Paddy's day..

[growler_south]

So tonight was St Patricks day. I finished my work (or, at least, stopped working) at 5pm and went downstairs to join the happy revellers. Mostly my clients and my boss. So I just sat in the corner and drank Guinness.
Then lovely Paul arrived



lovely paul

and shortly after, lovely pizza. Sorry, no pics of pizza as I was too busy stuffing my gob. With pizza. For once.
Then we got bored and wandered down to Murphys bar, where we found a midget with a band and lovely Alan, who is a genuine paddy.



lovely Alan. Irish. Drunk.

The midget with a band wasnt particularly inspiring (Hilight: playing irish hits, including "One thousand miles" by the Pretenders Proclaimers. Who are Scottish.) so we headed to the thirsty dog, via a taxi driver who didnt even know where Karangahape Rd was. Grrr...

And now I'm at home. Heard from the boys, the Sprite is gone, Graeme Collett was most impressed with its condition (as he should be) so maybe I'll get more than I asked for. We had an agreement- whatever it was worth, as long as it was more than $1000. We'll see. I'm just glad to have it out of the boys hair.

Comments

[boofbiker.livejournal.com]

Love ya mate but if you are calling someone a midget they must be really really short as you are only a little fella to me. hugs :-)

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

Oh no, this guy was a genuine oompa-loompa, or maybe a leprechaun. He even looked small to *me*

[f8n-begorra.livejournal.com]

The Dog's Bollix must have been pumpin'
Alan looks worn out--what did you do to him?

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

The Dogs Bollix had a queue to get inside- we went to Murphys and the Thirsty Dog instead. And what did Alan do to himself?!? i think it involved lots of guinness.. .

[bikerbearmark.livejournal.com]

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, Grant! Were you wearing something green?

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

Actually no, not one speck of green on me yesterday! whoops!!

[ink-ling.livejournal.com]

I want to help lovely Paul into a few more Guiness bottoms and help him home. :) Glad you had a good holiday, Fella!

P.S. I imagine a midget-fronted band would be a treat for me to see at ALL. Hehehe.

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

The Proclaimers, dude. The Pretenders are that band with a couple of dead members and Chrissie Hynde. :)

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

This is why we try not to post when we're drunk...

:-)

[debxena.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a lovely time - I hope you had a drink for me :)

(And it's been ages - we should catch up!)

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

I should have invited you out!! you would have loved it.

Yes please, catchings-up are neccesary.

[debxena.livejournal.com]

Any suggestion when? The weekend is fairly free at this stage :)

And next week I'm working Monday, but have no plans for the rest of the week thus far ...

[musclebearnz.livejournal.com]

Are you still allowed to smoke in Auckland?

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

Yes, its like Berlin. Hitler's Berlin. Smokers get dragged off kicking and screaming and are never seen again.

[musclebearnz.livejournal.com]

Oh Hitler was never that bad...

[filmgeeknz.livejournal.com]

A taxi driver in Auckland who doesn't know where K Rd is? Bloody hell!

[musclebearnz.livejournal.com]

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