If there was one thing to be learned from last night’s trip it’s that graceful ice-skaters affiliate marketers do not make. We saw grown men revert to grinning like a five year old (Eman), the slowest two laps in history (Hardeep) and the best advert for Spanish ice skating ever seen (Marta).

The highlight of the night though had to be the impromptu charity donation raised to support the ValueClick Arctic trek for Kids Company. It involved CJ country manager Florian Gramshammer consuming 28 sausages, it wasn’t pretty and Florian’s been very quiet since, but he did manage to raise £150 for the cause.

All in all a great night was had by the team and the Commission Junction skating team will be back for more next year.

It started off in the office with some Champagne, mince pies and Secret Santa. Brezo was voted to be one of Santa’s LIttle Helpers and we thought she did a wonderful job

After that we took the rowdiest few coaches in the history of the world to the party at the Design Museum by Tower Bridge.

The party at the museum was on 3 levels – we started with a drinks reception in the main exhibition hall which is currently showing psychadelic artist Alan Aldridge.

After the drinks reception we went downstairs for our dinner and the awards. The ValueClick awards are quite an old tradition going back about six years now. The whole company votes on all of the categories. Commission Junction cleaned up this year winning awards for: Best Dressed Male; Look-a-likey; Making things Happen (wwwoooooo, I won that with a couple of others); Keeping it Real and Being in the Know. We decided to celebrate in true CJ style (note that Katie is unable to resist the pretty boy charms of Jason).

 After the Design Museum the true gluttons for punishment went on to Motion in Embankment for more (as if we needed more). Here we expressed love and admiration for one another – here is a picture of me, your trusty moderator being ‘admired’ (attacked). What a lucky girl I am

Merry Christmas everyone!