Fun at work

"Shiver me timbers" I LOVE being a pirate! I wanna do it again! I modelled myself on Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean...well who else? I think Johnny Depp deserves yet another mention in my blog!! Hehe :-) I already had a long wig so I just added a few plaits and beads; I used a bandana, one of John's white shirts with elastic bands around the cuffs to puff them out, a tablecloth around the waist, a belt slung diagonally across my chest, trousers rolled up with brown boots and some black eyeliner. Oh and I bought a toy pistol. Total cost £5.47. Not bad eh? See pic above taken later at home as no-one remembered their camera at work. Doh!

Quite a few people dressed up in the office, all given pirate names by our supervisors. I was seaman Lisa the legless. We had games laid on by our supervisors too, the first of which was Taste Smell and Feel. Victoria, Groomie and myself volunteered for our team - Vic did the feeling, Ali G did the tasting and I did the smelling. I do have a radar nose for smells but still only got 2 out of 4, however one of them was pickled olives which I guessed as gherkins - anything pickled smells similar doesn't it? And the other one was potato which hardly smells of anything - I guessed plasticine! The ones I got right were marmite which is unmistakable and catfood which is a smell I'm used to! We only got 5 out of 12 which was pretty useless but it was fun anyhow.

Mid morning, everyone who was dressed up was told to go to another part of the building to be judged and have their photo taken. They picked two guys and two girls as winners; sadly I was not one of them. Poor decision I felt but everyone looked great!

Later on we had to design pirate flags. Groomie came first - another triumph for the team, me having won the totem pole competition in the last Fun at Work day. The last game of the day was similar to pass the parcel except it was a bomb. Whoever had the bomb when the music stopped had to remove a raffle ticket which was stuck to it, and so won a prize.

The day was a lot of fun, and I think it is needed every now and then to keep the morale high.
Can't wait for the next one - any excuse to dress up and I'm there with bells on! :-)