Balls

[joggerjayne]

Love 'em or hate 'em?

It's that season ... Halloween Balls, Winters Balls, Mistletoe Balls, New Years Eve Balls, Burns Night Balls, Charity Balls, etc ...

Can't wait to dig out the LBD and see the guys in dinner suits?

Or hate all the formality and ceremony?

[shoota]

Honestly - I always really enjoy your posts, even the netball ones......

[B00]

lol, Jayne (allegedly) exists in a world not many of us know about.

Balls? LOL!!

[joggerjayne]

//even the netball ones//

Okay okay ... you can stop now ... LOL

I'm trying to clear my head of the idea of The Ed in a lift.

[Euphemia]

A slightly fragile subject heading as our puppy is having his snipped today..

[joggerjayne]

Hello, B00.

=0/

Actually, I think the people who get to go to most Balls are ... parents! If nothing else, you can always rely on Parents' Associations to organise the school ball each year. Which is a good reason for staying friendly with people with kids, for when they are "getting a table up" each year.

[rowanwitch]

My ball days are over... I will marry the pumpkin and settle down

[joggerjayne]

Euphemia ... I guess it's for his own good.

[B00]

It's obviously an entirely different world than the one I inhabit Jayne.

If I mentioned a "ball" round here, i'd get a bleary eyed "huh?" from the other mums in the school yard.

[joggerjayne]

Well I don't do the school yard, cos I don't have any rug rats ... but that's usually the Parents' Associations big annual fund raiser, no?

Hire a tent, band, caterers ... sell tickets to the parents and their friends, have a raffle, and an auction (auction items kindly donated), game of tops and tails, licensed bar which shares the profit with the Parents' Association, all the kids make things at school which their own parents buy on the night, etc, etc, etc ...

Im sure the Ball is always the biggest annual fundraiser for most schools.

[joggerjayne]

I suppose the Chairman of the Parents' Association needs to organise a Ball Committee with some enthusiastic parents ...

B00 ... you should start planning now for a Summer Ball next year. You will be the heroic mum who raises loads of money, which the Parents' Association gives to the school for new sports equipment, or whatever the school needs.

My fee for the idea is quite modest.

[B00]

"B00 ... you should start planning now for a Summer Ball next year. You will be the heroic mum who raises loads of money, which the Parents' Association gives to the school for new sports equipment, or whatever the school needs. "

Just one answer to that one...

Balls!

;-)

[jno]

are you allowed to just buy a kilt? Don't you have to be entitled to wear a particular tartan? Or do they have special tartans for the McGrockles who aren't Scottish at all?

[joggerjayne]

But ... schools always need money ... and the parents need an excuse to let their hair down ...

At the school where my closest "parent" friends sent their daughter, a lot of the sports facilities were paid for by he annual Summer Ball. Parents from ten school years (from Kindergarten up to Junior 4), plus all their friends and hangers on, like me ...

They get about 150-200 people every year. They raise loads of money for the school.

[shoota]

I think that there are some generally available tartans that you can just buy - isn't Black Watch one of these?

[joggerjayne]

jno ... I don't know if we are not supposed to wear it, or anything, but I bought Campbell of Argyle (modern) for me and the BF. I just liked the colours.

[starone]

2sp (page 1) It's their lovely sturdy little legs on show - well that's my opinion anyway. Shorts are nice too.

[shoota]

Wiki has the dets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan

[joggerjayne]

With bigger balls, there tends to be more available to drink.

Just a thought.

[sunny-dave]

"With bigger balls, there tends to be more available to drink"

... is it just me or is that very, very smutty?


< "it's just you dave, you're past all redemption" >

[joggerjayne]

It was just your smutty mind, dave.

Obviously I meant that, at bigger events, there tends to be a wider selection to chose from at the bar.