I would like to meet some London mefites in April.

posted March 10, 2014 3:51 PM | |

Sat April 5 at 7:00 PM, Penderels Oak

283-288 High Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V 7HP, UK (Map & Directions)

Tentative date - 19th april, but if that is a bad day for multiple people there is flexibility to change it.
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 3:53 PM on March 10, 2014

I work opposite that pub so if it was on a worknight I'd DEFINITELY be in!

However the 19th April is on easter weekend, so I'll be out of the city visiting family. It also happens to be my birthday so I'll probably be incapacitated by cake consumption.
posted by greenish at 2:55 AM on March 11, 2014

Hello,

I would be in favour of something along these lines.
I know the Penderels Oak.
I will bring board games to play!

However it depends a bit on timing.
I probably can't do the Easter Saturday because it is prime boat fixing time.
Although I suppose it can't all be boat fixing time, so I'll put myself down as a maybe.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 4:04 AM on March 11, 2014

I'm moving to London in the next few weeks, so if timing works out I would love to come along.
posted by knapah at 4:29 AM on March 11, 2014

Sure,

I'll put myself in as a maybe as well, just because I can't possibly plan more than three days ahead for anything at all.
posted by atrazine at 5:30 AM on March 11, 2014

I'm up for that. I know Penderel's Oak, but agree that Easter weekend isn't a good time for me.
posted by essexjan at 6:46 AM on March 11, 2014

Another maybe here.
posted by ersatz at 12:32 PM on March 11, 2014

Easter is something I didn't even consider because I had no idea at all when it was. We could say April 3rd or 5th depending on whether there is a preference for a weekend/weeknight?
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 11:23 AM on March 12, 2014

I'd prefer April 5th to the 3rd.
posted by Erberus at 1:56 PM on March 12, 2014

Likewise.
posted by knapah at 10:13 AM on March 13, 2014

We're also going elsewhere for Easter, and so in favour of a different weekend!
posted by harujion at 11:53 PM on March 13, 2014

I would like to put in my vote for April 5th, with the games in the Penderels oak.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 3:55 AM on March 14, 2014

I could make April 5th as well, if it was during afternoon/late afternoon. Been too long since I was at a Mefi meetup!
posted by adrianhon at 4:00 AM on March 18, 2014

If one of you guys has a couch you could spare for the weekend it happens on I might be able to join y'all.
posted by Blasdelb at 3:11 PM on March 22, 2014

Ack, won't be able to even say maybe this time. Have fun!
posted by iamkimiam at 4:15 AM on March 28, 2014

Keen. I can bring King of Tokyo and / or Carcassonne, if no-one else is?

If anyone's about in the afternoon, Penderel's Oak is more or less opposite Sir John Soane's Museum, which has an amazing-looking exhibition of Piranesi prints and 3D-printed artefacts taken from his drawings.
posted by inire at 5:56 AM on March 28, 2014

I'll try and make it, at least for a while.
posted by knapah at 4:44 PM on March 28, 2014

I should be able to make it, looking forward to it.
posted by Gordafarin at 4:38 AM on March 29, 2014

I'm hoping to be able to make it. I'm getting over a bout of the flu so can't say for sure if I'll be fit enough.
posted by essexjan at 10:09 PM on March 29, 2014

Sorry, won't be able to make this after all.
posted by atrazine at 5:01 AM on April 2, 2014

I work opposite that pub so if it was on a worknight I'd DEFINITELY be in!

Hey thats weird I

However the 19th April ... also happens to be my birthday

OK wait a second

GREENISH AM I YOUR SOCKPUPPET?
posted by the quidnunc kid at 1:02 AM on April 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

if so then we definitely shouldn't both go, it could risk a collapse of the space-time continuum.

although this should have already happened when I voted #1 quidnunc kid, so we're probably fine.
posted by greenish at 8:59 AM on April 3, 2014

Luckily I am precluded from Saturday evening meetups under the orders of quark, new-born issue.

Weeknight peri-birthday drinks, however, may need to take place in order to solve the sock puppet mystery one and for all.

I warn readers that - like Holmes' ultimate showdown with Moriarty - such an encounter may raise more conundra than it solves.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 9:55 AM on April 3, 2014

"Once" and for all, I mean. A true sock puppet wouldn't have made such an error, ergo I must be the original.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 10:09 AM on April 3, 2014

Please bring whatever games you have! I mostly game on my iPad or at clubs so the suggestions to bring games was totally an excuse to get to play a few other peoples favourites.
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 10:18 AM on April 3, 2014

Please accept: (a) my joyful wish that you all have a fun time; (b) a long-belated "welcome to London" to Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory; (c) a less-belated "welcome to London" to knapah; (d) my hopes for a speedy recovery from the flu to essexjan; (e) a single raised eyebrow at greenish, who is obviously my new supervillan arch-nemesis.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 1:25 AM on April 4, 2014

So I just noticed this and I will probably drop by.
posted by permafrost at 3:42 AM on April 4, 2014

Sorry, I'm not going to make this. I was almost recovered from the flu but the smog has done for me. Smog + respiratory illness = Saturday spent recuperating.

Have fun, guys. I'm gutted to miss this. I was going to bring Cards Against Humanity with me. Not quite a board game, but lots of fun for people with a low taste threshhold. Next time.
posted by essexjan at 1:28 PM on April 4, 2014

Last minute update - if you are lost feel free to ring 07749 Three0984Five
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 11:09 AM on April 5, 2014

So this whole moving to London and starting a new job thing means that I underestimated quite how significantly unpacking and organising would fill my weekends.

Consequently, I won't be able to make it tonight, but hopefully there will be more meetups in the near future when my life is a little less dominated by cardboard boxes and rearranging furniture.

Have fun!
posted by knapah at 11:33 AM on April 5, 2014

Thanks to all who came it was great to meet you all - we shall have to try king of tokyo again earlier in the night next time. :P
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 10:45 AM on April 8, 2014

quidnunc - lets settle this. I challenge you to a sock-off, in the traditional style of us handslap-fighting like nerds and screaming I'M THE REAL ONE, THEY'RE THE FAKE at onlookers. We can call it birthday celebrations.
posted by greenish at 4:29 AM on April 11, 2014