UK: Barton Sloop session to move again

Subject: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 05:21 AM

We have had to do some surgery to save the old Sloop session from dying, as it has not successfully survived the move from the Coach and Horses.

For those keen on UK pub session history, but not in possession of the facts, the Sloop Inn in Barton (sans) Upon (hyphens) Humber was the perfect location for a long-lasting and particularly successful mixed song and tune session that was eventually killed off by the outgoing PEL system, combined with landlord change.

Jo, the then manager of the Coach and Horses gave us a new home, and provided masses of really good grub, and the session's future seemed assured. However, she turned a failing pub around so successfully that the brewery allegedly bumped up the rent exponentially and she could no longer afford the pub. One of her last acts as manager was to find us a new home for the session at the George, and initially numbers held up.

However, the last few weeks has seen interest wane, and numbers have now dropped consistently below the level required for a viable session, as most bands have more members than we currently have sessioneers.

The concensus at last night's poor old do was that we had to move in order to attract some of our old regulars back, and that we had to find a pub with a PEL, and a sympathetic landlord who is likely to remain in office for some reasonable length of time. So we chose the Six Bells in Barrow Upon Humber, which is where we have had some cracking ad hoc Saturday night sessions, and subsequently the old Wootton session for the last several months. Barrow is three miles to the east of Barton, so shouldn't put folk off coming from near or far.

We also agreed that we would move the Barrow Last Sunday session to another venue, and that will hopefully be the Nelthorpe Arms in Brigg (aka Scanlons). That is still to be confirmed, and I will post updates as they happen.

I then called into see Jim in the Six Bells on my way home. There is a reasonably sizeable session room there that accommodates listeners as well as musicians (which includes singers!). He was delighted at the decision, and is up for seeing us next Sunday for the last of the Sunday sessions, and then again on Tuesdays in perpetuity. He will also provide some grub for the sessioneers, so please turn out in force to secure this venue as a long-term session.

See you next week!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Thornton Curtis
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 05:39 AM

Presumably - the Humber Bridge will be closed on the Tuesday evening to ensure the intelligentsia thread contingent from Hull will not be allowed to cross.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Thornton Curtis
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 05:48 AM

Presumably - I too am excluded, owing to the fact that I'm a total wanker!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 06:21 AM

The genuine Thornton Curtis is welcome, as are poor imitators.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 26 Nov 03 - 04:09 PM

Having been one of the stalwarts at the George last night, I must say it's a pity to have to move again so soon. BUT the Six Bells is a welcoming venue and we have had some cracking sessions there. North bankers need not fear, it is only five minutes - or less - further away than the Barton venues. If this could become as good a home as the Sloop was, then it will all be fine. Wonder what the grub will be like...

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 27 Nov 03 - 04:48 AM

Will we lure you back to the sarf bank, Smallpiper, being gifts of very cheap outboards?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 27 Nov 03 - 05:24 AM

Well I was there the session before last, outboard in hand but you were in Cleckie (I believe). I will be over when finances allow.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 09:14 AM

feresh.

One of jOhn's other personas 9the one that spells correctly, constructs grammatically correct sentences and expunges 9s) admitted on Folkinfo that he didn't know where the Sloop session had relocated to. He does now.

First one tomorrow night. Shall we lure any north-bankers?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Noel Thread
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 10:47 AM

Can I come?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Noel Fred
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 10:48 AM

No!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 01 Dec 03 - 12:35 PM

I may if I'm not in forn parts

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 04:08 AM

feresh, its tonight at 9.
i might go, if i'm not doing nowt.

john

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 05:13 AM

I'm afraid I'm going to be at Brid Spa, jumping around like a lunatic to melodic tunes as performed by that world renowned traditional folk group, Status Quo. Does that qualify as a sick note?

Pete.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 02 Dec 03 - 05:30 AM

By 'eck, Peter, 'twer in 1979 that I did the same thing in the same place, and me an Essex Man, too!

But I did grow out of them after they executed Alan Lancaster.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 11:03 AM

Well? How was were there lots of people there? Just because I couldn't make it 9due to being in forn parts) doesn't mean we don't want to know how it went.........

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 11:28 AM

.....Well, assuming you mean th Six Bells, rather than the Quo, it went bally well!

You would've liked it particularly, Juan, as there was a surfeit of pipers, two in fact. Ploughflyer brought one of his mates, a Thistle Dodger, who played them smallpipes you favour, and he's a braw player, too. Other'n that, it was a fairly small gathering that struggled to wipe out the truly excellent sandwiches that were laid on. It was a good atmosphere, and we were made very much at home.

So it's a runner, even if the bogs aren't down to standard.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 01:21 PM

Ploughflyer? - Thistle Dodger? - really, Greg, you've got to stop it, it will just send us all mad. Apart from that, it was a good session, and the place feels like home already. Let's hope the Barton/Sloop session (Barrow chapter) has found a long term home at last.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: ploughflyer
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 02:41 PM

As pleasing to the eye as to the ear.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 07:11 PM

I don't effing believe it. The landlord has been at the Six Bells since Methusalah was a lad, and we move there as a long term bet. Tonight I was told that someone wandered in off the street and offered some ridiculously large sum to buy the pub, and BANG, he's leaving on next Monday. Quite where that leaves us is unknown. The good news is that the pub has a PEL, the bad news is worse, in that it is the same pub chain 9allegegly) that bought and subsequently threw us out of the Nag's Head at Wootton. We have tried to resuscitate the Sloop session. Is everyone agreed that we stop trying?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 09:06 PM

No, dony stop trying!
there is plenty flok people in , this area,
maybe we buy a pub, some pubs is leese get sold for cheep, ie 3 or 4 tousand, we make a whip rouind , and every prople put monet, and but a good sessdion pub, and tell all the music people to go, i had this idea before, and i tell some people, like bassic, and smallpiliers, .
and if you get enought people, then we only haf to pay about 500 pound each, we wont make any money, but we get a goof session pub, and waht you exepect for 5 00 quid, we all put money, to makea folk pub, and them with no job, like basic, and littlepliers, do turns behind yhe bar there, and other people like me and you. [i could do tuesday, as my day off is tuesday], just see how many is interseded, =
like i said, we wont make loads of money, BUT we get a session pub, and every body share it, all do waht they can etc, ,maybe 1 person knows about bookpeepimg, so he does thsat, 1 person knows abourt, booking babnds, punch the hoese, cara etc, so he does thast, 1 person knows about the law,fire exits, etc [eric ET, does that, everybody does there good thing they good at, ie, i think you are a buyer for a animal feed company, so you do the buying, negotiate the best price, for drinks etc, every other people do waht they can, every ex sloop sessioner has certain skills, lets use them!
if a barton area pub lease is for sale at [for example £5000], we only need 10 people putting in 500 quid, we work for no wages, till its busy, then share any profits 10 ways, or reinvest it in the pub, booking acts, etc.
giving up is no good, thats waht giving up people do!
not sure if any pubs in the area are for lease, but we sould look at The Morning Advertiser, and Daltons Weekly.
I ran a pub for 6 months, bassic has loads of licenced trade experience, etc.
we will never surrender!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 12:30 AM

Just don't mention that you have ever been to, or heard of, the Nag's Head at Wooton. And do please keep us posted on developments, preferably in English. I'm trying to keep a reasonable listing for E Yorks/ N Lincs going on the YFA website, but it does seem to be a remarkably volatile area and I'm buggered if I can tell who most of those pseudonyms are. I suppose it's the usual Fen Country problem?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:18 AM

LOL Malcolm, and embarrasingly true! Sound advice, too, about not mentioning a previous defeat. You are doing a sterling job with the session listing, so here's the definitive list for North Lincolnshire as far as I am aware. Last Sunday session at the Six Bells, and until we are possibly evicted, every Tuesday at the Six Bells. Quite what happens down Grimsby/Cleethorpes way I am unaware

jOhn, please will you PM Malcolm with your knowledge of what happens on the north bank, and support the work he's doing on the YFA website. Thanks, mate.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:20 AM

..........and that pub idea is a good one, jOhn, but the word on the street is that the Six Bells went for half a million quid. Allegedly.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:23 AM

harf a millyion quid?
wahta bloody rip off!
thsts more than me and all my mates got, all put together!

if you see about any cheap pubs, let us know.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:33 AM

Whoops, sorry Malcolm. Every Wednesday at the Brocklesby Hunt at Goxhill, instrumental session augmented by sandwiches. Now that is it for the list of sessions!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:42 AM

Sorry to have missed last night's session - the fog kept me from venturing up your end (er...).
It's almost uncanny that everywhere this session moves to gets jinxed before many weeks have passed.Where's the old landlord moving to? Anywhere we might tag along?
Also, is not the last Sunday session to be held at Scanlon's Greg, as once mentioned - and if so would that be on for the 27th (day after st Stephens?)
Plan to be over at 6 Bells on Tuesday next but will check here first I guess!
Dáithí
Is that Goxhill session on tonight? - might head north if the fog clears.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:05 AM

Hiya Daithi. The old landlord is going to curl his toes up in the sun,and he doesn't want us on his beach. Secondly, there was a sentimental backlash at the last Last Sunday session to keep the session at the Six Bells, so I guess we just turn up next Tuesday and act normally. Ho Ho.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Beverley Barton
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:16 AM

Why not just sell up over there and move to Beverley?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:37 AM

Would that we could, Bev, old love. We'd have to sell South Ferriby just to rent a skip in Tesco's yard in Beverley. It's Benson's Tripe Works, see?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Oaklet
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 09:00 AM

Beverley, I need immediate access to the whelk pens and there is simply too much folk music in Beverley's pubs. One can hardly get a game of darts in the East Riding for all the banging, twanging, squeezing scraping and bawling; let alone the issue of house prices. I think I'll stay put.

When Mr Benson fires up his old autolave, we can scrape a large quantity of a nutritious meaty snack-food from our roofs and windows if the wind is in the right direction. We call it "stringy grey butter".

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Beverley Barton
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 09:49 AM

It all sounds perfectly dreadful! Thank goodness my husband and I are resident in Cottingham, the home of several real folk clubs.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 04:39 AM

Fair enough then Skipper - I'll fire up the old bus and head for Barrow on Tuesday then. What time is kick off usually? As for acting normally, i suppose there's a first time for everything....

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 04:59 AM

I had a midnight call from the bogus Muslim cleric last evening to tell me that Jo from the Coach & Horses is being linked with the Six Bells, in that she will allegedly be installed as manager. This may be conjecture on the part of the people concerned with pub management issues in North Lincolnshire, but if it does turn out to be true, at least we have a friend at Court.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Oaklet
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 05:13 AM

Jo breeds prize cockles in pens at Barrow Haven uder contract for Super Cockle - white coat clad freelance vendors of dangerous, stale closing-time seafood to those who have had sufficient alcohol to see vertues in consuming a tiny luke-warm dish of tired shellfish, drowned in vinegar for £3.00. What was the subject again?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 05:54 AM

David, that was actionable. I suggest you withdraw. Super Cockle are notoriously litigious.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 07:03 PM

Oaklet, again the mescaline has taken control and what is left of your brain is sparking like a sparkly thing. Stop it, or we'll have you put down (Mrs Trimfrittering's drawers)
Re the session, We are all frappé dans la bouche that our new home may turn out so temporary! But I suppose we'd better turn up next week and see what is happening. Come what may, a Tuesday evening session in this part of the world is a tradition - albeit a recent one. So let's keep fighting for it.
Daithi, look forward to hearing your whistle next week.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bassic
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 08:58 PM

This has been offered before, and I have not pushed it while there have been the tuesday Bewverly session and the Barton/Barrow sessions in good health, but the Admiral Hawke in Hessle is emppty on a Tuesday night, just over a year ago there was a regular crowd of participants and listeners at the formwer Hase session in Hessle, we hav3e a standing invitation to go back to Hessle and "do it again" in the Admiral, excellent Beer, (3 draft Ales ((Teltley, Spitfire, Castle Eden))at £2 apint, usual choice of largers and guinesses etc) and possibility of interesting "quisine" if things take off. Is it a goer? If so I will organise. expressions of interest below please otherwise I will shut up and keep quiet.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Oaklet
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 03:41 AM

What of the toilets, Bassic?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Beverley Barton
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:12 AM

The Admiral in Hessle is an excellent suggestion! What say you jOhn? The place does not smell of Tuna and whelks does it Gordon? My husband cannot abide shelfish of any kind.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 04:29 AM

Hessle? A Bridge Too Far for frequent visits for me I fear..
see youse at the 6 bells though Tuesday next - Bloke, is it easy enough to find in Barrow?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Ayatollah
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:01 AM

Lee - landlord of the George, Barton - told me yesterday as we were sipping fruit juice together (alchol is an abomination of the infidel) that he had it straight from the Coach and Horses ex mouth Jo, that she was to move in to the Six Bells, Barrow on Monday. I understand that she bought it! That would surely secure our future there. I suppose I could check this out along with Skippy on Monday evening (a daytime visit is out for me as I am due to visit a mosque in Scunthorpe).

Allah came to me in a dream last night and said that KJ was about to reveal in stark detail Skippy's facilities. Be ever vigilant. It's going to come about. I can feel it in my water.

                   Sayings of the Prophet No 13 (or so) :

             A man with halitosis is better than no man at all.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:53 AM

Yer 'tis, Daithi

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 06:58 AM

Gordon, thank you for the kind offer of the Admiral, yet again. May we see how the Six Bells session progresses over the next weeks, and revert on this if it bites the dust.

I'm sure there is enough north bank support for the Admiral session anyway, as we seem to tempt few enough to pay the ruinous bridge tolls these days, so why don't you go for it anyway. We will mount occasional cross river raids to support you, by publicising that the Six Bells session is cancelled for those particular weeks.

Good luck with it.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: KJ
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 07:23 AM

Won't be able to make it next week I'm afraid as I'm working, but following week, all the deities be praised, I could do with some xmas cheer & Col could do with drowning his sorrows, so hopefully it'll still be gooing strong.
Ayatollah THY WILL BE DONE VERY SHORTLY

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Daithi
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 07:25 AM

Go raibh míle maith agat Skip! Yer honour is a scholar and a gentleman an' no mistake, God bless yer..
(Sorry...just slipped into grateful peasant mode for a minute)
I'll slide up the A1206 on Tuesday then
Dáithí

(BTW Skipj, last time I heard "yere tiz" or somesuch, it was from my English Aunt who hailed from Cheltenham way. She used it to refer to the toilet. Not a comment on Oakely's favourite criterion for pubjudging by any chance then?)

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Ayatolla
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 06:49 AM

Allah's will not mine KJ. If I don't see you before, very merry Xmas to you both and any other infidel intimates of yours.
   I will be at the 6 bells, Barrow tonight God willing.
   Tina Turner rang to say she's coming (the mind boggles). I trust Skippy will make an appearance.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 08:00 AM

I was going to stay in and wash my hair, but seeing as Mr Bennet is trusting in me, I, the same God willing, will be present and voluble.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 09:52 AM

I will not be there as I will be in forn parts however both myself and Niknak will be making an appearance at Goxhill the following evening. Skippy I've had no luck with the tank thingy sorry.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 02:11 PM

Will attend, with pleasure, of course, the more the etc.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:28 AM

Skipjack is buying a tank?
9them barton people are crazy!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 07:35 AM

Did you not know, jOhn? It's one of the filips of the peace dividend that one can pick up heavy armaments at ridiculously reasonable prices, and rather than dabble in gun crime, I am purchasing a Panzer in which to go out drinking in Barton, and then warn anyone who starts somthing that I'm packing heat.

What a simply dreadful night and morning. I was just settling into some tunery at the Six Bells, when the worried face of one of my offspring was pressed against the pub window. Wouldn't you know it; Me chimney was on fire. House full of hysterical women demanding to call the fire brigade, who changed tune when graphically told what the colateral damage to the house entailed. And incidentally, why are they called Fire Fighters? Shouldn't dustmen be called Refuse Fighters? Or the polis Fighter Fighters? I withdrew the fire, took out the flue between stove and chimney, stuffed the flue hole with a wet towel, and eventually regained the Six Bells to find my flock engaging in Pop Music! Honestly!

This morning dawned with an blossoming abscess, so it was down to the tooth doctor short order, who prescribed extraction of the chap above the abscess. After deep injections, I swear that Doctor Mengele had their boot on my jaw to get more purchase. The anaesthetic was useless, the pain extreme, but there was no way that mother was coming out, so I am now anti-b'd and drugged beyond the eyeballs, with gums in tatters, no booze for the next five days, when the next assault will take place. That in turn guarantees more anti-b's over Crimbo. Deep joy.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 09:52 AM

You have my deepest sympathy, Skip.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,kj
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 05:13 AM

What AB's you on Skip ?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 07:35 AM

Metronidazole 200mg with Co-codamol chasers, Kazza.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,KJ
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 07:50 AM

Skipjack is there likely to be a session next Tuesday at the present venue. The wee wifey and I may be able to pay a visit.CT

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Oaklet
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 07:55 AM

That was Colin Thompson, that was.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 08:45 AM

Yes CT, I should've finished my ABs and enjoyed complete extraction by then, so it'll be all hands to the pump at the Six Bells.

As Maulspiler recounted, last night's do at Goxhill was a corker.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 04:19 PM

I feel sure our efforts to set down roots in the Six Bells will be helped by a good attendance tomorrow, and most of us will probably be in the Christmas mindset, so please make sure you get there if you can. Previous Christmas do's at the Sloop were always first class, it would be nice to set a good precedent in Barrow.
See You There!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 07:13 PM

I will be there full of BAH HUMBUG spirit border monsters in hand!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 06:28 AM

Can I come?

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 12:57 PM

Yes you can skipper but only if you've got a note from the tooth doctor saying you can drink inkahol

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: smallpiper
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 07:15 PM

And what a grand session it was!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 07:52 PM

skipack 9George)- if you want you teeth taking out, just let me knoew, i got some good pliars, and a big bottle of vodka, so i do it cheep for you, seen as i know you, them proper dentists is a big rip off anyway, just drink bottle of vodka, if you still feeel pane, i hit you on hed with a hammer, then take you teeth out.
ps i not a proper dentist, so i just charge you a couple of qwid.
just let me know if you intrested.john

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: KJ
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 04:53 AM

It was a good sess, despite only a few of us turning up. The landlady is very welcoming and is going to be there at least three years, will provide food every week & enjoys the music. So hopefully it'll start picking up again. Have a good xmas everyone, see you all in the new year unless you're coming to the last sunday sess.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,MR
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 05:05 AM

There is going to be some music at Goxhill tonight, if anyone is interested.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 06:18 AM

I suspect I will be instantly eviscerated if I suggest such an outing, MR, but I might try the old brother-in-law needs a pint routine and slip over.

jOhn, where are you when I need you? I have just paid £20 to nestle my poor aching head in the bosom of my fragrant girl dentist, as she held me tight as I moaned and wriggled until the stubborn molar was ejaculated. And to think I could have swapped that for a general round your gaff, with complimentary drinkies, and saved £18.

Yes, it was braw session last night. Good to see Jo installed in mine host's chair, and some feeling of permanence creeping back in.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Bloke in the Corner
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 07:53 AM

I echo the above sentiments, though I was only there part of the time. I'll be there next week, hope loads of us will be. In the meantime the very heartiest compliments of the season to all my folking folk friends, may 2004 bring us all plenty of tunes in D, G, A etc. with the odd Bm and Em thrown in. Invitations to the old place have already been given out, do come on Christmas morning for some smoked salmon and Bucks Fizz. Or whatever you fancy...

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 06:09 AM

anyway=Skipack [George9] is wring me up yesterday , and ask me were, the good buthchers is in hull, [he get some xmas food on him way home from work, he work in hull, so i told him.
then he say 2 why we dont see you in the bartyon session for long time then?"
i tell him, i been busy, but try hartd to go next week,
so if i can, i will go, i was going to write waht date it is, but i dont know, andf i to pissed to work it out.
but i promouse if i can, i will go, and i give a loft to any hull people, [or any hessle peolple, like basic the bass, or john piper the pipes, ], or hull people = les from hull, and him girfend called maggy, anyway, there is loads of session people here, if any of them want to go, just let me know, and mick and peate and loads of people,
and thety in punch the horse, and oaklet as well, [hed thst fiddling bloke, but hes live in barton anywaty,
but if any hull people want to go just let me know, beccause 90 percent i;m going, as i herad you can get free sandwidges threre, somshould be good.=

anyway=goofd thing about wedding= you can grtet loads of free sandwidges, and if is posh wedding , youi can get free big dinner!

i ben to big posh dinnner once, last year, and reallyy nice food, reallu good, i remember as well, =is free drinks as well !
i dont know whoes wedding it was, [i was pissed]

i know plenty people, about 6,000 , about 4,000 cutsomers, and all othere people frends etc,
i hope thry a;ll get marryied soon!

i went to one posh wedding lsast year, and really nice food, =   stake and veg and all thast etc, and pudduiing ss well, really nice.

if any body wants me to go to there wedding, jusy let me know.john


you can get free food at fun erals an d chris enings as well, but useally just sandwidges, and sausaidge rolls etd, no cake, .

anyway=in hull flok club, =we get free food, because i tell my boss =
" give us some free currys, and good advert for you"


wedding is good, my frend called chris was chef at Debbiy turnbull wedding, [she dad own loads of paper ships. hes millionaire], but i dident get invite to that one.
i hrerad they have really big meal there, and posh food, he knows baecase he cooked it, big stakes etc.jojm

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 06:51 AM

any way= i got my eye on , one nice woman, she is about 30, and she works in a cake ship called skeltons, i wonder if i marry her, i wonder if we get a free cake?
skelton cakes is shit anyeway, [i could do better meself , with my eyes closed, i not joking, Did you ever see skelyons cakes, they rubbisgh?
but free cake is ok!
[she called debbiey]

I know one person , who got a box in hull city ground, but he never give me invite there.

Amyway=I used to do weddings wehn i work in big hotlel,
and we eat big posh wedding food, that was ages ago, now only free food i get is curry,m
and too much curry piss you off!
make you shit, and smell like a paki.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 06:59 AM

And curry chef always put cooryander in my curry!
I tell him loads of times="NO CORryinader"
they fuking thick, thats why!

And did you ever see "staff Curry?
rubbish!
its just a load of fuicking bones!,
no wonder they all skinny!
is, staff curry my arse, no way i eating thsat, not fill me up,
just all chikn bones, !
no wonder tyey skinny, they dont drink bears, they dont eat fat food,
all skinny thats why!

did tyou eber see any fat curry chef, no they all skinny, thats why!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 07:09 AM

I been there 10 yeeers now, i tell chef every day= NO CORRY ander, he doesent no much english, only= "Yes Please", and Heloo," tyhats all, useles bastard, i ask him one day for chip butty, he very confused, i spent 10 monutes ecksplaining waht chip butty means, then i get fed up, and said " get out my fuicking way, i do it myself, and watch"!
]
I think Chip is Sip in Urdu, not sure really, quicer to do it meself , than ask than stupifs!

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 07:19 AM

Waht is butty in Urdu?
anyone know?, be very usefulll for me = ie Sip wahtever.

Subject: RE: Barrow session?
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:14 AM

Anybody know if the Tuesday night session at the 6 Bells is on tomorrow night? Haven't been for a week or three and would hate to drive 40 miles to sit in an empty pub devoid of your stirling company.
Dáithí

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:56 AM

This one's a rave from the grave, Daithi!

Yes, we are still going strong apart from one week of nil attendance and three hundredweight of the usual excellent grub laid on by the lovely Jo. Mental note to let her know when attendance is likely to be thin, but it was just that we all thought the others were going.

I am going to that Scotland tomorrow, but should be home in time for tea, so hopefully see you there for more of the excellent same.

Subject: RE: UK: Barton Sloop session to move again
From: GUEST,Dáithí mag Fhionainn
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:21 AM

Cheers Skipper - despite trapped nerve in the ould leg 9 a war wound form my youth0 I shall limp along then. Safe journey tomorrow, and hope you n=make it back amomng the heathhen English in time for music
D