Trefbash over for another year. Another great night. These nights are successful because of the people that come to them. Ok adding an abundance of champagne, good food, great music and order what you like from the bar into the mix does help but these are all secondary to the vibe created by the partygoers themselves. You are all fabulous 🙂and a special thanks to those of you who traned and planed in from out of town.
I got back to my hotel room at 01.50. London still buzzing at that time of night but not really that many places open. I saw a few groups of people wandering purposefully around looking for a watering hole but unless you specifically know somewhere you aren’t going to get much shrift after 11pm in the borough of Westminster. Even the hotel bar shuts at midnight wtf!!!
Fortunately I know a place…
A late breakfast this morning. Nine ey em. Mark and Sue were even later. There is no rush, other than they finish the service at ten 🙂. Taxi to the Cross of Kings, a quick catch up with Manuel then joined THG and Joe in the First Class lounge.
When I left the club last night I was halfway to the hotel when I realised I’d forgotten to pay the bar bill. Oops. Norraproblem. I’ll do it over the phone. Has to be paid with my Amex. Avios. Last December I got forty thousand avios on the strength of the trefbash bar bill.
The build up for a trefbash lasts most of the year. I book the venue a year in advance. It’s one of the most sought after dates in the Christmas party calendar. Then I spend a few months deliberating over the theme for the following year’s bash. We have had themes from quite early on. I think trefbash five was “beach party”. In December. Pics from trefbash 4 seem to be missing ditto trefbash 2. If you have any please let me know.
Nowadays I get the services of an official photographer. Paul Clarke is brilliant. Captures the mood and pics of people when they don’t know they are being photographed. The photos are often the only way I remember who was there 🙂 Punters own pics are all well and good but they are often blurred in line with the nature of the evening.
I know I started by saying the success of trefbash is down to the people but there is another group without who it just couldn’t happen These are the sponsors:
Lonap
Fuse2
Magrathea
Netaxis
Gamma
Fractional Teams
I am proud that these very fine organisations want to be associated with the bash. I will obviously contact each of them individually but want to publicly express my heartfelt gratitude for their support. The individual contributions from purchasers of tickets also made a big difference. With their help the tab lasted most of the night.
Everyone’s generosity with tips for the bar staff was also very well received. Each of them went home with a very healthy amount in their pocket. Of this I am also very proud especially at this time of year. These guys work hard and take a lot of crap but it isn’t the world’s best paid profession. Trefbash not only benefited them but not having to deal with crappy customers, I’ve already said that you guys are lovely folk 🙂, but they also got a wodge at a time of year when it will come in very handy.
Christmas is not yet here but I guess I won’t see most of you between now and the big day so I’ll finish for today by wishing every one of you a happy holiday and may it bring everything you desire 🙂 I’ll post the pics when they arrive.
Ciao
Tref
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Dark out, it is. The sun has vamoosed over the horizon in search of eternal happiness and the meaning of life.
It needn’t bother. That said it would not only be unfair on other regions of the planet if the sun shone continuously on our fair land but also a totes pain in the proverbial if it never got dark.
For one the sun might never go over the yardarm. The tonic with a splash of gin might never be a thing. The land of the midnight sun is not this land.
The rising and setting of the sun somehow provide closure, on the day at least.