Saturday was St Patrick's Day, Michelle's birthday and therefore time to party on both counts. We had a gathering here at Alec's place for Michelle, and a fair few Newman people came along. I hadn't seen Hsien-li, Dave and Avril in about two years, Inez and Rebecca in about 5 (except lunch with Rebecca on Thursday of course) and so it was wonderful to catch up with folks. Tessa and Arthur were along too, who I've met before - it was a regular reunion. Dave and Avril's daughter made the party too, she's a beautiful child and her parents seem completely delighted, as they should be.Later, the party involved Alec and Michelle giving a swing dancing demonstration (photos on Flickr) and Dave and Alec did some Irish dancing for us. Then conversation turned to mixing drinks for the karaoke that evening. We emptied out some coke and filled up with rum, and laced some green tea with vodka, though later forgot the bottles and spent a fortune on beer instead...
The karaoke was pretty intense. We started with So Young by Suede, and I ended up doing Rock and Roll by Led Zep and Back in Black, pretty early on. We were then joined by the others (just four of us there to start with) and two cardboard air hostesses, which was fun. Michelle showed off her harmonies and her friend (whose name I forget) did a cracking Alanis Morissette. Don sang an excellent Brett Anderson impersonation.The karaoke and drinking continued until 4am, when we headed home. I had arranged a lunch at 1 the following day, so slept as soon as I could. I wasn't really ready for the 11am alarm this morning, that's all I'll say.
And I'm very disappointed by the rugby scores.
2 comments:
What harmonies? Personally I was prouder of my mad rapping skillz.
You definitely harmonised. Your friend with the Alanis thing going on said she was jealous that you could harmonise effortlessly. The mad rapping skills go without saying!
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