Disaster As New Tun Venue Turns Out Not To Be A Disaster

[major_clanger]

London and Home Counties SF fans were left stunned and outraged tonight when the new Tun venue, Walkers on Norwich Street, turned out not to be a disaster.

"It's a disgrace" said one. "The room is so large that some people actually got to sit down. The beer took hours to run out, and not only did the pub have the temerity to serve food but the portions were ridiculously generous."

Another was almost beside himself. "What the hell were the management thinking, failing to double-book us? We turned up, and there was nobody else in the function space! And where are the mice, eh?"

So scarce were the causes for complaint that some fans even found themselves having to talk about subjects other than the traditional diatribes on the blatant unsuitability of the new pub, the inevitability of the need to find another location and the inexorable decline of First Thursdays. Some were even heard to be discussing conventions or even, in one or two rumoured but unsubstantiated instances, books.

"Last month we had a good thirty or forty of us along" lamented one grizzled veteran of the Tun's traipse around London. "Tonight, there were barely a hundred of us."




...Ooops, I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me :-)

MC

Comments

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Wonderful :@)

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Good lord ... a venue worked for once. Fingers crossed for next time too.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Perhaps you could bring a gerbil or two with you to recreate the rodent experience?

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I'd wondered what the literary technique of the unreliable narrator looked like.

[gummitch.livejournal.com]

I wonder whether they'd be interested in having the BSFA meetings?

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

*Howls with laughter*

[gummitch.livejournal.com]

And don't forget the complete absence of loud music and/or football matches being shown on TV.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Yep. And with a pool table, too. :)