There are some days when I really wish that an intravenous coffee drip was a thing … today is one of those days. There have been too many nights of only four hours sleep recently… and not in a good way.
… more coffee please!
Category Archives: Work
Halloween in the Office
I’ve been at my new job for just a week and it’s Halloween … well a couple of days before Halloween but we’ll argue semantics, it’s Halloween.
Apparently they have a tradition in my office of dressing up for Halloween … so that’s a thing … and a thing I really really hate – I hate fancy dress, with a passion. Luckily I have a meeting with the Chairman, so I excuse myself on that basis from dressing up like a tit and walking through the streets of London, looking like a tit!
With that said, some of these guys really made a massive effort and looked awesome. Chris our office manager won first prize.
Pimped Birthday Deskage
I turned up to work today to find my desk covered in balloons and lovely bunch of flowers. Then I had happy birthday sung to me twice … by Chipmunks !! … and later scones, clotted cream, fruit and cake arrived, so much cake. Happy Birthday to me! Thank you fabulous team! x
Duck and Waffle ~ Team Lunch
Team Finance has a new addition. Traditionally we take a new team member out for lunch to say hi and welcome ~ and who are we to break from tradition, I mean it would be wrong. We’re the smallest, slowest growing team, so we thought we’d do it right and go to Duck and Waffle ~ well why wouldn’t you? HR came too because she threatened us with disciplinary action if we didn’t … that might not be strictly true, or indeed remotely.
The food was delicious, as you’d expect ~ we were largely guided by our fantastic server who steered us towards things I just wouldn’t have touched … bacon wrapped dates, erm why? erm delicious!
The Food
Crab cakes … I think
Ricotta ravioli
Duck and waffle
Crispy pigs ears
Bacon wrapped dates
Roasted octopus
Rosemary and garlic bread
Spiced Ox Cheek doughnut
Hay Old Fashioned
The second coming
First pass
The Venue and the View
40 floors up ~ dizzy inducingly high on the way up; screamingly ear popping on the way down; amazing all day long
The Team
Poker in the Office (not a euphemism)
God I’m crap at poker. It would appear that those many hours of watching late night poker was fruitless, as was the purchase of a significantly oversized poker chip set many years ago.
We had a poker night in the office tonight and I was out second. I’d like to blame it entirely on bad luck with the cards, but I’m not sure that’s entirely true. As it was just before I had to make the choice to go all in and die like a swan, or slowly limp to my death, I got a text from a friend offering me a free ticket to a comedy club in soho and that was it ~ all in >> lost >> out the door running, shouting byeeee!!!
Pirate Liberace Goat
This is the Goat of Stupidity. He appears at your desk when you’ve essentially done something utterly idiotic – whether that’s work related or in your private life. Today a guy called in sick because he’d got up in the middle of the night and walked into a light, scratching his cornea. And for this reason he got the goat … with a little eye-patch for good measure (definitely didn’t spend 20mins creating that little badger … nope, I didn’t)
Easter Bunny-tastic
The Easter Bunny came to our office today … it definitely wasn’t me, oh no it wasn’t and I definitely didn’t stay until 10pm hiding eggs and covering the office in bunnies, oh no I didn’t.
Hidden about the office were 9 deposits of eggs, some of which late in the afternoon are still to be found, which means, as the bunny representative, I am the only one who knows where the others are … and can hunt them down when I’m in need of sugar.
Happy Bunny-tastic Easter everyone. x
A Christmas Boat-trip
We had a dinner dance cruise on the Thames for our Christmas Do ~ the food was, well unforgettable – although I did come back from having a sneaky cig on a very cold top deck, to find a whole table of colleagues face down in their desserts, racing to eat them.
I danced the night away, as usual, even when the boat was swaying so much we had to hold on to the ceiling to stop ourselves shooting off the dance floor.
Another good night.
Winter Wonderland
It was supposed to be a work girls’ night out to celebrate our swelling numbers from 7 a year ago to 20 today. And it was supposed to start at 6pm.
Alas work commitments got ahold of me and I arrived at 9.30 (after most people had left) just in time for the last two songs of the band in the Bavarian Beer tent and time to gulp down a couple of mulled wines. So so wish I’d been able to spend the whole night with the girls, but regardless it was amazing.
And I want to come back, for sausage!
Mulled wine, mulled wine, rar, Rar, RAR!!
The Currency Cloud Go Skating
It was our first Christmas Do today – ice skating … oh yes, ice skating in the heart of the city in Broadgate.
I’ve been ice skating, I think three times before in my life, I’m shit at it, utterly – I have a terror about falling over and hurting my already knackered knees. It’s not even a fear, it’s an actual terror, but it’s happening and we’re all equipped with our new company hats and we’re ready to go.
As I get on the ice I don’t move much … I scream a lot more than move, until a colleague starts guiding me around the rink. Gradually I get better, eventually I’m going round the rink on my own, slowly … faster, bit faster, bit too fast, cornering issues!!! … fell over ~ hilarious fun.
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