A smashing time…

A few days late admittedly but I just wanted to say a huge thanks to my mate CK for hosting the ‘funnest’ bonfire event ever last weekend…

When I first got her email about a piano-smashing bonfire party I have to admit I did think she was having a bit of a funny turn… the idea of drunken maniacs wielding sledgehammers in the dark and then burning the remains seemed more appropriate for Halloween than Bonfire night, but the enthusiasm demonstrated by darling boyf as soon as I mentioned the invite (he started planning how to weld viking horns onto his sledgehammer!!!) meant that I was in no doubt that we’d certainly be joining in the mayhem.

And mayhem it was… but mayhem in a bloody-good-fun kinda way Firstly we had piano massacre number 1 and I’ve never seen such pent-up agression displayed at a bonfire party before… I think it only took about a minute before one of the sledghammers was in pieces. The worrying thing here is that CK’s other half then produced a lump hammer as a replacement… hmmm, one sledgehammer-wielding-nutter with no control over the weight of the thing he/she’s hurling around and another, even more insane person, crawling around the feet of the sledgehammer-wielder, hiting bits of wood with a tiny lump hammer… A&E anyone!

Once the piano was in bits the next challenge was to post all the pieces through a letterbox-sized hole in an old door and on to the awaiting bonfire… this seemed to be the safe bit so I was more than happy to muck in – that was until one of the guys decided it was a good idea to ‘help’ by standing on the other side of the door and pulling at the bits of wood I was pushing through… That idea works great unless you’ve managed to get your bracelet strap caught around the piece of wood and find yourself being pulled through the door with the old wood! I still have the bruises!!!

We then had a break from the pianos for some scrummy chilli and lots of fireworks. This sounds harmless untill I tell you that the fireworks seemed even drunker than half the guests – in so far as they couldn’t seem to stand upright and on one memorable occasion fired off horizonatally into the spectators… I’ve never seen so many men run away so quickly! Oh, and I was also convinced that Monkey – who seemed to be the official ‘firework-lighterer’ - was going to do himself a severe injury with the sparklers he decided to carry around in his back pocket!

Piano massacre number 2 I pretty much missed… I was hiding my eyes… I simply couldn’t bear to watch as one of girls smashing around with the sledgehammer missed the head of another girl using the lump hammer by about 0.5 millimeters!!! At this point CK’s health and safety regs had well and truly flown out of the window methinks!

So, all in all a fabby night. Lots of fireworks, alcohol, good food, and hilarity. Oh and sledghammers of course… Thanks CK – see you for the next one!

Quick update - CK’s now posted the vid of the night’s escapades… click here for a look