A diary of minor adventures

This is a jog through things we have done while in the UK. It is for friends and family who may give a damn about what we get up to.

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

More Party Pirates and Royal Wedding

You may well be wondering who the raven haired wench is carrying champagne into our kitchen . 
Yes it's Gail in full pirate wig and regalia as we were off to a deferred Pirate and Wench party over in Meanwood, near Headingly, Leeds at the home of Kirsty and Clyde.  Kirsty works with Gail as a mobile MRI rad. 
It was quite a good night out, everyone got into the swing of the theme and while many photos were taken not many can be put up here.  Pirates and wenches are notoriously badly behaved.  And we were fuelled by some pretty strong rotgut, or cocktails as Kirsty liked to call them. 
 I was less attractive and got uglier as the night went on.
 Gail found someones hat and was caught mixing her drinks.
 A little sabre rattling and poking went on
 A bit of flirting,
 And quite a lot of chat and nonsense was spoken.
Corny attempts at pirate roles were enacted
 The Host (Clyde) and Hostess (Kirsty) set the theme and the mood
 And Gail had a deadly cosmopolitan,
 
 While others sang bawdy ballads and sultry sea shanties, I think.


It was all a bit of a change of pace to the previous weekend when David and Carolyn invited us to their place to watch the Kate and Willie royal wedding. 
Gail decided, after a bit of royal meal research,  that Beetroot and smoked salmon blinis with creme-fresh were very appropriate royal snacks to make and we enjoyed them during the tv show before tucking into a fabulous roast beef lunch prepared by Carolyn.  Sorry no shots of that, it was remiss of us not to take the camera I suppose. I have it on good authority photos of the wedding do exist though.
The flags in the hair were a bit OTT I thought.