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The Old Argy Bargy Bar.....a new lease of life!

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lemongrove Wed 13-May-20 16:48:08

Ah, it brings a tear to the eye, look at the old place.It’s just as it was on the day we moved out, it’s a bit dusty....cough cough though.

MawB Wed 08-Jul-20 12:11:00

Can can outfits?
I fear I need Can’t Can’t sad

lemongrove Wed 08-Jul-20 12:09:28

Yes, I have phoned them already Doodle and they say they can’t wait for Friday! ?
I am also bringing wigs for us all as we can’t get to the hairdressers.

Doodle Wed 08-Jul-20 12:07:04

Yup get ready lins and grannygravy we must do the whole routine. lemon can we have the fire brigade men on standby to pick us all up after the finale? ?

lemongrove Wed 08-Jul-20 10:11:40

Haha nice to have you back Lins ?

Get the drinks in I think Grandad1943 and some friends are on their way here.??????

Lins1066 Tue 07-Jul-20 23:43:13

So that's where the chap with the pile driver went.......envy
I did so enjoy being carried away for a bit lemon how did you know where I was?? I'm sure those garçons will have recovered by Friday or should I dit Vendredi, can't speak for Carillion though. She can speak for herself anyway as there's a rumour, only a rumour mind that she can speak the lingo, not as good as wot I do n'est pas?

lemongrove Tue 07-Jul-20 21:54:21

The only splits we’ll be having are banana ones GG13 so rest easy on that score.You can manage a can-can though ( just have a red bull to drink first.)
Frilly knickers, black tights and lots of petticoats are what we need, so will somebody get the sewing machine out, I’m too busy behind the bar ( never you mind what I’m doing there.)

GrannyGravy13 Tue 07-Jul-20 21:50:43

Yep I have been known to cancan ending with the splits .......... couldn't walk for several days ???

Doodle Tue 07-Jul-20 21:29:28

Oooh la la I’m up for that lemon. Do you think carillion will make us some cancan dresses like she did for Spanish nite.? I’ve got some lovely frilly knickers that would be just the thing. ?

lemongrove Tue 07-Jul-20 21:17:11

Well, funny you should ask that.....after seeing those dishy French sailors am thinking French Nite! We could wear norty
Can can outfits and do a great dance routine, who’s up for it?
After that I think we should take turns at naming Friday nights, so Doodle get thinking for the one the week after.
Now, where’s me coffee and croissants, I have to get into training.

Doodle Tue 07-Jul-20 20:19:42

They were Toms favourite grannygravy ?
lemon what are we having for this Friday’s theme night?
You coming grannygravy?

GrannyGravy13 Tue 07-Jul-20 19:55:17

I have been caught out Doodle ?

Doodle Tue 07-Jul-20 19:28:05

Hellogrannygravy . Just hoist yourself up on a barstool same way soop does. Thor will give you a gently shove from behind to help up you up.
There was this rather large pair of ladies bloomers left behind the bar after Tom’s visit. I thought they might be lemons. They’ve got “hello big boy” written on them. Are they yours ?

GrannyGravy13 Tue 07-Jul-20 17:38:28

This thread always makes me laugh out loud..........Any spare bar stools for a small person and I will have a double of the cocktail of the day please and has Tom returned any knickers that were thrown at him? ............asking for a friend ?????

lemongrove Tue 07-Jul-20 17:29:06

Has anyone seen Carillion and Lins since Friday night?
I think they may have got carried away ( literally!) by the group of French sailors that were in that night.Zut alors!

lemongrove Tue 07-Jul-20 17:26:49

Well, it may have done Doodle or at least made it stronger, as I saw the same customer stagger a bit on his way out.
Soop must be otherwise engaged today ( with another fireman I expect) as she failed to show with our lunchtime pasties, so I had to sell warmed up black olive and cheese quiche with some green stuff growing in the backyard.
I think they were black olives, but they were on the small side.I also made creamed mushrooms on toast ( always so many growing in the cellar) woolly death caps on toast always go down so well here.?

Doodle Tue 07-Jul-20 14:28:10

I would imagine ferret droppings in your cocktails would improve the flavour lemon. ?

lemongrove Tue 07-Jul-20 12:20:26

Ah, open legally now, so we don’t have to duck and dive.?
Very busy in here today, I had one customer who said to me, as I was preparing his ‘Havana Nites’ cocktail ‘why aren’t you wearing a visor?’ Cheek! I said ‘Do I look like a biker to you’ and he said ‘yes, a very old one, haha’.
I put a few ferret droppings in his drink while he was laughing.?
Tony Badass says that for a few free drinks he will take care of any complaining customers for us.I think he used to be a hospital worker?So kind of him anyway.

Doodle Sun 05-Jul-20 12:40:13

Yes lemon I’ve recovered a bit. I just have the chap with the pile driver making an occasional visit.?
That’s a good idea about the tourists. Perhaps we could think up some tales about the Argy to entice them to stay. This could be a regular attraction. I could put a sheet over my head and pretend to be a ghostly apparition. I could do it without the sheet, but we don’t want to frighten them too much ?

lemongrove Sun 05-Jul-20 10:32:46

Feel a lot better today....how about you Doodle ? Has that workforce with jackhammers finished drilling in your poor old head? We must both take more water with it!
Thor is busy making coffee and nibbles for a party of Japanese tourists who have just wandered in ( charging them a tenner a head?) the nibbles are left overs from Welsh Nite.
They lost their guide with an upraised umbrella somewhere around the docks.We shall try and keep them here until lunchtime ( when Soop will appear with some goodies) and then sell them tickets for a trip around the bay with the Admiral.

Doodle Sat 04-Jul-20 12:54:29

Oooh ?my poor head. I got all emotional after Tom sang the Green Green Grass of home and had a few triples to cheer me up. What a night indeed.
Well carillion I’m not sure what you were up to with Shakin. Was his vine a big one? ?
Talking of Mr Muscle lemon, where is Thor ? I need him to get me up off the floor before I can start the cleaning,?

lemongrove Sat 04-Jul-20 08:01:38

Oh! My poor head?I knew I shouldn’t have had that tenth
Voddy.
Will sit here quietly with a espresso.......cafe until Doodle comes in to clean up.She’s a real whizz with the Mr Muscle.

Carillion01 Fri 03-Jul-20 22:58:03

Right gals, I'm just off now for a tootle with Shakin'...he's going to show me one of his vines...what a night.
Lins, I'll be back soon, don't leave without me, not sure if it's worth not bothering having a kip though...soon be 6.00am
???

lemongrove Fri 03-Jul-20 22:13:10

Now, to honour Dylan Thomas I think we should all get paralytic .....so get the next round in Doodle and mines a pint of cherry brandy with a slice of pineapple, ice cubes and one of those little umbrellas stuck in it.?Do not go gentle into that good night..hic!

lemongrove Fri 03-Jul-20 22:08:11

Tom Jones was amazing, he was a dead ringer, and what a voice! He let me try his curly wig on ( it doesn’t half suit me!)?
I think we made oodles of wonga tonite... the bar is packed.
Tony Badass is up next for karaoke, he’s going to sing ‘I did it my way’ ( he thinks Sinatra was Welsh) so give him a big hand folks....

lemongrove Fri 03-Jul-20 22:03:38

Wow! Lins well done, you GO girl (the cellar is a good place)
?
Right, my turn at the karaoke, all together now.....
‘Didn’t we have a luvverly time the day we went to Bangor’

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