Janie and I made a profound sacrifice in the August preceding this event – dining at the Boundary with Anthea and Mitchell, before booking it for the 2010 Z/Yen do. The things we used to do for the sake of the team.
Anyway, the Z/Yen seasonal event started with “Goodbye” drinks at St Helen’s Place – hence the search for a suitable venue quite near that office.
Those of us who had been with Z/Yen from the outset had been at St Helen’s Place since 1995, albeit in different bits of it at times. Still, the move away from there felt a little unsettling at the time.
Janie remembers the meal at the Boundary fondly, despite us being unable to use the terrace (as we had on our previous visit in August) and despite the fact that it was only a couple of weeks after her twin, Phillie, had died.
It was a growing team at that time and it felt that the seasonal events were getting better and better. The house party atmosphere ahead of the dinner helped, I’m sure. As did the excellence of The Boundary as avenue for our sort of event.
With so much going on in our lives at that time, I was neither in the mood nor well mentally equipped for writing a silly song. We revived The Twelve Days Of Z/Yen Training that year.
Here’s a link to a pdf of that year’s version of that song.
Worse…I mean, better…yet…
…someone videoed the performance of the Z/Yen song at that event. You can see and hear it in all its gory…I mean, glory:
Loads of photos that year too. Here’s a link to them all – this or the picture link below:
