Hat Couture

Oh la la - with the Royal Wedding just passed and with the Royal Ascot this week, I don't think there's been a bigger hype about hats in the City! To embrace this staple statement fashion accessory of a truly glamorous outfit, Doreen, Rosie and I went to 1 Lombard last night to touch, try and get puzzled by Katherine Elizabeth's fabulous hat collection.

Air kisses to all of you out there!

Katherine Elizabeth's collection:

One of the wackiest hats out there!

Doreen in the cutest button a la Blair whilst I was struggling to balance a gigantic rose on my head - turns out i was wearing it backwards! Who knew!

Inspiration from the Royal Ascot 2011:

Classic hats moments of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn:

Thursday is the new Friday

Just had an intense workout session for my cheek muscles and abs! A is back in the City, which had to be celebrated in the most simplistic way - a (several) pint. As much as I love my dancing shoes - nothing beats the quiet half empty pub that might as well have been your grandparents' living room where you can work your way through the list of conversation topics that would have earned you raised eyebrows from any other 'normal' (i.e. eavesdropping) human being.

Random

Our firm hosted a global conference in Madrid earlier this week where the highlight was the “give us your business card to get a chance to win an iPad2”. Supposed to be a “random” draw, Dad and his PA returned with a stack, tall as a brick, of business cards belonging currently hung over and potentially jetlagged suited and booted individuals around the world.

Turns out that a random draw works as follows:

1) Go through all the business cards and identify potential clients. Nice and friendly people that might become a good contact for various reason doesn’t count unless they are willing to spend in excess of a couple of million on your products. It doesn’t matter if they would be good contacts for some other department within the firm, if they are not interested in improving YOUR P&L, they’re not playing this game… OK? …moving on
Small side note here - occassionally it is acceptable to classify good looking individuals that you would like to date in the potential clients pile.

2) Ask everyone in your team (ideal number is around 5 people) to RANDOMLY pick a card from the potential client’s list.

3) This is the interesting part – amongst the few randomly selected individuals, identify the individual with i) the deepest pockets or ii) is in contract negotiation with the firm.

4) Make sure the Sales contact for the winning individual hand delivers the prize.

…and there you have it kids – the business definition of RANDOM…not to be confused with:

ran·dom adj.

1. Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective:

2. Mathematics & Statistics Of or relating to a type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.

3. Of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely, as in the testing of a blood sample for the presence of a substance.

That’s the lesson of the day!

Quote of the day

...we're used to bullshit clients for the past 5 years and we can do it one more time...

Ehrm... and you wonder why we're in a financial crisis?!

Today in numbers - the Bridget way

2 teeth pulled out

8 anesthetic injections received in my cheek

2 dentist assistant's fingers crushed during panic attack - sorry

1 dentist's finger (accidentally) bitten - sorry again

3 super duper pain killers consumed within the same number of hours

2 valium tablets consumed (still waiting for the effect to kick in)

20 years of aging during the span of 2 hours

5 words successfully uttered in the past 3 hours

10 lines of mascara marks left on the plastic protective glasses

Latex

Got a dentist appointment in the afternoon so brushed my teeth after lunch today. I know that quite a few people who regularly brush their teeth after lunch and I will save my thoughts on that for later.

Anyways, whilst I was brushing away under the 10000 Watt (ok - so I actually don't know what 10000 Watts does, but very bright, think 'tiny hairs on your face looking like stubble' bright), and slightly yellow light in the ladies - I notice something I the corner. At first sight it looks like a used gigantic condom!! Luckily it turned out to be a used latex glove - still slightly worrying to find that in the ladies but never in my life have I been happier to find a used latex glove!

Snappy, snap...

Glove lamp picture from apartment therapy

TGIF!

Although she doesn’t remember it, Doreen fell and injured her head severely this morning (or possibly last night) – the dangers of riding a camel to work.

Out of the blue, she’s decided that she needs hair extensions. For those of you who don’t know her, she got a full head of long (18.5 inches – yes, we had to measure it this morning) medium brown hair. She might not have Beyonce’s volume but its beyond me why someone would want to go through the pain and hassle that comes with hair extensions.

Anyways, after some creative measurement techniques and too much squinting in trying to decide which color is closest to her natural color, there is now a parcel of nicely wrapped 100% human hair travelling towards us…. Exciting, exciting…

Mini world in East London

I've recently noticed a series of interesting objects and scenarios glued to East London buildings. Does anyone know anything about this? Background, artist(s), story?

Or do you know of any clips that I've missed?

Kids these days....

...or shall I say, ‘Parents’ these days...

My dear Papa is 35 years young, has declared himself single for life and hasn’t had time to/bothered to graduate from nursery school yet.

I sometimes wonder what has happened with today’s adults. We are more careers minded, wealthier, travel the world, drink and smoke more but sleep less. All good and well so far as we make the world spin faster every minute, but what worries me is when adults seems to have forgotten all about the basics.

Its not only nursery school my Papa has forgotten to leave:

· his driving licence is still green (i.e. learners licence)

· he called me the other day, sniffling and in panic asking how one chops an onion

· he arranged a holiday on his own for the first time this week (was relying on Expedia to wrap everything up nicely before)

· his idea of cleaning the bathroom is to pour a bottle of Mr Muscle down the toilet stool and flush. Apparently the bath/shower doesn’t needs to be cleaned as its being cleaned automatically when he uses it – I wish!

Makes you wonder what makes the world go round ey?

P.S. Of course he’s not my real Papa – but i still love him dearly.

Morning Sunshine

Walk through Fashion Street everymorning on my way to work and although nothing makes me happier than a sunny-blue-skies morning....the street art here was the cherry on top this morning - very inspiring!

Bring on Thursday!