Work 'Do'

Friday 20th October was the works Major Business Convention at the Great Hall at the Uni.

The whole thing was free to every member of the Major Business department with a champagne reception followed by a three course meal then a disco and a band. There was also a casino in an ajoining room which everyone had 20,000 chips for. Oh and we all had 4 free drinks vouchers for the bar. The advertised highlight was the 'celebrity' guest - Countdown's Roy Walker!!

We were seated at around 6.30pm (I was on a table with 7 other people I hadn't even SEEN before never mind spoken to so didn't have high hopes for a great evening) Roy came out & did what he apparently does best - wittered on in a somewhat embarressing way cracking old, unfunny jokes, looking confused about why he was there and generally trying to work out where the bar was! But I suppose it was quite amusing, slightly uncomfortable at first but once you remembered it was HIM making an idiot of himself it became funny in the sense that is wasn't funny! After Roy we were talked at by the bigwigs on Major Business who quoted figures & tried to be funny (taking a leaf from Roys book they achieved painful humour but not comedy!)

After all that excitement (!) things went a bit down hill. We were told dinner would be served at about 8pm...at 8.30pm our table got there starters. Some tables had finished theres AGES ago, some tables were still waiting. The service didn't improve with us finally getting our main course at .... wait for it ... 9.40pm!! On a plus side the people on my table turned out to be really nice and we all bonded over the fact we were ready to mug the next waitress that walked past us carrying food to another table! Infact one of the guys on my table did look familar but not from work so I was trying to to work out where I knew him from (I should mention I thought he was quite attractive!) At about 9 o clock I suddenly realised he was the spitting image of Bruno from Footballers Wives!! Well once the food had eventually hit the tables it was really nice & then the disco started. I had a dance and a couple drinks then decided to call it a night.

The nicest thing about the do was the dress code which was 'Formal' so everyone had a chance to really dress up & make an effort. Nearly all the women were wearing really nice dresses and, shock of all shocks, even I wore a dress! It is a totally gorgeous dress from Monsoon that is boned at the top & flowy at the bottom so what it doesn's squish into shape it just skims over!! I borrowed a little bag & shawl from Grandma and sent Mum on a shoe mission to buy me glittery black shoes (because you can never have TOO MANY shoes!) Even if I do say so myself I looked pretty good.

It wasn't the best night out ever but since it was free it wasn't too bad! I dread to think how much money work shelled out but it can't have been cheap. Work are good with things like that. Infact there is another convention spring next year (NOT to be held at the Great Hall apparently but at the new Rugby Club convention centre) and we have got a team Christmas night out in December that work are footing the bill for.
So roll on Christmas and the chance to wear another posh frock!

PS - I would upload some pics but my blog is being a TOTAL pain in the arse and says its put them in but no, it has not! So be patient - they will hopefully be here sometime soon...! **Yea - a picture!**