Party time

The other thing we did yesterday was attend parties. First there was Olivia's 30th at La Camera at Southgate. An excellent lunch with good company, including our new friends Sherry and Jason. For some reason we've met them several times over the past few weeks at dinner and jazz related activities organised by Ben & Olivia. We just seemed to hit it off. Jason is from Atlanta, Georgia, and has the kind of unshakable accent you can only find in the south of the US. The trick is that the Georgian drawl shares some vowels with a broad Australian accent, and having been here for a couple of years Jason tends to say names and proper nouns in the native lingo, so you're left staring at his mouth wondering exactly where to place him. Anyway it turns out that Jason is a jazz and MST3K fan and Xbox enthusiast, so we have a lot to talk about. We've decided we're getting together soon for an MST3K night.

Yesterday night after Dance Card we headed to The Swedes' abode for their official housewarming. I can't quite figure out why the house needed to be warmed, because they moved in a fair while ago and one of their housemates is moving out as well, but we had fun nonetheless. Here's a pic, courtesy of Doz.

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