Carving with the Island Folk...
So, finally I get an opportunity to post on the events of the weekend, well, saturday anyway. Eagle eyed readers of this will have remembered m'self and m'colleague were invited to a pumpkin carving party at the weekend over with the people on Bainbridge Island.
Got there reasonably on time.. 30 minutes late but we're at the mercy of ferry services so I think we can be excused. Quite a good gathering underway and found another Porsche driver to revert to "car bore" status with.
The idea was that we stand around for a bit, wait for guests, then head over to the pumpkin patch to select pumpkins. We decided to go all out and impress the yanks by doing "pumpkin in a pumpkin".. carving one design on a bigger pumpkin, then putting a smaller pumpkin inside it with a different design. So my chosen design - some trees on the first bigger one, and two guys robbing a grave. Unfortunately most people thought it was abe lincoln in a porn film due to an awkward positioning of a spade. Ah well.. it still looked intricate and sparkly. M'colleague did a big scary eye thing in some trees.. which was a heck of a lot bigger than mine and looked much better once the candles were in!
Tried some fabulous warm cider with rum in as well.. went down very well for sitting around the bonfire making smores (not sure if I've spelled that right?). For those of you who dont know smores (and i'm new to them too..). You get a marshmellow, stick in on the end of a stick (or wire coat hanger, if you're todd you wave it around like a divining rod until you locate the fire) toast the marsmellow, then get two crackers and a piece of hershey's ash-u-like chocolate (sorry, Hershey is dreadful), and you put the marshmellow in the crackers with the chocolate and form some kind of sandwich. Talk about sugar rush! But pretty damn good!
Anyway, the battery died on my camera so waiting for m'colleague to get off his arse and get his pictures developed from ye olde chemical film so I can share some!
Right im off now.. conference calls ahoy!
Got there reasonably on time.. 30 minutes late but we're at the mercy of ferry services so I think we can be excused. Quite a good gathering underway and found another Porsche driver to revert to "car bore" status with.
The idea was that we stand around for a bit, wait for guests, then head over to the pumpkin patch to select pumpkins. We decided to go all out and impress the yanks by doing "pumpkin in a pumpkin".. carving one design on a bigger pumpkin, then putting a smaller pumpkin inside it with a different design. So my chosen design - some trees on the first bigger one, and two guys robbing a grave. Unfortunately most people thought it was abe lincoln in a porn film due to an awkward positioning of a spade. Ah well.. it still looked intricate and sparkly. M'colleague did a big scary eye thing in some trees.. which was a heck of a lot bigger than mine and looked much better once the candles were in!
Tried some fabulous warm cider with rum in as well.. went down very well for sitting around the bonfire making smores (not sure if I've spelled that right?). For those of you who dont know smores (and i'm new to them too..). You get a marshmellow, stick in on the end of a stick (or wire coat hanger, if you're todd you wave it around like a divining rod until you locate the fire) toast the marsmellow, then get two crackers and a piece of hershey's ash-u-like chocolate (sorry, Hershey is dreadful), and you put the marshmellow in the crackers with the chocolate and form some kind of sandwich. Talk about sugar rush! But pretty damn good!
Anyway, the battery died on my camera so waiting for m'colleague to get off his arse and get his pictures developed from ye olde chemical film so I can share some!
Right im off now.. conference calls ahoy!
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