norfolk and good

cool as ice

Several times a year, we ask everyone here to nominate those we think really go 'above and beyond' in their work. We then all vote on which of those nominations deserve extra special recognition and we give them a prize.

We've run Awards for some time now but this is the first round of the ICE Awards, launched back in September. We decided it'd be a nice thing to announce the winners just before Christmas, so here they are...

ICEy Individuals

1st place went to Sylve for 26 years of tidying up after us. Sylve was an out-and-out winner which goes to show how brilliant we think she is.

2nd place went to Neil (who was in fact nominated three times!). He won for a great presentation to the Board, his help in bringing the Christmas party to life and, umm, for having "lovely hair".

Kool & The Gang

1st place went to The IT Monkeys (aka Jason and Chris) for their expedient, friendly, non-complaining service (truth be told, it's the rest of us that are the monkeys when it comes to computers...)

2nd place went to Ange and Chloe for their willing and wily receptionist ways.

Our Group Scoop Award went to Healthshield for supplying such a great package of benefits. (Free massages never get boring...)

Congratulations to you all, we're very proud.

the Christmas bash

We had a great time last night. Thanks to Wilf and Squint for providing the Cockney music. Thanks to Geoff and his staff at the Mischief for being most accommodating. Thanks to Frannie, Neil and Jodie for organising the bash. Thanks to the Board for funding it. Thanks to Del Boy for making us laugh. Thanks to the bouncer for keeping our party exclusive. Thanks to Tony, our mad DJ. Thanks to those brave souls that sang karaoke...

And a massive thanks to everyone for getting right into the Christmas spirit! Happy Christmas all!

Christmas Cockney Knees-up

It's our Christmas party tonight! We're working hard to get everything finished so we can go and let our hair down. The 'secret squirrels' haven't told us much about what to expect, but we're predicting a bit of a kitsch, knees-up affair in a traditional old boozer. We'll tell you more about it tomorrow...

blink - and you might miss him...

This is our Tom, cutting a fine figure as an Edwardian gentleman. He doesn't dress like this all the time, but last weekend he was being filmed as an extra in My Talks With Dean Spanley.

Tom enjoyed it so much that he'll be doing a horror flick in February...how long before we see him opposite Angelina Jolie?!

Aviva party

We invited our Norwich Union and RAC clients along for a few Christmas drinks last night. We hired out Orgasmic, where the pink tequilas and the sambuca flowed freely... Needless to say, there are more than a few hungover colleagues today! 

Above are our clients Lisa, Alex and Christina with our Dan and Gemma. Caroline and Claire are the lovely ladies in the second picture.

side by side

It's not often we see two pieces of our work in the paper side by side like this... In today's EDP, there's our PR piece featuring our client Targetfollow next to our advert for Adnams Cellar & Kitchen (free bubbly? Lovely!)

PRide

Well, the social season has well and truly kicked off! Last night, Kayla, Helen, Scott, Nat, Lou and Rachel went to the PRide Awards (the Chartered Institute of Public Relations regional awards). Accompanying them was Jonathan, John and Christine, our clients from Merial. They helped us celebrate when we were announced a named finalist for our National Flea Week campaign (it was nominated for Best Consumer Award).

Foxmurphy also won the Gold Award for 'Don't Be A Loser' in the Best Public Sector category. James and Steve were with us to pick up the prize.

birthday bash

Congratulations to AW Media who celebrate their 20th anniversary this year! Ashley, Anna, Jean and Jakki were glad to be invited to their celebratory bash, held last night at the Dali Gallery (although the bar proved a bigger attraction than the art). This is Jean and Anna with Steven - after a few glasses of champagne by the look of it...