Owen Jones | Graphic Design | Plymouth

So to celebrate my birthday this year I wanted to incorporate the traditional fancy dress party with something a tad more ‘grown up’. The result was to host a murder mystery meal for 14 of us. We bought the box set of ‘The Brie, The Bullet and The Black Cat’ (set in wartime Cassablanca), sat and casted my friends, and sent out invites!

The party was held on Saturday 14th February (valentines day was booted out the window!) and was a great success. Here are some photos.

Rebecca & Steve Campion as Edith and Huges Le Grandbutte. Huges is the deputy mayor of Cassablanca, Edith is his wife (though not entirely happy).

Beth came as Nicole, 18 year old daughter of the Le Grandbuttes. Rob came as Monsieur Oily-Carte, schooled in Britain, and now talent scout for the famous Moulin Bleu cabaret club in Paris.

Jonathan as Seamus O’Hack, the Irish reporter looking for his big break. Jon’s accent wandered brilliantly throughout! Charlotte came as Cherie Boot, androgynous and husky cabaret singer from Paris.

I was Pierre Paysanski, half Russian and half French, poet and painter with a gammy leg. The ‘tache was real. Gotta love it. With the game catering for 10-12 people, and with 14 people coming, Lizzie took on the role of organiser and cook, and the character of Mimi Le Eieu-Eieu – maid at the home of the Le Grandbuttes.

David was Otto Von Pinkelwürst, Gestapo officer, possibly mad (definitely mad if you saw David’s excellent performance!) and KT came as the glamourous Russian, Countess Bogov.

Steve came as Kirk Ramson III, owner of Kirks American Café. Much fist pounding on the table ensued!

My brother Isaac was visiting, and as he’s an actor anyway we asked him to come up with a character to play on the night. He was Captain Tommy K Bigglesworth, parachuted into Cassablanca quite by accident, and not altogether sure what’s going on (he can’t understand the foreign accents).

More pics of Seamus O’Hack and Otto Von Pinkelwürst.

Taken later in the evening (!). Jim came as Ingrid Pith, flirty and busty Danish art dealer. For whatever reason, he wasn’t keen on going out later dressed as Ingrid! Here he/she is flirting with Monsieur Oily-Carte.

Not sure how we fitted so many people in, but we did! Thank goodness for our open plan dining/living rooms!

Ok here’s the rundown. Left to right: Tommy K Bigglesworth (extra character); Pierrie Paysanski (holding the lovechild of the Black Cat, possibly); Ingrid Pith; Monsieur Oily-Carte; Nicole Le Grandbutte; Huges Le Grandbutte; Otto Von Pinkelwürst; Edith Le Grandbutte; Countess Bogov; Pia Fedora (fiesty Spanish lover of the deceased Black Cat, played by Emma!); Kirk Ramson III; Cherie Boot; Seamus O’Hack.

Well done everyone! And thank you!

Yes, I’m now officially in my late 20′s. Great. But on the plus side I had a massive chocolate/toffee/marshmallow/rice krispie ‘O’ for Owen!

All gone now though. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Wow.

This is a massive teacake.
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Amazing. 

Well I’ve finally loaded the pictures from my camera and came across these ones from a month ago! The new year started with an eagerly awaited trip to the Emirates Stadium for the FA Cup 3rd round match between Arsenal and Plymouth Argyle.

We had a great day out visiting a, frankly phenomenal, new stadium with just under 9,000 other Argyle fans, despite the disappointing result. I know, we held out very little hope of beating Arsenal but I was still disappointed with the way we failed to really get at them and test their defence. Never mind, as I say, a great day out with the Green Army! Also it means we can now focus on the league…!

Here’s me with my dad at Farncombe station, bright and early! And the outside view of the impressive Emirates.

The whole gang: Dad, me, Darren, Chris, Rob, David.

The Green Army of Argyle fans congregate in London (up North…….)

“No Daz, I really think we could beat them…”. Owen’s optimism meets a hilarious reaction.

Wow. If 2007 was the year of the weddings (we went to a good 9 or ten I think, including our own), and then 2008 was the year of the babies!!

First I should say ‘Hi’ and ‘Happy New Year’ to y’all as I seem to have neglected to post anything on here for well over a month! Lizzie and I had a great Christmas and New Year and life in 2009 has been good so far.

Over the Christmas period lots of our friends had babies and here are some pictures of them (clockwise from top left): Me with Annabelle Coffey; Lizzie and I with Hannah Poole; Tim, Debra and Heidi Searle; Steve, Rebecca and Noah Campion. Lots of fun, especially for us as we can play with them, remark on their cuteness and then leave them with their parents when they start to cry and poo! Winners! 

Just to clarify, these are NOT our babies and we have no plans to have any yet so don’t ask or nudge each other!