Tim's Birthday bash at Alton Towers
James' Birthday bash at Kempton Races
Photos from early February 2002
All Hail Barbeque Season!
Well, Summer is reputedly here and thus it's time to say "pah!" to the weather forecast, take your saussages outside and invite your friends round for a bevvie and a few bits of charred meat.
We don't have room for a barbeque (living in a second floor flat, and all) but we have plenty of friends who do, and earlier this month, we went to our first BBQs of 2002.
The first was on Friday night (the 10th May) at Matt and Lena's place in Crawley, but I was the designated driver, so being sober I don't have any decent photos of that event unfortunately. Matt sent me one he took of Sarah and I that I don't remember being taken, though, which was somewhat disturbing bearing in mind that as I've already said I was the designated driver and thus sober.
The second was the very next day, Saturday the 11th, at our gay.com friends Sonico and QTee's place in Streatham, South London. This time Sarah was driving, so I got some decent photos... plenty in fact!
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Saturday 11th May 2002
Sonico and QTEEs Barbeque
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| The official start time was 2pm, but for (football) reasons (Ipswich) I won't (relegation) go (Sarah) into (depressed), we couldn't get there till 6, by which time the BBQ was well under way | There was a certain amount of discourse including some heated, drunken discussion. Nothing new there then! | Tacky showed us her party trick, namely that her elbows look like breasts. Discussions ensued about how she could just strike this pose when encouraged to get her tits out. |
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| This is Sonico's dog - it's a complete nutter! When she's stroked, she'll growl and bare her teeth. Oh and she can reduce a plastic bottle to something which looks like it's been run over in about 30 seconds! | Biker Bunny (Claire) and Little Red Devil (Emma). I'm not quite sure why LRD's pulling that face... if I was her Mum I should probably have told her that the wind would change and she'd stick like that. | Here's OE being her generally cool self. Nice shades! |
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| As the evening wore on, Sav (Ally) started up her Massage Service. QTee, one of the hostesses of this event, was the first in line to have her shoulders worked on. | I was next on the list of massagees. I hadn't realised that this photo had been taken, because I was too busy enjoying having my shoulders worked on. Oh, and I was quite drunk by this point. | I suspect that if OE had been any more laid back at this point, she would have slipped into a coma! She does look rather like she's enjoying that massage, doesn't she? |
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| And once the massages were over, it was time for Sav's bra to put in it's usual appearance. Sonico couldn't quite make out what to do with it, though | Even Sav herself wasn't quite sure what it was supposed to be for, aparantly. She seems to thing it's some kind of head wear... in this case, a gimp mask! | It's difficult to tell from a still, but this ball had flashing LEDs inside it, and when Sav put it in her mouth, it made her cheeks flash red. We were drunk, so it was rather more amusing than it sounds. |
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| Of course, having put it in her mouth, Sav needed to clean and dry the flashing LED ball off before passing it to ..... | ..... Tacky! Who thought it would make an ideal robot stylee eye thing and decided to do her scarey robot impersonation. We weren't all that scared, though. | Although I think that perhaps Spike was rather more scared than we had thought |
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| As the evening wore on, the rain started. Sonico and QTee however, had thought on and prepared a large plastic sheet, which when tied to the fence and held up by the washing line, was enough to cover nearly the whole garden! I was impressed at their forethought | By using the plastic sheet as a rain shelter, however, we inadvertantly gave this snail the ride of his life. One minute he's crawling along a sheet on the ground, the next he's hoised into the air and subjected to the rain. | |