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May. 3rd, 2025 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiffel_71Met up with Jade and Dave at the Carisbrooke Arms last night to celebrate my birthday with karaoke - or so we thought. Jade and I were getting pizzas from the van outside the pub when Dave phoned to say the karaoke was cancelled. It had been called off at the last minute, with a Robbie Williams tribute on instead. We decided to stay and have a drink and a chat anyway, since Ann was due to join us some time during the evening.
We found a table. I collected the card and gift Julieann had left behind the bar earlier, since she’d audio called me on Messenger to say a crisis had come up meaning she wouldn’t be able to join us. Joy of joys, they were serving Magners. Jade, Dave and I talked, then around 8.30 Ann arrived.
It was fantastic to see her, as we hadn’t met since last September, partly down to her foot trouble which she’s now recently had an operation for. She filled me in on her basketball coaching, her young lad’s sporting prowess and her new job in London that she starts soon - from a recent training day she knows the daily commute is going to be demanding but she’s steeling herself. It’s a great move for her - promotion - and I told her she’s going to be brilliant.
Ann hadn’t met Jade and Dave before but they all got on famously, happily chatting away to each other and all taking photos of us, then Ann got a chap at the next table to take a pic of us all.
The Robbie tribute was great at working the crowd. He opened up with a stormer rendition of Let Me Entertain You and made periodic moves out into the audience to interact with people, even getting one young lady on stage to serenade her with She’s The One. He included some non-Robbie songs as well, the crowd still lapped it all up. Jade went for a boogie on the dancefloor a few times and Ann hauled me up for a dance to a couple of numbers. She said afterwards that it was the first time she’d danced since her operation, and that meant a lot to her despite the pain. Naturally Angels was the big finale! We all agreed it had been a great night.
Woke up this morning decidedly groggy.
We found a table. I collected the card and gift Julieann had left behind the bar earlier, since she’d audio called me on Messenger to say a crisis had come up meaning she wouldn’t be able to join us. Joy of joys, they were serving Magners. Jade, Dave and I talked, then around 8.30 Ann arrived.
It was fantastic to see her, as we hadn’t met since last September, partly down to her foot trouble which she’s now recently had an operation for. She filled me in on her basketball coaching, her young lad’s sporting prowess and her new job in London that she starts soon - from a recent training day she knows the daily commute is going to be demanding but she’s steeling herself. It’s a great move for her - promotion - and I told her she’s going to be brilliant.
Ann hadn’t met Jade and Dave before but they all got on famously, happily chatting away to each other and all taking photos of us, then Ann got a chap at the next table to take a pic of us all.
The Robbie tribute was great at working the crowd. He opened up with a stormer rendition of Let Me Entertain You and made periodic moves out into the audience to interact with people, even getting one young lady on stage to serenade her with She’s The One. He included some non-Robbie songs as well, the crowd still lapped it all up. Jade went for a boogie on the dancefloor a few times and Ann hauled me up for a dance to a couple of numbers. She said afterwards that it was the first time she’d danced since her operation, and that meant a lot to her despite the pain. Naturally Angels was the big finale! We all agreed it had been a great night.
Woke up this morning decidedly groggy.
