huw_finney Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Calling all UK pnet people. I am thinking of having a get together of UK pnetters, I reside in Maidenhead and was considering a pub in Reading for an informal 'oh so thats you!' type of thing. Reading has very good rail connexions with the whole country. If there is some interest I could do a recce for a suitable pub and pick a day (Saturday?) when the football isn't on. Huw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 Best to reply here as we will all see how much interst there is, but feel free to mail me anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_chadderton Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Huw, I'm interested, but fairly busy until November - Sundays would be better for me, but Sats aren't out of the question. __ Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben z Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 "I reside in Maidenhead" Our winter condo is just outside the limits of a town called Boca Raton. In Spanish it means Rat's Mouth, which people everywhere else seem to think is hilariously funny. Do people in your town get the same kind of annoying ribbing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio, It's not their fault they often go To Maidenhead And talk of sport and makes of carsIn various bogus-Tudor bars And daren't look up and see the starsBut belch instead. John Betjamen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 I would like a get together Huw but I work shifts. Just post your proposed date once you have one decided upon and I will check in my rota. Nice idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 New Wharf or Maiden Hythe. Trevor, pick a Sunday early/mid November, that sorts out the shift problem and reduces the variables by one (always a good thing in engineering). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 So using the slow paper clock (calendar) this has narrowed down to the 6th, 13th or 20th of November somewhere in Reading. Lets make it a 1pm lunch start, next, off to Reading to find a pub near the station that does real beer! (the hard tasks I carry out for the sake of pnet, will the suffering ever stop?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 "which people everywhere else seem to think is hilariously funny. " Ben, try living in Pratt's Bottom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayh Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Just up the road from where I live is a town called Cut and Shoot, Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awahlster Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 We have a city named "Boring" there is a rather famous freeway sign that says: Boring Oregon City next exit as we also have an Oregon City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_chadderton Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Any of those dates are ok (at the moment) for me ... I live in a village in deepest Lincolnshire called "Folkingham". Nothing unpeculiar until you hear that the locals don't pronounce the 'L' ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin_elliott Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Being originally from Camberley,Surrey, my recollection of Reading was one of a rough town with all sorts of yobos and layabouts. Has it,like New York City, NY undergone dramatic changes? If you think Maidenhead is funny, try living in a place named Upper Womans Passage. Yes...there is also a Lower Womans Passage. Both in Suffolk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Much as I'd like to join the SE UK group at a pub, I won't be able to make it. (Washington, DC area -- just too far away) But I'm now keeping up with this thread ... just for the amusement value -:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 ...and (of course) Six Mile Bottom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve george Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 I'm up for it and good for any of those except the 6th I think (at the moment anyway). I'm in Lewes - not an amusing place name but it does have a brewery and more fantastic real ale pubs than you can shake a stick at :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_boyle3 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 We have Crotch Lake in eastern Ontario. Good pike fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Everyone in Lewes is busy around 5th/6th November.... http://www.lewesbonfirecouncil.org.uk/societies/borough/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham_morriss2 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 And don't forget down in Dorset somewhere (purbeck way i think)you've got "Scratchy Bottom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_bennet Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 ...and of course, Arcadia University is the boring new moniker for Beaver College which took too much of a licking. In the press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabriel_shaw1 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 I live in NW London would like to come along, most dates suitable for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve george Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Hi Trevor Yes - 5th November is something that has to be seen to be believed in Lewes (in the Observers top 10 things to do in the UK I think). 6th November will be very quiet though as far as I know! 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes this year as well (the most honest man to ever enter Parliament as local posters have it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_thorlin Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Always had a soft spot for Nether Wallop myself. Read into that what you like. Is this restricted to Leicans ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted October 9, 2005 Author Share Posted October 9, 2005 No, any pnetter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkag Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 There's always Intercourse and Hooker, both in Pennsylvania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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