Party Party One!

Of course, no festive season would be complete without any number of parties and social gatherings to go to and tonight was one of the first - a party at the home of Chiara and Maurizio - two work colleagues who have their own research groups in the Biochemical Sciences Building (Chiara was a postdoc for my boss Yusuf sometime ago but is now a semi-independent investigator, Maurizio is an independent investigator). The last party i attended at their house, we were all up till about 2.30 in the morning singing songs and generally having a laugh. Today was something of a similar affair - except we weren't up quite that late (the curse of having to do lots of experiments before the Christmas break) but there was plenty of singing going along as Maurizio likes to play guitar (and does so very well, i might add, considering he is self-taught), Motohiro (the new post doc) plays sax and between the two of them they have some pretty good accompaniment (as well as some excellent blues playing). Naturally, anyone else there who wanted to sing just got up and went for it (there was even a microphone too).

SO how many times did I have a sing? Well, as is usual with me, it takes a lot for me to get up there and sing that first time but then you can't get me off!! I did a fair few numbers over the course of the evening (but didn't hog the microphone i should add - Motohiro repeated his karaoke success with a song or two as well). Anyway, suffice to say, a fun time was had by all - and we even all managed to stayt relatively sober. Quite what this is relative too is anyone's guess!!