Just arrived home...I think we were the last to leave and leaving Portaferry was hard. Many thanks again to the wonderful Fibula and her lovely family for organizing a great weekend.

I have very little to add to Eric the Viking's entirely accurate account of the proceedings. We were on the ground floor and know nothing of any alleged nocturnal "activities" but there were indeed several very loud bonks bumps overhead during the not so early hours of the mornings.

For an essentially non-drinker, I managed to consume a surprisingly large quantity of the evil black stuff though, from breakfast recollections, not as much as the assembled multitudes. EtV managed to leave a very important detail out of the cake-icing workshop account (the process was carried out in the Fiddler's). Greg managed, with great delicacy and finesse, to beautifully decorate the cake with bright fluorescent icing....not with his name but, for some unexplained reason, the word "ARSE!". I got a bit of the exclamation mark and did, indeed, eat it off the Guinness-sodden floor.

I can vouch for the noxiousness of alanww's rear emission as reported above (as I was the closest person to him at the time of the atrocity. I believe the inpectors should be recalled from Iraq immediately as alan's arse presents an infinitely greater threat to mankind and (thinking of my friend CarolC...the ozone layer). This potent chemical weapon needs to be decommissioned immediately not least because 'Spaw may be knocked off his perch as champion practicioner in this particular area.

Being a gentleman of the highest degree I did not peek at all while Cats was removing her bra during the bra-swapping session.

I hope Micca does post up the authentic field recording done in the conservatory to the acdcompaniment of the ferry revving up and I do hope Lily Ani is not traumatised for life by the lullaby recorded for her.

It's well past midnight here in The Surreal Kingdom of Belgium so I'll knock off for now for some shut-eye and will try to complement the further recollections of a memorable weekend that will surely be posted by others.

Peace to all

moo