Category Archives: Drinking

POKE Weekender

Bit of a late post, but I’ve been waiting for everyone’s photos to be uploaded. Last weekend we went away on POKE‘s annual piss up in the countryside, we ended up in Plas Glansevin Georgian Mansion near llangadog in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. We had a very pleasant time, consumed spectacular amounts of alcohol, climbed Pen y Fan the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons and most dangerous in Wales! Anyhow, here’s a selection of photos:

Compilation of photos from the POKE weekender

For further amusement, check out Farnhill‘s, Tom’s, Mark’s (probably the most comprehensive) and Igor’s flickr sets. Finally don’t miss the infamous Gor Dance, note this was film at about 7.30pm on the first evening!

Drunk Drawing

Last night I went to ‘Melange‘ (which means ‘Mix’ in French apparently) on the end of my road, it’s a very nice bar that has no concept of licensing hours, but unfortunately no draft lager. We went there to see some bloke out the Guillemots play some improvisational music with his chums. It was quite good (too much whale noises though) anyhow it inspired us to do some improvised/take turns type drawings. We were quite pissed by the time we started, below are our efforts:

Images I like

I don’t know what Dubonnet is, looks like red wine to me. Dubonnet is actually an aperitif, it is commonly mixed with lemonade, and forms part of many cocktails. Well anyhow I like this old ad for it. Reminds me a bit of the beer ad in my old local which said “Hard work takes it out of a man, beer puts it back in.”

Old Dubonnet Advert

Protest party update

Well I’ve just about recovered now… The protest party when down a storm in London over the weekend, and we all got back home safe and sound. Well apart from my flatmate Alex who failed to bung the bouncer £20 to get into the warehouse party at the end of the evening and a got punch in the eye! Looking pretty swallon at the moment, it’s going to be a cracking colour in a couple of days time! Serves him right really…

Well anyhow those of your who know me, know that me and my brother have a tradition of keeping a book for each other birthday’s. They go all the way back to our 18th when we started trying to drink our age in one day in between opening and closing times, hence the need for a book to keep count. It’s easier nowadays because pubs are open 11 to 11, but back in the day they still closed in the afternoon, so drinking time was at a premium. This continued to our 21st’s when I over ambitiously set the target of doing 21 pints, 20 marshmellows in the mouth, 19 bags of cheesy quavers, 18 somethings. 17 something else’s.. etc. Least to say after that day it couldn’t be bettered so we gave up on the age thing. But we did continue to drink all day on each others birthdays and record the events in little books. We’ve both got piles of them now and they are very amusing to look back on.

Here are a few highlights from this year’s birthday book:

Drinks

11.00am, Champayne (cheers Nico!) at Unit 2

1.30pm, Amstel at The Clarence

2.30pm, Kronenburg at The Hand & Racket

3.25pm, Stella at The Ship & Shovel

3.55pm, Talisker Whiskey (double – cheers Gi!) at The Ship & Shovel

4.45pm, 2x Caipirinhas at Iguanas

5.55pm, Stella at The Anchor

6.30pm, Stella at The Anchor

7.50pm, Kronenberg at Shish

8.30pm, Kronenberg at Shish

9.15pm, Kronenberg at Shish

10.00pm, Saigon Beer at Cay Tre

10pm was the last drink entry, but I didn’t make it home until 4am so needless to say there was some missing here…

Favourite comment from the book:

4.55pm We’ve travelled back in time, to save an ancient species from total annihilation. 22 Caipirinhas @ Iguanas. Latin life. Thunder. Clouds. Lovely. It tastes like Ribena. (uncredited)

Well anyhow, on to the pictures! Below is a selection, you can see more in my Flickr set here.

Protest Party London

Protest Party!

Free Love and less expensive beer

Some people think I’ve already had my birthday? Well last weekend was my 29 years 11 months and 3 weeks party, Saturday the 10th is my 30th! Here’s the plan:

10am at Unit 2, Shoreditch

Fancy dress ‘Protest’ Pub Crawl through London
The idea is to come as if you were protesting your own ridiculous, made-up cause, with billboards, chants, banners, and appropriate costume if needed. We’ll meet at my place and fortify ourselves for the day ahead with cups of tea and bacon butties. 10.30 head into town. The route was going to start at Big Ben, but we’ve just found out that there’s now a ‘no protest zone’ around the Houses of Parliment.

London no protest zone

So instead we’re going to start the protest outside Buckingham Palace at 11am. Once we get moved on by the police we’ll settle in a nearby pub until 1pm, where we’ll all be protesting outside Trafalgar Square, or more likely on top of the lions. Then we’ll head down to the Thames for a nice stroll along the thames via a few fine beer emporiums. Next port of call is Cutty Sark for a bit of pirate action at about 3pm. Once we’ve had our fill of rum we’ll be at Tower Bridge by 4pm and very soon after the Tower of London. 5pm up to the City, maybe have a quick protest and a long drink by the Bank of England. Finally back up to Shoreditch. If you can’t drag your arse out of bed for the 11am start you can add me or Ant as a friend http://twitter.com/simoncook http://twitter.com/deadinsect for twitter progress updates (you’ll have to turn up mobile updates). Or call me on my phone 07974143355.

from 6pm

Loungey-Bar thing
Shish on Old Street – the bar downstairs, not the restaurant
This bar is a bit too clean for my liking, but I’m teaming up with some other 10th of Feb birthday boys so I don’t have to organise anything. We can meet up with stragglers, hang out, chat and drink. Should pretty much have the place to ourselves.

from 11pm

Discotheque Dancing
Bugged Out present 2manyDJs (and a bunch of other DJs) in a warehouse on Hearn street, EC2A things will get quite gross from here on in. The little record shop just off Brick Lane have still got a few tickets left: City 16 Records, Cheshire Sreet.

Looking forward to posting a few pictures of it next week!Â