Time* | Event |
11.20 | B-17 and Lyns meet up with SPINY on the train from Edinburgh to Glasgow Queen Street |
11.30 | LiS arrives in Glasgow, way early for the meet-up as usual. |
11.40 | LiS logs onto h2g2 from EasyEverything, finds EV still logged on from home. |
12.15 | LiS heads off to "What's that Glasgow?", meets Brenmac (who was unfortunate enough to be working).
Lyns, B-17 and SPINY arrive in Glasgow, head for the Counting House, but decide to try and find Brenmac first. |
12.30 | B-17, Lyns and SPINY arrives at "What's that Glasgow?" and find Brenmac and LiS. |
12.40 | LiS gets message from EV on phone to say that EV will be late due to Scotrail "mess-up". |
12.45 | Babel-17, SPINY, Lyns and Lost arrives at the Counting House, take quick look around, but recognise nobody.
Then Munchkin arrives and his friend Jamie joins us. Find a quiet spot in alcove area and joina few tables together. SPINY and B-17 head to the bar.
Shortly afterwards, Zantic arrives. |
13.05 | Wumbeevil arrives in good spirit and greets the crowd. |
13.23 | B-17 spots EV enter and clls hm over. Buys pint and EV joins the party. |
13.25 | Everyone starts to order food as Lyns goes around peole getting contact numbers and ideas for what they would like to do. |
13.35 | Mark turns up. SPINY proceeds to photograph everyone. UC arrives, shortly followed by Kaila and RSA. This involves more rounds, and more food. Everyone who has a camera is clicking away. |
13.45 | Lyns decides to start filming the goings on. |
13.50 | Local Big Issue seller gatecrashes table and demands to be filmed doing his great Big Issue poem, then demands money from us for the privilege. |
13.55 | Lyns films us and Mark as he tells us the background to the project. |
14.00 | A decision is made to finish up and head for George Square to get introductions done on camera before the light fades. Mark has left by now. |
14.15 | After a false start, Lyns films everyone trooping out of the Counting House and across to George Square. The filming of intros begins. |
15.00 | Filming over, decide to go back to pub, but Counting House rather full now. Various trips for various reasons are made inside. |
15.05 | Munchkin, Jamie, Zantic and Wumbeevil retire to the Old Printworks across George Square, while the others head up to see Brenmac. |
15.10 | Arrive at "What's that Glasgow?" and film us meeting Brenmac, then film a bit about where he works. All present had to sign the comments book before leaving. |
15.50 | Leave Brenmac to get on with his wrok and head back to meet up with the others in the Old Printworks, via Buchannan St. underground station. |
15.55 | Lyns decides it might be a nice idea to film everyone going up the travellator to Queen St. Station. 4 times, much to the amusement of passers by. Forward facing, no emotion. Heads turned, no emotion. Face to camera, smiling. Group huddle, grinning like idiots. |
16.10 | Arrive at Old Printworks, find the others ensconsed at a table to the rear, Lyns goes off to order drinks. Push tables together. Zantic decides to show off her Starfish hat's prowese at wrestling, beating TRSA and UC. |
16.20 | Decide table arrangement is no good, due to large pillar in the way, so rearrange tables to suit. Much alcohol imbibing carries on, amid much photography. |
17.20 | B-17 makes phonecall to DD and FC, unbeknowing that LiS has already made one. |
17.30 | Lyns heads off to leave video camera at Mark's |
17.40 | FC calls from the car. |
17.41 | Lost tries to locate car but it is moving. |
17.43 | B-17 works out roughly where DD and FC are and heads out to meet them. |
17.50 | Big hugs as B-17 meets DD and FC just round the corner from George Square. Return to pub. |
17.52 | Lost returns in vain from his hunt. (deja vu of his attempt to find people in August) |
18.15 | Coelacanth phones to say hello to everyone. |
18.45 | DD and FC order food |
18.50 | Lyns returns and takes DD and FC off for an interview |
18.51 | DD and FC's food turns up (at the other end of the pub from where they now are sitting) |
19.15 | DD, FC and Lyns return. Everyone else has now eaten. Zantic heads for home and free curry courtesy of her parents. |
19.23 | Group leave pub |
19.30 | DD and FC start to fill UC and B-17 in on all the gossip. |
19.35 | Group say good bye to Lyns at Queen Street Station |
19.36 | Munchkin leads group towards West End Pub, via Underground, whereby Wumbeevil has an arguament with a ticket machine. |
20.00 | Arrive at the Uisge Beathe pub. |
21.00 | Pyromania ensues with a candle and an unsuspecting postcard. |
21.25 | B-17 knocks his pint over, which flows off the table onto LiS. B-17 kindly provides his towel to help dry LiS off. |
21.26 | B-17 heads to the bar yet again. |
22.00 | DD and FC stop telling UC and B-17 the gossip. |
22.10 | SPINY heads for the underground and home. |
22.30 | DD, FC, B-17, UC, LiS and EV leave Pub. Munchkin takes group photo. Head for underground singing the theme from "The Monkees", while doing the walk. Much hilarity ensues on the underground. |
23.00 | EV heads along platform to catch Falkirk bound train, after much hugging and goodbyes |
23.02 | LiS leaves Queen St. Station heading for Central Station and the West-bound train for Greenock. |
23.10 | DD and FC head home to Stoneyburn, via Stirling and Dalgety Bay having kindly offered UC and B-17 a lift home. |
* Please note all times are approximate. |