Archive for June 2022

Sunrise champagne is being passed between us on Waterloo Bridge. We’ve been up all night and we’re still partying. Fifteen strong, we’re a band of sisters and brothers taking a vibrant, shimmering stand against mediocrity. I don’t think we’re ever going to stop. We’re the self-proclaimed princesses and princes of up all night abandon. Smudged…

Hit everything. Create chaos. Promote pandemonium.  At a kids’ drumming party I invite the Birthday Girl, or Birthday Boy, to form a circle with their twenty ‘little angel’ friends, and make a Devilish racket for three whole minutes. Guzzling wine at the back I watch the horror on the parent’s faces as they lament not…

Gareth Malone, The Bishop of St Albans and Tom Morley walk into a bar. Barman: You three should form a company. Bishop: Song Circle? Gareth: Dot com. Tom: That’s handy, I’ve got the URL. Barman: You can get antibiotics for that.  Websites-drums-and-rock’n’roll. Vans-an’-hats-and-VAT. Running a team building business is 90% maintenance and 10% performance. Maintaining…

It’s Spring 2019 and a friend of mine has just come back from a half term holiday with his family. “Where did you go?” I ask. “Center Parcs” he replies. “They were so smart adding those tree houses. It used to be like spending a wet weekend at a Premier Inn under a plastic dome.…

“Shhh, not here… ” I say as the dancer I’ve booked shows me her spangly outfit in the lobby of the Istanbul Hilton. Thirty minutes later we’re in the stationery cupboard downstairs. “We have to be really quiet,” I whisper. “Did you bring the blindfolds?” It’s the third ‘energiser’ session at a two day conference…