As an experiment we are opening up a Virtual Pop Up Bar tonight. Is is unclear if recent performance problems were internet, website or a result of a long thread. See what you there from 06:00pm..
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MichaelJHHeart Star
Tonight we also have a BBQ. On offer: burgers (beef or vegan), steak, chicken breast, salmon steak, mackerel or shrimp with optional potato wedges snd/or coleslaws (plain, cheese or apple). Besides the usual drinks we have a barrel of Tring Brewery Side-Pocket-for-a-Toad, an excellent session beer.
A jazz quartet will be performing from 08:00 - 10:00pm with a 15 minute break.
Can I pre-order a salmon steak but could my wedges be sweet potato please?
Someone always had to be different! 😀
I hate wedges.........specially when I am riding my 🚴 🤣🤣😂😂
Yes, that would be uncomfortable! 😂
Lovely bar well done MichaelJH where did you find it?
Can I also have a salmon steak with sweet potatoes.
A pint of Side pocket for a toad please too.
I am wondering if it's going to be possible to do the Bermondsey mile this summer.
I'm dribbling already
I had a goat’s cheese sandwich for lunch. Needless to say he was fuming.
😊
😂
Have a drink on me.
I am just having a pint of low cal orange squash. Need rehydrating after all this rushing around!
I will have a Tring please is that what you put on a bike to make people get out of the way !!
Yeah..... a tring, tring🤣🤣
That's right tring tring well remembered
Why can’t an elephant ride a bicycle?
Because he doesn’t have a thumb to ring the bell
TRST I hope you brought your wallet !!
Just off for an evening walk be back in around 30 minutes
MichaelJHHeart Star
Is that a 250m. Sunnie2day goes for the 750ml variant! 😁
Too right I do - it's like the difference between 'low-fat' ice cream, and the real full-fat ice cream. Why faff about with pale imitations or small glasses?!
Right as this a Virtual Pop Up Bar, I'd like a beefburger 1/4 pounder with cheese and potato wedges please, any choc digestives around by any chance, in a different life I used to be quite partial to a few of then, thankfully, as this is virtual, just pass the packet, I'll kook after them 😊
As for drinks can I have a large vodka with fresh orange juice please? ( still can't procure any in the shops).
😂 I can tell you've missed those goodies!
Only a tiny tiny bit! 😢
Our shop has vodka! 😁
Did you want bacon as well?
Oh yes please, ops excuse the dribbling!
Avocado?
oh God, stop it 😮
Fried egg?
arrrrrrrrh!
With chorizo?
And a slice of blue cheese?
arrrrrrrrrrrrrh. I give in - white flag!!
Just back did a double loop tonight and managed not to bad
I have run out of mint tea so would like a mojito please if you have any .and some fresh mackerel would be lovely.
Coming up - we have had to use ordinary sugar as we have no syrup. Will have to include some in our next order.
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I dont take sugar it is poison , any stevia around?
Hello anyone else here ?
How do I see the reply ??
It pops up as a Notification ?
Wow, lovely setting! I don't see where you've set up the barbie but I read downstream you've got supper on it -
Are there any beef steaks going spare? Ummm, medium rare, a cheese coleslaw and a nice merlot, perfect way to get Wednesday night started!
It's Skype night with the son and grandsons in America. My dil is 'self-isolating' owing to symptoms developing last week so the lads are in a friend's granny flat for the next 2.5 weeks. I'll need that steak supper to fortify my Gran nerves for the virtual visit!
Spoke to middle granddaughter tonight FaceTime because off from school Mum as allowed her to dye her hair blue nearly fell off my chair she did have beautiful blonde locks!!! She thinks she looks amazing, good job Papas eyesight isn’t too good otherwise he would have had another stroke!! Better order a drink try and calm down.
Blue. Well, it's not a tattoo, if that helps any! Here, share my merlot
Thanks, just got a G&T, and boy did I need it! Oh well by the time school is up and running again it will be back to normal! My son said my face was a picture!
Haha I have been through that experience pass another glass of merlot 😂🍷
I went over in 2011, sat by the pool and almost fell in when my son came out of the house to swim - and had a small tattoo on his chest! Well, yes, it was small and not over-the-top in design, and he was 27 at the time. But. Still.
MilkfairyHeart Star
Can I have a Chilean Metlot please?
Has the jazz band started?
What are they playing?
MichaelJHHeart Star
By virtue of virtual reality welcome "Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen" :
Could I please have a large G&T ice and a slice need a stiff drink just seen Granddaughters blue hair!!
My youngest son came home with aubergine hair. His girlfriend dyed it for him!
Wow, it’s that she thinks she looks amazing, I am feeling really old!! I am really not getting it.
MichaelJHHeart Star
Back about 2,100 seconds...
MichaelJHHeart Star
Well were played out with Kenny's interpretation of Sailing - an excellence performance indeed! I will start clearing the decks now - any last orders? There is a Mojito going free if anyone fancies it!
MichaelJHHeart Star
Opens at 06:00 pm tonight, 2nd April. Enjoy a virtual drink and rehearse for the #SingForTheNHS at 08:00 pm! 🎶
MichaelJHHeart Star
If you want to rehearse before:
it looks fab wish we were all there
Hi! Just got here! Batman can I have a Guinness and dry cider please?
A case of predictive text I think! Robin serve this gentleman please. 😁
Thank you muchly!
Is that half and half? BTW I am flying solo as no barstaff!
You've got it!
Here you go - sorry for the delay. It takes careful pouring.
I would worry if you didn't have a long stand for your pint of Guinness.
No I ordered half-a-pint of Guinness with half-a-pint of cider in s pint glass?
A Black Velvet by name!
Hmmm not sure whether I should comment it might lock down the thread
The idea of any beer/ stout being mixed with cider/lemonade/ blackcurrant etc is
🤮🤢
With perry it is called Snakebite!
Still not a good taste 😳
Gin and fever tree tonic please and a bag of crisps. Oh and new teeth so I can eat pork scratchings.
Here's the G&T. Is that both crisps and scratchings?
Not unless you can lend me some decent teeth .I don't want Lezzers they're as bad as mine
Is that Plain, Cheese and Onion or Salt and Vinegar?
I don't want mine either! Though I am looking forward to eating solids again
My gran used to trim the pie crust with hers! Mind you she did rinse them first!
😱 😂
Once asked for a coffee and tea at a bowling alley. Black coffee with teabag floating in it arrived
I love a beer garden do you have Craft Beer tonight ??
Tonight Frank we have Side-Pocket-for-a-Toad, Directors, London Pride and Speckled Hen.
MichaelJHHeart Star
Coming up - pulled pork and chorizo sausages rolls, vegan rolls and scotch eggs!
MichaelJHHeart Star
Rehearsal at half-past!
Clap for Carers now that could be taken another way !!!
To help you a quick guide - clap 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Scotch Egg for me please I do like them warmed up with Baked Beans on the rare occasion they are allowed !!
MichaelJHHeart Star
2 minutes to go....
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1 minute to go..
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Now... 🎶🎶🎶
I had to Google the words!
The main thing it is the thought that counts!
Now my hands are sore as well as my teeth! 👏
Can I have another Black Velvet and are there any scotch eggs left please!
Here you go! I popped on a sausage roll gratis as otherwise it will go to waste but you don't have to eat it.
MichaelJHHeart Star
Last orders please! As it's gone quiet I will close at 9:30...
Can I have a Teacher's for the road, thank you..
Here you go!
Silly me I got over enthusiastic!
I’ll have a brandy please Michael. Thanks. News just in: King Felipe VI of Spain has just been confirmed with COVID-19 and he’s been quarantined on his private jet. Yes - the reign of Spain is staying mainly on the plane 😂
Here you go!
Thanks. Are you working behind the bar now?
Yes, Michael messaged me and I don't have to call myself Robin!
😂😂😂
Could probably do with a barmaid for busy times?
😂 😂 😂
Okay can I have a port please
Here you go!
Thank you.
Has Michael finished early tonight?
He said he was getting a breath of fresh air now it looks deserted outside.
MichaelJHHeart Star
Looks like you kept on top of things. You can have the whiskey you served yourself in the house!
MichaelJHHeart Star
OK, final last orders...
MichaelJHHeart Star
The bar is now open - please use the honesty box. If having a sausage roll or scotch egg please use the tongs provided and sanitizer afterwards. Thank you!
MichaelJHHeart Star
Closed - reopens 6:00 pm.
MichaelJHHeart Star
Seems quiet - anybody lurking? 😀
MilkfairyHeart Star
We've just sent out for Fish and chips and then were doing a pub quiz at home.
I'll be along later
I am still on my Garden Beer no 4
Old Speckled Hen
To strong for me
Can I have the strongest violet gin cherry coctail you can rustle up to send me farther away somewhere
MichaelJHHeart Star
Popping on Bill Withers' Greatest Hits on his memory. Having problems linking do please check out YouTube!
MilkfairyHeart Star
MichaelJHHeart Star
Night all... 😴
Is the bar not opening tonight?
Sorry I was delayed - I need more bar staff. They are all isolating (see my new post)
MilkfairyHeart Star
Do you need a hand behind the bar?
I did back in the day work behind the bar. I think I can still remember how to pull a pint of Guinness if necessary
OK can you start a trial now? I think Lezzers is having a sneaky chocolate bar in the bike shed! 😮
Hey, you can't start spreading rumours bout me & bike sheds! 😂
There was a lot of chat about white chocolate today...
MichaelJHHeart Star
Could one of you two ladies make me a Moscow Mule please?
what's a Moscow Mule ?
Oh my, that looks wonderful!
Vodka, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice, garnished with a slice or wedge of lime.
Ginger beer and Dark Rum A Dark & Stormy see Michael you taught me a Moscow Mule and I taught a Dark and Stormy
You learn every day. I gave a few people a lesson on static electricity today.
Served in a copper mug which I have just found at the very back of the top shelf in the kitchen
Just giving it a wash and a polish
Good Girl Sorry that's a bit sexist
If you've got any Stoli back there, yes please!
MilkfairyHeart Star
Okay where do you keep the mugs?
Here present and correct
What are you drinking tonight?
Last time I had Angostura was in a Tom Collins at Silver Sands in Mombasa now if there is any ex RN they will recognise that !!
Arrh you've started without me! Can I have a pint of Peroni please? Actually make that 2 pints. Actually make that 2 pints plus a pint glass full of ice filled to the top with Drambuie please? Felling a bit frazzled, the washing machine has decided to go to the washing machine graveyard in the sky, leaving a small pond of water in the kitchen as it went 😤 I'll be fine once I've imbibed that lot!
Would a Drambuie Shandy not be quicker to drink so you can get back to mopping the floor
Or seeing we have Drambuie how about a Rusty Nail
That would work, feel like I'be got rusty knees after cleaning up the kitchen
Floor already moped, that's why I'm late
Hello Lezzers
You have my deepest empathy. Do you think the Government will agree a new washing machine (and a new microwave 'cause mine just gave it up) is an essential purchase?
I've already sorted out a new one via John Lewis, arriving next Saturday, but with Coronavirus their service now only extends to delivery to the drive or garage, can't enter house and can't take away existing dead machine. So my next door neighbour will be helping me take out machine to garage and moving new machine into kitchen. Not ideal as I'm trying to keep away from people but no other option.
Why do things break down at the wrong moment? If it had gone 3 weeks ago could have got John Lewis to install new machine and take away old one!
Good luck with the JL delivery. I got the usual text the day before delivery to confirm the time slot for the next day. Next day, 5 mins after the time slot expired I got a phone call to say they had a heavy load on & wouldn't be able to make the delivery....they didn't understand my question 'had the load suddenly get heavier during the day'!
I hope it turns up on time. If it doesn't I will have difficulty trying to suggest that I stayed in specially for them! 🤣
MichaelJHHeart Star
Why hasn't SotF been served yet?
Once got totally wrecked on Rusty Nails after a night shift on New Years Eve went home and opened a bottle of Malt and a bottle of Drambuie didn't take long to polish it off two of us lol
Malts are too good generally for cocktails IMHO!
It's not a cocktail it's a mans drink for sure god it's good If I have Malt I use it only real blend is Chivas
So have I - the following day was miserable
MichaelJHHeart Star
OK Milkfairy and Lezzers I am.leaving you in charge...
MilkfairyHeart Star
You need to leave me with written instructions on how to manage SotF.
Just keep setting up some more Rusty Nails
We've run out of Drambuie after your request for a whole pint with ice!
Ye Gods it really isn't my day is it.
I can offer a Dark and Stormy instead
If is has a reasonable quantity of alcohol - I'm in
Here you go....let's hope it hits the spot to ease your washing machine wors
( Lezzers please check SotF's bag )
Couldn't be in better hands
Dark and Stormy please Ladies
Here you go....
Lezzers we need some more limes !
Eek, I feel under pressure I've never done this before!! Erm, limes coming up!!
We have a security scanner for SotF, don't listen to him trying to wheedle out of it using his ICD as an excuse!! 🤔
Did you count the loo rolls and hand soap?
Do we need to pat SotF down instead?
I believe Michael used the wand last time! I think we're OK with the soap as Michaels got it tagged. Just keep an eye on him & if he's got bulging pockets then we'll pat him down, probably stashed the loo rolls in there.
It's OK I got a food delivery this morning which didn't include any subs, so the toilet rolls and soap are safe.
I find I've become obsessed with delivery dates. I'm not in need of anything at the moment but I don't seem to be able to stop myself trawling supermarket sites just to see if there are any dates available!
I'm sure I heard Michael Gove saying that when all this is over, the government is going to set up some counselling sessions for those of us with the newly recognised OCD of looking for food delivery slots 👀
I think you'll find that my ICD is my fall back excuse in any situation!
Hmm 🤔 do you mind if we check you're pockets before you leave?
You can check my pockets no problem, the overnight bag is out of bounds though
Service Please this feels like Masterchef
MichaelJHHeart Star
Back.. Trust every one has been served? I got a text about unpaid bill. Although I paid yesterday morning it appears it will not be credited till Monday. Where does the money go over the weekend - Barbados?
MichaelJHHeart Star
Another Mule please.
MilkfairyHeart Star
Are you going to call last orders?
MichaelJHHeart Star
Last orders please!
MichaelJHHeart Star
OK - we have just opened for a few hours. Usually drinks and snacks (crisps, nuts and scratchings available)...
All drinks are on me tonight Michael, I'm celebrating!
Wow, thank-you, I'll have a nice quiet Merlot in a small glass (I only go 750ml at the weekend!).
So, spill - wot'cha celebrating?
Sorry, got called away by a pork chop🥩 the size of a small house!! 😂 And then a friend got in touch!! Anyway I don't want to boast or sound smug but........ I got a shopping click & collect slot! Not till 26th April but hey, I'll tak that and it's at the supermarket in town! ☺
Nearly as exciting as getting a pack of toilet rolls!
They're on my order!! 😂
But did you get 🧻 ?
I did get some Friday which will tidy us over (fingers 🤞) until the 26th.
Can I have my usual please, pint glass full of ice topped up with Drambuie?
Today is my birthday, and i can honestly say that I've never been so bl***y bored in all my life. The highlight of the day was to walk up to my drug dealer (aka Pharmacy) to collect a 28 day supply of drugs (medicines).
It has also been by a margin of unimaginable proportions being the cheapest birthday I can remember, Total spent today £1 on 2 pint carton of milk!
On second thoughts, can you make that 2 pints of Peroni, the Drambuie as above, plus a large Screwdriver with ice please? 😊
Happy Birthday🎉🎈
Wishing you a very happy birthday 🎂🍷
Happy Birthday! If you had put it on the Birthday thread the forum would have sung Happy Birthday. I will just go and wash my hands so I can sing!
Happy Birthday! And I'll join you in that Screwdriver (make mine a double - head still reeling at the PM going into ICU) if you don't mind.
MichaelJHHeart Star
I will not be around till later on. Please help yourself and leave payment in the honesty box. Thank you...
MichaelJHHeart Star
Just popped in for a nightcap - double Laphroaig! Just wonder where the empty glasses have come from? Best check the toilet rolls!
Anyone for a nightcap?
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