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Doodle Sat 27-Mar-21 20:16:59

Service as usual in the Argy folks but with the addition of our new roof top tea garden. In the words of the famous Basil Fawlty, no riffraff. ?

lemongrove Fri 09-Apr-21 20:40:10

brook...you look divine in that white pvc outfit and what a voice! It brought tears to my eyes.My ears are still ringing as well.

ixion Fri 09-Apr-21 20:40:40

Thanks gmajet.
I shall start toot sweet.

"I'm just an old fashioned girl with an old fashioned mind
Not sophisticated, I'm the sweet and simple kind.
I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence
And an old fashioned millionaire"

Hey, doodle is looking daggers at me as I perch on Lord Lemon's lap.
Hopefully she won't recognise me in my new size 6 and with my booze and fag ravaged voice?

Final round now,
Hey Big Spender.
Blimey, that got them going. Raucous lot.
No class.

grandmajet Fri 09-Apr-21 20:42:23

I haven’t seen gorgeous George for ages. I hope someone undid the chains...........

ixion Fri 09-Apr-21 20:44:18

School holidays, gjet.
Amal doesn't get time off in her job.
Daddy daycare.

lemongrove Fri 09-Apr-21 20:45:49

That isn’t Lord L, it’s the Russian captain of the ‘Aveitoff’ that huge container ship just in port today.
You’ve got lucky there ixion just beware if he asks you back to handle his samovar.

ixion Fri 09-Apr-21 20:50:42

I think you're mistaken, lemon
He signed in as Captain of its sister ship, also in port.
The "Avitaweigh"

lemongrove Fri 09-Apr-21 20:56:09

The samovar thing still applies ixion ?unless he isn’t Russian, in which case he may ask you back to admire his etchings/ coffee machine/ postcard collection etc.

grandmajet Fri 09-Apr-21 21:09:58

Where is Lord Lemon? He was here earlier, flashing his credentials at us all, knocking back the poteen. I haven’t seen brook for a while either................ I think they’ve gone off to share a pork scratching in the back alley.

ixion Fri 09-Apr-21 21:12:03

No more Russian than I am!
I quoted that bit from the Three Sisters where Masha goes on about being offended by anything coarse and vulgar and he hadn't a clue what I was talking about.
Have sent him packing downstairs to ogle at engage in conversation with the wrens.
Cheek.

grandmajet Fri 09-Apr-21 21:20:40

You’ve gone all highbrow ixion! Maybe he’s just a low brow Russian made good, who has made his fortune on the high seas - I’ll just go and have a crack myself - I mean, check if he’s ok down there.

ixion Fri 09-Apr-21 21:31:37

DF was an undercover agent in the Iron Curtain era.
Not a lot of people know that.

Doodle Fri 09-Apr-21 22:16:33

Right well that’s Lord L out of the picture. George doesn’t do it for me anymore. Always smells of coffee.
Ooh a Russian sailor......elbows out... ixion go and sing or something.
Ooh I love a man with a beard ??.......... oops, sorry Madam., you Russians are well built aren’t you.
Doodle slinks off to the corner to sulk.

brook2704 Fri 09-Apr-21 22:24:30

Phew that was a night! Everyone is dance crazy and having a ball... I’ve been missing for a while as I got a bit tangled up backstage ... but I’m back now, only a bit disheveled and ready for the finale ..

Doodle Fri 09-Apr-21 22:31:34

brook why are you wandering round with half the lighting rig caught up in your clothing. You haven’t been up to no good with that lighting engineer again have you ?

grandmajet Fri 09-Apr-21 22:40:56

Let’s finish all together with a rousing rendition of:-

‘What good is sitting alone in your room,
Come hear the music play,
Life is a cabaret, old chum,
Come to the cabaret.‘

Always a crowd pleaser. I’ll be Liza Minnelli.

What a great evening. Time to relax with one last cocktail....
Now where’s my Russian gone? Doodle? Have you nabbed him?

brook2704 Fri 09-Apr-21 22:49:18

I wondered why I was so uncomfy Doodle i don’t know what happened, one minute I was on stage lapping up the applause then the next minute I was on the floor backstage in a heap ...
Right I’ve sorted out my lighting problem, ostrich feathers are back in my hair and I’m ready to give it one last go ...

Doodle Fri 09-Apr-21 23:17:01

Yes girls, well done. Off you go onstage, sing your hearts out.
I’ll join you in a bit. I’m just coming, you go ahead without me. I’m right behind you..............psst Igor cum viv me to der cellar I hav vokdka ja ?

AGAA4 Sat 10-Apr-21 16:12:41

Thor, Theo and I were exhausted keeping up with the cocktail and poteen requirements last night. We made a fortune! The Cabaret chillers were a favourite especially when we added marmite. Thor certainly knows what to do with his shaker.
Theo, who usually wears a thick shirt and knee length shorts got so hot he took his shirt off. Wow! Tall and tanned and young and lovely he is the boy from Ipanema.
Doodle hasn't noticed him .....yet.

Doodle Sat 10-Apr-21 20:53:09

Who, what, where......let me at him . ......oooh ?

grandmajet Sat 10-Apr-21 20:58:48

Sorry I didn’t make it in today. I was so upset, my Russian captain stood me up - he promised to meet me in the back lane after the cabaret last night
I waited for ages. Did anyone see what happened to him? He promised to take me up the Volga too. So upset. ?
Now I need to drown my sorrows in poteen.

ixion Sat 10-Apr-21 21:22:18

You be careful AGA.
Gary from Grimsby (he of the Hawaiian shirt) has got his eye on Thor now after the shirt lifting removal incident last night.

How much money have we got put aside now, after expenses?

brook2704 Sat 10-Apr-21 21:37:40

Ah that’s such a shame your Russian captain was a no show grandmajet I think he might have been double booked with Doodle .....

grandmajet Sat 10-Apr-21 21:40:22

?

AGAA4 Sat 10-Apr-21 21:52:34

We made 2k and expenses were £3/10/6 last night.

Doodle Sat 10-Apr-21 22:13:29

blush ooops. Sorry Grandmajet I didn’t know he was meeting you too. Actually he wasn’t that great. Kept talking about ailing the seven seas, made me feel sea sick.
He did send you a present ? but I’m not sure what you’re going to do with it. .....? says he calls her Octavia and she’s very handy in the kitchen ?

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