Informal London Meet - Sat 10th Feb - PHOTOS NOW UP

jellycat40

I will try to get there. It is scary though. I live just outside Bristol so should be able to get a train and tube quite easily.

Louise

Bargain_Rzl

Lucy it sounds like there will be lots of newbies there - if you did come, you certainly wouldn't be alone among people who all know each other!

LydiaSophia

Hi - I would love to come along. What sort of time are people getting there?

This may sound stupid but I hate walking into pubs etc on my own.

look like alot of people are going to try and make it - I wont know anyone though...........

1sttimer_2

This sounds like fun and I would have liked to come but believe it or not I'm in London on the 26 Jan, 17 and 24 Feb, going again on the 10 Feb would be just too much for me. Pity as I would have called in for a swift half.

Enjoy yourselves.

MushyPeas

Hi all

Looking forward to the London meet I don't want to put a dampner on things, but I had my rucksack stolen last night from a Weatherspoons pub in London. Staff and police say that as WSpoon pubs are so large they are often targeted. We'll have to all keep an eye out for each other!

Weatherspoons pubs do have handbag holders under the tables, but not big enough for rucksacks!!

MPx

onestep

I'll pencil it in the diary - would love to come!!

onestep

Maisie

Bargain Rzl. Is the Lord Moon pub actually in Whitehall?

If so is it up the Trafalgar square end or Houses of parliament end?
I know there's a pub just opposite the theatre in Whitehall (by the Cenotaph) is it that one?

Maisie

ivyleaf

As Churchmouse can't come, I've told DH he'll have to come instead. Pleased to say he seems quite interested! Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Bargain_Rzl

Maisie wrote:

Bargain Rzl. Is the Lord Moon pub actually in Whitehall?

If so is it up the Trafalgar square end or Houses of parliament end?
I know there's a pub just opposite the theatre in Whitehall (by the Cenotaph) is it that one?

Maisie

It is on Whitehall, at the Trafalgar Square end. It is next door (or next door but one?) to the theatre

Bargain_Rzl

Right, I have an update.

The Lord Moon DOES have a children's licence and kids are welcome there until around 6pm. HOWEVER the family area - where kids are legally obliged to be - is rather small (and a condition of the licence, as with all other Wetherspoons which take kids, is that they must be there to eat). The pub also a policy of not reserving areas for groups on Saturdays. This means that if we are a mixed adults/kids group, there is a high risk of us not all being able to sit together (which defeats the object of a meet...)

So I think we have two options:

EITHER we say it's preferable not to bring kids, so that we can set up camp in whichever bit of the pub we like...

OR we move it to a pub with a bigger family area, such as the Penderel's Oak where some of us met last summer, but the big disadvantage of that would be that it's not so easy to get to - it's two buses or two tubes from most bits of London and this may increase expense for the majority of people, whereas the Lord Moon is (I think) accessible in one journey from all the central London rail termini.

Can I have a virtual "show of hands" as to who would be inconvenienced or unable to come if we made it an adults only event? (blimey that sounds like a sex show but you know what I mean!)

Any thoughts on any of the things I've just said would also be helpful.