Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Good evening and welcome to Nungate Towers, venue of the latest meeting of the AB Mad Over Fifties club.
What have we for your delight and edification tonight?
Well, our Tailcock of the evening will be the "HowlinGale" inspiration drawn from the hoolie blowing outside! For our hot plate special we have that stomach lining dish, Stovies, hearty and filing, the very thing for a dark and stormy night! On the pudding trolley, our pastry chef has excelled himself and invented an ice cream Battenburg! Strawberry and Vanilla ice cream swathed in a golden almond sponge cake (a bit like a square Arctic Roll!) and of course the usual selection of volley vonts, canopies and horses doovers! mmm yum!
Up in the gallery, in addition to the usual selection of Madrigals and fugues played by the Minstrels, they will be joined later by the Towers' staff in the Great Hall for Carol singing (we haven't told Carol yet, boy will she be
surprised!) In the ballroom, we have our favourite local band The Tone Deafs playing a selection of oldies but goodies and just a soupcon of seasonal numbers tossed in to add a little festive touch.
The indoor pool is open to members, as is the library, where we have a lovely fire blazing in the hearth, and a fabulous selection of books and periodicals for members who would prefer a quieter evening, the snug is also available for members wishing a quiet time, there is a trolley of drinks and snacks laid out and a huge array of DVDs to choose from if members would prefer to watch something. Of course the hot tub is bubbling away on the North Tower for those members wishing to brave the elements (hopefully it has been well anchored) however I must state that owing to high winds the bungee will not be in operation this evening (the piranhas in the moat will be sorry and Igor will have to feed them later ....)
And now a short announcement for our members.
Next week will be MOFC's Annual Christmas Ball, members may wish to come in mufti if they please or dress as characters from Pantomime or any form of fancy dress of their choosing. Santa will of course "drop" in on proceedings with gifts for all!
For the rofl tonight I offer:
3 yards of purple tinsel (surplus to requirements)
1 set of fairy lights (not working)
4 boxes of Christmas tree baubles (smashed, thank you Plant aka "butterfingers" .......)
Igor will be in the vestibule to collect cloaks, brooms and any other accoutrements members wish to be concealed during the course of tonight's meeting (no guarantees of their safe return)
Queenofmean sends her apologies she has a prior engagement this evening
Daisynonna will also be an absentee owing to a better offer sigh Igor of course is devastated .......

A warm welcome awaits all who dare enter these portals


carriages at midnight

[tonyav]

Hey, that looks good, DT. Wouldn't mind trying a bottle of that.

[nungate]

I think they can turn just about anything into beer these days, there are adverts on tv up here (don't know if it's on down south) for Red beer - not a clue as to what it is yet .... give me time!

[tonyav]

Red beer, nungate. Not Watneys Red barrel.

[nungate]

No Tony, I remember that. It actually has a red colour

[tonyav]

I wonder what gives it it's Red colour.


I've just heard that West Brom Albion have sacked Steve Clark their manager, They have lost four matches in a row now !.

[DTCwordfan]

Watneys Red - awful liquid shyte........

[nungate]

Does Watneys even exist these days?

Four lost games and your out? bit harsh at least give them a fifth chance!
I assume you are a happy camper then Tony?

[tonyav]

Yes it was, DT. I remember when I first went to Spain on hols ( early seventies, that was the only English beer you could get ).

[tonyav]

I assume you are a happy camper then Tony?

Yep, They are getting relegation results.

[nungate]

Always seemed to be McEwans beers etc up here when I was a kid. I remember at the local flea pit everyone singing along to the ad for McEwans beers "Oh McEwans is the best buy the best buy the best oh McEwans is the best buy the best buy in beer" every kid in that cinema sang along, it got so that when the ad appeared they turne off the sound so we wouldn't sing a long - made no difference we sang anyway!

[tonyav]

Well the McEwans ad worked then, nungate. Even the kids singing it's name.

[nungate]

I went on a beer hunt and I found it ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NrwFz9wm8I

[tonyav]

I see what you mean, nungate, a proper singalong ad.

[nungate]

Give it a play and imagine a cinema full of kids on a Saturday afternoon!
them were the days! My dad used to make us a (very) weak shandy with the Indian Pale Ale - the New Years parties - eightsome reels in the back yard with uncle playing the bagpipes .. it was good to be a kid back then

[tonyav]

It was Saturday mornings at the flea pit for us, nungate. I used to love it, great fun.

[nungate]

The films changed every couple of days back then, two films, ads (pearl and dean) I don't remember trailers, sometimes they would show a serial from the 1930's but I only remember Captain Marvel (shazzam!!)

[tonyav]

Same here, used to love the westerns usually a Roy Rodgers film.

[DTCwordfan]

And there I thought it was Youngers....

For me, it was a diet of Hartley's from Ulverston and Theakstons.....

[tonyav]

Highgate mild for me, DT.

[nungate]

We must have sat through an awful lot of dross back then.

I think Youngers became part of the Scottish and Newcastle group. There used to be breweries all over Edinburgh at one time, the Scottish Parliament building is now sitting on one such site! (whit a waste!) I used to work in an office where we held the Registers of Shareholders of the S&N Breweries - their AGM was very popular with our staff as they went along to check the votes etc.