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November 30, 2003
Sunday
 
 
Tales from darkest Chelsea
Perry de Havilland (London)  Antics & parties

The Fourth British Blogger Bash in Chelsea was a chaotic and noisy affair...but then they always are, so no change there. Thirty-five worthy souls dived into the famous Chilli con Chelsea and only a few were slain by the lurking habanero demons therein...

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Adriana, David and Luisa looked on as Perry ritually sacrified a civil servant to get the party swinging

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Adriana and Philip amused themselves by hiding the bottles that were inexplicably protruding from Michael's back pockets

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Hair? Ha! Hair is for weaklings!

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For some reason the oxygen was getting sucked out of the room...

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Brian rather unkindly ate Claire's Chilli whilst she was in a staring competition with Antoine

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Briffa and Sherrif look on nonplused whilst Frank Sennsenbrenner does his Nixon impersonation

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David and Claire do the 'La Dolce Vita' look rather well

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Debbie, Jackie & Simon laugh, little knowing the camera is stealing their souls!

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Andrew gets the message and does not tread on Linda

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The Dissident Frogman morphs whilst talking to Andrew. Paul and Philip pretend not to notice

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Even the hard core started to feel the strain after a while.... but he was just 'resting his eyes' really.

Yes... another highly successful blogger bash!

Update: And the Dissident Frogman has a scary Blogger Bash picture of his own.

Comments

Looks like a good time was had by all!

Pray tell, Dissident, why de Gaulle?


Posted by Tony at November 30, 2003 09:51 PM

What a great night -- thanks for having us! I had a blast, met so many lovely people and left at around 8.30 AM. Being "hardcore" was never so fun.


Posted by Jackie D at November 30, 2003 10:15 PM

A great event. Thanks, Perry.

Nothing of me or of Frank sleeping? :(


Posted by Peter Cuthbertson at November 30, 2003 10:19 PM

No, Peter, nothing of you sleeping. But the audio file of Michael snoring...


Posted by Patrick Crozier at November 30, 2003 11:23 PM

Damn! I also want to see the pics of Peter Cuthbertson and Frank Sensennbrener sleeping together! :-O


Posted by Snide at December 1, 2003 12:01 AM

A fun time was had by all. It was especially good for those of us who managed to stay awake throughout.


Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at December 1, 2003 12:04 AM

Dear Perry

Thankyou very much for last night Perry. It was a great "do". Everybody was truly on good form.
Debbie & I are looking forward to the next one.
We finally got home at 4.30am, proud in the belief that we were "Hardcore"!!!!!!

HAH!!! Little did WE know!!!!!

Once again, thanx from

Simon & Debs
xxxxx


Posted by Simon Austin at December 1, 2003 12:08 AM

My gawd! Just ordinary normal-apaearing people!


Posted by David Sucher at December 1, 2003 02:17 AM

What? No skin or fetish? I thought bloggers rhymed with floggers.


Posted by Rockabilly at December 1, 2003 02:48 AM

Great pics. I like the "Don't tread on me" flag thingy.


Posted by JohnJo at December 1, 2003 08:09 AM

Heh no, I just meant no picture of me at all?


Posted by Peter Cuthbertson at December 1, 2003 09:54 AM

Great pics Perry -- but where are you?

(ps. could I thank you for your link, but ask it to be corrected to tomgrey.motime.com instead of my old blog?)

For a World Without Dictators. In my lifetime.


Posted by Tom Grey at December 1, 2003 10:47 AM

There you are. Frank sleeping. (I may put another selection of photos of the evening up on my blog later. If I do, I'll link from here).


Posted by Michael Jennings at December 1, 2003 11:11 AM

Excellent bash Perry. Thanks so much for hosting it!

Great bunch of people and superb pics!

Go "Hardcore"


Posted by John Haithwaite at December 1, 2003 01:14 PM

Excellent! Next time I'll bring the wife. Promise.


Posted by Peter Briffa at December 1, 2003 01:47 PM

That's for a nice event (I was the guys with the gorgeous Anna). It was good to meet you all.


Posted by Steve at December 1, 2003 05:44 PM

Great pics. Shame to miss the bash but, ahem, I was in Barbados at the time. Heh


Posted by Tom at December 2, 2003 04:35 PM

Looks like you had a fantastic party - sorry I couldn't be there - maybe next time?


Posted by pix at December 2, 2003 07:04 PM

Thanks Perry!


For the relatively svelte photo of me. ;-)


Consider yourself invited to my 'world famous' Tea and Alka-Seltzer Party on New Year's Day.


Posted by Antoine Clarke at December 3, 2003 06:54 PM
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