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That time of year again where I get to travel to Reading for our yearly Crimbo party. My car turned up half filled with petrol and had problems started but Friday morning I travelled to HP HQ in Bracknell to work with the rest o my team. I do like working with everyone else as I can have a laugh, feel part of the group and if I need any help I can just shout.
At 5pm I left to join all the traffic to our Hotel (Crown Plaza – Reading) Very nice hotel, the room had everything you would need inc, iron, safe and broadband. At 7pm we meet downstairs for drinks, it was a bit strange this year as people brought partners and only 9 of us never did. It was nice to dress up in a dinner suit but no one was taking pictures like last year apart from me and as I am taking them I am not in them.
The food was nice and it was great meeting some of the new staff for the first time and seeing some of the others that I had not seen since last year. First downfall was only a small amount of drink was supplied unlike last year where I never spent a penny. As the night went on we did some dancing to cheesy music and all time classics and we also went on the dodgems. There was this sumo bit where you dressed in these big suits and fight, I tried to get some of the lads to have a go with me but they wouldn’t. Chris partner was up for it but the queue was too long.
We left around 1am and as the taxis took forever we walked back to the hotel where one of the managers bought me a drink then I went to sleep. Not a patch on last year but it was ok and free (apart from some of the drink) so I can’t complain.

Today I left Reading around 10.45 so I could make it back for Bristol City’s game against Millwall but someone up there didn’t want me to get there in time as I hit a standstill on the M4 because some lorry turned over shutting the motorway. So I had to get off at Oxford and find my way around with no idea. I ended up buying a map in one of the garages I passed and took a 1 hour detour. A journey that should of taken me 1 hour and 20 mines took me 4 hours and needless to say I missed the start of the match.

Oh well, drinks next Saturday with the lads at a comedy club.