Sunfolk Late Christmas (Patreon)

Over the winter months, BN Sunfolk offer the whole site out for private hire as a 'Bare B&B'. So from Thursday 22nd till Sunday 25th January, a group of eleven of us hired it out and held a belated, nude rerun of Christmas.

We decorated the place - easy enough, as most of it hadn't long been packed away from real Christmas! We set up the meeting room as a TV (and console gaming) room, switched on the sauna, lit the log burner and got out the wine and the sherry ... and Lady Grey tea. On the Saturday, Helen (plus a few volunteers) cooked a full Christmas turkey dinner complete with all the trimmings. There was Christmas music, presents, Christmas crackers, and Bucks Fizz in the hot tub (in plastic glasses, obviously...) In the evening, we sang karaoke on the PlayStation and played board and card games, with one of our friends introducing us to a German game called 'Heckmeck am Bratwurmeck', which quickly became a favourite. (The last photo is of Helen trying to claim two extra 'worms' in the game!)

It honestly felt more like Christmas than Christmas itself had, as it captured the essence of what its really about; spending quality time with people who just accept you exactly as you are. And who are a good laugh as well!