Catslide Party 2013
Our theme was to be 'The town where I was born'. Then I remembered the Beatles song, Yellow Submarine so what went out in our invitation email became:
The Theme:
We invite you to come in a fancy dress 'inspired' by the first lines of what i think is the Beatle's worst song, 'Yellow submarine'. For those who are too young to know or old enough to have forgotten, the lines are:
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life,
In the land of submarines,
Now i think this has some good possibilities, you can:
celebrate the town where you were born...major prizes for those who can guess where from your outfit
take up the nautical theme
take up the psychedelia theme.
As the pics show, this resulted in some remarkable attires in which the attired were convinced of the obviousness of their representation and the guessers were equally convinced of their obscurity. Perhaps this was not so surprising as some of us were born in some rather obscure places.
Rosemary came as Richard III representing Leicester and I came as the Northwich.
Many thanks to Thomas, Roger, Jason and Ann for contributing their pics.
Saturday
Getting ready, set up the bar
Light the BBQ
Test the beer
Set the spit in motion
Watch the meat Pete
Change into costume
First out, Mafia boss, Christina [Sicily], and Ozzie Osbourne, Jason [Birmingham]
Hello sailor, Thomas and sea nymph, Tanya
Richard III, Rosemary [Leicester] and The North witch, Chris [Northwich]
A hitch hiker, Allison [Hitchin]
Nautical themed, Alex and Jim with the Cheshire cat, Ann, [Grappenhall]
Alex explains how big the one that got away really was
A jester from Leicester, Adham [Leicester]
Shop steward at Morris Oxford works, Paul [Oxford]
Pete takes over the BBQ, wearing the outfit he wore at his first Catslide party, just to show how he hasn't changed
Not just any sailor, but one from HMS Belfast, Roger {Belfast] with not just any sailor, but the Lord High Chief of the Admiralty, Susan, clearly his boss
Joined by seaweed, Anne
Less turd potty, Nick [Leicester]
hmmmm
Lurking in the bushes, the yellow submarine, made by Anne, a sailor, Philip and more seaweed, David
The sailors
Round the fire pit
Yes Pete, we are convinced, you havn't changed
Sunday
The campsite awakes
breakfast
Tuck in
Adham performs his A-Z of the underground routine
I was surprised that Amanda wasn't dressed up yesterday, this morning, all is revealed. Her hat was made from real grass turf and before leaving Nottingham she decided to give it a good watering. Unforunately, it was rather too good a watering with soggy car and soggy hat too wet to wear. It's dried off enough now though.
Turf covered hat with goats [Amanda] Hatfield
Off to the allotment with bags
After breakfast, it's time to water the lawn
At last, a use for those potties
Time to pack up the tents for another year
Boing Boing
SF Weekly
Last word on nothing
Wise words
Questionable content
Wobegone
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