Fun In The Sun | 2004 review

Saturday 17th April, 2004

Kylie and Jason help flap the fish (2004)

Just in case anyone was unsure which flat was hosting the party.

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The third annual party took place in April this year, thereby removing the likelihood of any sun from the proceedings and meaning that events took place indoors.

However, the lack of sun was counter-balanced by an abundance of fun to be served up with a feast of games including three separate Pass The Parcels, Pin The Tail On The Donkey, The Chocolate Game and, the big one, a knockout Flap The Fish competition.

Vinyl recordings of Kylie Minogue's 'I Should Be So Lucky' and Jason Donovan's 'Too Many Broken Hearts' doubled up as extremely versatile 'flappers' for the tournament.

The spotlight was on Rob throughout to ensure that his cheating antics from 2003 were not repeated.

As it happens the underhand flouting of the rules in 2004 came from Mr Mark Golland who completely dis-regarded the basic rules of Pin The Tail On The Donkey and tried to win by feeling his way along the wall.

Judges were on hand to disqualify him from the competition and stewards will be reviewing video evidence in case there were further incidents that went unseen.

Amazingly this was the winning entry in Pin The Tail On The Donkey,

As usual there are a whole host of photos available courtesy of my digital camera so have a look through the best ones in the gallery.

Photo Gallery

We corrected the lack of food mistake of last year and Jana worked tirelessly in the kitchen preparing food throughout the whole day, almost all of which appears to have been eaten.

The flat is still covered in balloons but i think we've found most of the streamers, sweets and jelly dishes that were strewn over the floor earlier.

We also managed an entire event with very few spillages on the carpet, in fact everything was going really well until we'd finished all the clearing up on Sunday evening and Jon tipped a pint of Vimto on the clean floor.

The winners

Event	Winner
Pass The Parcel 1	Mark G. (this was the low risk version without forfeit jelly)
Pass The Parcel 2	Dave. (and he even won the special bonus book prize as well)
Pass The Parcel 3	Sally. (The bookmakers favourite, always looked in control of the parcel and a skilled hand at unwrapping the layers when required)
The Chocolate Game	Absolutely no idea. (but at least we decided to stop before it went on for 3 days)
Pin The Tail On The Donkey	Ian. (One of only two people who actually managed to get on the donkey)
Flap The Fish	Tom. (Solid performance throughout, although was helped by not having to compete in the first round)

And that's another year over and done with. Fun In The Sun will return in 2005, although probably in the late summer/autumn time assuming that i do actually make it to Australia at some point later this year.

So, finally...

As ever, thanks to everyone for turning up, taking part, and at least making it look like you were having fun on the photo's.

Thanks to Nikki who provided the completely excellent donkey with detachable tail and both Nikki and Dave who provided the necessary construction tools and colouring pens for Flap The Fish and The Chocolate Game.

Thanks to Dave for providing 'dave's forfeit drinks' in the final two Pass The Parcel games.

Thanks to Jana for taking charge of the food and preparing it in the morning and during the afternoon.

Thanks to Rob and Amie for providing the first Pass The Parcel game.

Thanks to everyone else who brought along food, drink, picked music, blew up balloons, and generally joined in to make it lots of fun.

Thanks to all my neighbours who, for the third year in a row, have still not made any complaints about noise or drunken behaviour.

Cheers.

James x