, so booked into the Bedford Swan for £13 more overall. Seems quite nice, but we'll see!

*we're gonna spend the day in London if anyone wants a drink or something. I imagine the trains back run reasonably late?

Trains run all night from St. Pancras - go up the escalator to get the train. Bedford is (almost certainly) the last stop, so don't worry about missing it.

The Swan is quite nice - it's by the river.

Excellent, ta.

One more question: if we buy/make some food at home, any chance we could drop it off at yours on the Friday?

Turns out Mrs T is on a course that day, so i'll be coming on my lonesome and Mrs T will most likely pop over for a drink later in the evening and to give me a ride home
I'll still bring Mrs T's food allocation though, to keep it all simple.

What time? I'm at Gaywood's wedding, but Mrs Grim... will be there from about 17:30 - 18:00.

Oh. In which case, never mind — we'll just pick something up locally before we get to yours on the Saturday.

If you want to swap the potato salad with someone else, feel free.

Also, to anyone that's coming but told me about it after I allocated the food, just bring "something".

Also, I've not mentioned a time, have I?

Er...

I'm trying to work out if you got her name wrong again on purpose, or if you're just being especially belmy.

getting hungry!

*Checks letterbox*
...

I think I'm broken

So....

Ha, yes, I did spend a while last night trying to find the hidden message in the OP.

I was planning on arriving aroundabout 1, should that influence things.

You can arrive when you like (in the afternoon), but the BEEXBEEQUEUE will be lit at around 3pm, so you probably want to have had lunch.

Ah, right. I'll turn up sometime between 1 and 3 then.

Is parking an issue?

No.

Good.

I am looking forward to this. Also, will be preparing some different types of potato salad, for shits and giggles (though hopefully not actually the former).

It is if your driving is as batshit as your opinions on Quorn mince.

Okay, where does it hurt?

*cracks knuckles*

Effing arsebiscuits, the trains from London Bridge to Bedford don't run at the weekend. That is most troublesome, as it will involve a combination of Baby and The Tube; something we had been planning on avoiding at all costs.

London Bridge to Blackfriars via the ferry?

I haven't looked but that is possibly the same problem.

How about new cross-overground to north London then change there?

I was contemplating going but now my sister is visiting, so no lift from me I'm afraid.

You can go from Elephant & Castle, Blackfriars, Farringdon, City Thameslink, St Pancras, or West Hampsted Thameslink.
St Pancras is by far the fastest, with the quickest trains taking around 40 minutes (the rest will take about an hour and twenty minutes).

Yeah, we'll just get the tube to St Pancras and hope the baby doesn't explode mid-journey.

I may have just been BBQ shopping. Whoops.

Wow, you left it late.

Not food shopping.

Ha!

So, Curio, are you bringing Curio Jr? Next Saturday is my Zioette day, so I'll try and swap days with her mum, but if not possible I may just bring her with me instead. Would everyone be cool with this? Mali's met her!

Onóra shall be attending.

btw, if someone could bring me a recentish tube map i would be obliged, i kinda collect subway maps (other uk pt maps are welcome too)

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Never get lost again!



Just £7 from here

The prozzie from Firefly? Awesome - save your pennies, guys.

Uh...

I do find it endearing the fact he's always about 9 months behind the times. We're all watching Babylon 5 now.

It sounds a bit like "inara", okay?

I would be telling fibs if I said that didn't influence my enthusiasm for the name.

You named your son after a lady of negotiable virtue? Good going.

Oooooh, right.

Sorry.

It's a respectable profession!