{"id":2903,"date":"2010-12-20T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2010-12-20T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:30:02","slug":"our-musical-christmas-house-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/our-musical-christmas-house-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Our musical Christmas house party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-03.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now become a Christmas tradition around our house to invite a bunch of folks over for a festive\u00a0occasion\u00a0of chat, home-made cakes, mince pies, beer, mulled wine and lots of live music.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-01.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note the TV playing a DVD of a log fire. I was deeply cynical of such a daft idea, but in the end it became quite\u00a0mesmerising, and after a few beers I could have sworn it was warming the place up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-02.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-14.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-04.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-05.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-06.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-07.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Full on recorder action!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-08.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-15.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lurking in the darkness on the left is me &#8220;laying down&#8221; some &#8220;paradiddle&#8221; action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-09.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no idea either.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-10.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As well as the usual traditional folk songs, slightly less festive loud&#8217;n&#8217; lairy covers of the Clash, Pistols, Pogues and, err, Wham&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; were belted out.<\/p>\n<p>Sorely missed this year was Mike Llewellin, who tragically died last week. RIP Mike. I hope we did you proud!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-11.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phil looks up the lyrics as we get ready to murder another song.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-12.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/christmas-party-2010-13.jpg\" alt=\"Our musical Christmas house party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy\u00a0Christmas\u00a0everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now become a Christmas tradition around our house to invite a bunch of folks over for a festive\u00a0occasion\u00a0of chat, home-made cakes, mince pies, beer, mulled wine and lots of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","tag-christmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/christmas-party-2010-03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-KP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}