Pizza Cake

For Halloween our team at work dressed up as Telecommuters. The idea was to wear what you would wear if you were working from home, so we all wore PJ’s and dressing gown and slippers. Unfortunately, or luckily, I don’t have any photos of the event,

There was a competition for best costume for an individual, and a team award, and blow me if we didn’t win the team award which is to go out for a pizza lunch together, I can’t wait.

Honesty makes me have to point out that we were the only team to enter the competition, but that isn’t our fault, you can only beat who is in front of you. This is the 2nd time that I have won something due to the fact that no one else entered. The other occasion was the “Fittest Men on Campus” Competition that was held at Lancaster University. The competition was part of Men’s Health week and was supposed to be the finale of a week long of events promoting healthy lifestyles for men. Now, I don’t remember how, but my college Cartmel thought it would be hilarious to enter a team of men so unfit that they would be in danger of dying if they had to do any sort of sporting events. Our team of 4, plus one reserve, consisted of the un-fittest men we had. 4 of the team smoked, all of us drank too much alcohol, before heading down to the square where the event was to take place we all ate a healthy lunch of pie and chips and had a couple of pints. There were to be relays, cycling, weight lifting and a whole host of other events, all of which we had agreed we would do with a can of beer in hand whilst smoking (apart from me as I don’t smoke – it was agreed I could have 2 cans of beer instead). We entered Alexandra Square where this sports feast was to take place only to find that none of the other 8 colleges had entered a team.

We were crowned champions and paraded our trophy back to our bar where an enthusiastic crowd of one cheered us on. That one person was Cal the bar manager who was glad we were back to spend our hard earned loans in her bar as it had been quiet since we had left 15 minutes before. We celebrated into the night as we only knew how – women, wine and song (and at closing time fish n chips).