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Date: 18 March 2005 16:34:26
The cool thing with my job is no two days are ever the same. You just never know what your going to get really. One of our city's prestigious girls schools celebrated it's blahdy blah anniversary. It was one of those not really a anniversary anniversaries. Most things celebrate when they turn 50, 100 or 150. This was one of those small ones in between. Being a school gig it came with the usual complexities. The Music and Drama teachers think this is the biggest achievement of their creative careers so they become ultra finicky. The over stressed Deputy Head who has been given the task of running the most successful event in the schools long and illustrious history. You have their assistants who buzz around like worker bees but believe they are important enough to ask for extra chairs and other furniture which ends up being moved because the main client asks why it is there in the first place. They then tell you those five large display boards need to be moved because they need to be double sided. So like the goose you are you move all the while still wearing your suit. After asking about who would pin up the table allocations all afternoon and be told they would look after it. I was not particularly overjoyed when at ten minutes before Pre Dinner Drinks to find they needed more display space. Thankfully the boys put in a big effort to find the boards and bring them up in time.
I received a call from the Chef who asked me how did the cake get on the stage and table it currently was on. This cake mirrored the magnitude of the occasion. The cake was a metre long and half a metre wide and weighed in at a whopping 60kg! They were to cut the cake during the festivities and then the chefs would cut it and platter it. Like the weight of the mega cake was not enough. It also presented some other issues such as it was in the shape of the original school building even down to the black and white tiles on the veranda. But the icing was the rock hard icing and would provide challenges in enabling anyone to actually cut the cake. So the best case scenario was that the icing would break but usually it does not break evenly. The cake was also possibly dangerous because it was like all good fruit cakes made a while ago. Lets say 7 or so months ago. Because it was so soaked in alcohol because of the fruit it should be ok I was assured by the Chef but because it was on our site and our Chefs cut the cake it would be on our heads if anyone was to get sick. To move the cake off the small stage then onto another table with wheels and into the Kitchen it took 6 hefty guys to move it. I came in this morning to find all was good and no reported of cake related illness. And the cake was not dropped either which we thought was on the cards if the board it was on decided to snap due to the weight of the cake. So watch out kids Cakes Kill or have the possibility of maiming.
Received a copy of a email from the organiser that said I was Fantastic which I will admit I was. I was also looking after two other events at the same time and had to make the signs for the next day and make sure the paper work was up to date. It all got done relatively stress free as well.