Here are some more party photos. The first is from our houseparty, and features Paddy and Antony in some strange kind of last night dance ...
And, in keeping with the Paddy theme, here's another one of Paddy at Fiona's party from last with Kate. It's sobering to think that he'll be a psychiatrist soon.
Here's the wrap up from the party - it was good. Thanks to Taj and Gerd for joining us online via Stewart St TV. That was certainly an interesting element. A special BLURRRT!! to those who piked on the couch at home (you know who I mean - you should consider yourself lucky that I got distracted and forgot to give you the special 2am reminder call).
I took some crappy (still - sort of) photos with the webcam, and in the spirit of gonzo journalism, present them below.
Here's Neal awarding the Bill Cosby Award for for "Worst Overall Jumper" to Christian:
And here's Christian's reverse shot. While the eye is immediately drawn to the horror of the clown design, don't be ignore the lion-head motifs on each elbow. Truly awful.
Other winners were as follow, to the best of my recollection.
Jack Nicholas Award for "Worst Diamond Design" - Tomas, for a spiffy
Grandma's favourite award for "Worst Home Knit" - Jo, for a spectacular "home-only" knit
Public Servant's Award for "Worst Cardigan" - Dual award to Katy and David, for matching razzle-dazzle cardies
Ritchie Benaud Award for "Worst V-Neck" - Adam, accepting on behalf of Rach's Dad
Post-partum Depression - fortunately, I slept through the worst of the hangover and cleaning up, and came downstairs at about 11am to find a clean house, coffee in the pot and Antony cooking up a huge plate of bacon and eggs. We went to see Charlie's Angels II - The Reckoning (or whatever) and it numbed me nicely. This was fortunate, as Antony was given sway over the television that evening and forced us to endure The Water Boy, an Adam Sandler movie (you know, the one where he adopts a silly face and voice for the whole movie, pretends to be semi-retarded and wins the day?). He is now two weeks into his 3 month remote control ban.
The party draws near, with last minute preparations almost completed. Antony is putting the corn chips and beer through the final stage of rigorous field testing (on the couch in front of the footy).
Gerd, we're particularly excited to see you've set up "GoatHorn's WebCam" - that's the kind of interactivity that makes the modern age so exciting. It's also the kind of name that will attract a large number of hopeful internet viewers - let's hope we don't disapoint.
We should be going live in about two hours from now, after experimenting with some different configurations to maximise the frames per second.
