Friday 23 January 2009

Good Party and Bad News

Job done! Romy collected me and we arrived at the hall. Unfortunately, to fit everyone in, the caterer had laid the tables in three huge long rows which did make it a bit hard for people to get in and out, which was quite interesting when people decided to walk around having a chat over a friend's shoulder while the waitresses struggled to collect plates and so on. Our new chairman rendered an interesting version of 'Danny Boy' and was dutifully applauded, the band was very popular, and the raffle went very well. I was home by about 5pm.

I must try and get some dust sheets today - decided that the whole music thing was too technical for me to deal with and ended up purchasing a portable radio/tape/CD player from Amazon which may arrive today. At least I shan't have to worry about whether to get floor speakers, and where the put the whole thing.

The news is rather depressing: it seems that when John Travolta's son was dying in the ambulance, the staff were photographing the boy and later tried to blackmail John Travolta over selling him the photographs. In Mexico where the drug related deaths had doubled since the year before, a man had been arrested for drug crime and confessed to 'melting' over 300 bodies by putting them in holes in the ground on a building site and pouring sulphuric acid on them - he was known as 'the stewmaker'.

All rather dismal.

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