Cheat

It’s a pot luck / cook-off today in the office: the men were invited to the challenge of preparing something delicious to eat and bring it in for the ladies. I mention the fact to one of them that I have not had any time to do anything as I had been away all weekend in Bangkok, and was out with the new site Director last night, so I am going to duck out. He gives me a look that makes me feel I have let everyone down and the team were really looking forward to my offering, as I am the guest of honour...

Bollocks! I think quickly and send an email to some of the girls in the office to see if they can help me out, e.g. by taking me to a restaurant to get some take-away. 

Not one of them answers, so it looked like I am not going to get away with this! Anyway, one of my allies comes to my rescue and agrees to accompany me to Restaurant City Star, where I asked them to fill the bowls that I’d bought from my kitchen with fried rice and marmite chicken. 

I bring the bowls of lovely hot freshly prepared 'home-cooked' food back to the office, pretending I’d cooked it. Of course, no one believes me, especially when it came to revealing the ingredients! But it was delicious. 

And at least I made an attempt to hide my cheating: someone bought in a load of curry puffs in a box with the shop name on, and someone else bought in a bucket of KFC!