Before the awards: the empty stage, and the graphics being tweaked
Last night was our awards for this year. Today, the expo. They always coincide.
The Awards came back to central London – we took over the Ballroom at the Grosvenor House Hotel – from the Hurlingham Club where we’ve been for the last few years. The food was excellent, the comedy very funny (Stephen K Amos – I’d not seen him before, but the demo we picked him from was great) and the ambience pretty spot on. I didn’t get to bet until four this morning and even then there was still a good crowd in the bar, which inevitably meant there were some very tired faces at the expo today.
Perhaps the fact the expo was so small this year was a blessing in disguise. We were the only magazine with hospitality which meant we had an almost constant stream of visitors, giving us an excellent excuse to break up the trips around the show floor with plentiful teas and coffees with the other exhibitors back on our comfy chairs.
The most interesting conversation of the two events, though, wasn’t one I had with anyone at the expo, but with the woman who looked after the awards. I asked her what she did when she wasn’t being a trophy hander (or trophy girl as she put it). She said she was a singer, model and advert actor and gets a lot of work from DFS. Why? Because she’s short, and they like to use short people because it makes their sofas look big.
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