[Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/12/2020: a different Christmas party at the office

[Douglas Barry]

I agree. No danger of those pretty girls ending up as the elf on the shelf.

Christmas parties are like hens' teeth this year. I was at one on Monday 
night for my camera club. Its highlight was a photography quiz which 
helped along with sundry glasses of good cheer to frazzle brains. Good 
to see everyone in a sort of festive mood, swigging in front of the 
screen, but a reminder that this has been a year like no other. 
Hopefully next year we'll have an actual vaccine, not just a symptoms 
mitigator, so that we can all meet again like we used to.

Douglas



On 15/12/2020 18:34, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Lovely elves!
>
> On 12/15/20 12:13 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> In a normal year, we have two department-wide events each year: a 
>> Christmas lunch and a pre-summer break lunch in late June. We are 
>> around 45 employees plus a few externals, so a reasonably big group. 
>> Sadly, this is not a normal year, and no more than 6 people from 
>> different households can share a meal in a restaurant. So no 
>> Christmas lunch this year. But our intrepid Stephanie refused to 
>> surrender to the virus, and she organised a party in the office, with 
>> everyone participating online, but still with a quiz, drinks, and 
>> presents from Secret Santa, and even group singing of Jingle Bells.
>>
>> Here is Stephanie, one of my favourite people:
>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CtHXFW5/A
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>> I poured myself a glass of something sweet and participated in the 
>> online festivities, although once in a while I left my office to take 
>> some photos of those who were in the office (a fair proportion of the 
>> participants were working from home, and we even had a participant 
>> from The Hague, a colleague seconded to Europol):
>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Zh7rrTg/A
>>
>> But then two elves came by with some Glühwein! Our trainees had taken 
>> the initiative to spread a bit of joy around the floor:
>> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-TZPwfDC/A
>>
>> Hopefully by late June we will all have been vaccinated and can have 
>> a proper summer kick-off lunch.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
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