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London Park Meet 13th June 2004

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Our Lady Has Left the Building

20:46 / 08.05.04

So, who fancies a lovely afternoon out in, hopefully, the summer sun, in South London? I went to Brockwell Park with Angel a few weekends back and it's quite disgustingly lovely, you have the old house/cafe in the centre, one side has lots of cool shade, the other an amazing view as far as the London Eye. If you haven't been there trust me, it's one of those 'takes your breath away' views, it really is.

So, the idea is the same as my non-birthday party last August, people should bring whatever they feel like, booze, nibbles and we have a jolly picnic. As for a date, I was thinking Sunday June 13th, that should be sufficiently difficult for you to come up with convincing excuses for why you can't come, but if enough people show an interest we can change it. Of course, if we get to a day or two beforehand and the weather report is appalling we can either call it off, or look for a pub in Brixton to meet instead.

07:16 / 09.05.04

Sounds lovely. Brockwell Park is great. And before anyone starts whinging about South London, it's 7 minutes at most from Victoria on the train and it's Zone 2.

Hey, I can probably walk to a Barbemeet for once in my life

08:19 / 09.05.04

but then hyde park is bigger and in zone 1...

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:38 / 09.05.04

But Hyde Park smells of wee and Brockwell Park is nicer. Honestly, next you'll be saying going that far south of the river brings you out in hives, strokes and the vines.

Tryphena Absent

11:32 / 09.05.04

Hampstead Hill's better- it has flamingos.

17:39 / 09.05.04

Bollocks to you and your flamingos, I've hated them ever since I was sexually abused by one when I was a child. Why, I was just today thinking about
this which is happening in the Walled Garden of our very own Brockwell Park during the aforementioned time period!! Dammit, an art exhibition, in beautiful surrounds, in the open air, in Brockwell Pk... It's Destiny, dammit, sheer Destiny.

20:31 / 09.05.04

I love parks! I don't CARE if it's zone 2. And by the way I love south London. I'll be there! Hopefully...

16:27 / 10.05.04

My excuse is lame, I admit. It's the last show of Bombay Dreams before it takes off for a year.

It's where Zippo's circus is going this week, but I dont know which bit, cause it's a bit huuuge. I only found out today which park it is- the one that I pass every day, and thought was a golf course.

Goodness Gracious Meme

16:28 / 10.05.04

A second bollocks to the flamingos, Brockwell Park has my vote. It's lahvely. And, as Paleface says, dead easy to get to.

*And* if it's a good day, will be *much* less crowded than any of the central central london parks.

And if things become inclement/chilly later on, we can easily decamp to the Lido cafe for beer/rehabilitation exercises for those allergic to the outdoors...

that garden thing sounds pretty interesting, aussi.

pointless and uncalled for

09:38 / 11.05.04

That's it, I'm coming to this with mass of T-shirts that will have "Say Bollocks to Flamingos" printed on them and all attendees can have one.

12:16 / 11.05.04

Well since I have recently decamped from the frozen east to the sunny hamlet of Tooting I am very up for this.
So then what do people like for Picnic food?

Bugger I've just realise I'm camping in a field somewhere near Nottingham, looks doubtful that I'll be able to make it

.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

12:32 / 11.05.04

So then what do people like for Picnic food?

Flamingo steak, medium rare.

Tryphena Absent

14:45 / 11.05.04

mmmppffff- I wasn't insulting Brockwell Park, I was just saying that, you know, I like flamingos. They're pink and they have good legs.

I'll happily go to the park but only if someone holds my hand on the way in to the nasty depths of HELL! You can so tell you people are out-of-towners, you don't even get the great divide.

Goodness Gracious Meme

08:07 / 12.05.04

pffffftt to you dear.

Out of towners

This from someone who lives off the end of a tube line.

We *get* the divide, darling. It just doesn't do to normalise these things. It's for your own good.

Goodness Gracious Meme

08:09 / 12.05.04

oh and SK - do that and I will kiss you.

(take that as incentive or not, as you like)

pointless and uncalled for

08:20 / 12.05.04

Of course we get the Great Divide, we are the Great Divide.

[cockney gollum] comes to brockwell park my prehciousss, we wants you there. no nasty stinking flamingoes sahf of da river, nooo we gots picnics and drinkings and we wants it we wants the lovely drinkings and such pretty knees up. joins us and you will see. stupid fat little norveners will likes this.

follow me [/cockney gollum]

Tryphena Absent

14:17 / 12.05.04

This from someone who lives off the end of a tube line.

We *get* the divide, darling. It just doesn't do to normalise these things. It's for your own good.

Ha! you'll never *get* the divide until you're a 2nd generation Londoner (and btw I was born in Hackney and my childhood was spent in zone 3 and I never wanted to go to the wastelands

).

Ex

15:32 / 18.05.04

Oh Shortened Lady - do you swear (possibly on yourself, possibly on any other blessed Lady) that there's shade in the park? And that everyone won't just shout, 'Bollocks to that, let's bake'n'baste like roast flamingo'?

Because I really hate the sun. Sorry to be a wet blanket. (Actually, that's an idea - I could bring a wet blanket...)

If there's shade, I would be delighted to try to attend. And bring biscuits.

17:23 / 18.05.04

Yeah, there are a goodly variety of trees in the park, though I'd bring a hat of sorts to be on the safe side. I'm sure we could congregate near a tree, with the shade-seekers on one side of the shadow of the branches, and the sun-lovers on the other.

17:40 / 18.05.04

I wouldn't worry. It'll rain anyway.

Tryphena Absent

18:26 / 18.05.04

I'm getting the RSPCA on to you lot.

22:19 / 18.05.04

No fair. Honestly. You have picked the only day in June that I have concrete plans. I'm supposed to sing some sad, sad country songs with a friend of mine at a bar up the road from my house on the 13th. Maybe dreaming about picnics will make the songs sound even sadder...

Our Lady Has Left the Building

14:30 / 19.05.04

Ex, one side of the park has lots of lovely shade. If we decide we want the nice view then there's less shade on that side but there is the bandstand, so we could always lead a tactical assault on it if it's being used. It will not rain, because I won't allow it, and me and Thor are like that.

Mono, pah to your strum and gloom! Think how sad she'll be if you blew her off and came to the park instead? She'd give the best performance of her life!

pointless and uncalled for

06:47 / 20.05.04

Must
not
post
pathetic
innuendo

Our Lady Has Left the Building

12:40 / 21.05.04

Oh go on, you know you want to.

18:45 / 28.05.04

Good grief, I was probably born more centrally than any of you (UCH, so nyah) and I grew up no further out of London than Zone 2, and I have no problem with going to lovely lovely Brockwell Park if the weather is good.

Of course, it is planned for the day after an almighty large drinkfest I'm going too, so don't blame me too much if I'm cranky with hangover. I 'spect some of you might be, too. Hee.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:59 / 29.05.04

DAMN! I have a horrible feeling that that weekend is when I'm going to

(oh, the shame of it)

A VW festival.

(Please don't shout at me... I'm already gonna face 57 varieties of marital torment for missing mono's gig...)

Our Lady Has Left the Building

20:29 / 04.06.04

Not long now...

11:36 / 06.06.04

Well, it's a hop and a skip away from us - so we'll likely be joining the relatively oversized Brockwell Park contingent.

Tryphena Absent

14:43 / 06.06.04

Tell me you don't love them?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

16:56 / 06.06.04

Well, as long as Alan Moore didn't do a song called 'March of the Sinister Flamingoes' I should be okay...

pointless and uncalled for

06:39 / 07.06.04

I'm still bringing the T-shirts.

16:20 / 07.06.04

Well, I love flingoes, Anna de L. So you are not alone. (I see you've gone back to the old name, too. Confusion!)

20:24 / 07.06.04

Just in case anyone didn't click the link I posted above (Flowers...!), a cutpaste chunk is here for your edification:

The Garden of Earthly Delights

The symbol of the enclosed garden appears throughout history and across cultures. It is Eden, a symbol of innocence, Paradise, Avalon, Arcadia, home of the Fountain of Life and the Tree of Knowledge.

All the artists are showing work inspired by the beautiful and contemplative Walled Garden in Brockwell Park, an oasis in the middle of urban South London. [...] They have reflected on The Garden, cocooned from the dangerous world outside, isolated from evil, crime, fear, envy and the wants that exist outside.This mini-world experience of the walled garden is an illusion. Innocence is an illusive thing, often what appears safe, innocent and protected (a Garden of Eden) is the most harmful.

The exhibits also reference the mythologies of the garden, from the classical myths of the Mulberry tree, sacred to Athena, the golden apples of the Hesprides, 'Et in Arcadia Ego' to the The Green Man and The Singing Ringing Tree.

Other of the artists have investigated naturalness and genetic modification, Naturalisation (of plants and people), and the difference between the Exotic and desirable in The Garden and the undesirable 'foreign' weed.

Images and information on all the artists and their work can be seen on this website. For further details or to arrange press interviews and images for publication, contact the curator Indra Khanna, 020 8265 3151, indrakhanna@zoom.co.uk

The artists - Loren Beven, Elizabeth Cannon, Gayle Chong Kwan, Faye Claridge, Sarah Cole, Stephanie Douet, Françoise Dupré, Steven Duncan, Alan Franklin, Richard Henry, Maslen & Mehra, Wiz J Patterson, Marilyn Rogers, Anne Rook, Julian Rowe, Harald Smykla, Lynne Williams, Celia Willis & Lottie Leedham.

Dates - 17th May 18th July 2004. Open dawn till dusk. Entrance is free.

Venue - The Walled Garden, near the duck ponds, Brockwell Park, situated between Dulwich Road, Norwood Road and Tulse Hill, London SW2.

Anna de L, I will need weeks of counselling to recover from that picture. I hope you're happy.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:10 / 08.06.04

Doesn't look like I can make this as I probably won't be back in London in time - have fun, all of y'all.

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