Batting about the place

[commodorified]

I will be in London (England not Comma) on November 17, getting in at 3 p.m. and flying out the next day.

I am staying at YHA Oxford Street, which is handy to both Heathrow and some promising locations for a BatMoot.

Anyone care to meet up?

Comments

[graydon]

London Comma?

Google is getting me nothing useful here. I would suppose it's the Ontario London but ?

Hope it's a splendid trip!

[commodorified]

Yes, sorry, nickname benet and I gave it when we lived there.

"I'm from London-comma-Ontario".

[graydon]

Thank you!

That seems a most entirely cromulent usage; I was wondering if it might have been "coma" but that is perhaps unkind.

[commodorified]

It's not particularly unkind :-)

[commodorified]

Benet's family had lived in both, you see, and so "London, England or London, Comma?" came into use as shorthand and then came in handy as a way of avoiding "I live in London [startled look as I have a deeply SW Ontario accent] [awkward pause] Ontario."

[graydon]

The awkward pause Paris, Ontario is not so well [known] as to provoke, yes. It seems an entirely practical usage.

With respect to accents, I was in England when I was 16 and retained far more of the Lanark County, Ontario accent than I now have. Someone there was trying to place my accent, asked me what county I was from, got told "Lanark" and then had a visible brain failure.

[commodorified]

Could be worse, mind.

Could be Paris.

[jsburbidge]

I'm pretty sure I have a cousin who married someone who came from Paris.

My father spent a chunk of time growing up in Scotland, which is close enough to Paris to make for "close" by rural standards, and my aunt, uncle and cousins stayed there. I have various cousins' in-laws from around the area.

Unlike my (and their) other cousins from the Ottawa Valley, they do not talk as though they had just come out from Perthshire.

[clanwilliam]

I should think it's very likely we could manage one!

It's nothing special, but the Coach and Horses on the corner of Poland St and Great Marlborough St has an upstairs and is nice and handy for jet-lagged Canadians staying at the YHA.

[cesy]

That would work for me as well.

[commodorified]

Shouldn't be TOO lagged as I'll only be coming from Helsinki at that point, but yes.

I recall the one on Lamb's Conduit fondly but tbh I'm not sure whether that's because it's a good pub, because I met you all there, or just because the street name is so extremely great, you know?

[commodorified]

Ooh! That IS indeed handy, even I ought to be able to find it in 4 tries or fewer from the hostel.

Well, say 6, just in case. :-)

[cesy]

I am in London and would like to see you! I will be travelling that afternoon from a haircut in Shoreditch to a work training thing near Reading, so could stop off in central for tea/dinner?

[commodorified]

I have some hopes of snaggling oursin for a bit of a pipe-opener, as is our usual custom when we see one another, but shall certainly need either tea or dinner thereafter!

The pub seems a safe option-- truly words CANNOT express my talent for getting lost in strange cities when tired. I read maps very well, I used to be a dispatcher, but my response to a certain level of travel stress seems to be like dropping a honking great magnet on to my internal compass...

[cesy]

Pub works for me!

[clanwilliam]

55 bus from Old Street!

[cesy]

Coach and Horses around 6pm Sunday, then, or a different time?

[cesy]

I haven't heard anything further - are we still going to do this?

[commodorified]

I'll be there! Sorry, have been wandering around the Baltic.

[juliet]

(copied over from slack in case you missed it there -- too ill to make it unfortunately :( hope you are having a lovely evening!)

[staranise]

Lovely icon!

[coughingbear]

I'll be in town late afternoon, in Victoria, so could happily head over to a meet up for about 7pm.

[cynthia1960]

On the left coast of a wrong continent for this meetup, but I hope you have a great time. If you are anywhere near Brick Lane, may I recommend Dark Sugars for possibly the best chocolate containing products I have ever ingested?

[foms]

Is that the place that has all of the varnished tree-root display tables, right near Beigel Bake?

[cynthia1960]

141 Brick Lane. Was there back in October of last year.

[cynthia1960]

Yeah, down the street.

[cesy]

Ooh yes, Dark Sugars is great.