At 11:23 +0000 10/1/07, David Gerard wrote:

[sending separately to wikien-l and wikimediauk-l due to mail server weirdness]

Huh? That's where we came in! Hence the confusion of the past few days....

The Montagu Pyke is an unspeakably horrible beer barn,

As suggested by a certain David Gerard? No relation?

and we actually drank it out of the one real ale on tap.

Sorry. My fault.

I was wondering if it was possible to accidentally unplug the jukebox, then the football (Arsenal v. Liverpool, 6-3, holy crap! [*])

6 + 3 = 9 goals!

started at a quite remarkable volume. Having enough people upstairs to block the fire exits, and the venue sucking like a hivemind of Dysons, we chose to follow Morwen's infallible ale detector to the Shakespeare's Head near Holborn tube station, another Wetherspoons but this time of the tolerable variety.

A fine place. I know it well.

(Fortunately, despite it *technically* having been the case that I was the one to declare that this would be a suitable venue, I used methods learnt from [[WP:ANI]] to put all blame onto James Forrester, who was conveniently not present. So that's all right then.)

James is now sharing a flat in Beckton with Lord Lucan and Reginald I. Perrin.

James's suggestion for a pub needed a little subbing, methinks....

I got about a zillion shots on User:Arkady Rose's [[Canon Digital IXUS]] 400, and she'll probably be putting these up some time today or tomorrow. Loopzilla and Thryduulf got a pile too.

LoopZilla apologize's now for the quality. But they are there (on FLICKR), suitable tagged.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/tags/walesmeatagain/

We got LOTS of people along and this was really good and productive, despite the horrible first venue. Did anyone write up an attendance list?

• d.

[*] http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/6246893.stm

Gordo