The festivities begin.
The staff gather round the CIPA Christmas tree, which is made of pipe
cleaners. They are rather spindly pipe
cleaners but at least they are green.
Mr Davies stands beside the tree with a beer in hand and
makes a short speech about everyone being lovely to work with. Then the Secret Santa presents are
distributed from under the pipe cleaner tree.
Mine is a book about how to be good at public speaking. It says anyone can be good at public speaking
all you have to do is know how to do it, which I guess goes for most things
really although perhaps not chairing CIPA Council meetings. The book does not say anything about straw.
On we go to a restaurant for our Christmas lunch. There are some last-minute no-shows so we
share out their meals between us. Mr
Davies eats everyone’s sprouts. Some
people crawl under the table for a while.
We all wear our paper hats.
The EyePeePee and the Onssek turn up as well. The Onssek’s Secret Santa present is a book
about golf: it says that anyone can be good at golf all you have to do is know
how to do it. The EyePeePee gets a book
about trains: it says that anyone can be interested in trains although if you
become too interested you should probably seek counselling and here is a
helpline you can ring. The EyePeePee
immediately gets out his phone and a few seconds later, Mr Davies answers his
in a funny accent.
I feel bad that I did not get Mr Davies a Secret Santa
present. But they don’t write books
about how to wave a large fairy-lit stick around on a stage and if they did Mr
Davies wouldn’t need any more encouragement anyway.
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