Maxine, the Awards’ award

Last night was the Awards. It always coincides with the Expo, so I spent the morning stuffing bags, slipping discount cards into magazines and eating Kettle Chips. At two we took a taxi to the Hurlingham Club to rehearse, and put programmes on the tables and bags of space dust under the tables.

I actually quite enjoy all that, despite it annoying the serving staff as we slip shot glasses between the carefully measured-out wine glasses, and menus into the napkins. You don’t need to think about things, and once you get into a bit of a rhythm the afternoon fairly flies by. The rehearsal was over before we knew it, the taxi was there and we were swished off to the hotel for too-short showers before heading back for the night proper.

So how well did it go? Very well, indeed. We dispensed with the autocue this time around, and I managed to get through my lines with only one trip-up. We had text-in competitions, which worked first time around, the food was good and the entertainment was excellent. Terry Alderton did the comedy and handed out the awards, and the Three Waiters had everyone waving their serviettes in the air above their heads as we ate dinner.

It was, I think, the best Awards of the five I’ve done with MacUser (and I thought I’d only done four until about an hour before we kicked off), which makes topping it next year an interesting poser indeed…

Claire and Westy demo the brand

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