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New Years. London

Shrug

15:09 / 22.12.06

Loath as I am to start another thread based on a purely personal question, well, um, here it is.

I'm spending New Years (and a couple of days after) with my S.O. in London. Any advice? Trafalgar Square? Anything? We're leaving it a little late on plans really.... and my head is fully mired in Christmas lethargy already and I can't formulate something fun from amidst the brain gloop.

I'm there for a while so even if you are without New Year's ideas other advisements are welcome.

sleazenation

15:48 / 22.12.06

My advice is go to a party at a friend's house or just stay in. London is crap for new year and the rest of the England is marginally worse. The pubs are insanely busy, over-full and sometimes charge entrance fees for the evening.

Mourne Kransky

20:00 / 22.12.06

Fireworks from the Waterloo base of the Millennium Eye at Midnight. Only for ten minutes and they're expecting half a million drunks, but it could be pretty. Or crowded and ugly...

Hydra vs Leviathan

20:16 / 22.12.06

Or more likely invisible in the fog...

There's almost certainly a squat party somewhere (in fact, almost certainly several, but different areas on London have very different types of parties). My advice is find a discussion board about the type of music you like, and see what's advertised on it by people from London...

StarWhisper

20:29 / 22.12.06

Haven't been to London for ages! Don't know any squat parties or anything, but I will be in Tottenham- babysitting my mates who haven't seen for 6 months while they eat a lot of acid.

And we're going on a trip to the British museum the day before. With packed lunches and everything. I want to go to the Natural History museum too. It's great.

Mourne Kransky

20:43 / 22.12.06

It is indeed great. With a skating rink out front at the moment, no?

grant

00:32 / 23.12.06

Tell me they've frozen dinosaur skeletons and Greek statuary into the rink so they're sticking up out of the ice like shipwrecks or tombstones!

Tell me that!

Tell me there are hieroglyphics barely hidden beneath the surface of the ice, and that the skaters are forced into a path that precisely defines the outline of an Ashanti doll!

grant

00:43 / 23.12.06

And a frozen diorama of cavemen! Wearing stripey scarves!

Triplets

00:46 / 23.12.06

No. But you should so be a museum curator.

grant

00:52 / 23.12.06

Trilobites, at least. Frozen into patterns under the ice.

Man, that would rule.

"Mummy! Mummy! What's this bump under my skate?"

Oooooo -- and mummies! But perhaps I go too far.

grant

00:55 / 23.12.06

NONSENSE! THIS IS MY ADVICE, CAT PERSON!

1. BLOWTORCH! AVAILABLE AT ANY HARDWARE STORE.

2. TRILOBITE FOSSILS! PROBABLY STEALABLE FROM MUSEUM GIFT SHOP OR EXHIBITS.

3. A DECENT PAIR OF LEATHER GLOVES! AND A BALACLAVA!

Your S.O. will remember this New Years forever!!!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:55 / 23.12.06

Grant, indeed this happens. However, we tend to go skating on the Thames when it freezes over. You really should come over, it's such fun.

Alex's Grandma

10:19 / 23.12.06

Oh! And have ice fairs! With roast chestnuts! And bear-baiting!

StarWhisper

13:32 / 25.12.06

AAAhhh

~Yeah the ice rink. I went last year and it's really special. Go when it's dark and the trees are all lit up with Christmas lights.

mondo a-go-go

12:33 / 26.12.06

What y'need to do is blow up London Bridge (or sell it to some unsuspecting Yank) and rebuild it so that the way it's banked actually changes the course of the currents so that the river manages to freeze over enough to stand on. Simple, really.

Watching the new year's fireworks on the Thames isn't too bad a way to spend NYE -- I've done it a few times. You don't have to go right under the London Eye to get a view of them. Another good place for fireworks watching is the top of Primrose Hill. Loads of people come out to both places and are mostly friendly and chatty and not troublesome and looking for fights.

Shrug

10:03 / 27.12.06

I was invited down to some kind of "peace party" in Brighton but pretty not bothered about that one.
Agreed on the clubbing aspect, crowds, drunkards, expensive entry fee, no thank you.
But yep, London Eye/Primrose Hill should be good for fireworks and I'm actually staying near the British Museum so some trilobite/ice vandalism could be on the cards, large scale espionage and re-directing of the Thames maybe not, it sounds more like Evil Scientist territory.

Peach Pie

10:58 / 27.12.06

is there any where in London you can take your s.o. just to be a hippy?

Shrug

11:40 / 27.12.06

'Tis just hip flasks full of whiskey and milling around London Town then, that's kind of hippy-ish?

grant

14:10 / 27.12.06

some trilobite/ice vandalism could be on the cards,

You have made an old man's heart sing.

StarWhisper

13:20 / 28.12.06

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

StarWhisper

13:34 / 28.12.06

eirdandfracar says:
Um...do you know where I can get some heroin?
In for a penny, In for a pound

Freyja says:
How much for your women?

eirdandfracar says:
Free with every order of class A* narcotics

Freyja says:
as you can probably guess, my mother is somewhat openminded about drugs
she's such a bitch for making you panick like that

Oh my good god that was bloody awful.

StarWhisper

13:38 / 28.12.06

Sorry about the threadrot. But fuck me- I just nearly died of a heart attack.

grant

17:26 / 28.12.06

I think the whole thread should be retroactively redone to make that relevant.

Possibly the whole Conversation forum could be retitled to make every thread about USING INSTANT MESSAGING TO SELL DRUGS???????

Ha!

StarWhisper

18:13 / 28.12.06

Yeah thanks for that, I only posted this here because it was vaguely relevant to something that I posted in this this thread earlier. I thought that conversation was quite funny, considering how bloody brainless it was to say something like that on msn.

I said I was sorry about the threadrot already.

grant

14:52 / 29.12.06

Nonono -- you think I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not!

That was funny!!

grant

15:28 / 29.12.06

AIEE! THE POST IS GONE BRING IT BACK BRING IT BACK!!!

cliffchuff

09:13 / 30.12.06

The BBC were predicting 80 mile an hour gales for new years, so wear something 'billowy' also if you do get to Trafalgar there are huge palladin bins you can jump in where the police put all the cans and bottles they confiscate off people entering the square. FREE BOOZE!

There should hurricane/tornado's permitting be a couple of big multi system squat parties, go easy on the Ketamine and watch out for crack head steamer crews :-)

idealy turn up about 6am new years day and party all day in peace after the fraggles have left or overdosed!!!

Benny the Ball

10:40 / 30.12.06

is fraggles rhyming slang for cocks?

I'm housepartying on the north side of the river, then riding the free tube all the way home south. I think Trafalgar Square, although worth doing once maybe, plays up all my agraphobias.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:18 / 30.12.06

I've been invited to a party in Tooting. But it's in Tooting and I have no dogsitter. I may just hit the pubs of Stoke Newington.

Shrug

13:52 / 30.12.06

For my sins Kylie night in G.A.Y.
Bah!

Shrug

13:54 / 30.12.06

Followed, on the 2nd, by Kylie's return concert. I'm in terrible danger of overdosing on The Beautious Antipodean Diva. I do like feathers and the company, though.

Evil Scientist

14:15 / 30.12.06

I'm in terrible danger of overdosing on The Beautious Antipodean Diva.

No such thing.

I'm off to the XFM New Years bash in Islington. The Automatic's playing apparently, plus plenty of Eddie Temple Morris action on the decks. Should be a hoot of enanny proportions.

StarWhisper

14:24 / 30.12.06

Grant, especially for you: Sorry for flying off the handle there.
Maybe someone could sneak the following back to it's original place. (That would be directly above the post that reads "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK")

OH FUCK

eirdandfracar:
Just ordered your acid

eirdandfracar:
should be fine

eirdandfracar:
I'll know by tonight hopefully

eirdandfracar:
You there?

Freyja:
No, she's not. But I'll tell her about the acid.

eirdandfracar:
who's this?

Freyja:
Mother.

eirdandfracar:
brb

grant

21:19 / 30.12.06

My heart sings again!!

May your New Year's observances be truly visionary!!!

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