Christmas Party 2009..........

...........Wow, what a lunch Sheila and her trusty band of helpers arranged for the rest of the group today, there was a beautiful spread of cold meats and salads, followed by ...............yep you guessed it GAMES!.......ha! you thought it was Chrissy pudd, didn'tcha?

Of course the games were quilting based and the disagreements were many................Sue was telling Betty to do the Maths twice, Betty called on Heather to use her phone calculator and it was a good thing too.........

'Cause Sue won, just how many pieces are there in a Jacobs Ladder block?

Bettys antlers had a little sticker at the front 'try me' it said.............well you can imagine the comments and suggestions, so Table Hostess Janice pressed the button, and lo and behold, lights! and singing too!, everyone wanted some of those antlers.

After following tradition and telling us a 'Blonde Joke' which I shall try and remember and pop it at the bottom of the post Sheila then called on each table to choose someone to be a tree, we then all had to decorate our 'tree'.

Talk about innovation, lateral thinking and competitive spirit, we got to see it all, everyone got stuck in and worked in teams.

While others were busy, captured Julie in her Christmas Hat and pinnie,  what a beauty, yeah and the hat's pretty cool too.

Now what on earth are Marcia and Wendy up to? hacking into the tissue paper with scissors......

Why this of course, can't have a christmas tree, without.......well a christmas tree...

those naughty girls in the background were making smart comments about Wendy and the pinning of the top of the tree...........really, your mind wouldn't wander down that track now would it?

Marlene told me not to take this pic, she was up the back doing secret things to the foil baking dish.

So wandered off and snapped some of the merriment and mayhem.................

and the process that resulted in some pretty flash 'trees' oh yeah, forgot to mention, the theme was Angels........

And this is what Marlene was working on up the back, a Star, yes it is........squint........see, its a star!

There was a bit of bother getting it afixed to Winifreds Head, but the clever girls got it there in the end with the help of a little curlsheen.

Time for Sheila to make a Judging, note the green curlsheen that solved Winifred's star problem

First we had the rotating, musical singing tree, imaginary winder in the back was cranked up nicely by Marcia

With Musical Tree, finally coming face to face with one of her makers.

And the Winner is.................

Winifred and her Christmas Star.

A great time was had decorating our individual trees, and a terrific appetite was worked up for......yep, at last, the Chrissy Pudd and Custard, great sloshes of custard, the only way to eat your Chrissy Pudding. Yum, although naughty Sue, who was helping dish up dessert, found to her delight that some of the Pud stuck to the bottom of the tin, so quick as a flash she scooped up and into the gob, but not quick enough, she got caught!

Nobody seemed to miss that tiny little bit (Sue's words) enourmous gobfull, (someone else's words).

The delicious Pudd was followed by plates of grapes, and of course tea and coffee.........................
A Wonderful Christmas Party.