I’m the last person you would call girlie but sometimes you just need a day of well, just being a girl! Amy, someone I’ve known since I was about four years old, organised for a group of nearly 20 of us girls to attend what she refers to as her “top secret absolutely fabulous party” – this was basically a whole day for celebrating being a woman and filling our day with favourite things to spoil ourselves. So what did this involve? Well, she firstly organised a professional manicurist to come and paint our nails, then she arranged the most amazing high tea for lunch from the french cafe downstairs (which includes the yummiest and freshest panini sandwiches, cakes and pastries) and then she managed to come up with some interactive “games” for the afternoon (which were basically getting to know each other games and also talking about travel plans and allowing us to hook up with people with similar interests.) What impressed me most with her organisation was the level of detail that went into the organisation from the naming of the various rooms (“nail salon”, “bag room”, “shoe and coat room” and even a “waiting area” outside where she herded us whilst she changed the layout of the room), to the name tags, to the glasses with our names on it, to the tea cups with our names on it and finally to even organising for two of the girls to talk about their wide and varied travel experiences. I know it may sound a little cheesy but all these things, in combination with everyone’s good humour, really worked well.

By the time all of these festivities, so to speak, were completed it was actually dinner-time and even for that Amy had arranged a
special three-course tapas style meal at her local burger joint (Natural Burger Co & Grill) which she claims has London’s best burgers and a tiramisu to die for but our first stop before dinner was Abbey Road Studios where we all made our marks – can’t believe its taken me four years to do this little task!

Finally, after dinner the few of us who were still energetic enough headed back to Amy’s where we settled in to watch Juno on a special edition DVD (direct from the BAFTA!) It was a long day but a fun day!