Christmas 2012 in (rather embarrassing) photos

It’s December, the weather is dire and Christmas is just around the corner.  This can only mean one thing...the Simply Nectar and What On Earth work Christmas party.  Oh yes!  And what a night was had. Are you sure you're ready for this blog post?!

This year we decided to go all Mexican.  I'm not entirely sure why this was the theme but everyone seemed happy with it.  I personally think it was just the excuse we all needed to wear fake moustaches, eat lots of burritos and drink lots of tequila....and Corona, and Sol, and wine...!  So that is what we did.  Oh and we played some piñata.  If you're brave enough to look below then you can see exactly what went on at the party.  Hopefully the following photos will get you giggling - they certainly did us!  Enjoy.

Here are the sensible pics:

Mexican decorations

Mariachi in an impressive stance

Beers

TEQUILA!!!!

Lots of delicious dips made by Sergei

Yummy Indian food made by Ekta

And now for the fun pics:

"The boys, the boys..."

What a handsome bunch

Piñata!

Ekta turns into the piñata!

So there we have it - a brief insight into the delights of our Christmas party.  If you want to see more head over to our Facebook page and take a look at the full album: www.facebook.com/SimplyNectar.   There are certainly a few more embarrassing pictures in there!  Don't forget to 'like' our Facebook page while you're there.

We hope your work do is/was just as fun as ours.

Simply Christmas, 

Simply Nectar.

The Story of our Christmas party

We’re getting in the Christmas spirit here at Simply Nectar.  We’re not putting decorations up or anything like that, not just yet anyway.  That would be a bit too keen!  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 about that bit 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 our friends here at What On Earth).  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!  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 :-) http://storydeli.com/

Inside Story Deli

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 Simply Nectar / 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 (not Simply Nectar this time), 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.

Simply Christmas

Simply Nectar