If music be the food of love, I'd rather have a cupcake..

Well this week as our CEO jetted off for a hard earned trip to Ibiza, it wasn’t just Sanchita basking in the sun. Out came the sunglasses and in went the brollies as we all relaxed in the heat and London saw the return of the summer...for a day.

With Sanchita away and Madeleine our London Community Manager currently enjoying the whole week off for her birthday, the office has been a little quieter than usual. Mad even snubbed our invite to come in for her CS birthday lunch and inevitable gift of the novelty screen wipe (surely we’ve got through the whole collection by now? - I can only hope for my birthday)

Owen's been feeling a little under the weather this week, not that he’s moaned about it, but instead just took to advertising it in the form of an oversized cardigan and tissues littered across his desk – we get the point. Despite the Man Flu he’s created a fantastic ‘Meet the team’ page over on Facebook so if you want to put some faces to the names check it out, you can also ‘like’ our page for the chance to win weekly prizes.

This week brought controversy over the music selection in the office, we’ve decided we’re sick of hearing the same ten songs on Radio One all day so after toying between Absolute and Capital it was Ipods at dawn and the first to draw established if it was going to be a day of Bowie or Britney (I stand by my choice!!!)

As we get closer to our second Monster Mingle, which this month is music themed and celebrates the end of the festival season, we wanted to find out which performance was the highlight of the UK festival scene for 2010. Have your say by taking our quick poll here http://bit.ly/bT2k18.

We were also lucky enough this week to be treated to some free cupcakes courtesy of Karis’ blagging skills and Lola’s cupcakes, we waited on tenterhooks for the delivery which we were told could arrive any time between 9-5. By 3pm we were getting impatient and hungry, but alas! 4.45 and not a minute earlier the buzzer went and to our delight 12 beautifully wrapped cupcakes were waiting at the door. They looked and tasted amazing but unfortunately didn’t last long and now all we’re left with are glitter coated desks and an extra 2lbs I’ll probably never shed.

Tonight a few of us are heading down to the Counter Culture launch night under London Bridge station. They promise to bring you 99 days of “The 
best 
in 
London 
arts; 
club
nights, 
live
 music, 
film, theatre 
and 
more” so we’ll let you know how it goes next week.

Finally, as the inevitable rainfall washes away our already fading memories of union jack shorts, loafers with no socks, topless builders, the overwhelming heat of the tube, and frizzy hair we’re off the pub to toast to the last of summer and reassure each other that maybe winter won’t be so bad after all …

The Inaugural CitySocialising HQ Blog Post

Have you always found yourself inquisitive to know just what goes on behind the scenes at CitySocialising? Curious about the endless hours of hard graft put in to make sure everyone has a great time and makes lots of new friends? Or do you just want a ten-minute distraction from whatever you’re doing? Well if any of these, or indeed all of them, are true – you’ve come to the right place!

The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of excitement at CSHQ. We’ve moved offices, leaving behind our dear friends at Kashflow, to be in our own place. We’ve had the launch of our very first Monster Mingle – which was absolutely massive and definitely good fun! And we’ve even been whisked away to 'sunny' Manchester to see one of the lovely CS crew getting married.

Our new office, and our first place of our own, is a cool converted warehouse floor complete with doors that open to thin air and its own pulley system. Must remember exactly which door opens to the toilet! I think it’s a home befitting of a cool young company like CitySocialising.

The Monster Mingle was a big success so a big thank you to everyone involved with it. Loads of guys turned out to mass mingle and meet a veritable shed load of other socialisers. I certainly met many people from all over the place, most of which seemed all the more friendly as the night went on and the drinks went down! Everyone seemed to love the little blue CS Monster pin badges as well, but don’t forget to bring them along to the next Monster Mingle where you can get a free drink if you show them.

Many of you will know the lovely Jonny Quirk who looks after all of our Northern cities on the CS radar.  If you have met him out at Social then I’m sure you’ll agree that he’s one of the most instantly likeable and friendly people you will ever meet. So it was with great delight, and not a little sentimentally, that the CitySocialising office packed its bags and took the long journey north to Manchester to witness Jonny marrying the love of his life, Hannah.

As you might expect from a man who spends his days putting on great events for people all over the North, Jonny and Hannah had arranged a beautiful ceremony and absolutely cracking party afterwards (from what I can manage to remember). In true CitySocialising style we had a great time making loads of new friends, but fear not, we’re not all socialised out – we’re just getting started!

The same can be said of this blog, so if you want to keep yourself entertained with the goings on at CSHQ keep checking back here.