London micro-meet

[foRUMS 4 punkdISCO]

Flip Peter - just read this..  Not a great way to spend you holiday..

Really hope Yana made a speedy recovery and all is on the way to getting
better..

See you all again sometime soon I hope..

Paul
London
www.punkdisco.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Korsten [mailto:peter at severity-one.com]
> Sent: 06 September 2014 01:19
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: London micro-meet
> 
> Tony Hardie-Bick schreef op 2-9-2014 00:23:
> 
> > Have fun for the rest of your trip!
> 
> We just returned home. Actually a bit before, but only now I've found time
> to sit down and go through some e-mail.
> 
> The rest of the trip was... slightly eventful. :) You may have noticed
that Yana
> wasn't walking very well on the way back, and in fact we got a taxi home
> instead of taking the Tube.
> 
> The next day, things went a bit sour when going down the stairs in South
> Kensington station. Something "snapped" in her left knee, and she somehow
> made it down the stairs, but she couldn't really walk any further. So we
got
> an ambulance. But that took ages, and all the while there was a policeman
> (more accurately, a police community support
> officer) with us.
> 
> After about an hour and a half, the ambulance crew arrived. Now, South
> Kensington doesn't have escalators or a lift, because it's a listed
building.
> Which caused a bit of a problem, because how were we going to get her out
> of there? So they got a wheelchair down, we took the wheelchair into the
> train until Earl's Court, where they do have a lift.
> 
> There was already somebody of Transport for London waiting for us to guide
> us through the gates, and only after the ambulance arrived did the
policeman
> leave us. It's seriously impressive how well organised everything and
> everybody is, by the way. Not in the least because of the pervasive
> surveillance, no doubt, but once the ambulance was there, it went like
> clockwork.
> 
> Once at the hospital, we got to deal with what everybody using the NHS has
> to deal with: queues. All in all it took until 1:30 BST before we were
back at
> the hotel (some eight hours all in all), but at least the doctor was tall,
dark
> and very handsome.
> 
> I'd like to thank all British members of this list for their contribution
to the
> NHS, and I'll have to see how we're going to send back or compensate those
> NHS-labelled crutches we got with us.
> 
> Perhaps I should mention how Yana is doing. The problem appeared to be in
> the soft tissue, and it's already somewhat better than before. But she's
going
> to see a specialist here (which would have been her brother if it weren't
for
> the fact that he lives abroad) and we'll take it from there.
> 
> The following days, I took Jean-Luc out to several museums, because he
likes
> those. First the National Portrait Gallery, where they have a lot of
paintings
> of people who had their heads chopped off. The day after that we went next
> door to the National Gallery, where there's an inordinate focus on Van
> Gogh's sunflowers in the museum shop. And finally, today we went to the
> Natural History Museum for an exhibition about mammoths. As usual, my
> son rushed through the exhibition as if he were at Silverstone, but at
least
> we got a couple of cute soft toys, not to mention yet more fridge magnets.
I
> think we may need to purchase a bigger fridge.
> 
> Also, today I bought Sound On Sound, for the first time in many years.
> There's Paul Maddox's Modulus 002 mentioned (and Paul gets mentioned,
> too), and I found the magazine inspiring again. Let's see what comes out.
I
> have an idea, but I need to investigate Java and CUDA a bit. And I need
more
> time...
> 
> - Peter
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