Tag: St Helen’s Place

Jez Horne & Sarah’s Pre-Nuptial Party, Z/Yen, St Helen’s Place, & Devonshire Square, 28 July 2010

Photographs with grateful thanks to Monique Gore

This was a super evening with the Z/Yen team.

Jez and Sarah were soon to get married – which was a near-perfect excuse for a team evening that didn’t involve tennis or cricket. Outrageous.

Mary, Linda & Gordon

Linda Cook, our social-secretary-in-chief, organised an evening of wine tasting at the office (through her brother Gordon) followed by crazy golf in Devonshire Square, which was “a thing” in the City, that summer of 2010.

Libations aplenty, bound to improve the results when blind tasting and playing crazy golf:
Linda, Gordon, Michael, me.

There are lots and lots of photos from that evening, almost all of which were taken by Monique Gore. The story is better told through pictures than words, really.

Sarah and Jez taking the wine tasting very seriously
Janet, Sonia and Alex studying the wines
Gathering for results time at the wine tasting
Chiara, Steph and Simon Mc look on in horror at my inept crazy golf
Chiara and Steph soon recover their composure
Ben dwarfs the Palace of Westminster while Mary & Sonia look on
Monique, Flynn, Leo and Kirstan demonstrating their ball skills

The whole album, with thanks again to Monique, can be viewed by clicking the link below – there are more than 120 pictures to be seen:

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Samba Drumming – Z/Yen Team Event, St Helen’s Place, 11 May 2010

Z/Yen team events on the whole tended to be sports-oriented affairs. Cricket, tennis, horse racing…sometimes watching, sometimes playing, sometimes both.

Becky Dawson, our resident musician-cum-administrator, suggested that something musical as an activity event would make a welcome change. We agreed, suggesting that if she organised it, we’d do it.

So, presumably through her musical connections, Becky found us the Inspire Works people – click here for their website – and suggested Samba Drumming as something that would be fun and manageable for us.

Some seemed to take to the big drums…

…better than others!

There was a Now & Z/Yen Blog piece about it at the time – click here for that piece on the Z/Yen site…

…or here for a scrape of the piece in case the Z/Yen site piece moves.

I recall personally getting on better with the shakers than the big drums

I also recall that everyone had a really good time, both while drumming and with the celebratory drinks that followed.

There are quite a few more pictures, all thanks to Monique Gore if I recall correctly, which are available through the Flickr album link below:

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