Lunch in the Home Counties.......

[David Morton]

If you live in the area and you are interested in a lunch time rendezvous next Wednesday 19th January, Kieth and me will be meeting up at the New Mill in Eversly near Reading about 1230 hrs. Email me on [email protected] and I'll increase the table size accordingly.
Dave M

www.thenewmill.co.uk

 

[Keith]

Kieth's old, fat, bald, boring and a well known spelling mistake.

But I'll be there too.

PS we have lap dancers for dessert.

Love, Keith

 

[Jim Craik]

I'm there, can I bring Damian?

 

[Keith]

It would not be the same without you two for sure! :thumbsup:

 

[Graham]

Now that I would be there for come hell or high water

Waddayasa Damian - fancy a trip to the old country (well at least one of them)...

For that lunch I would forget any thoughts of working to pay my corporation tax bill, some things are just more important :laugh:

 

[Doug S.]

I'm there, can I bring Damian?

I think you should take Al, Jim!

.......:idea: a few minutes with some lap dancers might serve to mellow him out a bit?

Have fun, guys!

Cheers from Doug!

 

[David Morton]

Sorrry Keef, I'll try and get my fingers the right way around when I'm tiping and spel your name corrictly.

 

[Jim Craik]

Doug,

It's good to hear from you, how you been? Still playing your guitar?

 

[Anthony]

Would have jumped at it as its just down the road but picked up a 2 month gig in Paris Monday to Friday, sucks but pays the bills.

Any ideas for stuff to do in Paris, think we have eaten in every bistro in a mile radius and we are only on week 3!!!

 

[David Morton]

Any ideas for stuff to do in Paris,?

Get on the Eurostar !!!

Seriously though, Chinese food can be a bit bland in Paris though some of the places in Belleville are OK. Vietnamese and Thai also seem to be detuned. Traditional French
seem to be rare these days - you are in a tourist city Tony - maybe the Golden Arches until you get back to London. Interestingly I took a Parisien friend to the Havelli in Slough and he could not even tolerate what we called the mild dishes so my daughter ordered him a Korma dish - again too spicy and he commented that this sort of level of Indian cuisine could not exist in Paris.
I confess - on CDG night stops I often just snacked on a plate of Cruditees with fresh baguette and good coffee. The one thing the French do not do is good quality beef steak - which is probably why they drown everything in sauces.
Enjoy Tony.....

And yes - you could probably have walked home from the New Mill. Have you ever eaten there before?

 

[Doug S.]

Doug,

It's good to hear from you, how you been? Still playing your guitar?

Been OK, if a bit absent from the forum due to a computer "malware" attack.....totally disabled IE, so I am library bound on a regular basis until I can get a patch to rid the computer of the "Smart Engine" malware.

Have been playing quite a bit of guitar lately, too...going to a monthly bluegrass festival in Pearl, TX to play in February, but have been doing some open-mic stuff in the local Houston guitar bars, too.

I hope things are going equally well for y'all way out west!!!!

Cheers from Doug!

 

[Anthony]

Doug,

Malwarebytes

This will sort your problem, its free and easy and I use it exclusively to rid the PCs of friends and families of junk.

Anthony
sorry to go off topic but I hate to see people struggle with computers

 

[Doug S.]

Doug,

Malwarebytes

This will sort your problem, its free and easy and I use it exclusively to rid the PCs of friends and families of junk.

Anthony
sorry to go off topic but I hate to see people struggle with computers

Thanks, Anthony. I thought I had downloaded that very program from a friend's computer, but found that the CD, while it shows the icon on the screen, doesn't include the program. The computer says there's nothing on the CD.....might be the Smart Engine doing its bad deeds, I don't know.

Will try again.

My apologies for the thread drift, too.....hate to see a good deed go unthanked!

Cheers from Doug!!

 

[Dalton Veitch]

David, I would love to join you guys, but it's a hell of a walk. It is two years since I was last in London, and I don't see me getting to Reading by January 19, which is a pity as I'm another old boring guy. Could you kindly wrap up a lap-dancer in a take-away bag and send her to me, express?

 

[David Morton]

Well, the next time you are here we'll find a place for lunch and then afterwards I can drop you off at Spearmint Rhino.

 

[Dave Bilyk]

Pity, as wifey and I will be in the vicinity on 16th and 17th, maybe next time.

Dave

 

[Max Walter]

Any ideas for stuff to do in Paris, think we have eaten in every bistro in a mile radius and we are only on week 3!!!

Things to do:-
Can recommend the Moulin Rouge - we went there whilst on our Honeymoon just over a year ago. Quite expensive but very good. There's lots of cheaper 'shows' in that area too... we didn't go in any though.
Arc de Triomph was interesting, with amazing views from the top too - how I managed to get up there I don't know, I'm not good with heights!
Didn't go up the Eiffel Tower (which I wasn't too bothered about) - the queues were horrendous.
I liked the gardens in front of the Louvre. Pont Des Arts was interesting, with many local artists at work.

Places to eat (our main hobby):-
Quite a few nice cafes/bistros in the back streets of Montmartre, up behind Moulin Rouge. We had dinner in Bistro de Montmartre which was very good, and supposedly one of Toulouse Lautrec's favourite places to eat.
There was a nice food market outside the Sacre Coeur when we were there.
On Ile Saint-Louis (the smaller island next to the one Notre Dame is on) is Berthillon - "the best ice cream in Paris".
Le But on Rue de Clichy was another nice bistro we went to.

Oops, seem to have drifted on there...

Max