21:28. Marc, Nicoletta and Iain look through some photos.

21:28. Hmmm... can't remember the significance of this picture.

21:31. Meryem, avec ses amis francophones.

21:31. Meryem plus friends again.

21:47. Me enjoying some of le vin blanc, and Sam enjoying le, errr, Coke noir.

21:57. Nicoletta giving a particularly piercing stare.

22:16. Just in case the corner of the room above the door was feeling left out.

22:16. Maybe during New York, New York...?

22:17. Aha! Meryem and Cedric's birthday cake, before...

22:17. ...and after the blowing.

22:19. Meryem proudly holding her Gateaux des Simpsons. Um.

22:24. People inexplicably start falling on the floor.

22:24. A demonstration of how zips work...?

22:24. I made the mistake of asking if there was enough room in this picture for my head... I bet I think this song is about me, etc.

22:24. Still people are lying about on the floor.

22:25. ...and still..

22:25. Ah, finally, the notion of standing up again has been widely accepted as a good one.

22:26. However, only to be superceded by falling about on a sofa...

22:27. Some kind of French yoga...?

22:29. A more sensible sofa configuration...

22:29. ...but not for long!

22:30. Sam wonders if it really is that long.

22:32. Sam still pondering if it really could be...

22:37. If only Meryem had a life long ambition to stab Homer in the head, it would now have been fulfilled.

22:42. Pinrad and Iain looking a bit dozy already.

23:01. Did anyone else used to do this dance in their school discoes to "White Lines"...?

23:01. ...In later life I was shocked to find out this song was about cocaine! (Gasp)

23:03. Still, as a pre-teenager I wasn't going to deeply question the ethics of anything that led to an excuse to being sandwiched inbetween two of my female classmates.

23:07. Errr... anyway, erm, I seem to have strayed from the point... Err, um...?

23:07. Ah right, yes, Meryem's birthday party.

23:12. And indeed, here we have some white lines! Actually, this was just salt, which apparently helps to remove wine stains...?

23:20. Kali orexi - Bon appetit in Greek (actually can't think of the English equivalent)...

23:31. Worryingly robotic dancing may not have disappeared after all.

23:32. May have been part of my vain attempts to learn how to belly dance.

23:34. Meryem, on the other hand, is a very good dancer. Hardly a fair competition!

00:06. Erm not sure what was so interesting stage right at this point.

00:21. A photo of a photo of one of Meryem's friends, bizarrely wrapped in a towel. Well, technically, two towels. Hmmm, isn't that the name of the next Lord of the Rings film?

01:16. Meryem here thinking, oh make him go away, please!

01:16. Me and Delia - what a nice couple!

01:17. Meryem thinking if she pretends to look happy I might go away quicker.

01:19. Mr Werry avec Mlle Can.

01:21. Delia and Mark - an oddly more fitting couple (than myself and Delia, that is).

01:23. Tired looking people.

01:26. Pinrad's pyjamas! This may have been a suggestion that it was time to go to sleep.

01:26. The sort of picture you might well pay good money for in certain bookshops in Soho.

01:27. Mr Werry has actually been asleep for the past half hour. Here he is held up with an intricate system of levers and pulleys.

01:29. Must be time to go home then. Bon nuit, etc!