2009-01-24 Sat - The Tweed Run I

What about the Wilton Arms in Knightsbridge?
http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub387.html

Just two things I remember about this pub:
You may not use a mobile phone inside. What what?!
The big guy from Grange hill is a regular in there.

Gets pretty crammed + low ceilings FTW.

1. Teddy
   
2. Dancing james
   
3. Sharkstar
   
4. Dmczone
   
5. Coppithat
   
6. Edscoble
   
7. The bonk
   
8. Superprecise
   
9. Charco
   
10. Edmundro
    
11. Celadon
    
12. Mister k
    
13. Gustav
    
14. Nick
    
15. Harry
    
16. Alockett
    
17. Ved
    
18. Wools
    
19. Tricitybendix
    
20. Jeanmi + some (tbc)
    
21. Ektachrome
    
22. Shootthebreeze
    
23. Kattt
    
24. Velocityboy
    
25. Ladystardust (who still isn't registered)
    
26. JD
    
27. Wibble
    
28. tilover (coming from yorkshire)
    
29. non forum member lady (coming from canterbury)
    
30. JOL
    
31. t®um
    
32. PinkGottiMobbs
    
33. veLLo
    
34. Littigator.....HUZZAH!
    
35. Fresh
    
36. tex
    
37. miss socks
    
38. dan(j-d-s-h)
    
39. BlueQuinn
    
40. villa-ru
    
41. Fluff plus one
    
42. Cornelius Tweedfoot. (must buy tweed, must buy tweed, must buy tweed)
    
43. Spins esq.
    
44. stevo_com
    
45. Dapper Slag
    
46. Master Stringerman
    
47. Master Stringerman's footman (possibly gf)
    
48. andyp
    
49. OliDale (possibly with brother)
    
50. Van Damage
    
51. jar (tentative)
    
52. hillbilly! PISSED!
    
53. 1950:14 (Reliving the golden years!)
    
54. Ononelangster
    
55. 105champ
    
56. 105champ's wench
    
57. Hewitt (need some tweed first though)
    

Ed - all Sam Smith's pubs are cheap. Someone more cynical than I would suggest that it's the only way they can sell the beer.

eh, i thought the ale is really nice, lemmie check if the Lonsdale is actually an SS pubs again...

The big guy from Grange hill is a regular in there.

What... Ro-land?

Cool.

@Provenrad : Do you mean Roland!?

In the film about Four Aces Club I did the post on, someone who looked exactly like him appeared in a still from the Labyrynth days, mic in hand. Anyone know if Roland was an MC there?

Ved

May I get a badge?

Yes of course James.

I will have enough badges for everyone.

Black

Kettle

Pot

Dog

Cat

Hairy-arse

much better retort

what's it's vintage dammit?

2007

What about the Wilton Arms in Knightsbridge? Its tiny, but its on a cul de sac, so there'd be less of a problem with bikes. Most of the people on that street go to their estates* at the weekend anyway.

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub387.html

• in the shires, not in 'Ackney.
  

Great little pub. Also the setting for one of the most embarrassing incidents of my life.

what was that you actually got asked to pay for a round?

*Strange *little pub. S'not bad in the summer when you can avoid the turned up collars and deck shoes.

Do you want to spill the beans about your incident Andy?

Great little pub. Also the setting for one of the most embarrassing incidents of my life.

you can't say that and then not expound...

I met a friend in there before meeting up with the gf to go and see her friend (a jazz singer) sing in a pizza place around the corner). Whilst at the bar I got talking to this very attractive woman and was flirting outrageously with her and got her phone number. Turned out to be my gf's jazz singing friend.

Ex gf?

Haha.

Nope - living with her now.

hehe. wicked.

there's such a lot of friends in such a short space of time, my head's swimming.

Nope - living with her now.

The jazz singer? ;)

And there was me thinking the last line was going to be something like "Turned out to be my gf's jazz singing friend, who was actually a drag queen, we fell instantly in love and lived in Bangkok until the little incident at the Barings trading desk, after which I returned to London to join a bunch of geeks in lycra tweed strides".

Sorry to disappoint Chris.

snowy's from the MTV generation andy, he needs more.

I have more, but need to be plied with alchohol to diverge divulge.

pah, you whippersnapper JimJams, I've been knitting my own entertainment since 1980.