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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:10 pm
by Pablo
GB_Groundworks wrote:£17,625
Royal Penthouse The Dorchester, London
Do you think they do that suite by the minute. A steal at 20p a second or 12.24 a minute give or take.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:20 pm
by GB_Groundworks
only cost you £6 to take a girl back then hahahaha
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:35 pm
by Pablo
Ach give me some credit £6.50 at least but that would include the walk from the reception to the room and then back again.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:59 pm
by lutonlagerlout
£18 including the post nuptial fag giles :;):
LLL
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:04 pm
by henpecked
Off to the Gresham end of next month in Dublin .4 star hotel O'Connell Street (the Ghetto ) £300 from Brum inc breakfast (£25 a head last time we were there),flights and taxes 4 nights drinking to me old nans memory.
Hp
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:59 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i stayed in the gresham with the missus a few years ago,nice hotel but felt a bit wrapped up in its own history,very snooty for ireland
great location though
LLL
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:02 am
by cookiewales
we laid all the paving outside the Gresham and the post office in all done over 6000m2 in O'Connell st nice job but a very busy street also did 1000m2 plus fan pattern opposite the shellbourne hotel they did not like us there 6ton dumper with reverse beeper at 5am enjoy the craic in dublin cookie :;):
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:54 pm
by lutonlagerlout
update : atelier de joel roubochan have no record of our booking for 14 so although we have email confirmation its not happening
very poor IMO
so we have moved on to pastures new, some french place near smithfields
LLL
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:03 pm
by jonnyboyentire
So does that mean the Mrs is coming now?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:06 pm
by henpecked
Yes it is a bit 'im considerably richer than you' LLL but were just there to knock them down a few pegs
Good job cookie, I remember all the works going on back in 2007, wasnt then was it? If so, do you remember a bawling mass of plastic paddies backward and forward in cabs all week ?:D
Hp
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:00 pm
by lutonlagerlout
no the missus wont go now,and we are down to 10
just had a skin full tonight and eating my share of a very much depleted chinky (that i paid for earlier)
c'est la vie
LLL
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:49 am
by lutonlagerlout
just back from club gascon
very nice food albeit very small portions and not sure wtf i was eating
worked out more than i thought so glad i didnt stay in the smoke
got taxi from farringdon to highbury then to luton for 60 quid which i thought was fair at this time of night
LLL
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:20 am
by cookiewales
henpecked wrote:Yes it is a bit 'im considerably richer than you' LLL but were just there to knock them down a few pegs
Good job cookie, I remember all the works going on back in 2007, wasnt then was it? If so, do you remember a bawling mass of plastic paddies backward and forward in cabs all week ?:D
Hp
we were there then and the riots at the top end started with one of my wheel barrows thrown on top of garda car did not get it back great place to work siac had some top street masons :;):
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:46 pm
by henpecked
cookiewales wrote:henpecked wrote:Yes it is a bit 'im considerably richer than you' LLL but were just there to knock them down a few pegs
Good job cookie, I remember all the works going on back in 2007, wasnt then was it? If so, do you remember a bawling mass of plastic paddies backward and forward in cabs all week ?:D
Hp
we were there then and the riots at the top end started with one of my wheel barrows thrown on top of garda car did not get it back great place to work siac had some top street masons :;):
Ha Ha
Worked for SIAC on the QE in Brum. Small world, eh?
Hp