Fasnacht Diary 2010 – Sunday night 9pm
We’re just doing the last bits of preparation before I hit the sack – prefilling the coffee maker so I can just put it on the stove when I get up at 2:30am; making sure my costume is laid out etc etc. My son is now nearly three years old and he is constantly talking about Waggis – so this year we got him a Waggis costume for sixteen francs at a jumble sale. We’re rather proud of that as a kid’s Waggis costume in Manor or Migros will not leave you much change out of fifty francs.
The preparation includes a small gents “handbag” into which I pack my survival kit of a strip of Rennies; the house keys; some beer money; piccolo and cleaning brush; a hipflask and hunter’s folding drinking cup and a typed up sheet with my clique’s marching programme on it – oh and the digital camera. Some clique colleagues have a sort of box shaped bag to keep their bits in which is standard issue for Swiss Army officers. Actually, I lied about the piccolo; all the costumes have two long pockets sewn into them for storage of piccolo and pipecleaner.
The town is certainly buzzing with anticipation – the local television channel is covering the Chiembäse – fire festival - in Liestal and this afternoon we took a short stroll around town, watching Cliques and Gugge doing their final bits of practice and putting the Ladäärne at their requisite starting positions. Thankfully we have some decent weather predicted – a blessing considering all the freezing snow we had since before Christmas.
And on that note I will wrap up on the offchance of getting a few hours shuteye between now and Morgenstraich.