Nanna Night

Do you remember a long time ago I won an eBay auction for a nifty little Bingo Set?


The whole purpose was so that we could use it when playing Bingo with the camp kids on Nanna Night - the theme night on Tuesday 23rd September 2008.

That was the whole purpose.

Well, we forgot to take it. But all's well that ends well because Mr de Elba bought a blue plastic one from a shop close to camp.

I'll tell you about Nanna night and show you some pictures that were taken with my phone, which mercifully has low resolution and blurs badly in low-light.

The hall was decorated in Nanna-ish fabric ...and campers and leaders dressed as The Elderly ... and it didn't really matter what gender of elderly person they dressed as ...
I had to crop that, to protect our guitar player's identity. But those of us who know him are left in no doubt.

Mr de Elba did a hilarious job of bingo-calling on the night (with his tie tucked into his hiked-up Grampa Slacks), and was assisted by a colleague whose blue wig was a little less Nanna and a lot more Cookie Monster.
Whenever a number was called, two or three tables of heavily-disguised teenagers and young adults jumped into the air, whooping, cheering and stabbing the air with redundant walking sticks.

Good times.