BREAKING NEWS: EASTER IN LJUBLJANA
24 April 2003
The London Men's Self-Help Pub Crawl Group are proud to announce that they "partied hard" in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana over the Easter weekend. "Following on from our trip to Lithuania last year, and the success of EU02, we are keen to proactively embrace those states who will be joining the European Union in the near future," explained Simon – real name Peter Trout. "In keeping with the European spirit, we facilitated our journey via the Italian city of Trieste, so as to leverage as many cultures and transport modalities as possible." These motives, however, were flatly denied by Pad, who has recently started asking people to call him The Shandy Man. "We went to Slovenia because it was one of the few places left where none of us had been, and it was a practical choice for a weekend break." Accomplished Transport Czar Ian added: "We only went via Trieste because we're a bunch of skinflints."
Whatever the reasons for visiting, it seems certain that all six participating members enjoyed their trip. According to Tim, who had to leave one day early for legal reasons, highlights included a skeleton theme pub, an excess of table football, numerous cheese-filled pastries, and the dirtiest bar in the world. But the mood of the group was somewhat deflated by the fact that the establishment known as "Mr Pub" remained closed all weekend. "But that's Ok," said Alan, "as we made up for it with a round of artichoke liqueurs."
As usual, various ham-fisted photographs were taken over the course of the weekend, and as usual, there is no sign of these seeing the light of day via the group's website any time soon. Robert – recently dismissed from the post of Party Czar for failure to do his homework – elaborated on the future plans for the site. "I am going to get round to it," he insisted. "First I will issue a dossier outlining the reasons for the delays. Following on from this, I'm going to present a blueprint for the updating of the site. This will represent an important milestone on the path to planning the necessary work involved, and will be backed up by a roadmap detailing the exact steps to be taken. I will then be in a position to submit a proposal which will determine the specifications for the migration towards a fully up-to-date site presentation; this will result in a white paper, which will form the basis for a discussion document. Once the options have been reviewed and revised in accordance with the requirements which emerge from phased consultation exercises, I will then set out a ten-point implementation plan which will ensure high-quality, timely deliverables. The whole process will be overseen by a project management liaison group (backed up by a technical support team) who, in partnership with the project steering committee, will be obligated to ensure that deadlines are met and that any problems, where appropriate, are escalated via an agreed quality assurance framework using a raft of monitoring and reporting solutions. Your statutory rights are not affected."
PREVIOUS NEWS (NOW TRADING AS OLDS)
27 December 2002: GROUP GOES DIGITAL FOR EU02
23 September 2002: POPUP-FREE GUESTBOOK LAUNCHED
22 June 2002: LONDON MEN'S SELF-HELP PUB CRAWL GROUP "IN CRISIS"
24 July 2001: T2K SITE FINALLY LAUNCHED; NEXT CRAWL REVEALED