It was arguably the social event of the year, with much hype surrounding the annual christmas meal. Unconfirmed reports suggested that all annual leave for the police and ambulance service had been cancelled.
The evening started at the Cocked Hat in Coventry (One of the places we've not been barred from!) where around 40 folks tucked into their Christmas meal, accompanied by the obligatory liquid refreshment.
Following the meal, several of the hardened drinkers ventured into town to continue the evening. Our first stop was the Oak. Now for me the oak ticks all the right boxes, loads of bar staff, lots of seating, hot food trailer. It was good to catch up with people and have a right old natter.
Now it wouldn't of been a proper SJA night out if someone hadn't of ended up being arrested/taken to hospital or consumed vast quantities of alcohol. So it was rather unfortunate that the oak had a promotion that involved consuming 4 shots of a brightly coloured sickly sweet aniseed flavoured drink. The prize was a limited edition santa hat. Now most sensible people would of resorted to ebay to avoid consuming the afformentioned drink. But oh no, why have one limited edition santa hat, when three will suffice. I'll leave the maths to you!
Of course this had the effect of reducing our party as said person departed for the saftey of bed. Our next port of call was a new one for me. I'd heard lots of good things about Rainbows and the amosphere their. Many of the girls really enjoy it as they can get on with dancing without distraction from the blokes!
In truth it was just like any other nightclub, busy, hot, smokey, noisy and with the obligatory pools of vomit. It was ok, but I do prefer the oak.
So tomorrow sees the inaugural Coventry SJA secret santa. I've absolutly no idea who's getting my pressie. I'm quite pleased with what i've brought, it's new, modern and in truth really easy to get.
Anyway, this is the last week before Christmas and with only two days work on thursday and friday it should give me chance to get organised.
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