Oh what a night!

We live a quiet and fairly isolated life here at Rock HQ, once the gate closes at the end of our track the world can stay there until we sally forth and make contact. Very occasionally we party. Having two grown up rug rats who have birthdays in the same week seemed like a good excuse to let the festival commence and the drawbridge was lowered long enough to allow revellers access all areas. The theme of the fancy dress was S, as he who cannot be named is going somewhere with his job beginning with the same letter. A feast was prepared (pork based mostly) the helipad became a dance floor and two rival DJ's provided what the yoof refer to as banging tunes until gone three am. I think they are called banging as that's all that seems to happen, no lyrics, no rousing chorus. As a product of late seventies prog rock and a fan of heavy metal where every three minutes you get three verses, four chorus;s, a guitar solo and probably a drum solo thrown in I did did feel there was something missing from the mounting crescendo of noise. It did however serve an additional purpose of keeping the foxes away, along with most of our animals who did the sensible thing and took to the hills.
The effort put into the costumes was huge, special mention goes to Shrek, Space Invader, several Slash's, Sumo, a gaggle of scientists, Sam Gamgee (he was nearly disqualified as he really is a hobbit) and the Statue of Liberty who endured the journey over after breaking his thumb playing rugby. Given the enormous amount of alcohol consumed, the extreme drinking games (one of which culminated in a life long veggie accidentally drinking a lethal concoction of booze and pork fat) and the terrain in which the party was held we all survived relatively intact. He who cannot be named was the proud owner of a new camera for around 17 hours, his birthday present. This is now somewhere in the wilderness, along with several mobile phones, a purse and Saddam's weapons of mass destruction which were found around midnight but then lost during another round of ring of fire.