Regents park

[George St]

Right!!!!

I will buy this and we all get turns saving the beautiful maidens from the Dragons!!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lets-Have-A-Par ... 013&sr=8-3

Dragon changes every 30 mins unless opportunities dictate otherwise!!!

Who is up for it???

[Sylvan C]

Any scheduling alterations due to rain? Or are we pressing on blindly, trusting with hope in our hearts that the Met is right and it will stop raining about 1 pm?

[Corpsie]

There's nothing wrong with a little rain. Muddy ground will teach you to pay more attention to your footwork. I say press on unless it really pisses it down.

I'm waiting to hear from the other party, but I've already made the Pimms jelly, the cakes and I'm about to do the sandwiches.

[George St]

I've already made the Pimms jelly, the cakes and I'm about to do the sandwiches.

Thats the best motivational speech EVER...

I willl be there at 12:30...

[Sylvan C]

Thats the best motivational speech EVER...

I'm with George on that. I'll be there as well, hopefully with both family and Vietnamese chicken salad. Assuming I don't leave one or the other on the bus. If only I had one of those indestructible umbrellas...

[Lemonaid]

Bah, I reckon the weathermen have it wrong .. bet you it brightens up nicely.

As for myself, sadly I can't be there - for reasons other than rain.

You chaps have a jolly good time; while the damp, slippy ground may not be ideal for a picnic, it could make for interesting sparring..

[George St]

So Saturday was gooooooooooooooood!!!

Knowing the results of me admiting this I actually enjoyed the rappier fight with Sylvan and Ian and Tim, although Tim you did scare me mate!!!

Also, the food was good and the company as well! Weather decided to brighten up and we all had a nice time!!!

Looking forward to the next one!!!

[Corpsie]

Don't expect me to bake this time, you're not as pretty as Esther.

[Camilla]

Is there one this Sat?

What's the plan?(not been before)

[George St]

I will show up around 3 if all goes well...

[Lemonaid]

Is there one this Sat?

What's the plan?(not been before)

Yep we're on for 2pm this Sat.
(Though some show up 2.30 or 3pm or later, it's all good)
...and generally finish around 5-ish.

The nominal meeting point is the 'Big White Fountain' at:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&mrt=all&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=51.532832,-0.150622&spn=0.001305,0.003538&z=19
(ta Sylvan for the handy googlemap link)

...and we tend to amble over to and have-at-it nearby, sorta slightly south-west of that -- at the marker B showing (if my googlemap-fu is as good as Sylvan's..) on the map below:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.532909,-0.149785&ll=51.532855,-0.15007&spn=0.002072,0.004281&z=18&t=h


Cheerio,
Junaid

EDIT: location marker updated

[Sylvan C]

Ooh, your fu is even better. You got a little marker to show up.

I'll be there at 2 pm as usual.

[Camilla]

Will mosey on down for two then

Orignial post said picnics were involved, that still the case?

Sylvan, can I try on your jack? Wasn't there on Thurs as I got a stressful last minute invite to the source of all ferreo rocher.

[Sylvan C]

There was a special birthday picnic last week. We haven't done any picnicking the other weeks, but there's certainly no reason not to, picnics being inherently good things. We're also planning a pub trip afterwards this week (well, more pub than usual, I should say) due to additional birthday-ness (happy birthday Tim!).

I'll have my PBT there, and so will Ian, so you'll have at least two to try. Possibly more if Junaid's has arrived by then. Tim has a flak vest liner he uses (airsoft kit, I think), and if Phil makes it he has a Tae Kwon Do style thingy as well.

[Corpsie]

I'll be taking it fairly easy- my finger's still a bit rough from my cockup last week.

It might mean that I'll bring the decent camera along and get some good stills.

[George St]

So ladies, gentlemen and the rest of us...

I will defo be there around 3 so please don't break anything or if you are to leave Ian could you please drop me a txt msg so I don't come for nothing?

[George St]

So did anyone showed up?

Corpsie texted me that he was not going and Tim didn't pick up his phone...

What happened?

[Camilla]

'twas good fun and an absolutley lovely day for it.


In regards to the origins of the word marathon, wikipedia states it as fabled here(end of first para):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon

and says it is historically inaccurate here(end of fourth para)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon

It also says the first marathon was run in 1896 between Athens and Marathon - so is this where the name is from? If it was in 1908(I think you said) where did the name come from?

Vexing.

[Caananite]

Corpsie texted me that he was not going and Tim didn't pick up his phone...

Yeah, cos you called at like 2:15 and I didn't hear the phone ring. If you'd woken me from my drunken semi-coma at 12:00 like Phil did, we could have had a chat (however one-sided - it took a while for my vocal chords to start working again).



I have 100+ pictures of the day which I'll bung up on flickr in due course. And people, you're gonna get Photoshopped.

[George St]

'twas good fun and an absolutley lovely day for it.


In regards to the origins of the word marathon, wikipedia states it as fabled here(end of first para):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon

and says it is historically inaccurate here(end of fourth para)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon

It also says the first marathon was run in 1896 between Athens and Marathon - so is this where the name is from? If it was in 1908(I think you said) where did the name come from?

Vexing.

The history is fine... When the Greeks won the Persians in the Battle of Marathon one messenger run from Marathon to the city center, Athens, to give the good news.

Hence the name Marathon and it has stayed in history as a long run cause Marathon to Athens takes about 3 -4 hours in a car let alone running it...

Reason why its historically inaccurate is that the historians back then were not scientific documentors as their modern equivelants are concidered to be but simply people who wrote down what they heard and what they thought of the truth to be.

Having said that some of the details might now be 100% accurate but the fact remains that a dude run for so long to give the news of victory over the Persian army and died upon arrival... Νενικήκαμεν!!!

Yeah, cos you called at like 2:15 and I didn't hear the phone ring. If you'd woken me from my drunken semi-coma at 12:00 like Phil did, we could have had a chat (however one-sided - it took a while for my vocal chords to start working again).

Revenge will come next time around!!! Be prepared!!!