A mid summer Christmas Party I hear you say!!!! Yes,that is correct. An idea conceived in the pub over the Christmas period 2009 – there is no national Christmas party were we can all get together and celebrate, each group is busy doing their own thing, and people generally have too many commitments already to be able to host a National Christmas party, so what about turning our mid-summer party weekend into a Christmas celebration. It certainly seemed a good idea at the time, but you try finding Christmas Decorations in June/July time – thankfully there is Ebay!!
Over 60 people decided that they would join us, and take part in a weekend of camping and BBQing and some even got involved with the National Rounders Competition.
Santa even attended, although strangely Keith managed to miss him as he wasn’t around at the time….
Friday was , shall we say ‘WET’ and I am sure that errecting tents within feet of trees wasn’t the greatest idea but everyone lived to tell the tale! Special entertainment was provided by Lucy Smith, who rocked up at dusk during a
downpour and discovered that she had only brought half her tent – DOH.
Once we had gorged ourselves on pizza and chinese we were ‘entertained’ by a spot of karaoke. Some ill-advised individual, had a selection of shots glasses and drinks on display and this led to the idea of playing ‘Fuzzy Duck’. Come about 3.30am once the drink had all been disposed of, the intelligencia of Plus went to bed.
Saturday dawned far too early but at least it had stopped raining. Upon the return of the rounders teams we had a bit of a BBQ and I reckon about 20 or so were taught how tio Jive. Keith proved that he is an extreme athlete in the body of Bernard Manning!
After the usual cheesy party songs, Christmas was was followed somewhat more quickly than usual by New Year, and the evening ended music-wise with everyone singing Auld Lang Syne
After the disco some more ‘Fuzzy Ducking’ was taken part in, as those who had suffered the previous evening thought it would be a giggle to inflict it on more people and as such there must have been 18 or 20 people all round a table being silly duckers.
Paul C/Christine T