Blindo's Inn, End Of An Era
1. OK, so I know the bar snacks have been a little "fresh" at times and yes, there are some strange toadstools growing in the peanut bowls, but I thought you guys liked the character of the place!
Seems someone's done the dirty on us and called in Environmental services....
They did a spot check this morning and found lady drinkwater in a comatose state in the kitchen with her feet in the curry pot and her head in the fridge!
I have a feeling that they may close the kitchens down on us!
Good job they didn't find Ned asleep in the cellar and decide to check out the wine store... Ned still uses the empties to piss in and then he puts them back in the wine crates.
I suppose we may have to do something to clean up a little.
Rich
2. Oh good grief rich, I suppose that means you really will have to get some in-date snacks for the bar.
Thank goodness I don't drink wine! (smile)
Glad I missed that curry, hope you didn't try to serve it to anyone!
Are they coming back to recheck the inn? How long have they given you to make improvements?
love jane and bounty bar
3. Hi Jane
Just 7 days to clean up our act.
Rich
4. Hi All
I'm afraid I have to report some very sad news.
Our pot boy, Ned, unfortunately died this morning.
As you all know, we're having to make efforts to clean up the Inn following our recent health and hygiene inspection.
As a first step, Gordon and I managed to drag Ned out of his cellar hidy hole and dumped him in a tin bath in the yard!
You should have heard him screaming in real terror of soap and hot water.
after a while he calmed down and his mother, Lady D, found him a duck to play with!
So sweet of her, though personally I'd have plucked it first, but each to their own.
So we left him splashing about in the bath with Lady D keeping an eye on him while she hung out the washing.
Yes, for the first time ever, she managed to do a load of washing so we'd have clean tea towels, bar cloths etc.
Unfortunately she hung so much washing that the line broke and the end fell into the bath.
Now, this wouldn't normally be a problem but she'd been using the mains electricity line from the pylon as a washing line! There was an awful bang a flash of brilliant blue light and Ned, burnt to a crisp, shot 15 feet into the air and landed in the compost heap.
Lady D is obviously heart broken and is off to cash and carry for more Sherry.
However, there is a good side to the story....
Bar-b-q Duck is on the lunch menu!!!
rich
5. Hi All
I received the notification from the health and hygiene officer today following their recent inspection and it's not good news.
They've not just closed the kitchens on us while we clean up, they've actually condemned them. The buildings inspectors are coming tomorrow with a structural engineer to assess the safety of the remainder of the building. It seems the whole place could fall down at any moment.
The most sound structure is the outside loo! And we all know how strong that is!
Roger has given me his usual sound financial advice and we're sticking the place up on the market tomorrow in the hope of a quick sell before the notices to demolish are issued.
There's bound to be some idiot out there wanting to buy a rustic style pub in the middle of bloody nowhere! Perhaps a yank with more money than sense might see the advert.
So mind the for sale board which will be going up at the car park entrance. I know how bad some of you are with your driving!
Rich
6. I met a Russian guy on the train who said he was over here on behalf of a Consortium, probably the Russian Mafia, who wanted to invest in a property to convert into a basic nursing home for poor elderly people (preferably without interfering relatives) at the basic rate which Social Services would pay.
He phoned later to say he'd looked at the Inn as it sounded like it might have possibilities but it was so run down that even he couldn't possibly consider it.
He wasn't too worried about the filthy dilapidated kitchen (old folk don't eat much after all) or the leaking dysfunctional toilets (after all, most of them will be incontinent), but the bar was in such bad order and disgustingly decorated that he felt only a blind man would drink in it!
Alison