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OPS-NORMAL in June

#1 Post by OFSO » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:01 pm

If anyone (other than Hydro who has been in touch) will be in London UK mid-June this year, please drop me a line and I'll see if we can have a bash. OFSO

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#2 Post by Capetonian » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:47 pm

I shall be in Ireland but I hope some of you can meet up.and have a great time.

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#3 Post by Sisemen » Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:46 pm

Missed by a few months. Will be in the UK in Sep and Oct.

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#4 Post by Hydromet » Sun May 20, 2018 11:04 pm

It looks like OFSO & I will be catching up in London on 19th June. Any other starters?

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#5 Post by Cacophonix » Mon May 21, 2018 4:12 am

Where and what time are you chaps intending to meet?

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#6 Post by Hydromet » Mon May 21, 2018 8:30 am

Yet to be confirmed, but looking at drinks & dinner, somewhere near Trafalgar Square. OFSO knows a place.

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#7 Post by Capetonian » Mon May 21, 2018 8:36 am

I would be very wary of any place that OFSO recommends. I consider myself lucky to have escaped unscathed from some of the low dives he's taken me to, in both Spain and in the UK.

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#8 Post by OFSO » Mon May 21, 2018 9:21 am

That was NOT my fault. I didn't know she wasn't wearing any knickers.

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#9 Post by ian16th » Mon May 21, 2018 10:00 am

Hydromet wrote:
Mon May 21, 2018 8:30 am
Yet to be confirmed, but looking at drinks & dinner, somewhere near Trafalgar Square. OFSO knows a place.
Lyceum Tavern, 354 Strand

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#10 Post by Woody » Mon May 21, 2018 10:57 am

That’s handy,just a short stagger back to Waterloo Station :-bd
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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#11 Post by OFSO » Mon May 21, 2018 4:52 pm

I'm going for the Indian restaurant. With my high BP I stay away from heavy drinking. OTOH a good curry washed down with mango lassi is my idea of heaven. The ladies who serve in Dishoom are also as tasty as the food.

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#12 Post by Hydromet » Tue May 22, 2018 2:19 am

+1 for the Indian.

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#13 Post by OFSO » Wed May 23, 2018 1:41 pm

Joining Instructions for June 19th at Dishoom, London - Covent Garden Branch.

At the east side of Trafalgar Square is the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, You are about five minutes walk from Dishoom - if you stand facing the church, on your left is Charing Cross Road. Walk up here for about 50 yards and you will find on your right St Martins Place. Enter it and immediately turn left into St Martins Lane. Walk up St Martins Lane, ignoring an occasional smile from young and 'young' and not so young ladies ladies, and also vile purveyors of rubbish food such as McDonalds on your left, but bear straight ahead up St Martins Lane until your reach Long Acre. Watch the traffic and fear nothing, but cross straight ahead into Upper St Martins Lane. Pass numerous boutique restaurants and café with famous names over the door, all mostly empty, until you see Dishoom and a queue on the right with Mr OFSO standing in it, from about 17:30 hours, where drinks (cool in summer, hot in winter) are served to the patient customers exchanging small talk with the buxom wench at the door.

It's not possible to reserve a table at Dishoom. The usual procedure is you wait outside - can be an hour, can be less - and are then admitted and sent downstairs to the bar to enjoy a drink or two, when the electronic pager which you have been handed at the door will buzz and/or a lithe young beauty will come and take you upstairs to a table. Diners tend to be British, Asian, and Indian in equal measures. Be warned it is extremely noisy - but worth it. You can find reviews of the place on Trip Advisor, including some from (who else !) OFSO.

Some of the house rules at Dishoom include (persons with no ancestors working for John Company might want to look these up):

- No soliciting
- No mendicants
- No dacoity
- No Rowlatt Act
- No Simon Commission
- No Salt Tax
- No Lathi Charging
- No making mischief in Cabin
- No making eyes at the Daru-Walla
- No sleeping in the water closet

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#14 Post by Capetonian » Wed May 23, 2018 2:16 pm

I wish you all.a wonderful time, and although I will certainly miss the good company and the food, I detest queues and noise so I am not heartbroken that I will miss this. I shall be somewhere quiet and peaceful on the West coast of Ireland.

I'll raise a Guinness or a Midleton Very Rare, or both, to.you all.

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#15 Post by OFSO » Thu May 24, 2018 4:36 pm

The ID question will be "Who's a Knob"
The answer will be "Rob's a Knob".

Alles Klar ?

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#16 Post by OFSO » Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:00 pm

June 19th, remember ? I'll be in the queue from about 17:30. Probably get in about 18:30. For those who don't know me, I look like George Smiley in the book, not the film.

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#17 Post by Woody » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:14 pm

OFSO wrote:
Thu May 24, 2018 4:36 pm
The ID question will be "Who's a Knob"
The answer will be "Rob's a Knob".

Alles Klar ?
Can we get tshirts made with the question on :ymdevil:
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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#18 Post by OFSO » Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:03 pm

Have to see about that ! I'd prefer something more positive: a nice OPS-NORMAL shirt with a tasteful motive. Alison ?

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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#19 Post by Woody » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:09 pm

OFSO wrote:
Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:03 pm
Have to see about that ! I'd prefer something more positive: a nice OPS-NORMAL shirt with a tasteful motive. Alison ?
Don’t let Slash design it then :D
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Re: OPS-NORMAL in June

#20 Post by OFSO » Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:05 am

Well ! I am in Dishoom for breakfast Right Now and the food's as good as ever....and so is the eye-candy....

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