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| Not my photo.. |
Hello to you, and welcome to the pub quiz I went to at the Simon The Tanner pub, last
Tuesday…
Question 1: What poison was the Greek philosopher Socrates forced to drink when he was sentenced to death in 399 BC?
Bonus Question: In which year did the footballing term ‘Linesman’
officially become ‘Lines Person’?
It was 1996.
We spent our winnings on shots of whiskey which we sipped (no, really!) triumphantly.
On Thursday and Friday I wasn’t in the office. Instead, I was at the West Kensington building for a Presentation Skills course which, on the whole, was excellent. Except for one thing… ‘breathing exercises’. I breath just fine, thanks and I certainly don’t need to be stood in a circle with strangers, eyes closed, swaying forwards and backwards to do it. Apparently it was supposed to make us feel ‘relaxed and comfortable’. Well, I for one felt neither, in fact I felt the exact opposite and my 8 year old self took over and I giggled myself all the way through the exercise.
On Thursday and Friday I wasn’t in the office. Instead, I was at the West Kensington building for a Presentation Skills course which, on the whole, was excellent. Except for one thing… ‘breathing exercises’. I breath just fine, thanks and I certainly don’t need to be stood in a circle with strangers, eyes closed, swaying forwards and backwards to do it. Apparently it was supposed to make us feel ‘relaxed and comfortable’. Well, I for one felt neither, in fact I felt the exact opposite and my 8 year old self took over and I giggled myself all the way through the exercise.
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| Unexpected Friday Outing |
Around lunchtime of day 2 I was rather willing the
weekend to hurry up but I made it to the end of the day (even if my colleagues did keep
asking unnecessary question meaning we finished at 5pm!) and headed straight
for Euston.
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| 'They play a lot of Elvis in here don't they...' |
Yes, it was another Manchester weekend (sorry dad). This
weekend had been planned for ages. Friday night involved an unexpected night
out (who am I kidding?) where I met up with friends and bumped into others.
Feeling a tad delicate, I had to drag myself through Saturday, but couldn’t so
dragged Naomi round to cook for me instead. After a lunch of cheesy Super
Noodles (she’s no Nigella…) I did manage to pull myself together and head out
for a trip to the Manchester Christmas Markets for a Bratwurst with the actual
oldest of old school girls followed by a night out on the town (including an accidental encounter with an Elvis Night), a Popolino’s and
a bus journey home that I can’t particularly remember but we can all* relive
via the magic of phone-videoing at the bottom of this post.
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| DINNER!..finally. |
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| Crackers! |
Then came Sunday, aka Colgate Crescent Christmas Day.
Lovely! So we peeled and chopped and prepared the dinner (read: we did as we
were told and generally kept out of Jen’s way in the kitchen) and along the way
avoided a potentially disastrous Secret Santa related incident. Guests arrived
around 4pm and dinner was served at 4.30, no 5pm… no no, about half an hour, in
20 minutes I promise, OK definitely before 6.30pm… I was so close to passing
out** from hunger when we ate so I’m not 100% sure what time it was, and I
really didn’t care because IT WAS DELICIOUS!
Then came the aforementioned Secret Santa gift-giving, an X-Factor Final Party, Pass-the-Parcel (or is it ‘Parcel Parcel’, Cam??), a Christmas Quiz, Ring of Fire, too many desserts, Articulate, Elton John and bed (not so much a bed as a couch, damp from wine spillage). 3 hours later I had to get up, into a taxi and straight down to London on the 5.55am train and into work! I was exhausted but it was worth it – such a great day.
Then came the aforementioned Secret Santa gift-giving, an X-Factor Final Party, Pass-the-Parcel (or is it ‘Parcel Parcel’, Cam??), a Christmas Quiz, Ring of Fire, too many desserts, Articulate, Elton John and bed (not so much a bed as a couch, damp from wine spillage). 3 hours later I had to get up, into a taxi and straight down to London on the 5.55am train and into work! I was exhausted but it was worth it – such a great day.
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| Colgate Christmas |
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| Troffee Trio - Jen, Soph, Rose |
In between all of that, we all said our final goodbyes to
Sophie who is heading back home to Kenya for a while and will be hugely missed
by all. GOOD LUCK SOPH!
Yesterday I managed to get through the day on plenty of
strong coffee and then slept for 12 hours last night - bliss. Today I feel I
could probably sleep for 12 more but A) I have lots of revision for my APM IC
exam which is tomorrow morning and B) Holby is on at 8 and who would miss
that?!...not me, that’s for damn sure.
Until next time,
Bren x
* Well, all except me. Far, far too embarrassing.
** Probably an exaggeration.
PS, This weeks Website Of The Week is an easy one:
Twitter. Get involved people. My top-tips on ones to check out would be
HumbleBrag (very funny if you get it) and my all time favourite, FirstDateHell. To read the original First Date Hell tweets as they came in, visit the Crap Dates website. Enjoy!
PPS, Other photos from the weekend...
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| PICTURE OF THE WEEK |
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| Only took 2 hours to get the seating arrangements just right |
PPPS, I'm kind of hoping you've forgotten about this by now............ A video of me, drunk and talking shit about things you can't do in London. 'Thanks' go to Rosie. Note to self: get better stories.
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