[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-sweater-vest-party":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vl_tanktops-54b3a881e9.jpg\">\\r\nHappy birthday, \u003Ca href=\"http://ellenlindner.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">ellenlindner\u003C/a>! Ellen asked everyone to wear a sweater vest on her birthday, or 'tank tops' as the Brits call them (not to be confused with 'string vests'). Not everyone wore one, but at one point I walked into the kitchen full of about ten people and they were all wearing vests, which was quite a sight. My vest was fairly ordinary, but Ellen and Stuart both looked spiffing:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ellenparty1-cc2fec2b0f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Two more pics here and some warbling-->\\r\n\\r\nDave O'Connell couldn't make it to the party but he sent a cardboard cutout of himself in a sweater vest (see below). He looked great but his conversation was pretty two-dimensional. Even little Snorri wore a vest, and his conversation was equally stimulating:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ellenparty2-c8874c1c1b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Ellen opening her 'Pretty Useful Tools':\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ellenparty3-424949f130.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was really sad to have to leave kind of early but I'm a bit frantic at the moment with deadlines, so, argh, I actually went back home and did some more work. Yikes, I am getting very boring.\\r\n\\r\nIf you're doing some Christmas shopping, have a look at \u003Ca href=\"http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=IBBY&_sacat=See-All-Categories\">some of the items on sale\u003C/a> to raise money for \u003Ca href=\"The International Board on Books for Young People\">IBBY\u003C/a>, the \u003Cb>International Board on Books for Young People\u003C/b>. They have some prints and signed books by people such as Neil Gaiman and Michael Foreman.","2008-12-07T21:36:00.000Z","sweater-vest-party",[],"sweater vest party!",1776628724903]