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Erika atop the inflatable elephant I got for my party, as a reference to the Peter Sellers film which probably nobody got.17:45:09
First few guests have arrived.18:14:00
Some of Erika's friends came along for the early part of the party and enjoyed playing with the elephant.20:13:53
Ricardo was determined it wasn't going to be an entirely stuffy tweedy sort of evening as I had planned, so invited these Brazilian carnival dancers as a surprise. Which, among all the tweed, was quite surreal.
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Limbo dancing. None of these pictures really came out very well but you get the idea.20:30:27
Erika and one of the dancers.20:35:45
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Wanted to get a shot of me, Erika and the dancers.
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20:40:01
The unveiling of the portrait my horrible friends had comissioned for me.
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Here I am with the horrible portrait.20:42:08
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General incredulity at just how horrible the portrait is.20:42:28
I was oddly pleased with it regardless.
21:49:52
Leon having his glass topped up from one of the magnums of Nyetimber.