srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
A pie-cnic is an informal social gathering involving pies - pork, game, chicken, gala or anything else. The notional excuse is a nod to the late forum member @vernon, but it's really an opportunity for forummers to get together, lie in a park of a sunny afternoon, drink gin, gossip and eat themselves stupid. Followed by going to a pub to drink themselves stupid.
Stupidity and drink feature high on the agenda.
There will be a pie-cnic in Oxford on Saturday 9th September, probably in the University Parks. There might be a feeder ride or two (see next post for one possibility), with the intention of arriving in the city at about 12:30 for a pre-pie-cnic sharpener. Oxford has a covered market which sells almost all the essentials, and there are supermarkets too.
I suspect that at some stage during the day or evening we might find ourselves at one or more of the KA, the Turf or (for the literate) the Bird and Baby. It will be sunny (it always is in Oxford, and always is in early September), but just in case there are plenty of other pubs, or for the cultivated several rather good, and free, museums.
Oxford is very easy to get to by train - it has connections to Worcester, to Birmingham, to Bristol and the West via Reading and to London via High Wycombe or Didcot. For the full undergraduate experience, several colleges offer B&B accommodation, or there are assorted hotels to suit any budget. To avoid the other component of the undergraduate experience, bring a very sturdy bike lock if you ride!
I'll start making proper plans in a conversation later in the summer, but in the meantime, get it in your diaries, and express an interest here. So far the other thread has registered as possibles @User, @Salty seadog, @User14044 and the Prof, @robjh, @Fab Foodie, @Hill Wimp, @mjr, @StuAff, @Nigel182, @The Velvet Curtain, @Lullabelle, @Markymark, @User, @hopless500, @Drago, @CarlP. And possibly others - I apologise for any laxity.
A note to members of the Fridays! Yes - I know that this is the first day of Le Sightseer, for which @mmmmartin is providing a route of very short days. But the previous weekend is the major London to Felpham which, holiday permitting, I'd like to do, and if I wait until Le Sightseer has returned the weather is getting riskier and @rvw and I have unbreakable Sunday commitments. Martin has pointed out that it would be possible to get a train from Oxford to Portsmouth (change at Basinstoke or Reading and Guildford) in time for the overnight ferry to Caen and a lunchtime intercept.
Stupidity and drink feature high on the agenda.
There will be a pie-cnic in Oxford on Saturday 9th September, probably in the University Parks. There might be a feeder ride or two (see next post for one possibility), with the intention of arriving in the city at about 12:30 for a pre-pie-cnic sharpener. Oxford has a covered market which sells almost all the essentials, and there are supermarkets too.
I suspect that at some stage during the day or evening we might find ourselves at one or more of the KA, the Turf or (for the literate) the Bird and Baby. It will be sunny (it always is in Oxford, and always is in early September), but just in case there are plenty of other pubs, or for the cultivated several rather good, and free, museums.
Oxford is very easy to get to by train - it has connections to Worcester, to Birmingham, to Bristol and the West via Reading and to London via High Wycombe or Didcot. For the full undergraduate experience, several colleges offer B&B accommodation, or there are assorted hotels to suit any budget. To avoid the other component of the undergraduate experience, bring a very sturdy bike lock if you ride!
I'll start making proper plans in a conversation later in the summer, but in the meantime, get it in your diaries, and express an interest here. So far the other thread has registered as possibles @User, @Salty seadog, @User14044 and the Prof, @robjh, @Fab Foodie, @Hill Wimp, @mjr, @StuAff, @Nigel182, @The Velvet Curtain, @Lullabelle, @Markymark, @User, @hopless500, @Drago, @CarlP. And possibly others - I apologise for any laxity.
A note to members of the Fridays! Yes - I know that this is the first day of Le Sightseer, for which @mmmmartin is providing a route of very short days. But the previous weekend is the major London to Felpham which, holiday permitting, I'd like to do, and if I wait until Le Sightseer has returned the weather is getting riskier and @rvw and I have unbreakable Sunday commitments. Martin has pointed out that it would be possible to get a train from Oxford to Portsmouth (change at Basinstoke or Reading and Guildford) in time for the overnight ferry to Caen and a lunchtime intercept.
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