This is an actual group email thing going on up on the third floor right now. Updates as they happen.
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Dave:
Hello
It’s been talked about at many a session down the pub while in various states of drunkenness but a weekend away in the countryside near a pub is the topic at hand.
Sherwood Forest (no Richard, you may not bring your cross bow) is a front runner. Aside from it being Sherwood Forest, Nick informs me that Nottingham has both the highest ratio of pubs to area in the country and the highest ratio of women to men. A winning combination I think you’ll agree.
Nobody so far seems to be free on the same weekend so we have a choice of weekends anytime from now until the weekend of 20th September and someone might be available. Don’t think it will be all that expensive, put together a few tents between us and the most expensive thing should be beer and maybe the train fare. Cheap weekends are a Good Thing.
Is anyone actually interested and available or have any thoughts?
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Patrick: I thought they cut the forest down?
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Dave: Richard’s going to help save the rest of it while we have some beer
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Rich: SEE!!!
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=460500&y=362500&z=3&sv=Sherwood+Forest&st=3&tl=Sherwood+Forest,+Nottinghamshire+[Forest/Wood]&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf
It has tree shaped things!
So still there.
😛
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Andy: Can I bring my axe and checked shirt?
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Pat: I’m a lumber jack and I’m ok!
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John AKA Hamo AKA Sparky : fuck the axe, I’m bringing a can of petrol and a lighter
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Trev:
Now that is scary…..I’ve seen Hamo start a bar-b!!!!
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Dave:Or we could just re enact Battle Royale. Rich – Crossbow, Andy – Axe, Sparky – Petrol bombs. Who gets the frying pan?
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John: One last point.. we have to make sure not to distress any little animals while cutting/burning their habitat, I wouldn’t want that to ruin my weekend… I’ll feel terribly guilty.
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Andy: Well, I’m not planning on going hungry, dunno about you.
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John: Do you like bite sized sparrow… I hear they are rather nice, I’ll help you hunt
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Andy: Yeah, with a Kestrel egg omelette on the side.
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John: No, use the sparrow hawk eggs instead, then there are more sparrows to go around the group… Make sense?
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Fred: Yeah, that makes about as much sense as anything else in this conversation 🙂 How are the Badgers and Mash up in Nottingham?
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Andy: Indeed, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush(e)
>Email was momentarily delayed while I threw a rubber ball at Andy.
Richard: Anyone have flame-proof tents for this blazing inferno that we’re going to be camping in?
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Dave: See Richard, you’re learning. We are more important than the enviroment.
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Trev: no tent can protect you from Sparky’s flames……they don’t call him Sparky for nothing!
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Pat: can we reenact the Blair witch project?
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Rich: Is that where you end up dead Pat? 😛
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Rich: A study was done recently on the demise of the sparrow… I don’t believe they took into
accounts Sparky’s culinary predilections
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Pat: No he doesn’t eat them he just hunts them!
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Nick: im confused…. or maybe i shouldnt have that pint at lunch, but none of this is making sense any more
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Andy: I had a pint at lunch, and it’s like working with the panel from Have I got news for you…
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John: Patrick is right, I capture them for my aviary… anytime I go into the woods, I bring a cage and make sparrow mating calls, then they just flock to me.. excuse the pun
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Rich:Given those sparrow mating calls of yours what Patrick really should have written was: “No he doesn’t eat them he just humps them!”
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Fred: What is there not to understand? This is standard planning for any of our trips.
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Nick: fantastic – im sure it will be a great success
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Andy: We’ll never end up going anywhere, but we’ll have a laugh planning it
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Pat: But wheres the boat?
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Andy: Hold on, hold on. What?
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Nick:HMS Sparky??? ::flees:::
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Trev: Do we have jobs?
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Fred: Define jobs please.
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Nick: Anyway now the emails have slowed down – im always up for a bit of camping :o)
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Andy: But no eating birds…
>At this point I’m giving up trying to order the threads, just refer back for more.
Nick: nope no birds here – leave them to the bushe
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Pat: Depends is it an African or European swallow?
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Trev: That has vibes of this rabbit/human cloning craic that has been going on. The Sparky Sparrow?
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Rich: He doesn’t care if they swallow.
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Dave: so getting back to the topic at hand. Does anyone have any other thoughts?
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Andy: Lots, thanks.
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Fred: I guess there’s a first time for everything.
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Dave: And would you like to share with the group any of these thoughts
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Pat: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Andy: Sure. People who forget to flush the toilet – do they also forget to wipe to their arse?
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Pat: Hmm you know in the middle of winter when you sit on a warm toilet seat it feels nice…. ever think why it’s warm?
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Andy: Because we have indoor toilets these days, you bumpkin.
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John: Want to know why the weather is so hot lately? Whales fart! Don’t they consider that they are contributing to toxic emissions and directly contributing to global warming? Thanks to Dave Bushe for informing me about this one, so after camping do we want to go whale hunting???.. I’m sure Richard will be able to tell us good places to harpooning.
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Andy: Indeed, and Patrick can help us out when we come to sell the corpses to the Japanese. Tell you what, who needs xxxx <- internal joke listserv?
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Trev: The advantage of xxxx is that you can unsubscribe
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Rich: The population of whales has been shown to have drastically changed from what it once was: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=21635&newsdate=25-Jul-2003
I hypothesis then that it is actually people who are responsible for increase in global warming due to their flatulence from eating the whales who had chronic flatulence in the first place.
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And at this stage it got a little more on topic and we sorted out some details. Some great laughs throughout and an entertaining afternoon.