Yo Ho Ho

Thursday night was the last meeting of the year and as it’s Christmas we had our usual fiercely fought Christmas competitions.

Starting off the night we had our lovingly titled “Bucket Competition”. It earned its name in the mists of time when Slides were used. To ensure fairness and to spread out the slides between each team they used to be placed into a bucket and each team would take it in turns to pick one until they were all gone. Nowadays of course we don’t have many people that still shoot slide film so we use prints. Each team member was supposed to bring along six prints to use. I’d love to say the rules were strictly adhered to but only one team stuck to the six prints per member rule! Amazingly at the end of the competition, when all of a teams prints are supposed to be used up, one team still had about 20 left on their table! Never mind though, we’ll get our own back next year.

Next up was the part some of us were dreading. The Yo Ho Ho competition. It’s just strange, funny and weird pictures you’ve taken recently. Now I knew Ian had something planned, as usual. It was just a case of wondering who was going to be the target this year. Unfortunately it was me again! I really am going to have to stop wearing that pigeon costume in public.

Thanks to everyone who brought along some food and to all our members that turned up to make it a great evening full of Christmas fun.

I’d like to finish this post by saying Farewell to Dominique. She’s leaving us to go back to Holland. It’s been great having you in the club and I hope it’s not a permanent move and that we’ll see you again soon. Keep in touch.