The banquet
Feb. 17th, 2008 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wellinghallThe annual SocT banquet was held last night. Well, I say, "Last night," - it actually started at 2pm, giving more time for singing, dancing, duelling, chatting and mingling, as well as the all-important business of eating and drinking.
The banquet committee, led by the indefatigable![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shanith, performed miracles, even managing to outdo their previous high points. If I had to single out one dish for special praise, it would be the chocolate orange truffle cake. Or the sticky toffee pudding. No, I think the chocolate orange truffle cake had it. Or the ...
Thanks also go toparrot_knight, and to skordh, jane_somebody and prince_eldarion, for ferrying me around north Oxford after my new shoes gave me horrendous blisters.
I met some new people, includingbeam_engine and teh_elb, and many old friends - apart from those previously mentioned, I hadn't seen the_marquis and na_lon for far too long.
Creatrix turned up half-way through the evening, after going to see Sylvia at Covent Garden, and was pounced on for gossip and for tales of SocT and the TS in days of yore.
We woke far too early this morning, and have now finished breakfast, and are slowly completing the process of waking up. Then back home, complete the weekend's chores, and prepare for another week at the coalface.
Creatrix has reminded me about the costume competition, which in a moment of madness I volunteered to arrange. Thanks go to all the entries, and especially topellegrina for helping me to count the votes. The winners were:
-exactlyhalf and footnotetoplato for the expandable horse
-arda_unmarred for Good and Evil
-prince_eldarion (aided and abetted by skordh and jane_somebody) as Merry on Stybba.
The banquet committee, led by the indefatigable
shanith, performed miracles, even managing to outdo their previous high points. If I had to single out one dish for special praise, it would be the chocolate orange truffle cake. Or the sticky toffee pudding. No, I think the chocolate orange truffle cake had it. Or the ... Thanks also go to
parrot_knight, and to skordh, jane_somebody and prince_eldarion, for ferrying me around north Oxford after my new shoes gave me horrendous blisters.I met some new people, including
beam_engine and teh_elb, and many old friends - apart from those previously mentioned, I hadn't seen the_marquis and na_lon for far too long.Creatrix turned up half-way through the evening, after going to see Sylvia at Covent Garden, and was pounced on for gossip and for tales of SocT and the TS in days of yore.
We woke far too early this morning, and have now finished breakfast, and are slowly completing the process of waking up. Then back home, complete the weekend's chores, and prepare for another week at the coalface.
Creatrix has reminded me about the costume competition, which in a moment of madness I volunteered to arrange. Thanks go to all the entries, and especially to
pellegrina for helping me to count the votes. The winners were:-
exactlyhalf and footnotetoplato for the expandable horse-
arda_unmarred for Good and Evil-
prince_eldarion (aided and abetted by skordh and jane_somebody) as Merry on Stybba.
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Date: 2008-02-17 09:57 am (UTC)(Meanwhile, I know I have an e-mail of yours to reply to -- I'll do so later on today or tomorrow when I can buy a new power cord for my poor old laptop.)
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