EDF Christmas Drinks - Friday 5th December

[Ted Max]

Who gave you the right to propose any such thing? All such proposals need to be made to the Effective Working Practices Special Interest Group, whose outputs are flowed upstream and downstream to the EWP SIG stakeholders, before approval.

I'd be happy to let you have our latest discussion document, "Evening social interaction: KPIs and SLAs. V1.32". Or you can download more on our site here: ftp.pissupinabrewery.organise.howto-item.html

[lozzyloz]

A radical proposal perhaps.

EDDC is a sizeable group with alcohol purchasing power much valued in these CC times. How about the pubs and bars in ED and on the periphery propose how well they'd accommodate us and then we select (via the EDEWPSIG of course) the lucky 12.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Brendan, please may I be in an EDF Drinks Quango or appointed Drinks Czarina?

[Michael Palaeologus]

If somebody would care to prepare a composite proposal for submission to the next meeting of the T'Social Committee of the Supreme Soviet of East Dulwich - we will give it due attention at an appropriate time.

In the meantime would the Stewards care to escort all dissidents to a suitable venue for re-education.

Now, whats for lunch?

[Sue]

Brendan Wrote:

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> This seems to be an ongoing and significant issue.

> I therefore propose that, the Social Committee

> form a Sub-Committee responsible for the venue

> rota for the monthly booze up. The Sub-Committee

> should then set up a Working Group for each month

> who will submit a shortlist of 3 venues to the

> Sub-Committee for approval one month prior to the

> booze up for which they are responsible. The

> Sub-Committee will then rate the three venues in

> order of preference before submitting them for

> approval to the Social Committee.

>

> The Social Committee will then commission a

> Life-Panel for each suggested venue. The

> Life-Panels will take advice from the other

> Sub-Committees which will also have to be

> established such as, The Sub-Committee for

> Seasonal Affairs, The Sub-Committee for the

> Availability of Draught Beer, The Sub-Committee

> for the Variety of Draught Beer, The Wine List and

> Nibbles Sub-Committee, The Overall Scrumminess

> Sub-Committee and the Sub-Committee for the

> Avoidance of Unnecessary Bureaucracy (a

> sub-committee to an overarching group called The

> Advisory Panel on Ostentatious Officialdom or A

> POO)

>

> The Life-Panels will them make a final

> recommendation on the suitability of each

> suggested venue to the Social-Committee who by

> this time will have fallen out with everyone and

> gone to the Wishing Well.

xxxxxx

:)):)):))

[Weegee]

Someone mentioned Black Cherry?

Well my boss's friend parents own it..so if you are interested i can put in an enquiry

for a booking?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Too small.

[Jeremy]

Really... I thought my ex-colleague's boss's wife owned it (seriously).

The plot thickens.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Too much thickener.

[Brendan]

Gentlemen I apologise for not properly stating my position before putting my proposals forward. I am actually the current (and recently appointed) Advisor on Drinking, Imbibing and Consumption to the Social Committee.

As I act as ADIC in a purely advisory capacity my activities are not covered in the Terms of Reference of the EDEWPSIG. If in future the Sub-Committee chooses to include the activities of ADIC in your TOR I will of course be happy to be accommodating. For now though I don?t see any reason why our activities cannot be synergouse yet siloed while still maintaining constructive inter-committee communications at all levels up and downstream as well as across on little wooden bridges.

As ADIC I would like to invite you to the inaugural meeting of my newly commissioned group the Drinking, Imbibing and Consuming Sub-Committee. At this meeting of DICS your insightful paper ?Evening social interaction: KPIs and SLAs. V1.32? will be tabled as Appendix 4.A to the working, discussion document ?Props/A. todayeastdulwich-tomorrow-aslightlybiggerbitofsoutheastlondon V1.1? Which amongst other things proposes the appointment of and East Dulwich Drinks Czarina.

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"The Judean Popular Front - Splitters"

[Strawbs]

if we are after suggestions then my two pence worth is the rye.. I organise a separate meet up there once a month and they give us the back section with heaters etc and are great at catering for large numbers!! You never know they may even decorate for us given our numbers!!

Otherwise Georgia Im happy just to go wherever you tell me to!

x

[EDOldie]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> EDOldie seems to be a fan of this place and The

> Castle, could I deduce that the two places are cut

> from the same cloth?

Not so, I have no preference I'm just trying to benchmark the whole process.

[Sue]

Strawbs Wrote:

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> if we are after suggestions then my two pence

> worth is the rye.. I organise a separate meet up

> there once a month and they give us the back

> section with heaters etc and are great at catering

> for large numbers!! You never know they may even

> decorate for us given our numbers!!

>

> Otherwise Georgia Im happy just to go wherever you

> tell me to!

>

> xxxxxxxxxx

Food is good there too

[Michael Palaeologus]

Thus far we have had 17 venues recommended for the December drinks - which doesnt make the final decision making very easy. Hence the need for a rota.

[AcedOut]

How about getting each bar/pub in ED to pitch for our presence? Let's put it out to tender and populate the establishment that wants us the most!

[david_carnell]

Or a poll. Admin managed one in the past. Or some sort of voting system.

[AcedOut]

I'm in favour of a poll. Have asked for this before, but didn't get the buy-in.

[Michael Palaeologus]

That would take the burden of Georgia and me.

Admin - is this possible on a monthly basis?

[Sue]

Great idea, but would there be some kind of system so we didn't end up going to the same place every time? Or even every other time!

Edited to say: Why not just list every pub/bar in ED/ED borders, eliminate those unsuitable because of size, put them more or less at random against each month but have those with gardens between ?May and September?, then just start again when you get to the end?

Adding on new pubs as they open or taking them off as they close?

[Strawbs]

Once we have gone somewhere that month, when the next month is put up then that particular pub just doesnt go in to the poll so we only choose from what is left.. Maybe it then gets refreshed i.e. all the pubs go back in say every 6 months..

[david_carnell]

You could merely eliminate each venue after they have been visited.

[Michael Palaeologus]

You could take 2 approaches:

Use a poll to get a list of 12 venues and then use those for the year - the advantage of this is that the poll only has to be done once a year. However, Admin would have to keep an eye out for manipulation and hanging chads.

or

Do a monthly poll BUT to avoid repeating ourselves or manipulation the successfull venues, once visited are then out of the running for the rest of the year. However a monthly poll would involved alot of work for admin.

[Sue]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> You could merely eliminate each venue after they

> have been visited.

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That's a bit drastic, look what happened to kebab and wine :))

[JimmyD]

surely its the people not the venue that counts...lets all get carrier bags full of Hooch/thunderbirds/K cider/kestrel super strength etc and hang around the swings in goose green park for the evening!!!