CHARLIE’S UPDATES

JANE AND I,ALONG WITH OUR SON GARETH,OVER FROM THE THE UK, WHO WAS WITH US AT THE START HERE WITH  OUR GRANDCHILD BRIONY, NOW THREE YEARS OF AGE, AND JANE’S AUNTY HILDA CELEBRATING 17 YEARS IN TENERIFE. 

 EMMA AND ALL OUR TEAM PUT ON A GREAT NIGHT WORKING SO VERY HARD. ENTERTAINMENT WITH DAVE ON HIS ORGAN, BOY GEORGE, NEIL DIAMOND, DARREN CLYNE, SALLY ANNE AND KATY KENNEDY GIVING THERE TIME FREE, GAVE US FANTASTIC MUSIC SUPPORT, WITH EMMA GETTING TO GET “VICTIMS” INCLUDING MYSELF TO APPLE NOGGING, A VERY WET AFFAIR. EMMA,SARAH AND VICKY GIVING US TWO FANTASTIC DANCES TO A VERY FULL HOUSE. JANE KEEPING IT ALL TOGETHER WITH ORGANISING THE SUPPORT FROM LOCAL SUPPLIERS,BAR DECORATION WITH DEBS, AND THE FREE HOT DOGS.

EVERY YEAR WE RAISE MONEY FOR THE POPPY APPEAL (PEOPLE HAVE TO WEAR A POPPY TO GET A CHEAP BAR) AND ALSO THE DOWNS SYNDROME CHILDREN IN THE NORTH OF TENERIFE, WITH A RAFFLE, 5 EURO DIP FOR 2 BED APARTMENT, STAND UP BINGO FOR FREE BAR SHIRT,BONUS BALL AND OF COURSE OUR,” CHARGE FOR TOILET USE” AFTER CHEAP BAR AND MANY OTHERS. WE HAD A GREAT NIGHT.

WE THANK ALL THE LOCAL BUSINESSES AND OUR SUPPLIERS FOR THERE SUPPORT AND OF COURSE ALL OUR COSTOMERS ON MAKING IT ANOTHER SPECIAL NIGHT

A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO JEREMY FOR FLYING OVER FOR 48 HRS FROM THE U.K. TO DO THE MONEY RAISING ON THE ” CHARGE FOR TOILER USE”, HE RAISED JUST OVER 151 EUROS ON THAT. GRREAT. THANKS MATE!

PICTURES TO FOLLOW. CHARLIE 

DAVE WAS FROM MY HOME IN RHOOSE, A VILLAGE OUTSIDE CARDIFF, I KNEW DAVE LOCALLY, BUT ALSO WITH PLAYING FOOTBALL ALONG SIDE HIM, AND PLAYING UNDER HIM AS MY  MANAGER, WITH THE “ABERTHAW BLUES”, BACK IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES. BUT I GOT TO KNOW DAVE BETTER, AS HE CAME TO SEE US A FEW TIMES HERE IN TENERIFE AND  SEEING HIM AND HIS FAMILY WHEN I GOT BACK TO RHOOSE, HE ALWAYS HAD A HAPPY OUTLOOK ON LIFE. DAVE WAS FOUND TO HAVE CANCER AT THE START OF THIS YEAR, ON ONE OCASION TALKING TO HIM ON THE PHONE, ASKING HIM HOW HE WAS COPING, HE SAID “CHARL, YOU HAVE JUST GOT TO GET ON WITH IT MATE”

DAVE LOST HIS BRAVE FIGHT, DAVE WILL BE BURIED THIS THURDAY THE 10TH SEPTEMBER. IF THERE IS A LIFE THERE AFTER, I THINK DAVE WILL BE UP THERE WITH A PINT ” GETTING ON WITH IT” WAITING FOR THE NEXT 6 NATIONS CLASH, HE LOVED HIS RUGBY. OUR THOUGHTS GO OUT TO HIS WIFE JAN, HIS DAUGHTER EMMA, HIS TWO BROTHERS ADRIAN AND ROBERT, AND ALL HIS FAMILY . REST IN PEACE DAVE. CHARLIE, JANE AND ALL AT THE ORIGINAL WIGAN PIER. A FRIEND LOST..

WENT TO DAVE’S FUNERAL, THE CHURCH IN BRIDGEND WAS FULL AND SOME, WITH SO MANY OF HIS MATES AND FAMILY THERE, DAVE WAS A VERY LIKEABLE GUY, HE WILL BE SO MISSED. WITH SO MANY PEOPLE THERE TO SAY THERE GOODBYS, I THINK IT WOULD HAVE PUT A SMILE ON DAVE’S FACE.

 LEFT TO RIGHT, 1ST,OUR DEBBIE N CARL, 2ND, EMMA, DEBBIE N SARAH, 3RD, JACK, OUR SON GARETH, N JEREMY, ALL WORKING, HELPING OUT, BUT HAVING GREAT TIME. ALMOST PERFECTED GETTING PICTURES ON HERE NOW, SO KEEP EYE OUT FOR LOTS, MORE. CHARLIE.

EMMA, DEBBIE N SARAH, JOINING IN THE FUN ON PARTY NIGHT, 21ST APRIL, 2008. AGAIN, JUST GOT HANG OF SENDING PICTURES. IN UK,AT MOMENT, BUT WHEN IN TENERIFE WILL GO TO TOWN ON MY UPDATES. CHEERS. CHARLIE.

PLEASE BE PATIENT, JUST GOT HANG OF SENDING PICTURES TO BLOG AFTER ALL THIS TIME. CHARLIE

WENT REALLY WELL, WITH A PACKED BAR, WE HAD SOME GREAT ARTISTS GIVING THERE TIME FREE FOR CHARITY. DAVE OUR COMPERE(TAKEN ON AFTER THIS PERFORMANCE FOR ONE DAY PER WEEK) STARTED US OFF WITH MIKE OUR ORGAN SINGER FOLLOWED BY CHARLIE (NEIL DIAMOND) DEE DANIELS, DARRAN, AND KATY KENNEDY. EMMA LEAD THE STAFF DANCING, DANCING IN AND OUTSIDE THE BAR, CHARLIE TOOK A 30 EURO CHARITY CREAM PIE IN THE FACE, JANE GAVE AWAY THE “FREE 1 HOUR BAR SHIRT” AND ANOUNCED THE FREE HOT DOGS AND JUST A GREAT TIME HELD BY ALL. JANE, EMMA AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED OUR PARTY AND OF COURSE THE KIND ENTERTAINERS. WE RAISED 445 EUROS FOR CHARITY. CHARLIE. (ON HOLIDAY IN CALIFORNIA AT MOMENT. WILL PUT PICTURES ON AS SOON AS I GET A FREE FEW HOURS. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!)  

ERIC WAS A VISITOR TO OUR BAR WITH NORMAN CHERRINGTON,  RUGBY LEAGUE GREATS OF THE 1950″S and EARLY 60″S. EVEN AFTER SO MANY YEARS, MANY PEOPLE STILL ASKED ME IF IT WAS OK TO GO OVER AND  BOTHER TWO RUGBY LEGENDS FOR THEIR AUTOGRAPHS, THE TWO LOVED IT, A FOND MEMORY. ERIC WAS A GREAT MAN, PLAYER, AND A GENTLEMAN,  OUR THOUGHTS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS INCLUDING NORMAN. CHARLIE, JANE, EMMA AND ALL AT THE O.W.P.

WE HAVE ADDED MIKE, AN EXCELLENT SINGER AND ELECTRIC ORGANIST TO OUR NIGHT SET UP. MIKE IS ON EVERY SUNDAY FROM 9PM TILL 10.30PM, A QUIZ FROM US THEN MIKE COMES BACK ON 11PM TILL MIDNIGHT. HE IS VERY POPULAR, A BIG PLUS TO THE BAR WE THINK. WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR A WEDNESDAY ENTERTAINER WE LIKE, SO THAT LITTLE JOB GOES ON.

THE WEATHER HAS BEEN GOOD HERE, SUNNY WITH ABOUT 23, OR 73 BEING THE NORM. JANE HAS FOUND A YOUNG MAN TO WORK DAYS,DEBBIE IS HAPPY TO HAVE HIM ON HER TEAM. HIS NAME IS CARL, NICE LAD, SAY HELLO TO HIM WHEN YOU COME IN.WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER COOK, SUE WHO IS ALSO ANOTHER PLUS TO OUR TEAM. THE PARTY IS LOOMING, OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY, WHICH IS ON THE 21ST APRIL. CHEERS CHARLIE.

WE WILL BE HOLDING OUR FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY IN OUR NEW BAR ON THE 21ST APRIL, ADDING TO OUR VERY POPULAR ANNIVERSARY BASHES WE HAVE ON NOVEMBER 11TH TO REMEMBER THE DAY WE STARTED AS BAR OWNERS IN TENERIFE IN NOVEMBER 1991.

WE ARE THINKING OF HAVING A SINGER ON AS WELL AS MANY OTHER LITTLE IDEAS TO MAKE THIS NIGHT SPECIAL. 20TH APRIL …. 

I CANNOT GET OVER HOW QUICK TIME HAS PASSED. CHRISTMAS WAS GREAT, VERY, VERY BUSY, ON CHRISTMAS EVE AT ONE TIME YOU COULD NOT GET INSIDE OF BAR FOR A SHORT TIME IT WAS JUST THAT FULL, AS WELL AS  VERY PACKED OUTSIDE. NEW YEARS EVE WAS VERY STRANGE, VERY SLOW TO START, THEN FULL BY 10.30. BUT FOR OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS IN OUR NEW BAR, WE WERE VERY PLEASED. WE ALL THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

AS USUAL THE END OF FEB. IS VERY SLOW, WE EXPECT THIS FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. JANE AND CHARLIE {ME] went back to UK for my MOTHERS 80th BIRTHDAY, WAS GREAT, AS WELL AS SEEING FAMILY I HAVE NOT SEEN FOR MUCH TO LONG.

I FLEW BACK A LITTLE EARLY AS EMMA HAD TO RETURN HOME AS HER GRANDFATHER IS GRAVELY ILL. OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH HER AND HER FAMILY.

HAD A BIT OF RAIN HERE, A GOOD TIME FOR US, IF WE ARE GOING TO HAVE RAIN TO HAVE IT IN OUR QUITE PERIOD. YOU ALL KEEP WELL. CHARLIE.