Pete & Penny's Engagement/Send Off Party

This week-end was spend with loved ones and dear fiends. With this economic climate being as it is in the last 2 months I have seen 2 very good Friends move to Dubai with work....bonne chance Adel & Padrip x And this week-end I placed Pete & Penny's Engagement/Emigarting to Oz Party at the J Bara at Sumosan ( Great sushi and kobe beef guys). Great ambience , Pete the Superstar DJ was on the decks and 14 Magnums of Champagne later I was on the floor: well at least fast asleep at 3am in Momo's. Thanks Murad for not being upset as I slept at your Club!
Sunday lunch in Richmond Village with my beau , niece, Godson and dearest Friends N&M was a perfect end to a tremendous week-end. Still have a hangover today.... Long live the retox !!!!

2009 kicked off with sites visits and birthday parties

Wow wee ....... 2009 has kicked off with enquiries for events andf creatives for conferences.We have seen so many Clients and Friends in such a short time; Lunches at Rivington Grill, Soho Hse, Artisan & the Galvin Windows have helped the cause.I am so glad to see people are requesting Birthday Parties. All for lovely Ladies as well. In the next 2 weeks I have the pleasure in organising a 30th, 18th and 21st Birthday Parties..... Michaela, Charlotte & Fatimah- this blog is dedicated to you. You shall enjoy ........ most de rigeur for Birthdays are Cupcake Tiers.
My favourite site visited venue is definately the Art Deco Bloomsbury Ballroom.
Bring it on 2009!

Defiance Premiere - Daniel Craig In Belorussia

Still freezing here in London but Monday started well back at work! Tuesday we went to the Premiere of the Film "Defiance" with some good Friends and Clients at Odeon Leicester Square. Interetsting war film with heart wrenching undertones - Daniel Craig a tad mis-cast but still awesome!

Sacha & Teressa's Wedding At Highclere Castle,Berkshire

Luckyily I was nt too hungover New Years as I had the pleasure of taking my dear Niece to see Madagascar 2. Great film....only caught the 1st one over Xmas - Hilarious. Chris Rock you re the don! Saturday arrived smoothly and we were invited to an old Uni Friend Sacha's Wedding to his bethrothed - the beautiful and enchanting Teressa."May the sun light up your path togather and the winds push all your endeavours forward". Although it was absolutely freezing in Berkshire - the ceremony was at a beautiful church called Ascension, Burghclere.Loved the Maori Love song " Pokarekare Ana" sang by her Dad & Brothers.That warmed us all up. Then on to the Phat Highclere Castle. Highclere Castle is the home of the Earls of Carnarvon, the most famous being the present Earl's great grandfather who, with Howard Carter, discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Good enough for Thierry H and his ex Wife to marry in.... Good enough for my man.So fine to see all my old Chums from Queen Mary & Wesfield - Will & Will, Dr Mick & Lisa, Peter, Brian, Darren, Jane, Dougal & the the rest of the Cosmic Crew - I salute you ....! See you at the 6 Nations Rugger :-) Thanks for the love !

HNY To One & All - Ivy Dinner & Abi's House Party

What a lovely Xmas eve we had. Had a spare table at the Ivy resturant for 8pm. Rude not to take it up and invite my Mrs to dinner as a thank you for putting up with me in 2008. So I did. Had the Lamb and she had a seabass. Always amazes me how inexpensive it is. Had a bottle of Gavi Di Gavi and was comp.ed a couple of glasses of Champagne for our Love. Always goes down well. Slightly snozzled we went on through the merry throngs in building up in Trafalgar square onto the tube down to Clapham. Good friend Abi was having a House Party. Only 20 of us...was bloody marvellous.Champagne, sparklers and Barry White always a winner with the Girls. Great Chocolate Cake Beatrice- thanks to you we're on this path. Bonne chance to you and all those we love. Chapagne to my real Friends....Real pain to my sham friends!!!
HNY X

Remember Those We Love

Strange time it is ....last day of the year! Janus time ! Although you look forward to the forthcoming year and what it may bring: you can t help but reflect on the years gone by and though you have lost. I remember you all - Mum, Mama, Uncle Tambere, Tim & Richard Coker-Enahoro amongst the many. We still love you ..... R.I.P!

Somerset House Ice Rink With Friends

A Client and now good Friend Luc T of the Ball Of Balls Fame booked us the Somerset House Tiffany Sponsored Ice Rink tickets. He had to book 1 month in advanced. It was packed and great fun. Luckily Stef and I are great skaters so no falling but lots of silliness. I forgot how much fun skating could be. Definately need to buy some skates again....Ohhhhh to remember those glory days when I was in the Queensway Ice Hockey team. To be young again :-)

Xmas Time

Strange but enjoyable Xmas ..... Got what I wanted and gave to those that I cared most for! I still think Xmas is for Women & Kids but what joy it brings so we love it! My Niece, good Friend Rob & his little beau Hannah and myself went to the German Xmas Fayre in Hyde Park on possible the coldest day of the year 3rd of dec. Great fun for Kids and fleecing for Parents! Some of the rides were great though and mmmm....the waffles. It s official Xmas is for Kids ! Checkout this movie of Dylan & Hannah on a mad german techno merry-go-round .....

MERRY XMAS MES AMIS

Thanks for your support this year x

Sleeping Beauty At The Coliseum

2 weeks ago I promised my Wife and my Niece that I would take them to a Ballet or Opera. As I had never been to the Ballet - which is the best ballet to pop one's cherry on? SLEEPING BEAUTY. What elegance? What finesse? What strength? What stamina?English National Ballet in Kenneth MacMillan's 'Sleeping Beauty' and it's everything you could wish a classical ballet to be: a beautiful production with lavish sets and costumes, full orchestra, a stage-full of pristine dancers, heart-stopping moments (like the precarious balances in the Rose Adagio) and underneath all those trimmings, some sterling choreography.

Tchaikovsky’s glorious music and MacMillan’s classical choreography reawaken the magic of the world’s favourite fairy tale in an enchanted world of castles and curses, forests and fairies. At Princess Aurora’s christening, fairies bestowed her with gifts of beauty, temperament, purity, joy, wit and generosity. The wicked Fairy Carabosse put a curse on Aurora; to prick her finger and die on her 16th birthday.

The beautiful and kind Lilac Fairy cast a spell to counter the curse so that instead of dying Aurora fell asleep for a hundred years. Only the touch of true love’s kiss could awaken her and undo the evil spell…..... Takanhashi as Sleeping Beauty was divine.Will definately go again!

Dinner at Buka Nigerian Restau & Bungalow 8

After a night like Thursday I needed to re-balance my body's nourishment.So with my Russian (Musician) , Greek ( Lawyer,don't mention the riots), South African (Luxury Travel Agent) & Essex (Supermodel) Friends, we decided to sample the culinary delights of Nigerian delicacies. We meet up once a month to catch up on our loves,lives and swap buiness ideas and strategies.Pounded yam, efo ero, jollof rice, tilapia fish pepper soups and assorted meats. Mmmmm....... the pepper wqas sooooooo wholesome washed down with Star beer. I know there are better Nigerian restaurants in London but I still love the music and atmosphere of Buka,Faze 2 in Kilburn.
Decided on a full stomach to meet the Mrs and cousins at Bungalow 8 for a shakedown of all that fine food! Who did we bump into? The one & onlyPearl Van Den Ende and here jovial Friends. Great night mes Amis x

Thursday's Heaven & Hell Party In Guildford

Well done to Alistair, Sarah & Pearl for putting together an awesome Heaven & Hell Party last Thursday in Guildford at the beautiful Mandolay Hotel ( Thanks as well to you Peyman, Julian, Kieron & all the Hotel staff) for one of our favourite Clients Marijka & the Super Team. Props, production and backdrops of Dante's Inferno and St
Michael's Pearly Gates.Looping splices of Manga Films, Angelheart,Bruce Almighty & Heaven can wait, Stairway to Heaven.Angels,Demons,Bad Santa(Hilarious),
Roulette tables, Blackjack, Confetti Cannons,Magicians,Masseuses,Vodka Luges, Chocolate Fountains and moi as the Ring Master. Wow what a spectacle! DJ Alex you know you have the tunes Baby .... x