Celebrations!

An important part of team building is the liberal use of celebrations. We would use any excuse whatsoever in order to celebrate. For example we would celebrate every time we had completed the coding of another fifty screens. We tried many different ways of celebrating, we would have a drink, or a meal, or a quiz, or play indoor cricket, or ten pin bowling. The bowling is worth exploring;

The first time we went as a team for a celebratory bowling game we had two games each and then a burger and fries. Whilst we were eating and laughing at some of the incredible ineptitude we had just witnessed we were approached by a bowling team who were playing in a league match. Their opponents had not turned up and although they would win simply by playing on their own they did not want to play against an empty lane. It was for this reason that six of us acted as 'stand-ins' for the missing team. We lost of course but had a great time, especially as we were playing under our 'assumed' names of the missing players. Great cheers went up as we played with chants being taken by our supporters for the names that were showing on the computer screen of the scoring system. Unbelievably, we were asked if we would like to enter a team in the local bowling league, which we did.