Douggered

As readers might recall, fellow RM lifers Ben & Sharon are moving to NZ where Ben landed a job with Doug's mate Jan (from Insite)....and in true soap opera tradition neither Ben nor Doug knew about the others' plans to leave RM until more or less the same day...........well.....Ben Sharon and Doug held a combined leaving do last Thurs - great to see many longstanding combatants (from both sides!) from over the years, and thanks so much for the well wishes and turning out :-) Doug had a good time....plenty of beer and the chance to make a noise with some mates :-)

Target played at the leaving do - thanks chaps and chapess - Han is leaving Target too, of course ....and Gareth is leaving RM to work for TTS (which he says is still part of RM but no-one thinks that counts).........it's all so confusing but basically everyone is leaving for a fresh start so there must be something in the water:-)

The pics are from the leaving do at the Jericho in Oxford :-) Credit to Ben/Steve/Sharon for the photos, and a link to Ben & Sharon's photos from the Jericho are in the nav bar on the right - all without permission of course :-)

Good to hear Doug will be remembered at RM, at least for the new english verb 'dougger' which means " to take apart crudely and leave in parts, some of which are lost or detroyed" e.g " my tablet PC has been douggered" - though credit to Neil J for inventing the term. Swines.