InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "PIVOT!!!"

Meaghan will deflect until the end of time (mmmcc) wrote in neeps,
@ 2017-12-29 19:50:00

Entry tags:

! ic/ooc, ainsley galbraith, angus campbell, augustus pye, florinda mcgonagall, georgi draganov, gregor mcgregor, jason king, kal sharma, lorna macfarlane, madeline savage, maggie macdougal, meaghan mccormack, owen macfarlane, x-joy willison

Who: Sorry we never sent IC invites, basically practically everyone is invited since it's thrown by two Prides and a Magpie (medic).
What: Housewarming! Plus ~~Christmas~~ Hogmanay! Plus Joy's (super-belated) birthday!
When: 29 December, evening
Where: The Cattery, Paisley
Warnings: TBD

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION: The Cattery is a large, six-bedroom house split down the middle, three bedrooms on each side. The ~~heroes of our story~~ hostesses of the party, Florinda McGonagall, Joy Willison and Meaghan McCormack, live on one side. Indira Choudry (Tutshill), Moonlight Flower MacLean (Wigtown) and Meleri Mousley (Caerphilly) live on the other side, but the party also spills into their side and the front and back gardens.

Despite Meaghan's claims, it's pretty clear that this was originally intended to be a Christmas party (in part), but since there are three different things being celebrated here, the decor is a little, shall we say, eclectic.

Dave the Quidditch Tree (small enough to be potted, large enough that lifting him takes some concentration) is decked out with plenty of little brooms, quaffles and bludgers, with a Golden Snitch on top. If asked, or even if not asked, Meaghan will inform people very seriously that all the broom ornaments are Comets. She will even explain which models. The brooms will all look roughly the same. Meaghan's chimera, Mickey, is prowling around its branches. there are also some pig ornaments from the clubhouse prank, though at this point they're not actively singing, just oinking softly, but they'll sing if you poke 'em enough. (The pigs are important because HOGMANAY, obviously.)

There's a giant Australian flag on the door and little Australian flag toothpicks on most of the food, because Meaghan ordered a box of them and there's more than she knows what to do with. There's a lot of pink for Joy, and gold because gold goes well with pink, obviously, and Joy's a Pride so that also counts for being about Joy.

The Drinks: The three pictured drinks are all hot alcoholic coffee drinks. There is also butterbeer, both regular and seasonal gingersnap flavours, hot chocolate, and eggnog. (You can probably get them without alcohol if you really want, but why would you WANNA?)
The Eats: Sweet potato chips with dipping sauces, tasty pasties and kebabs
The Sweets: Chocolate-dipped shortbread stars, spiced shortbread, jammy stars, ginger cats, fairy bread
The Most Important: Joy's birthday cake is pink and covered in stars. Some of the stars on the top of the cake are sugar, some of them are SPARKLERS. Can you guess which?? The cake also has a little figurine sitting on it of a kangaroo and a koala.

PARTWAY THROUGH THE EVENING, A SURPRISE: The party has been going for an hour or two when out of nowhere, what to our wondering ears should appear but an All-Weird-Sisters rendition of the Twelve Days of Christmas, apparently recorded at a concert (is that German coming from the audience?). At some point the days get out of order. This was not planned, at least not by the hostesses. It's very, very loud. Where is it coming from?? Is it coming from the other side of the house? Feel free to hunt down and destroy the cause of this monstrosity. (Or maybe you actually like the Weird Sisters, in which case, enjoy?)

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

Re: Midnight Broom Tricks

ogletwerp
2018-01-01 07:08 am UTC (link)

Dunbar clapped when Meaghan performed her trick, and he was perfectly fine with just watching everyone else perform their tricks. Except then Meaghan kept prodding him about doing a trick.

In the end he conceded, if only to quiet her, and so he asked for those candles to be set up across the ways a bit. Then he's on his borrowed broom, zipping around and picking up more and more speed as he went before suddenly zooming directly at the candles. At the last second though he brakes quickly, swinging the broom around and managing to put out all the flames - without a single bristle catching light.

He's a wee teeny bit shaky once his feet are on the ground... cause flying around in circles will do that to ya.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Midnight Broom Tricks left_magpie 2018-01-01 07:35 am UTC (link)
	"Met or Exceeded Expectations!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Midnight Broom Tricks mmmcc 2018-01-01 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Meaghan cheers, though that might be partly because she's laughing at his ranking. (She is, admittedly, also very smug that she got him to get up there too.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read comments) -