Scary goings on in Black Belt city

Last night's goings on at the Black Belt dinner made me laugh a lot!

Subject of the jargon penalty (if you've done BB you will know what I mean ...) was synchronised swimming. All three penalty payers turned up in shower caps and pinching their noses, having done astonishing amounts of research into the history of synchronised swimming in between leaving the classroom and hitting the bar.

Of course there were lots of perfectly synchronised actions to go with the speeches, and we all had to learn and perform three apparently VERY well-known movements at the end. Having got all enthused about social media in the afternoon (well, at least having moved on beyond "it's for young people/sad people"), there had been talk of hunting out a digicam to film the evening's events, put them on youtube and link to this very blog. Much as I would have loved to see a room full of people pirouetting away with fairy-arms on the web, I have a feeling several commsfolk would by now have been bribing us to lose the film!

BIG competition in our end of term quiz - let's just say it was being taken very seriously at some points! Excellent to see the teams trying to do each other in their rendition of the Black Belt legendary anthem. The last lot ended up, for some reason, donning serviettes on their heads to become singing nuns. (Someone was heard to ask if they were about to start singing hits from the Sound of Music).

As I type, Liam is holding court on our final session for the day and we've just seen the team's final presentations as they pitched to James the hard-nosed MD (guess who?) and Jane, his very lovely and reasonable Operations Director (guess who again?) to win their internal communications business. Team name of the day for me was The Communicats - "because we might seem a bit fluffy but we've got sharp claws underneath -we mean business"!

Sue

PS Actually, I've just discovered one of the group got the penalty presentation on video on her mobile phone! Now lots of worried people in the room ...