Thursday 13 January 2022

There were 50 people high as kites dancing a Charleston just over the hedge

I'll always remember that party summer, by Boris Johnson
The summer of 2020. For many it was a time of Covid, of lockdowns, of furlough. But I and a hundred close colleagues will always remember it as our party summer.

As the days lazily rolled on, the sun shining and the streets empty of traffic, there seemed to always be a party blossoming into raucous life on Downing Street.

Whether wine, cheese and a tableful of bottles on May 15th or the full-on 100-person bring-your-own-booze bacchanalia a week later, the champagne was flowing and spirits were high.

Like Jay Gatsby and his gang in the roaring twenties, we had nary a care. While Covid ravaged the country we chinked glasses and mingled in the Eden of Downing Street’s rose garden.

It seemed those days would never end. Even when Cummings was doing his press conference there were 50 people high as kites dancing a Charleston just over the hedge.

Back then nothing could ever go wrong for us. We were young, and free, and full of life and hope. The whole of Britain being locked down simply didn’t matter to us.

But no summer lasts forever. The months advanced, the days got shorter, the rest of the country was allowed to meet six people from a maximum of two households, and the parties lost their delicious savour. We’ll never have that summer again.

No, it was time to put away the rosé, to fold up the garden chairs, to retreat indoors and to begin planning our absolutely fucking massive party winter.

The Daily Mash

Of course.

9 comments:

  1. For some... the Covid can't come soon enough.

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    1. No reports thus far how many people tested positive after any of these "work meetings"... Jx

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  2. Spot on, as always. I guess there were so many parties that it's difficult to recollect which ones they went to.
    Sx

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  3. People's behaviour
    Away from Belgravia
    Would make you aghast
    So much variety
    Watching society
    Scampering past

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    1. The Duchess passed out at a quarter to three
      and suddenly Cyril cried 'fiddle-de-de'
      And he ripped off his trousers and jumped in the sea
      I couldn't have liked it more!


      Jx

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  4. Many years ago ...I loved the wit of Punch. Today, we have Mash. (And parties. One must not discount parties, what!)

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    1. “Satire is a kind of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
      ― Jonathan Swift

      This current scandal is beyond satire, methinks... Jx

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