Well, the RSVPs are in. Mostly. Although by this point, I’ve rather assumed that anyone who hasn’t RSVPed is a ‘Not Attending,’ so you’re going to need to shout bleedin’ quick if you actually meant ‘I am coming but I’m unpardonably lax at responding to repeated kicks and injunctions to reply to things, and frankly I don’t know why anyone bothers to ask me to things anyway, but please can I come after all?’
Um.
Anyway, venting aside, for those of you that are coming to the Breakfast, we’ve just been thrashing out the seating plan, in such a way that nobody ends up sat at a table with people they don’t know. That, it turns out, is pretty challenging but even so we’ve come up with a pretty reasonable workaround: as far as the Breakfast goes, and barring accidents and last-minute rearrangements, nobody should end up sat at a table with more than nine or ten people they don’t know, which is pretty fair if you ask me.
Plus, if you’re lucky, we may yet have time to get possible icebreakers printed on the backs of your placecards, so if the conversation runs really dry, you can always fall back to the conversational redoubt of ‘So, Boris, tell me why does your placemarker say “Ask me about LOOM”?’
Still, that brings us to the Table Names, and then on to the Wedding Table Competion in which you can win a bottle of fizzy stuff, of which I hope presently to have a vast and leftover supply.
In order to enter the competition to win the goodies, you just need to answer the following question, which you can do by carefully emailing myself, or Ruth, or Dan (unless, somehow you have none of our email addresses, in which case I for one am deeply suspicious of your motivations for reading this blog).
The question, then, goes like this:
‘What links the names of the tables at the Wedding Breakfast to Oxford, where Ruth and JTA now live?’ For this, you will need the names of the tables, which are (in no particular order) ‘Coalport,’ ‘Trench,’ ‘Horsehay,’ ‘Ketley,’ ‘Lilleshall’ and ‘Wombridge’.
There’s only one correct answer, mind, and it’s relatively specific. Yes, part of the challenge is working out the deeper meaning of the question, but I will say it’s not something totally dissociated from us and the whole wedding thing. Worst case, we’ll give the bottle away to the best guess, so you might as well throw your hat in!
Such as it is, the competition stays open until midnight on the 26th of October, and I’ll try and get round to picking one of the correct answers by the start of Advent.
And remember, please, to email in your answers rather than adding them here. No sense in giving hints to all them other people, now, is there?
That should be ‘26th of November’, no?
Unless of course, the answer is “Tom Baker”…
O, yeah, so it should. Well spotted.
No idea what links them to oxford but ‘Coalport,’ ‘Trench,’ ‘Horsehay,’ ‘Ketley,’ ‘Lilleshall’ and ‘Wombridge’ are canals or canal branches in Telford. Is that anything to do with it? I think you should use them as the names of your first 6 children.