On Saturday various Samizdata team members and associates descended upon HQ for copious amounts of wine, chilli and cheese.
The party commences.
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The goddess Elena holds fort.
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Samizdata’s infamous bar.

Tomas Kohl drops in on us from the Czech Republic.
China’s hottest export.
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There’s something important on the computer.
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Readers of Brian’s blog are surging.
The Briffas – Peter Briffa is the purveyor of the fine Public Interest blog.
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By 3:30am, everyone had fallen asleep apart from the guardian hippo.

Wine, chilli and cheese…
What happened to the ham? 🙂
Histrionics were certainly in evidence.
Spanish histrionics, no, ham, was indeed in evidence. Not quite iJam, but it was there RAB
Phew! Oh good!
I thought you were losing your touch, as a host
there 😉
But why is my invitation always lost in the post?
That’s two parties in a few days, and we’ve just had christmas and new year.
Calm down Guys, what the hell do you have planned for lent?
Not a Tatoo in sight
At least not publically?