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LauraNorderr Sat 13-Dec-25 12:46:07

🎶 🎉🎄 Time for some fun.🎄🎈
What will you bring to the party?
Something savoury, something sweet, your favourite tipple and a small Secret Santa gift.
Merry Christmas

Wyllow3 Tue 16-Dec-25 07:30:02

In that case, I'm coming....

MartavTaurus Tue 16-Dec-25 07:42:56

Has anyone mentioned a cheese board yet?
Stilton, Brie, Camembert, Wensleydale, Comté etc
And a Gouda good goat! 🐐 🧀
The smellier the better, to drown out any other unpleasant odours.

Oreo Tue 16-Dec-25 07:44:37

Wyllow3

In that case, I'm coming....

Are you the Sally who met Harry by any chance?💥😜

nanna8 Tue 16-Dec-25 07:53:06

I’ll bring a Pav for dessert. With lots of raspberries and blueberries because they are in season. Maybe a couple of big ripe mangos and a bottle of sav blanc to wash it all down. Nip over here , bring your bathers and have a swim, it is usually a hot day here.

Oreo Tue 16-Dec-25 08:01:10

The Admiral and Matt Damon are already in their budgie smugglers 🤭 I can’t choose between them!

Allira Tue 16-Dec-25 10:42:30

madeleine45

Must have lots of roast chestnuts, which have by magic been done just right, with no burnt or raw bits. Then I may bring my most extravagent mince pies with pastry made with butter and orange juice and the mince put in with a dollop of philly cheese mixed with sugar on top and then pastry on top of that. I am quite a pastry queen, so could make some good flaky pastry and serve up hot sausage rolls too

Are you Josceline Dimbleby by any chance? Or did you just borrow her mince pie recipe?

They are delicious, I must say, madeleine45!

AGAA4 Tue 16-Dec-25 11:27:59

I am coming in my special overcoat to snaffle enough goodies to last me for a while. I've made space in the freezer.

brook2704 Tue 16-Dec-25 12:00:58

Over to you Doodle heard you’ve lots of experience managing the bar
Thor and Sven were asking if you’d have them back this year ?

brook2704 Tue 16-Dec-25 12:03:54

Good on you 4allweknow we’re always needing someone to clear up
Don’t want to put you off but there’s an awful lot of cleaning up needed after the llamas - had to get the fire brigade in last year

Aveline Tue 16-Dec-25 12:20:53

Oh dear. Sounds like the Argy Bargy bar all over again. My assistants, Fabrice and Antoine, have only just recovered from their one and only visit to it. They said it was no place for nice boys like them.

Allira Tue 16-Dec-25 12:25:37

Aveline

Oh dear. Sounds like the Argy Bargy bar all over again. My assistants, Fabrice and Antoine, have only just recovered from their one and only visit to it. They said it was no place for nice boys like them.

Bring them along. We'll show them how to let their hair down, Aveline wink

Oreo Tue 16-Dec-25 12:35:51

AGAA4

I am coming in my special overcoat to snaffle enough goodies to last me for a while. I've made space in the freezer.

There seem to be a lot of comings, and goings😁

Oreo Tue 16-Dec-25 12:37:08

Aveline

Oh dear. Sounds like the Argy Bargy bar all over again. My assistants, Fabrice and Antoine, have only just recovered from their one and only visit to it. They said it was no place for nice boys like them.

I do like a French accent, are they hunks ?

Oreo Tue 16-Dec-25 12:37:37

Only they sound a bit girly?

Prancer Tue 16-Dec-25 12:45:36

I'll bring Tim Tam Rocky Road and some carrot cake cupcakes. Yummy 🧁🧁

Oreo Tue 16-Dec-25 13:46:06

I don’t know who Tim Tam is, my guess would be a welder from Aberdeen, but having met Rocky Road before at another party I can confirm that he’s a hoot, tells non stop jokes and can drink anyone under the table.

Allira Tue 16-Dec-25 17:05:42

Oreo

I don’t know who Tim Tam is, my guess would be a welder from Aberdeen, but having met Rocky Road before at another party I can confirm that he’s a hoot, tells non stop jokes and can drink anyone under the table.

Nah, mate, Tim and Tam are Australian hunks from the Outback, Sheila.
Think Crocodile Dundee and Hugh Jackman

Aveline Tue 16-Dec-25 17:07:26

Oreo Fabrice and Antoine are extremely girly. The only aspect of the Argy Bargy was the Admiral if remember correctly.

Cossy Tue 16-Dec-25 19:03:46

Can someone invite Colin Firth please and Hugh Grant so Colin can give him a proper bashing?

LauraNorderr Tue 16-Dec-25 20:19:43

Aveline forget about Fabrice and Antoine, they’ll look after each other.
You put on your best face as we have a surprise guest for you. Be in Pigstrotter Alley by 7.30, right behind Alahan’s corner shop, guess who?

Doodle Tue 16-Dec-25 20:25:17

Oh well I’d better don my sparkly top and get the bar open. AGA the fist batch of Poteen has a strange green glow to it. Do you think it’s ok?
Thor and Sven are welcome back anytime. They can keep an eye on the Admiral. Llamas are sorted out in the stable but you know who wants a heated blanket. 🤔
Tonight’s buffet includes sausage rolls and Cornish pasties our vegetarian option is turnip pie and radish roulade.
The karaoke is plugged in who’s up first.

Nandalot Tue 16-Dec-25 21:09:05

I have shall bring some Cassis and Prosecco for poor man and woman’s Kir Royale. Also some of the mushroom tartlets from Sainsbury’s that I am hooked on.

Kiwibird Wed 17-Dec-25 06:39:54

I'll bring some lovely N.Z. South Island oysters, a leg of N.Z. lamb, a pavlova (which N.Z. invented. Australia thinks they did haha) and some nice cherries. Although how I get these through customs might prove difficult). I'll have to go back to work though to get enough money to pay for this lot! Worth it though.

Lesley60 Wed 17-Dec-25 07:17:38

Mamaa could you make it Croft please, I will bring a prawn ring and get my daughter to make us a bicoff cheesecake they are so good, music has to be fairytale of New York

LauraNorderr Wed 17-Dec-25 13:51:18

Ooh NZ South Island oysters. Cor blimey. Please don’t feed any to the Admiral but I’ll have them please.