The Story of our Christmas party

We’re getting in the Christmas spirit here at What On Earth.  We’re not putting decorations up or anything like that, not just yet anyway.  That would be a bit too keen – especially in the eyes of certain office Scrooges!  Instead we’re discussing all the fun we had at the Christmas do on Friday night.  Listening to all the stories going around the office it seemed we all partied our pants off….well not literally, unless of course I haven’t heard that story yet. 

Our night started at our favourite organic pizzeria, Story Deli, in the east end of London. Here they do some of the tastiest pizzas we’ve eaten, using all the very best organic ingredients (a lot of which come from us….what a coincidence, huh?!) Mmmm, it’s making me hungry just thinking of the Story Deli pizzas, despite having eaten my own body weight in them last week. With the thin and crispy bases, the mounds of rocket and the rest of the delectable toppings, those pizzas definitely went down well with the team – especially Rolf. I think he got through 3 in the end, most of which ended up round his chops. You should check out Story Deli for yourself and see what you think. They’re very friendly in there so pop along and say hello. Tell them we sent you too :-)
 

Jeremy and I got to the restaurant early to decorate the tables and if I’m honest I think we did a blooming good job. We used tinsel, crackers and candles to give the table a Christmassy feel. We then wrapped up some chocolates and put them in everybody’s place. What more could they ask for?! Unfortunately there were no excited gasps or cheers of approval when everybody turned up to see our work of art but sadly we can’t have anything I suppose. We were proud of our hard work.

We spent the next few hours (about 5 to be exact!) talking, laughing, eating, drinking and generally indulging ourselves in true merriment….as well as mountains of tasty pizza. We pulled crackers (actual crackers…that isn’t a metaphor), we told jokes and we took photos. We really did see in Christmas in style, despite the big day still being a few weeks away. Ah well, that’s just a tiny matter in my eyes.

 

Another great aspect of the party is that everybody got to socialise together. Due to the nature of the What On Earth business, there are a lot of staff members who work through the night. The day workers therefore don’t get to see the night workers very often so the party gave us all a chance to be together for a few hours. It made us feel like one big happy family and the more wine we drank, the more happy we became!

Sometime after 11pm we got chucked out of Story Deli (not that we’d outstayed our welcome of course…!) and moved on to some more bars, leaving a mound of plates, bottles, glasses, crumbs, party hats, empty crackers and decorations in our wake. It’s ok though…the guys who run Story Deli are our friends so of course they didn’t mind….we hope.

The night ended a little later and everybody proceeded to make their way home across London in the early hours of Saturday morning. It appears that everybody made it into the office in one piece today so it seems we all survived the night, and the impending headaches the morning after. With the office party done and dusted we now know it isn’t long until Christmas Day is upon us and yet more parties are due to be attended. Boy, I love this festive time of year.

Peace, love and Christmas party pizza (from Story Deli).

What On Earth