London micro-meet

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

wow - yeah - i hope yana gets better soon.

t.

On 07/09/14 09:27, foRUMS 4 punkdISCO wrote:
> 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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