The Office Christmas Tree

This year we got in nice and early to buy our office Christmas tree. Duncan and Piran lugged it all the way back for us. It looked so beautiful to begin with. Perfect shape, lovely colour, strong base. We were so happy…….

Within a few days we noticed he was looking a bit sickly. A little grey. By the next morning he was falling apart. Rapidly.

Our tree seemed to have a mysterious illness; sort of like tree leprosy. The more we tried to brighten him, the more he died. Now two weeks later our Office Christmas Tree is on life support. He has lost all of his weight (needles) and has a limp. We fear he won’t survive the winter. We’ve tried water, baubles, happy thoughts, kicking him – nothing’s worked.

Essex Road Christmas Tree Man – you sold us a crappy, leper tree for £45.00. But for some reason we love him J

Merry Christmas to all of our Islington neighbours who probably also have terminal trees.  
 

Santa releases Elf for Christmas Supper

Last night the LOLA office was filled with Christmas cheer as Santa released one of his elves from a night shift to cook us a wonderful Christmas dinner in the 3^rd round of our dining contest.

A crackling fire (thanks You Tube), fairy lights and holly painted the perfect picture for a cosy start to the dinner. Ably assisted by her helper, our little LOLA Elf (we’ll call her Frosty….) served up a delicious bruschetta starter followed by a perfectly presented chicken and mushroom risotto with a sprinkling of parmesan.

It was then time for some Secret Santa - and in the absence of the man himself Frosty the Elf filled in and handed out some fabulous pressies most of which came within the £5 budget. For the second year running, one particular Secret Santa even managed to come in WELL under budget. Thanks Secret Scrooge.

Special mention to the home baked cookies, the Pounland make up set and the ‘Happy Horse.’

Following a dessert of meringue, fruit and cream, Frosty’s helper finally got to let her hair down with her new karaoke machine. The rendition of ‘Say You’ll be There’ was moving.

Eventually the lights came on and we all left the building while some old man in an Anorak sang Fleetwood Mac to himself.

A worthy 3^rd round contender for the prize. All eyes are now on round 4 where the competition gets its first look at the favourite……….

 

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Employee of the Month

Anthony Ndow

BIG congratulations to Anthony Ndow who is our LOLA employee of the month for November.

Anthony has worked for LOLA for 7 months now and has done over 120 shifts for us so far! He is one of the favourite staff members for many of our clients. He has worked at plenty of different events and the variety of venues including hotels, museums, and racecourses. He has just recently completed a very successful Christmas run.

He has been invaluable at one of main Christmas venues – The Tower of London where he was a superstar on the beast shifts of over 17 hours!!! Not only a whizz in the floor he is now bar man of choice.

Anthony’s hard work and willingness have made him our November stand out star and we cannot thank him enough.

LOLA senior team describe Anthony as ‘always great to work with’ and ‘top performer every shift’. He is ‘one of everyone’s favourite… Doesn’t matter how tough the job is, doesn’t matter how tired he is, he always does everything he is asked to!’ Well done Anthony!

Also special mention to Rosie Chatwin who has been nominated as a ’LOLA Star’ this month and as a result we’re happy to offer a pay increase.

Thanks again guys, great job!