This had occured to me.
This hadn’t.
From Play with Fire by the Rolling Stones
Hhmm good call on the name, didn’t quite think that through. I’ll probably ask the admins to change it - don’t think my new boss would be pleased to see me show up painted silver each day.
Illuminatiprimus - I know no one except one person at work. She lives in St. Albans so I doubt I will see much of her outside of work. Then again I knew no one when I moved to the US and later to Germany.
Ok, time to ask the dumb question then.
Future Londonite, Angua: When are you likely to be around in London?
Well my first day of work is going to be on April 14th. For the first few weeks till I find a (temporary) place of my own I will be, highly likely, staying at the Marriott Regents Park
Wow - someone’s made of money! Unless your work are paying for you, that is.
Well, maybe we could organise a dopefest for the week after you start work then, say w/c 21st? My vote is for somewhere central this time though.
Now there’s a good question – I tend to be around once a month, nothing’s decided for the April timeframe yet, so I’m sure I could be flexible…
In the past we’ve always had good luck with the Silver Cross or the Chandos or the Princess Louise. All of which are reasonably central…
The Chandos by Charing Cross I know of. I was going to suggest the Doggett’s or Founders Arms by Blackfriars bridge as alternatives.
Course the problem with the Chandos tends to be someone has to get there early enough to colonise enough space – the big sofas upstairs are always good…
I’m not made of money, sorry to disappoint you…Work will be paying for the hotel
It history of economic story of boom thanks to manufacturing industries followed by massive decline makes it something of a ‘northern town in the south’, having much more in common with towns in places such as Lancashire and Yorkshire than with its surroundings. It’s now got deeply-entrenched poverty, and you can add to this the very difficult racial tensions and very real social and physical divides between white and minority communties which have started to appear in some of these towns.
Blackfriars bridge sounds like an excellent idea - not least because I work two minutes from there. 
Any of these sound fine with me…just give me enough time to figure which combo of tubes to take to get there 
When have me and Confessor Knight not been there since opening time?
If we’re doing one then the Chandos would be my preferred location - Doggetts and Founders are fine but we’re heading into weekend tourist season by April and they’re always packed on saturdays unless the weather is decent enough to sit outside, which in April is no guarantee!
Plus the Chandos is a Sam Smith’s and I’m a cheap bastard. 
(Alternatively the Silver Cross has, as you say, always done us well in the past - do they still allow you to reserve the bottom section though?)
Just to add to that, the Prinny Lou is open again (and my god is she beautiful) but they’ve done a proper restoration job on her - meaning the snob screens are back.
So basically she’s now another one where you need to get there early enough to stake out the back section (or hope the upstairs is open), else there’s no guarantee you’ll end up with enough room for people to spread out.
True. If only because you want to see how wasted you can get Confessor Knight. 
And I would be there at opening time, but somehow, Bonzer never wants to be…
Not sure. I think Ianzin’s the authority there. I do know that last time I was able to reserve the little raised bit on the ground floor just to the side of the bar…
Oh yeah - that subsectiony bit on the Right. That’s not bad.
Think the last time i was in there was the first day of the smoking ban!
Am I baking again then?
How many London/Greater London Dopersr are there?
A fair few, plus a fair few who lurk but don’t post anymore so may turn up anyway.