I'm between phones at the moment so I won't be contactable on the move, but I will check this thread again for objections.

After your filming day finishes on Saturday (at 6pm?), do you plan to go for a meal/drink together? If so, and you are open to it, how would you feel about me tagging along? Islington isn't a million miles from me; there are one or two things to raise a glass to this month, such as Knightmare's 35th; plus it's been a few years.

If you don't see this message in time, or you feel that as a non-participant I'd be intruding, I understand.

We'll be looking to meet up in the afternoon of Friday 23 September to set up and do tests and we'll be done and cleared up by the evening of 25 September.

We now need to distribute the remaining roles. I had planned to do this in a round-robin fashion but I think it's taking too long to get roles allocated, so if there's anything anyone particularly does/does not want please tell me now. Otherwise I'll randomly allocate them.

The venue and timetable looks fine to me, quite happy to go with what you've found, I know London is challenging at the best of times.

I A G R E E

I'll try not to get hit by any vehicles, but my track record is not good.

I AGREE.

This has taken a while. Although London has MANY venues, most of them:

• Do not reply to emails

• Won't participate in what we're doing

• Charge x5 their normal fees if you're filming

• Don't have availability across an extended period

Nevertheless, two venues that we've used before tick all the boxes, and this is the one that we're strongly considering:

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/content/studio

It's not yet clear what the situation is regarding parking, but there is a car park nearby. I'm also not sure what the cancellation policy would be, but I expect it to be "tough shit". The intention would be:

Friday September 23 : 2pm - 6pm for setup and tests (and maybe some simple filming if we manage it)

Saturday September 24: 10am - 6pm

Sunday September 25: 10am - 6pm

So we're now at the COMMITMENT phase. I need agreement from everyone. If you agree to this booking then the money that you've contributed will be put towards this venue on these dates. It will only be refunded in correspondence with any refund that we get from the venue. If you now agree and subsequently drop out, or if you get hit by a bus, if you get covid and cannot make it, whatever, there will be no refund unless the venue somehow gives us a refund.

If anyone disagrees then we need to make a group decision of whether to proceed without that person (in which case they'll get refunded) or we'll need to keep looking.

Let me have a look around and see what we can find in terms of a venue. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

We'll keep in mind the possibility of using the Friday afternoon as a setup/test/social day.