Our friends down at Spitalfields held their Christmas market opening on Thursday night and a bunch of us headed down to join in the festivities.

It certainly wasn’t like any Christmas do we’d seen before; transvestite poets, a helium choir, burlesque dancers and (personal favourite) a marching kazoo band. All great fun and the turn out was pretty impressive. Here’s a few pics and videos to give you a taste of what you missed out on.

Lovely assistant Darren presenting the Order of Ceremony:

Quick tribute to Colman’s trainer faux pas (far left).

A tuneful rendition of (something) from the Helium Choir:

A slightly less-Christmassy, but no less entertaining effort from the Marching Kazoo band:

Look out for our ‘Socks Kill Christmas’ posters around Liverpool Street station next week.

Emma writes:

Andy, Boffey and myself went on a fun little trip on Tuesday to Cheshire with our Cravendale clients.

We spent the day planning 2008 activity and how we would ensure our brand strategy is shared and understood by the larger integrated team. After we’d figured this bit out, we then took a minibus to a local farm and spent the rest of the afternoon getting to know where Cravendale originates from by weaning the calves, feeding them, and milking lots and lots of rather intimidating looking mummy cows.

An amazing trip out. Everyone had lots of fun. And gained a new appreciation for just how blimmin’ hard farmers have to work.