Today Paul (pictured centre) left our team for pastures new. He has been one of my 'Spurs buddies' - a fellow fan of the Lillywhites, excitedly discussing the good and bemoaning the bad performances of the season. Good luck Paul!

The rest of the gang (from the left....) Neil - our resident boffin and, to give him his full title, Dr! Everyone wants to be in Neil's team for the Christmas quiz, where he excels at all sorts of minutiae.

Cassie, intelligent, good at her job and really nice too - she comes from Reading - we now have a growing cohort of Reading ex-pats in our team (myself included).

Penny, a feisty artist, she shares a love of Murder Mystery games with yours truly.....

Chris - a man who I thought was totally TERRIFYING when he joined the team. He wore a gold crucifix to the office and with his shaven head looked like a really scary christian - I expected to come in and find him trying to sell people the Watchtower. In fact, he's an absolutely lovely lapsed Catholic athiest/agnostic (not sure how he'd describe it) guy who I've learned to like and respect enormously.

This pic was taken at the start of what turned out to be a very frustrating evening for me - it was meant to be a quick drink, getting home an hour late but the trains were all messed up and I ended up taking three hours to get home - BAH HUMBUG!