Good Friday.

Although we arrived on Thursday, we were able to attend the welcome to visitors at Allen Hall and, indeed to partake quite hungrily of afternoon tea.

We listened to Doug. Burns talking in abandoned fashion about opening bottles with beer in them, and went out to watch the representatives and delegates leer at the camera.

Not long after this, the crowds who had been tea-ing were observed dashing out of Marama Hall, wiping their lips in maudlin fashion. It appear s that Terry Maunsell had perpetrated the first big joke of the Tourney by bursting a tear-bomb in the midst of the unsuspecting and feeding multitude.