I did went to the ball

Jane's work are great for arranging excellent morale-boosting events for their staff, and the Summer Ball we attended last night was no exception. The theme this year was "The Oscars", and different teams had been been given the job of decorating their sections of the building to movie motifs.

I've been to several of these things with Jane now, but this was by far the most impressive. There was a huge buffet themed on "Titanic", a whole room set aside to showing movies on a wide screen, with comfy leather seats and free popcorn and ice cream, a "Star Wars" themed room with free arcade games, a "Cocktail" bar with vats of serve-yourself tequila sunrise (and the ubiquitous chocolate fountain), a funfair with rides and sideshows (Jane won a coconut!) and too many free bars and food places to count.

My diet went out of the window for a night, but it was worth it. :-)

Today we have mainly been recovering. At lunchtime we visited Jane's mum to help her with her new PC, which gave me my first proper taste of Vista (they should have called the interface "Windows U-boat" because it's sub-Aqua [geddit?]). And then we went to John Lewis and pointed a scanny-thing at stuff.

The scanny thing magically puts products on our wedding list. Yes, there was a fondue set involved.