the nailsea escapade.
the tale.
so i get this call. what are you doing for new year? nothing, says i. come for a jolly jaunt to the country, says she. so i do. now i'm expecting a big house belonging to a parent or something of that order of magnitude. nothing could have prepared me for the cavernous halls and warren-like corridors of tyntesfield house.
as the chimes of midnight rang out the fourteen of us halted our murder mystery game and welcomed in the new year in the only proper way: champagne and radio four in the hall, beneath the palatial staircase and the brooding ancestors.
to my knowledge, there was no adequate count of the total alcohol consumed in those two days.
what follows are my mementos of that time: photographs not to be found in any guidebook and the pages of my journal that may make sense to those who were compos mentis.
photographs.
above are my selection of odd views and such. if anyone has any more that i can add to this page, please send them to me.
quotes and such (transcribed from journal and formalised).
"i always eat salad naked." penny, 13:30, 31/12/03
"i'm going to pour this water away and get some gin." catriona, 14:02, 31/12/03
"masturbation can be quite enjoyable. fruit tea can't." elizabeth, 15:45, 31/12/03
"i like nuns. that's the only reason i'm in the whole catholocism business." catriona, 21:14, 31/12/03
christmas pudding thrown, james, 21:34, 31/12/03
"you should have been born small." noga "i was." ben, 16:30, 01/01/04
discussion of snuff, whore's knickers and contact lenses, catriona and penny, 18:48, 01/01/04
all other nations go around saying their boyfriends have tiny willies, discuss, 20:56, 01/01/04
"if you ever notice me making a good pun, please tell me and i'll remember it and use it forever after." elizabeth, 21:40, 01/01/04
cork thrown, ben, 21:42, 01/01/04
"little oules should be scene/seen and not act." elizabeth, 22:15, 01/01/04
"may tea be with you even if you're in paris." elizabeth, 22:42, 01/01/04
"aren't kneecaps amazing things!" catriona, 22:42, 01/01/04
"there's nothing that a good screw won't sort out." ben "but this is with nails!" elizabeth, 23:40, 01/01/04
"where did i put my gin?!" duncan, 23:42, 01/01/04
"what is your obsession with lemons?" elizabeth? "i don't have any obsession with lemons." duncan "that's denial." robert "no it isn't!" duncan, 23:45, 01/01/04
"i'm really bad so i overcompensate." robert, 23:46, 01/01/04
"it's getting bigger each time." noga, 00:45, 02/01/04
"is it only me who thought we were baking unicorns?" penny, 00:52, 02/01/04
trouserless photograph taken (we nearly journeyed to the moon with that one), ben, 01:03, 02/01/04
"haven't i ever called you graceful and mythic? i must be more inventive." elizabeth, 01:09, 02/01/04
"old lord wraxhall was never the same after the robberies. they cut one of his fingers off and locked him in a car boot. and he wasn't exactly sociable to start with." taxi driver, 13:10, 02/01/04
"coming soon stuck on you." showcase cinema sign, 14:14, 02/01/04
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