Green drinks

Transition Leytonstone have their Green drinks on the 15th of the month in the Red Lion.

The Red Lion is a very nice pub in what used to be "Zulus", a drinking establishment that caused continual trouble. It is turning more of its tables into restuarant tables, and this was particularly apparent when I arrived on Thursday at five past eight, as obviously many offices and friends were holding their Christmas get togethers. I wondered round twice and could see no-one I recognised and no table with a "green drinks" sign on it. So I left to walk home.

I was just over the road looking at the entries in a photography competition in a window when Ros came by, and back I went to the pub with her. She couldn't seen anyone either - I have often be in pubs looking round for my friends with them waving at me and I not able to see them, so I was pleased to be sure that I hadn't just not spotted the green drinks group!

Soon Grear arrived, a journalist who blogs for the Telegraph on green issues, who had met Martin on the bus and he had told her about green drinks. I can't remember the order everyone else turned up, but there was Martin himself, Jan whom I had met at the Transition Leytonstone Christmas do the Friday before, Chris, whom I first met years ago through the local Green Party but who is incredibly active in all sorts of groups, and several people from the local Green Party who were having their Christmas Social on the same evening, including 3, Ashley, Steve and Mark, whom I knew from when I was active in the local party. In all there was 13 of us squeezed into the corner.

There was music but low enough so we could easily hear each other putting the world to rights.

I left soon after 10 pm to walk home, as my alarm goes at 6.15 in the morning!