Wow, I’ve actually managed to bruise my toes!! Quite an impressive feat. But more on that later!
As you all know last night was Halloween which is the best excuse I can think of to get all dressed up. Firstly, at work we had Halloween drinks in the canteen on Wednesday so I got to spend my afternoon decorating the canteen with the other girls and up to my elbow in pumpkin. I haven’t carved a pumpkin in years and I have to say it was great fun. I do have an uncanny ability to get mess everywhere though… but I think that adds to the fun.
The place looked amazing and the guys in the canteen did a great job with the catering. Here’s a selection of pictures from Wednesday.
The master at work!

Rebekka, Erica and me hard at work

Rebekka gutting her pumpkin ![]()

Fred the Pumpkin

Kiki, me and Erica – I appear to be pulling a rather strange face! Situation normal then!

Me, Erica, Ernst (my boss) and Rebekka

The pumpkin carver extraordinaires!!! (Erica, Rebekka and moi)

And personally I think Erica should make this her Facebook profile pic, its brilliant!!!

Then on Friday I was at an expat party, just a quiet one but we got to burn alcohol and recite a spell to keep the evil spirits away (ghosty spirits, not alcoholic spirits) which was great fun. I need to steal some pics off Facebook of the flaming alcohol as its was very very cool. And so pretty!!
And then came Saturday! Now I haven’t done a Halloween party since I was living in Edinburgh and that generally involved going to The Mission – oh how miss that club, though I’d probably be bored of it if I was still living there – and dressing up not dissimilar to how we normally dressed. So I spent Saturday afternoon going round town looking for inspiration with the help of Mo who I think I called about 6 times over about 3 hours! I didn’t like any of the costumes in the costume shop so decided to go as a devil and try and get a red dress or skirt. This was a much better idea. Though I did have to go back to the costume shop for horns and a tail (never thought I’d have to say that sentence) and it was like a rugby scrum!! Thought I was about to pass out by the time I’d paid.
Spent about 3 hours getting ready which is always good fun even on my own and got picked up by Dave at about 9 and went round to Mark’s first for pre-party drinks.
Leaving the house.. and yes, that is a bottle of Pimms in my hand! And LOVE my new pink fluffy jacket… I saw it and spoke to me. Well its pink and its fluffy… and pink and fluffy… and….

Sober Kate… last picture of that for the evening!!!
And look at the beautiful shoes… so beautiful…. so painful!! Managed to bruise my toes from dancing so much!!

Attempting to spike Dave’s hair…. the spikes did not last long!

Mark and Dave all ready to go (note the spikes have already fallen over!!). Mark looking slightly disturbing here… and also kinda like Keith from the Prodigy (I had to explain to him who that is!)

Ready to rumble!!

Couldn’t find a pitchfork so had a whip instead – attempted to crack it but ended up hitting myself. Its more difficult than cracking lunge whips which I’m a dab hand at ![]()

All of us ready to go. Me, Mark, Krizsta and Fran… and Dave but he’s behind the camera!

We then went on to Dean’s party which was in his garage. He’d done a really good job, whole place was decorated and there was a proper DJ and disco lights and everything. Plus fridges full of booze! So here comes millions and millions of pictures!! In no particular order as I can’t remember what order they were taken in!
Small disclaimer here… Krizsta had orange hair spray on which rubbed off on everything including me as I kept kissing her!!!! So any pictures of me with stupid orange stuff on my face, that’s why!!! Also, as it was dark in there you couldn’t see it… you can only see it on the pictures.
Fran, Dave and me… me and Fran looking a little drunk (Dave was designated driver).

Mark and Miriam

Miriam and moi

Miriam looking fabulous dahling!

I don’t think I can really say much about this picture… it speaks for itself ![]()

This was clearly later on in the night!! And the hole in my tights was there when I put them on!!

Tra la laaaaa

Please don’t kill me Krizsta!

Me and Dave

Me, Miriam, Lilly and Krizsta doing some kind of can-can

Me and Jennifer having a whale of a time dancing like loons ![]()

Red lady, orange lady

Ah ha… Dave has an orange forehead… it wasn’t just me!!

Fran, Miriam and mark

LOVE this pic!!

This was clearly later on after vast quantities of alcohol ![]()

More and more hole appearing in my tights… by the end of the night they were basically in shreds. Didn’t help that I thought it was fun to rip more in them!

Fran was trollied by the end of the night… you could just spin him round and off he’d go. He also lost his cloak, bless!

A prize for the best caption me thinks!!

Aawww

Looking fricking ace Krizsta ![]()


Lily

Another stabbing one… should probably have put them together… ah well, can’t be bothered now!

This is a great pic, such a shame about the stupid orange stuff… and the fact I was clearly rather hot after dancing all night!

Sexeh!

Boobs x 4!!

Drunk… us… nevah!!

At about 1am we decided to try another party we had been invited to. Turned out not such a good idea. The place was fricking weird. It was a house, but the ground floor was basically a lounge/bar type thing with an actual bar in the corner. And the basement was club, with strobe lights, a dj booth and mirrors. So had a bit of a dance downstairs then some guy came along at about 2 and told everybody they had to leave. Who ends a party at 2 in the morning!!!! So we went to leave and this guy basically grabs me and goes ‘where are you going?’… urm, with my friends. ‘No no, they can leave, you stay here with me’!!! He then started trying to push/drag/persuade me towards the stairs… luckily at that point rescue came in the form of friends. Very weird guy. We went back to Dean’s party but it had also finished by the time we got back. So the night ended at about 2.30 in the morning which was a bit of a disappointment but it was still an excellent night!!
Looking forward to all the fun this month now. Got expat drinks on Friday, then Saturday I’m off with John to see the Cezanne, Picasso and Mondriaan exhibition in The Hague which I’m really looking forward to. Weekend after that I’m going to see Eddie Izzard in Amsterdam which I’m actually giddy with excitement over. Then its Nancy’s 80s themed fancy dress party and then the week after that is Katerina’s name day party (its a Greek thing) in Amsterdam. Oh, there is also work fitting in somewhere in all of that!
Urgh, just looked out of the window and its started raining… looks like winter is here. Maybe we could all just hibernate until May. Oh, with a brief wake up at Christmas!



















































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