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

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lemongrove Fri 14-Aug-20 13:46:17

Had to pay the landlord an extra fiver a week, but he has extended our lease, phew! Safe again for a while for all Argy Bargies wanting a sit down and a pint of something, whilst getting things off their chests.???

phoenix Fri 16-Oct-20 16:05:23

blush

LauraNorder Fri 16-Oct-20 15:58:22

Too late for the explanation Phoenix geeeeze that’s hhhhhot

phoenix Fri 16-Oct-20 15:08:34

Just to add, that is for the mounts, not the riders, but whatever floats your boat.

phoenix Fri 16-Oct-20 15:07:12

You know that a bit of ginger up the derriere is supposed to have quite an effect?

Root ginger, obviously, ground ginger might involve a blow pipe type approach.

LauraNorder Fri 16-Oct-20 15:04:01

Racing weight heh! Can I just say my weight is running away with me.
Only kidding Doodle, of course we won’t eat the llamas. We know how you like to snuggle up to them.
Already had a run in with a Sheik, ooh that’s no way to find the bri-nylon label sheiky darling.
Looking forward to a Sheik, rattle and roll cocktail. What time are the doors opening Lemon?

lemongrove Fri 16-Oct-20 14:55:51

Calm down dear!?Just a little joke, and besides I will make more dosh with the racing....now, what’s your racing weight Doodle ?

Doodle Fri 16-Oct-20 14:38:46

laura no ?. Boys put your hands over your ears, the nasty lady doesn’t mean it.
lemon how could you. You leave my llamas alone or I’ll paint a bullseye on your bum and let them loose.

lemongrove Fri 16-Oct-20 14:36:14

If we don’t actually eat the llamas, we could do camel racing with them, everyone likes a bet after all, and I could make a fortune by nobbling the favourite ( feeding it Soop’s scones beforehand!)
We’ll get everyone good and drunk and do the racing then,
Down the docks and back.
Doodle can I rely on you to race Gnasher ( give him a Sunset Sherbet just before the race) and only us will know that he’ll win for sure.Shshshshshsh......don’t say a word eh?

lemongrove Fri 16-Oct-20 14:30:09

Now there’s a thought! Roast llama/ camel, very Arabian,
Who’s up for it?
I have created some nibbles to resemble sheep eyeballs, they are surprisingly lifelike!
The fire station crew will be in later, and the ships company will all be here, there’ll be so many teatowels on show it will be like a WI kitchen.

LauraNorder Thu 15-Oct-20 22:33:17

I don’t want to upset anyone but llamas might be nice with mint sauce or a bit of cranberry jelly.

Doodle Thu 15-Oct-20 21:29:20

Well we have Gnasher, Grasper, llama-clock and the final one (for the moment ?) we could call Humphrey coz he hasn’t really got one. What do llamas do? Do they lay eggs or can we milk them or shear them? Cum on lemon it’s not like you to miss a money making scheme ?

lemongrove Thu 15-Oct-20 21:04:52

What shall we call him?We have four llamas now...a herd, getting a bit much for the back yard.

lemongrove Thu 15-Oct-20 21:03:41

Well, it was like this.....it was very very dark in the zoo and I had forgotten my specs, and Gloopy has never seen a camel in his life.We got the wrong enclosure! So we thought we could get away with a pumpkin on it’s back if we threw an old Persian rug over it, nobody would be any the wiser, voila! A camel......trust you to peek under the rug.?

Doodle Thu 15-Oct-20 20:27:07

Er lemon you know your trip to the zoo in the dark with Gloopy. I take it that things didn’t quite go according to plan.
Would you like to explain why we have yet another llama tied up outside with a pumpkin tied to his back?

lemongrove Thu 15-Oct-20 20:18:10

Mmmm, this poteen is yummy AGA your best yet!

Achilles and me made a few cocktails this afternoon...

Sunset Sherbet.. chartreuse, pernod, Baileys and a dash of Flash.

Desert Delight...whisky, Vodka, Tizer, and hint of mint.

Sheik Rattle And Roll... brandy, Guinness, absinthe and a splosh of IrnBru.

As usual, I have lined up a few on the bar to try ?????
Am already hooked on Sunset Sherbet though!
Thor is setting up some hookahs on the tables ( wouldn’t be the first time)wink

lemongrove Thu 15-Oct-20 20:07:05

Tell the men they can’t all come as Sheiks, we do need variety.I think they’re being lazy and just want to dress in a sheet and clamp a teatowel on their heads.
The Admiral and Captain will dress in the uniforms of the French Foreign Legion, and Thor says he will come as a cactus....not strictly Arabian but never mind.

lemongrove Thu 15-Oct-20 20:01:54

Am flying to your rescue Doodle ( as soon as I finish this pint).....we can’t have you tied up in the cellar, there’s work to be done!
Gloopy and I are doing another midnight run later on....to the zoo! We are going to liberate a camel for Arabian Nite.The plan is to dress in black, and carrying a torch and wire cutters
Break into the camel enclosure, jump on the back of one and then hightail it back to the bar.Wish us luck.

AGAA4 Thu 15-Oct-20 16:28:44

All the men want to be Sheiks. They will get the shakes if they drink this new batch of poteen. Think I overdid it adding vodka and tabasco sauce with a good dose of castor oil.
Did we buy more toilet rolls btw?
Doodle you are needed for the dancing to keep all these Sheiks happy.

Doodle Wed 14-Oct-20 22:32:52

lemon you could have let me get out of my dress before you started using it as a tent. I’m stuck in the middle now like a tent pole and Thor has tied my arms to the cellar posts to stabilise the tent . ?

lemongrove Wed 14-Oct-20 21:07:02

Thor says he will dress as The Sheik...... and seduce us girls in his tent ( well, not a tent really, one of Doodles old party frocks,) but it’s big enough, we can peg it out in the cellar.?

lemongrove Wed 14-Oct-20 21:03:53

So thats where my drawing room curtains went!
Am hoping AGA and Chewbacca will be dancing girls on the Nite, belly dancing is their speciality ( you do need a belly for it) am sure their act will bring the house down, particularly if they cavort on the tables.?

Have stored all the sand from O’Reilly’s building firm round in the back yard, covered with an old tarp ( the Admiral’s coat) actually.
I took a trip through the alleys at midnight to get the sand,
Like sweet Molly Malone,I wheeled my wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow, with one eye out for the rozzers.
We can use last week’s old beanstalk for a palm tree.

AGAA4 Tue 13-Oct-20 16:06:01

I have looked for harem pants online but they don't do them in a 60 inch hip. I will make some out of curtains I stole borrowed from Lemongrove Hall when I was laying a patio for Lemon.

LauraNorder Mon 12-Oct-20 22:35:24

More seven bellies than seven veils in my case but gives a nice cascading effect.

AGAA4 Mon 12-Oct-20 17:01:19

We will need some volunteers for belly dancing.
I will bring a paddling pool for the oasis.
Looking forward to the dance of the seven veils. I wonder who will volunteer to perform?
I asked the llamas if they would be camels for the night but they got the hump.

lemongrove Mon 12-Oct-20 10:02:51

Good idea AGA we can have an Arabian Nite this Friday.
I’ll go and dig up some sand from the builders yard round the back of the alley later on ( midnight...at the oasis?).
Callistemon you deserved those prickles for being a wanton hussy.
Doodle get out of that puddle and your bedraggled self into the bar, we need every scrubber on deck to make it presentable.

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