Work Xmas do

Yes you did read that right. This evening City Financials held their Xmas 2008 event. The original one was cancelled as they company had their event closed down and then they went bust so it was nice to have something re-arranged even if it was a bit late.

Chosen venue was The Embassy Club in Mayfair. I met Toni at Stratford and then we got the tube in and arrived a bit early and started the champagne with Nick, Matt and Mike Miles (who were already there). While we were waiting for everyone else to arrive we saw some dude arrive in a red suit who liked he was going to do a James Brown impression. I then spotted a woman darting around various people and glimpsed X Factor on her t-shirt so assumed it was some sort of singing then. It soon transpired that she was from X Factor Speed Dating and we all sniggered when the girl asked us if we were there for that! In keeping of my cataloguing of fashion disasters here is the aforementioned suit (although it looks orange it is red!):


Gradually everybody else filtered through and we headed to our tables for a very nice meal. I have to confess that after 2 glasses of champagne and a bottle of white I was just a tad squiffy! It was a good evening and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.

My starter was duck with a rude set of tomatoes!


A few random pics around the table:






Main course was steak (can you spot the chef's theme?)