Quiet room...

[Ant]

*wanders in pondering one of life's great questions: which is better, chocolate and mint or chocolate and orange?*

[Jah Lush]

*Pops head up from under duvet*

*Neither Ant, it's La Bomba, Brandy & Chocolate*

(Memories of holidays spent in Spain, La Bomba for breakfast)

*Gets up rushes to bar, grabs bottle of Martell*

*Swishes to fridge, grabs ice and bottle of chocolate*

*Starts pouring and drinking in mad frenzy, offers one to Ant*

[Ant]

*drinks*

*falls over with wide grin on face*

*didn't spill any so continues drinking*

[Keef]

Can I have one please?

Ant it's chocolate orange, mint is not mint!

"Looks like weekend time to me!"

*skips the light fandango*

[Jah Lush]

*Hoorah! Drinks all round, thank f**k it's Friday*

*Offers to get 'em in*

*What's ya poison pals?*

*Slips behind the bar and waits to take orders*

[Keef]

Zombie please bar keep

*lays out cushions for inevitable fall later*

[Jah Lush]

*Finds enormous cocktail shaker, hoorah!*

*Knocks up Zombies, pours into two huge jugs*

*One for you and one for me, glug glug glug*

*Anymore for anymore?*

[Asset]

*wonders what zombie is*

*not very good on cocktails*

[Ant]

Old Fashioned please, barkeep!

[Jah Lush]

*Asset, you really must try the Zombies in Black Cherry*

*In the meantime have one of mine*

*Old Fashioned coming up for Ant, cheers everyone*

[dulwichmum]

*Totters into quiet room with box of Bendicks Bittermints.*

*Offers around to chums.*

*Settles into armchair*

Thinks to self - "Thank God it is Friday...*

[Michael Palaeologus]

*Ciao Bambini - IisabackfromaItalia - innit*

*Scuse the peeling nose - always happens when I go to foreign parts*

*I am sick to death of Italian wine, fizzy lager, pizza, pasta and Amaretto, could happily eat the ice-cream for ever though*

*Clearly its been an exciting weekend because nobody has been in here since Friday*

*Wanders to bar, pulls pint of London Pride - takes a sip - ahhhh, the ale of old England. Sits in comfy chair - opens Sunday Telegraph (with NOTW hidden inside)*

*Waits ......*

[dulwichmum]

*Looks up from newspaper*

*Smiles at chum - but wonders what NOTW is???*

[Michael Palaeologus]

*News of the World D-M*

*Its all the truth you know*

[Jah Lush]

*Peers over the Sindy and frowns and sniffs at MP for reading the News of the Screws*

*Scurrilous rag indeed, boo hiss*

*Pours large port and brandy into enormous balloon glass*

*Slumps back into armchair for further reading and quiet snooze*

[dulwichmum]

*Thinks - "Well thank God for that!"*

*Trots over to chum to welcome back home with a kiss on the nose*

*Points out new donkey skin handbag*

*Smiles knowingly to self, hands box of Kleenex to chum and assures "You'll get over it"...*

[Keef]

*Gives Michael a welcome home wave*

*curses weeks when stuck in the office on "duty"*

*Pours a long long drink*

[Michael Palaeologus]

*Dulwich Mum - you are a psychopath - but I love you*

*Cheers Keef*

[bagpuss78]

*pootles in....slumps down in really enormous beanbag*

*realises is stuck and unable to stand up in any kind of lady like fashion*

*points to cealing and shouts "wow look that, my thats a big one" whilst rolling onto floor and standing up*

*slices up lime and opens bottle of corona*

*glug glug glug........all is well again*

[TillieTrotter]

*walks in with tongue hanging out, who's the bar tender this evening*

*looks up to the ceiling and wonders what Big One Bagpuss can see*

*Come on Baggy Love, tell us what we're missing here*

[bagpuss78]

*chuckles to self*

*looks around, everyone still looking up at the ceiling tee hee....it worked!*

*steals Jah Lushes Zombie whilst he's not looking*

*slurp*

[Jah Lush]

*I saw that Bagpuss, but you're welcome*

*Shakes more Zombies for pals*

*Sure a lot of you have had crap day at work*

*Pours contents into large chilled glasses*

*Help yourself folks, plenty more where they came from*

[Michael Palaeologus]

*Ooh Ta - Zombie, like it*

*I spy a bean bag - slumps into it, not as comfy as I remember*

*Tries to get up, tries again .. OH BOLLOCKS!!*

*A hand, anybody?

[Jah Lush]

*A hand I hear you say*

*Here have mine, but I want it back*

*It's the one I drink with*

[bagpuss78]

*looks over at Michael Palaeologus, gives a knowing look, after her debarkle earlier with said bean bag!*

*finishes off third Zombie*

*slumps into bean bag............................*

*bugger*