Cheesey Birthday, mmmm

My cheese-tastic Birthday cake and card (thanks to Richard and Dean)

I had a cheese and wine night to celebrate with the slightly challenging fancy dress theme of cheese and wine to match. In the back of the photo you can see Sune as the devil (that's what cheese is to him) attacking Richard who came as a blue nun (after that classy variety of wine). Then there's Neil as the cheese board, Dean as a (slightly scary looking) French maid, Pete as a box of wine, me as Heidi (Swiss, like the cheese! yes, there were some slightly tenuous links), Mark as Edam and Dave in his welsh top as Caerphilly (and generally looking very cheesey), showing off his now extremely impressive mullet. Sitting in front are Jules the farmer trying to keep Kirsty, his prize cow, under control, Alex as a slice of La Vache qui Rit, and Jim as Friar Tuck.

Cheese and Wine!

There were cheesey nibbles to start with, a cheese tasting blindfold challenge, Monty Python's cheese shop game, cheese fondue, a cheese sculpture competition (see below) and the finest cheese boards on the continent.

During the cheese tasting, we tried feeding a clove of garlic to the blindfolded Doc, but he realised just before biting into it (although he thought we were trying to feed him a rubber, that's how fresh our garlic is!) and passed on to Andy Mac, our trusty generator mechanic, who happily gobbled it up.

The cheese sculpting competition prize winning entries: A skiddoo (Alpine cheese model) complete with driver, Battersea cheese station, The leaning tower of cheesa, Cheese henge and sponge bob cheese pants.

Later on, dosed up on that tasty yellow beef, it got cheesey on the dance floor.