West Beers : Every Thursday @ The Lamb Brewery, W4 4PH

Nothing to see here,
I'm just sweeping some of the tumbleweed out of this thread.

Most recent HS2 public session has taken much of my thinking time this week.

Still, this week, at short notice?

@fasih @hamrack @hippy @Sifta
@skydancer @moorhen
@thebrenthamtaffy

We know @ffm, @Oliver Schick, @ChewyCheeks are out.

What's happening with HS2 out your way?

After Euston Ruislip is the 2nd most disturbed residential area.
The Tunnel that reduces the impact of HS2 from roughly Old Oak Common westwards emerges in Ruislip Golf Course. A supine (Tory) Council caved in instead of protesting through the House of Lords for the tunnel to be extended out to Harefield/M25.
Current projections are 550, (down from 1100), HGV movements per day on an unimproved Victorian farmtrack-based road system.
At least 1,000,000 m3 of excavations to be shifted.
7 years of construction.

Eesh

Yep,
Now we're just asking for improved mitigation.

Ruislip is facing three threats;
1) HS2 as above
2) Heathrow 3rd Runway would send flights overhead. (Currently we only get RAF Northolt and associated helicopter noise/air pollution).
3) Environment Agency Pinn Valley flood alleviation plan wants to build a dam in Park Wood. So what, eh? That's one of the four woods in Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve. So much water would be stored in peak flow, the structure will be deemed a reservoir! We already have one barely maintained dam in the NNR, at the Lido.

And as a postscript, and relating to the London Borough of Hillingdon rather than just Ruislip.
Hillingdon Hospital has never really been fit for purpose. Some of the wards are essentially still patched up Nissen Huts, and with an aging population more space is needed for just about every health provision.
Fews bits of a jigsaw are juggled. Brunel University has the space for a Medi-Parc to have a(nother) teaching hospital. Land of existing Hillingdon hospital can be sold for housing to part fund the new development. Transpires the Dept. of Health only signs off, (not funds) one major hospital development per year. HH2 near top of list. Another report moves it to the top and documents are readied for signature. Then dePfeffel, (local MP), resigns. So what? In the ensuing reshuffle Jeremy Hunt becomes Foreign Secretary, leaving the DoH with just a No.2*. New Minister cannot be expected to sign off without being fully briefed. Then the Summer Recess, then Conference season, then .......
Optimists were told to expect news in October.
(*Tory party so bereft of backbench talent Hunt's No.2 is Lord So&so!).

Any of you lot going to the pub? Since all my bikes are under vehicles I don't have other shit to do, I'm actually tempted.

Red Lion for 8pm?

Literally 10s after I posted that a mate messages me "Pub?"

Let's see where the fucker is heading to.

mate

Simon Pegg or Nick Frost?

Looks like it's a friend's last night in Ealing before heading back to Oz. I thought she was going on Sat. Anyway, we're probably going for tapas shortly. May end up at the pub after.

I think he had an account on here briefly so it's almost a west drinks ;)

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which pub
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Well, there might be some west beer types at red lion
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otherwise i'm easy
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It's XXX's last night in Ealing tonight. She's currently having a drink in she bu but we're thinking about going to the tapas place for dinner..
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tapas?
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which one

I know you don't think I have any friends IRL... :P

Ok, I'm going to RL now but might be fucking off elsewhere for dinner.

So red lion then
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If it all goes tits up, you can get pizza
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XXX can be unreliable
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This was fun. BEER!

^ That is all beyond me.
Red Lion; I'm 45 mins away.

Rolling.

Missing a rare Hippy appearance due to an all nighter last night@ Sing-a-long Rocky horror Picture show at Prince Charles Cinema, followed by a session involving a bottle of Glenlivet Nadura single malt and homebrewed ale at mine followed by a headache.

And here.

You've got the 15th Nov pencilled in?

This week?

@fasih @hamrack @hippy @Sifta
@skydancer @moorhen
@thebrenthamtaffy @timages

We know @ffm, @Oliver Schick, @ChewyCheeks are out.