Fifty And Still Causing Trouble

03:35 pm by admin.

Saturday night had all the promise of a good night and I must say that’s just what it turned out to be. When we arrived at Ian’s  house, Ian being  the host and birthday boy, we were ushered through to the back garden. Maybe I should say at this point that the garden is a very steep affair set in four levels.
The first level is a sloped flower bed.
A set of steps led to the second level, where Ian had erected a marquee with tables laid out with lots of food, the finger sort, so that you could eat without sacrificing your drinking hand. The third level is on it’s way to being a shrubbery with a raised pond.

This led to the top level, which is actually higher the the house, where Ian has built a large shed which is perfect for sitting out of an evening to watch the sun set over the mountains.

In a very short time people started to arrive and of course everyone was drawn to the top of the garden and pretty soon it got a bit scary :). Thankfully  hunger prevailed and some went down to the food. Linda and I stayed with the drink :) . It was great seeing some old friends, like Fred and Trevor and and Ann. There were lots more but not gonna start listing them all.
A good party is about seeing friends but also meeting other people and when the drink is flowing you tend to chat to people you’ve never seen in your life before. God, I even talked to my old boss.
As the night wore on and the craic was mighty Pauline, Ian’s wife, produced the cake which was laden with so many candles she had someone follow her with a fire extinguisher in case Ian didn’t have the puff, but he did,so a major disaster was averted :)  .

Pretty soon after that when we were sure the earth was safe once again I was talking to a guy ,Dale , I think, and he mentioned he did some fire swinging. No encouragement necessary, he shot off and got his gear.
That seemed a good time to break out the drums. A girl, I must apologise for not remembering her name, had brought a large African drum and I had my Bodhran along with two other small drums.
Well, we beat the hell out of them while Dale enterained us with a great display of very impressive fire swinging .

Later on, true to form Ian got the karaoke going and there was an equally impressive display of singing, on a par with Britain’s Got Talent. Simon Cowell has already signed up two of them, at least that’s what I’ve been told.

By this time people were having a great time.
Ah time, something we neglected to consider, so we shouldn’t have been suprised when we recieved a visit from the local PSNI.
Someone had complained, well it was about 2 0′clock and we were in the back garden. They were ok about, just slapped our wrists and we went into the house to continue having a good ,if somewhat quieter night.
Check out some more pics in my Gallery, link at the top of the page

I think Linda and I left about 3 o’clock. The only down side was we lost Sunday but all in all I was a great night so ,

Happy Birthday Big Lad and Thank you for a GREAT night.

Fifty and you can still get the police out to tell you to behave!!!!

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