Thursday, November 30, 2006

would someone please, please, put up a real pic of conor for me?

ezio@work

ezio@work

(another picture of conor?)

Wednesday, November 29, 2006


or this...

Just to remind everyone that while Conor may look like a muppet or peter stringer, at least none of them is as bad as this!

Tuesday, November 28, 2006


Conor, post-haircut.

The Hanson clan take on Bristol

Hi all,

I just spent the weekend at my sister's place in Bristol for the celebrations of her 21st birthday. I tell you, there's nothing like your younger siblings reaching significant birthdays to make you feel old! The party itself was really good. It was a joint party with one of Martha's housemates, Chloe, who had also just turned 21. They had hired a room in a pub and had a funky jazz-type band playing. The theme was corsets and cufflinks, which was a bit different and also gave me an excuse (as if I need one) to wear my corset. All the girls were in corset/ basque type tops (a fact that my brother appreciated, I think) and the boys were dressed pretty smart too. The only damper on the evening was the fact that my mum and dad's car broke down. They were staying in a cottage over the Welsh border because my mum is going to a conference in Cardiff this week and they were driving over to Bristol for the party when the car ceased to function. The AA was called but it was unfixable at the roadside, so my Dad had to go all the way back to Northumberland (6 hours drive away) with the car on the back of an AA truck and then drive down in their other car the next day. They managed to get a taxi for mum though (not an easy feat at 11 on a Saturday night, when you're in a lay-by somewhere in the middle of nowhere) so she managed to make it to the party. Anyway, apart from that minor disaster, the evening was wonderful. In addition to the band there was a good selection of music picked out by Martha and her flatmates so we were boogying until the early hours.

Surprisingly Lottie didn't get pissed (I don't know what came over me!) but my mother did overdo the wine a bit. Well, it had been a stressful evening, I guess, so she's excused. She kept apologising for being embarrassing and then insisted on drinking three cups of coffee to sober up when we got back to Martha's place, even though she knows perfectly well that it won't actually help. She obviously had a good time though! (And I think we can see where I get my drinking habits from...).

Anyway, there will be pictures to follow when I can be bothered to upload them.

Ciao!
Lottie x

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Ezio, could you put up the photo of conor's new haircut?

Wednesday, November 15, 2006


Just for posterity's sake...

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Halloween party




Hey guys,

Okay well here are some pics from the party - one of me as a mermaid, one of Amber as a devil and then a couple of our living rooms. It was a lot of fun, a few people came really decked out, including a burlesque bunny, though I couldn't get a pic of him. Enjoy!

L.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Hallowe'en

Good day one and all.

I have put the pictures from the hallowe'en party up on my flickr page, where you can access them to your heart's content. For those of you not present a little explanation: Chris and Mog decided to have a halowe'en costume party and being the bunch of crazy fools that we are people (mostly) made a lot of effort. The Blue Peter award for best home-made costume goes to Dave for the Frank Sidebottom head; the prize for scariest costume goes to Tom R. for his seriously disturbing home-made mask; the prize for most convincing costume goes to Kent (he's the one dressed as the singer from KISS) since several people didn't recognise him; the prize for most appropriate costume goes to Chris Morris, who came as a mad scientist (actually, it's not clear that it was a costume); and the prize for most disturbing costume has to go to Massimo, who came as Ezio.

The festivities of the night were many and varied. Chris Morris and Tom C. engaged in a spaztastic drinking challenge which involved having cans of Tennants taped to their hands backwards and racing each other to see who could drink them the quickest. I'm pretty sure that the Morris won, as I clearly remember him doing a victory dance. Losing obviously had quite an effect on Tom, as he fell asleep shortly afterward, whereupon he was set upon by a group of fiends with make-up... the results can be seen on the website. Mog was having quite a lot of fun with the make-up, managing to make both Chris Morris and Dave up to look like the pretty little girls that we know they are inside. However, in exchange for doing Dave's make-up Mog had to agree to let Dave do her make-up and so she ended up having "I am a spacko" on her face for the rest of the night. A small price to pay, though, for the joy of seeing Dave with green eyeshadow and bright red lips - it coordinated so well with his beard!

Anyway, a good time appears to have been had by all. Thanks Chris and Mog!