Rehana celebrated her 10th year at work a few weeks ago so James thought it would be a lovely idea to surprise her with some celebratory drinks. I had the task of setting her up and James the task of getting people together for it. It was difficult to get Rehana to a bar without lying about what we were actually going to be doing as we normally go out for a lovely meal or theatre show which requires booking but also I didn’t want to say we were going to be eating somewhere or seeing a show when we actually weren’t! Additionally I couldn’t just tell her to meet at the bar because I know that if she’s early she has no problems with going into the bar/restaurant or venue by herself and we couldn’t have her arriving before anyone else did!

It was very nearly undone by one of our bosses sending her an email to say sorry she couldn’t make the drinks! Luckily she also copied James into the email and as Rehana was not working the day that the email was sent James was able to get IT into her inbox to get rid of it. So funny.

Anyway, we all had a great time at the Match Bar tonight which was very busy by the time Rehana and I walked in at 6.30 but pleasingly it wasn’t difficult to get to the bar for drinks at all, despite various groups setting up camp around it. There is plenty of seating for a relatively small venue though James had thought ahead and booked us an area so there were no problems for us.