Jeff’s 60th Birthday Bash
What a party, it was a fantastic celebration of the old bugger reaching his 60th We had 10 squares up for the second mainstream bracket with a couple of squares sitting out having a chat, it was very crowded. For a plus bracket we managed 8 squares and at 11:30 we still had seven mainstream squares winding up the festivities.
Some really old faces appeared on the scene to wish Jeff well. His old friend Alan Brandford who went way back to the Adelaide University “Uni Club” days (when the old bloke was in his twenties) was MC, he also called the one dance he could remember. Peter Scott, another stalwart from Jeff’s dim distant past supported the bracket and although he claimed he was rusty did a great singing call and an interesting hoedown.
Trevor Hunt from Shooting Stars did some excellent calling (a bit hard to hear at times - I think we need a whip round to buy him a decent microphone) and Colin, Ivan and Ian pitched in too. All in all that made 7 callers for the night. The evening was a bit of an eye opener for Anita (one of our learners who came along to support Jeff).
Jeff was given the usual presents suitable for a sexagenarian (scotch Viagra user manual etc) plus two very special gifts. Often Jeff suggests we bring crayfish sandwiches for supper (wishful thinking because that never happens), this night it was different. Jenny our club president presented Jeff with a basket containing a crayfish, bread and butter and told him “make your own bloody sandwiches”. She also presented him with a huge montage of photos from the past (when he was a fit looking young gun) plus some photos of present club members surrounding his caricature (in support).
On the right of the photo montage, near the bottom was a photo of Jeff as a young gun with his young wife Susan, Just take a look at the photo below (the inset picture gives you an idea how young his kids and their friend were) just compare with todays picture - gee Jeff you must feel positively ANCIENT, Susan of course has not aged one bit.
Jeff’s cake was HUGE ! It was the largest black forest cake I have ever seen, about a metre long, enough for 400 guests (I did my best to help out I did have two servings). It had lashings of very thick full cream as a topping and a filling (from the lips to the hips).
The food mmmmm the food!!!!.
What a fantastic spread (why can’t we have the same spread every Friday night?). There was lots of food, hot food, cold food, sweet food, savoury food, food and more food, we had to scour the place to find enough tables to load up.
The wine flowed like water and for those who imbibed, the dancing just became smoother and smoother as the evening blurred into a faultless succession of squares (some of the other dancers perhaps made a few mistakes, but never those who smoothly glided along in an alcoholic haze - well if I did make a few mistakes I can’t remember them).
Decorations were great thanks to a hard working supporting committee. There were some great raffle prizes and a rogues gallery (photos of Jeff’s groupies) hanging at the back of the hall was dismantled by attendees to take home as a memento of the event.
One balloon for each year?
All in all a great night, everyone had a great time
Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Roger M
Filed under: Activities, Wild Frontier
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