Party in the Park !!!

So that's it.  The Carnival and Party in the Park has been and gone for another year.  It goes so quickly.  I did try to find some decorated wheelbarrows but there weren't any.  Not sure what happened there but there were none to be found.  The piss-up-in-the-park is on the Sunday and normally goes on from mid-day until 9pm.  We usually get there between 2 and 3pm as the first few bands are just normally young local ones trying to make a name for themselves. 

The last two bands of the night don't normally come on until 6pm.  Some people don't even turn up until the very last band is on because they are normally the best - it's been 'Big 10' on last for the past few years.  They sing 'Ska' songs - stuff like Madness and Bad Manners sing.  It's at this point that we lose HIM for the evening.  Off he goes and does his stuff.  He calls it dancing.  We're still trying to come up with a name for it.

We did go to buy raffle tickets at just after 6pm but as we walked over to where they normally sell them, we heard them on stage drawing the numbers out.  Stupid.  The committee in charge of this party often complain that they don't get enough money.  Perhaps I should suggest they keep selling raffle tickets until at least 8pm.  Last year I did win a rather large teddy bear that some guy just appeared at my door with a couple of days later !  I was hoping for the first prize of £50 cash but it doesn't look like it will ever happen.

I guess it all went without a hitch.  Well, it did as long as we don't count the altercation on the way home.  There was a woman really looking for a fight.  I was quite willing to help her out with the request but I didn't.  I was quite drunk but also quite sensible.  I knew it would end up with me being in so much trouble.  We walked part of the way to mums (taxi for the evening) behind a couple of female Police Community Support Officers (PSCO's).  We were hoping they didn't realise the two girls with us were only 15 and 17 (HIS nieces).  They weren't THAT drunk although we'd already tried to tell the St John's Ambulance people that the youngest one had ADHD due to her dancing around like a mad woman and that the stain on her white T-Shirt was just something she'd eaten and spilt.  We hope they didn't realise it was where she'd actually been sick three times.  Tsk, the youth of today.  We did actually apologise to the PCSO's and they said it was alright and that they'd seen worse.  It was either that or we were just quite scary looking with there being six of us and only two of them !

I counted up the bottles of wine that I took with me and noticed only one bottle got brought back home.  We won't go there with the actual figure but I'm quite sure I must've had a lot of help drinking them.  There's no way I could've drunk them all, including the one I drank before we went !