Modern Vespa

No you're not. I got thoroughly drenched at lunchtime. At least the gale is not blowing yet, but I'm sure it will be before I leave for home.

EDIT

Yay I made page seven..... what was the target Genie? 18?

I hope it clears up by tonight, as I have to get myself to the Shepherds Bush Empire to see Fleet Foxes

Congrats on page 7, you bold pioneer you!

Yep i'm scooting about in the rain and the VERY gusty winds we're getting off the channel.

Found out my 100% waterproof quilted extreem weather tank suit (they use em in the army) aint so bloody waterproof after all

ahhh i love the smell of wet crotch in the mornin'

Oh genie you've just brought back fond ( ) memories of when I was writing my MA thesis about 8 years ago (bloody hell i'm getting on a bit) that sounds exactly like my days of yore but you'd have to add 20 full fat Malborghs to the equasion and delete the cat.... oh happy days. I also had a mate of mine who was a cruise ship video cameraman who used to send me pictures of him waist deep in crystal blue oceans with not a cloud in the sky, dicking about with rays (the fish variety) and the ships dancing girls.. the bastard! he knew i was stuck in a dark, miserable room in Birmingham, so he used to do it for a laugh... hence his name is Evil Kev.

I decided just to stay in bed until it was afternoon. At least the worst of the rain had finished by then, so I quite happily went to sort out a friend's new laptop. Huge puddles right across some roads, but precipitation was slight.

Well done on the belt Alice, you can be our minder.

Erm I took that car today but I did spend most of the day working in the rain so I guess my day was balanced.
Moist Billy-no-scoot

He wasn't Evil Kevienal was he Christos ?
Billy-no scoot.

I REALLY DO HATE YOU **counts how many days till I retire**

I was also just wondering (and Jim I don't ACTUALLY hate you I am just soooooooo jealous) - should we start a London tag thingy???

go on, who'll be the first?

Weather Forecast is dry for the weekend Boys and Girls
Love Billy-no-Scoot

Explain - what is this TAG thing?

scooter tag. enormous waste of time count me out.

have you not noticed that we have ... uh ... an entire section on MV devoted to scooter tag?

Ah, I thought that was the Austin Powers zone! Frankly it doesn't get the pulse racing. I say we start playing scooter polo, swing mallet in left hand, throttle on right, hitting enormous footballs around Piccadilly Circus.

Now that's a game.

Can we play in lycra or at least spandex ? Just a thought.
Billy-no-scoot

Did you forget.....

Many moons ago you agreed to play tag with me! We just never got around to it....

Play kiss chase with me if you like Doug.
Billy-no-effort involved

Would you like to explain to me exactly what that involves?

As long as it does not involve Donkies Kok or Merkins I might be interested.

As requested the GT 200. Ok I've stolen the pic form the ebay advert but here it is.
More Later Biily-no-sccot

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i love it already. the Donkieskok scooter polo team. tally ho!

Kiss chase involves giving someone (of either sex) a snog or a peck on the cheek then running in the opposite direction in a slightly pathetic manner (mincing is ideal for this ) so the reciever catches up with you so they can repeat the act. It's a way of finding out if the other person finds you attractive. It's a bit like speed dating without the £45.
Billy-no-scoot

PS Chase me.

now there's a patch i'd wear with pride

Bill, consider the shield yours, you did win the bet, after all.

And I will wear it with pride. I'm very very impressed.
It gives me a warm feeling inside. I can't thank you enough.
Billy-no-scoot

Ha! Love it. Where's my T-shirt printing paper...

Absolutely brilliaint put me down for a patch and T shirt and stickers.....
Donkie Skok SC .... superb.
See you all saturday.

http://www.a1t.co.uk/ would be delighted to transfer that to vinyl for you, Bill - the flanks of your new steed are looking a little bare!

right folks.... let's get back to business.

I'm going to propose a meeting place and time for us londoners.....

9:00 am at the Monmouth Coffee Company on Stoney Street in Borough market.

I'm thinking of the larger shop, inside the market on Stoney Street, not the smaller one near borough High Street. here's a pic of the one i mean:



it opens at half 7, so anybody that wants to arrive before 9 should be able to get a coffee. I'm not sure when the comte cheesemongers open, but if they're around i'll pick up some cheese for alice.

there is an unofficial scooter parking area at the junction of Redcross way and Southwark street - it's a slab of pavement out front of a derelict building, beneath the railway lines. unless somebody comes along and digs it up between now and saturday, that's where i'll be leaving wilma.

Jim, how long do you reckon it will take us to get from the market to Pratt's bottom? I was thinking we should allow an hour but that might be an underestimate. I'm assuming we can just follow the A21 - will that be ok for Shirley?

My cheese! You star

I used to commute from Bromley to Borough High Street; an hour should be fine fine superfine. Anyway, the Pratts Bottom Brigade will wait for you if necessary

So let me get this straight...

yous London types will be meeting up at Borough market and quaffing tripple skinny mocha frappe lappe ramalama ding dongs (or whater you city lot drink )

then heading off to Pratts bottom to meet some out of towners and then heading off to Brenchley and the pub know as 'The Halfway House' where us proper people will meet you and laugh at your funny accents

ETA at the pub being 12pm

is this correct? or are you know going to give me a load of old flannel about meeting up at a completley different pub 20 miles away just to put me off the scent and thus aviod being ridiculed because of your funny city type accents

Great. I'll be at Monmouth at 9am.

(On weekends there's a also free car park for the market where you can leave bikes. To get there: ride slowly past Monmouth Coffee (i.e. Monmouth is on your LHS) on Stoney St; on the RHS, once you've gone past Black and Blue restaurant - noticable because it's got lifesize painted model cows outside - and before you get to Winchester Walk there's a right turn into the market car park. There's usually a sign indicating it. Turn in past the rubbish compactor and it opens out into a car park)

9.00 am on a weekend

That'll mean leaving my house at 8.15am

.... which will also mean severe curtailment of liquid entertainments the night before (at least for me).

christos.... to avoid all us londoners taking a wrong turn and ending up at a fish-packing plant in murmansk, we are meeting jim at pratt's bottom, apres our mocha-latte-single-double-decaf session at borough market. he will lead us to the correct location.

benelli boy, i like the sound of that car park, the place i was suggesting is a bit ad-hoc - i'll aim to find a spot in the car park then, let's hope there are still some spaces available at 9am.

and and maybe a bit of

i'm going to go straight to the destination cos its easier for me and i also do not want to have to get up earlier than nessesery on a Saturday.

please tell me if it is the Halfway House in Brenchley that we are heading for... and good luck in mumansk, i've heared its nice this time of year.

yeah.....whare are we meeting again?

there's a chance i'll go straight there too as the other plan is a bit on the early side

or what time at pratts bottom?

if you wade back through all the discussion of merkins, polo, knitting, etc. etc. etc. in this thread, i believe you will find the name of the pub we're meeting at.

now that's a long journey

yeah! can we have like a proper itinary of times and places and events and sites of historic interest....

(i can smell page 8 we must be close now )

I'm not going back to that merkin infested page.... it was so long ago now they will have started to decompose and the small will be horrific

Leaving Pratts Bottom at 11, I believe - I have no idea where we're going so it will be a magical mystery tour for me.

Anyone laughing at my accent gets karate chopped

It all depends on how many yuppies get up early and fill up the car park with Range Rovers ;0) I've never actually been to the market as horribly early as 9am, but I often find a space there in the middle of the afternoon.

Another place where people usually manage to park a few bikes is at the very beginning of Stoney St, between Brindisa tapas bar and Elsey & Bent greengrocers, against the wall.

There's also an official bike parking bay v. near the market. It's on a short one way street running from Borough High St to Southwark St. To get to the bay, you need to be going north up BHS from the direction of Borough tube station. Go past the Sainsburys local on LHS, and past the junction of Union St on LHS, then the bay is on the next left turn, which is immediately before the Slug & Lettuce pub. From that bay to the beginning of Stoney St is a 20yd walk. The road it's on is too small to be named, but it's in white and marked with a red arrow on this map http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=532250&y=180250&z=110&sv=532250,180250&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&lm=0