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Thanks LadyG - may well take you up on offer of the lift! thank you! As for all the other footies out there - why not just call this thread Footie ? Then no specific allegiance will be necessary. x

Keef will be out madly celebrating- nowhere near a computer and the EDF!! Excellent result.

I'm in Block H - it's loud there too! I'll be in the Pins pre-match. How do you get there and back from ED? It's a bit of trek eh? Def up for drink though - never ever turn down the chance to bond with a LadyGooner - I bet we're pretty rare 'round these parts! As for you Jah L - don't go there girlfriend!

Hey! Just seen this thread! I am indeed a Gooner and shall also be at the Emirates this Sunday. Will Ashley Cole dare turn up? As for pubs - I tend to go the Mag for footie but it does get pretty packed. However, if you get there early and bag a table - all is ok! So chuffed that there is a LadyGooner on the forum. Sweet.

Never mind Keef lol! Hair of the dog required surely! Get out there in sunshine with an ice cold beer - you'll soon pick up!

apologies if you have turned the traps into homes for said fox cubs.

the trappers...yikes!

strong words Dom..but I hear them.

have you achieved your goal big K?

huguenot - i thought a reasonably broad vocabulary would be the key but you have flummaxed me with that detail! obviously there are some key tactical skills required which take time to learn. why don't we start off with mixed groups and then see if the game could be enhanced by playing with those at a similar level?

aw..i'm gutted about missing the quiz this sunday. hope you have fun!

There's some really good points on here (not sure about AnotherPaul's - bit rude but won't go there) but I would just stress that I am not against kid friendly places at all. Quite the opposite - I have a child too. However, the Herne was overwhelmingy packed out on sunday with kids and i'm surprised that anyone would find that relaxing? Even if my daughter was that age now I would avoid the Herne. As for missing the old place - well I do! It was a bit crap and shabby but you could enjoy a drink in the garden with the kids playing happily in the playground. It certainly wasn't as popular as it is now - I wonder why!! Anyway - I am delighted for all the parents of small children who enjoy going to the Herne. Just not for me. That's it.

I don't often moan about stuff but am so irritated by The Herne Tavern that I have to get it off my chest. Popped down there on Sunday with a heavily pregnant friend and her partner for a spot of lunch. It is the closest pub to our houses and used to go quite a lot before it got gastroed up. Anyway - it was awful. Absolutely heaving with kids under 5 and I mean heaving, all of which seemed to be running around screaming. As for the lunch - you apparently have to book in advance! Is this place now a restaurant or a playgroup. It certainly isn't a boozer. Now don't get me wrong I used to take my daughter there as it has always had a playground. However, I really miss the old place and for once really resent the way the pubs in ED have so utterly changed. I shall avoid it like the plague from now on which is a shame since it is my local. Humph. There - feel better now.

i love scrabble. definitely more a word than number person. more crossword than sudoku! how could we do - aren't there only 4 players at once?

11th is good for me..:))

sounds good to me too...:))

I really enjoyed The Secret History so would recommend a read - it's a bit slow to get going but worth persevering. I just finished Johnny Come Home by Jake Arnott which was ace. Am about to start Istanbul Memories Of A City by Orhan Pamuk. Will let you know!

ok...if not a big rounders circle then a mini version so we don't have to run too far! guess it was an ambitious thought given the excessive drinking these edf drinks induce. (in me anyway!)

thanks Ant! sorry to miss the drinks - sounded fun! :))

yay! like the sound of this! how about a spot of rounders as well- love that game! MP - i'd like to donate some cash. perhaps at the next meet? let me know.:))

ok...so i am a bunny freak.....whatever....an 80s child.......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LG97gg43wA

I would love to join a chess club. let me know. also love backgammon..........

OMG BatDog has gone mad.......

ok..not that i.m going to reveal what i do for a living or anything - god forbid- but this is one of the cases that i have had to deal with. let's not laugh, it is a serious condition. :(

enjoy the easter break - i hope to have a thoroughly enjoyable break in somerset with teen terror at mother's house...(god darling how could you let daisy get her belly button pierced? it's sooo common.) mmmm...better than letting a rusty old timer stick a needle through her? still.......really must get a life. happy easter x