Life on What's On can be, as one of my friends puts it, 'a social whirl'...
Proof was in the pudding this week, with more lunches and launches than 12 months at NASA.
The highlight was definitely the launch of Fort Dunlop on December 1. Everyone - that was about 2,000 people judging from the lines and lines of people outside - had been given a wristband featuring food and drinks tokens (including one marked 'posh drink' - oooh!). Coaches had been laid on from Colmore Row, as well as Liverpool, Bradford, Bristol and Manchester - where developer Urban Splash http://www.urbansplash.co.ukhas offices.
Well, after shuffling along with everyone else - and feeling like an extra from Ben Hur - we finally got inside, where there was one bar, cloakroom and lots of lift doors. The party itself was up on the 6th floor, and for some reason security wouldn't let anyone use the stairs, so it was a slow painful process as we went up six at a time.
Once there it was great, if a little bizarre, like an indoor festival or legal rave. The floor was finished if uncarpeted etc... the room decorated with a stage (for the bands, beatboxers, Barbara Nice, DJs and Angie Brown), bar, portaloos and not much else. The queue for food looked like it should have been outside a Soviet bread shop - a mile long - while Rob Andrew might have picked up a few pointers from the scrum at the cocktail bar. Top mojitos, mind...
Let's hope as many people turn up to book office space at Fort Dunlop.