It was another great afternoon despite sulky lad and Andy the Roofdog not being able to make it. Great picture although Mrs Sheeptotheslaughter is not in it as she came along later to top up the glamour stakes, and Terry Staunton had left by that stage.
John and I were initially pleased that the police van was not parked over the road like last time. However a police van turned up later on and parked up to keep an eye on us again I presume!
Funnily enough within various conversations I didn't really speak about Elvis at all. I suppose that could be partly because there's nothing to report this side of the pond (although there were a couple of people who had heard a rumour about the Imperial Chambers tour coming to the UK in November).
Back when I started these meet ups in about 2003 (
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) it was solely forum members. Nowadays there are different platforms so we have a fan forum meet up from Facebook friends etc. Everybody is welcome and it's great to see the efforts people make to get there. It truly is international!
When the last 5 of us left at about 8pm, as I was walking down Bishopsgate I heard some live music and walked down an alleyway and found myself at a pub called the Lamb Tavern. So I watched and this band was playing 60s music brilliantly. They are called Modern Apes (
http://www.modernapes.band). I chatted to the lead singer afterwards and he was impressed that I knew the words to all the songs!
Anyway it turned out that they were playing a wedding (as there were only a few people outside at that stage so it was not easy to tell). I happily sang and danced for the next 2 hours. One young lady came up to me and asked if I was the groom's father
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which was the best chat up line I have heard! It got busier later but everyone was cool about me being there - I'm a harmless sort of chap and kept out of the way, particularly when a photographer tried to snap me with somebody.
Also, despite it pouring with rain at various times I dodged the rain every time. All in all a terrific day.