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It was a busy week for me last week. A couple of my workmates and I decided to run an auction at work to raise money for DEC Haiti. We thought our colleagues might pull some random crap out of their spare room to donate. But it became larger than what we imagined. One of the bigwigs found some signed framed prints by a famous artist, a brand new digital scaletrix and an antique crocodile nutcracker and the standard was set. Soon we had hotel nights away, a pair of Prada shoes, football memorabilia and 3 course dinners being donated, along with the expected old exercise bike, pile of books and cd’s. Then the big boss said he’d match whatever we raised, doubling our total!

I forwarded our auction brochure to a few workmates in London hoping they’d buy some of the stuff (they do get paid more down there!). One of them sent the local PR company out to meet us so I had to pose in those crazy high Prada heels! It was the Press and Journal photographer (yes that’s my foot in the pose link!) who came out. It was absolute chaos! In a good way. We raised over £1800 from the auction, plus another £700+ from a cake bake sale. We were completely overwhelmed by everyone’s generosity. I even managed to successfully bid on a pair of tickets to the local football game, so the following day (Saturday 13th Feb) Wes and I headed down to Pittodrie Stadium to watch our local soccer team take on Celtic from Glasgow.

We had an excellent time, despite the midday kick off and the alcohol ban. The supporters were so excited, especially the Celtic fans. Loud and a little bit scary. It was an evenly-matched game too, so good for spectators, even though Celtic were the favourites going in. And as I found out this week at work, the game will be forever known as ‘the game with all the goals’ after a 4-4 draw. Apparently the Dons hardly ever score :|

Notice all the cops in the corner?

Check out the security in between Celtic and Aberdeen fans!