Work Gala

On Friday night, my work had their annual summer gala, it is an event where all of our UK offices get together, to have dinner, mingle with people you email, or never get to speak too, performance awards are given, and its just a good old excuse to get all dressed up.

This year it was in London, at the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall, a rather lovely venue.
It was a black tie event so I had the perfect excuse to wear a full length dress and feel a little bit fancy!

Institute of Directors

My workmate Sammy offered to to my make up for me, lashes and all, i loved what she did, it was far better than anything I can ever put together!

At 5:30pm we taxied to the venue for a drinks reception, Pimms in the back garden, in the lovely evening sunshine. The hour was spent admiring the ladies outfits (and of corse a little judging) and trying to sneak as many glasses as we could.

At 7pm we were called inside for our 3 course meal. As by then I had, had a few drinks I completely forgot about taking any photos of the meal. It was beautifully presented and the dessert was to die for, it was a lemon, raspberry and shortcake creation. I only wish i could remember so I could have it again!

After dinner, we had the awards ceremony, my boss won 'Contract recruiter of the year' and was given a bottle of champagne. Later he came over to me and gave it to me, saying that he couldn't have done it without me. I tried to keep the drunken tears inside, it is really so lovely when you like the people you work with.

Once we were done with the awards, and the raffle- to my surprise I didn't win an iPad, free days off work, or even a gift voucher. Never too sure why I continue to enter things like that.. I never win! The disco began.

It seems the choice of music for the evening was 90s R&B and don't get me wrong it was great for a while, but after a few hours of dancing, and consuming wine I was ready to go.

It was such a lovely evening, something that I don't often get to do. It was one to remember and I cant wait until next years. Love a bit of pretending I'm posh!

We had a professional photographer there, so once those photos come through I will re-post all of those. For now, you get sad iPhone pics to get the gist of it all.

Overall it was a fantastic night, spent with my lovely work friends.

On our way in.

Lovely Ladies



The full length bathroom shot



Cydney and I

Cydney, George and I





I am obviously a brilliant dancer