The first CUER Annual Dinner was held in Clare College Great Hall. 85 guests, including sponsors, supporters and students, attended the dinner. The food was fabulous, and many thanks to Quinby who undertook a very strategic seating plan such that the most inebriated merry team members were seated well away from sponsors/potential sponsors…except for Cambridge Precision and Rob Martin, who joined in with the drinking merriment wholeheartedly.

Highlight of the evening was definitely Charlie’s speech. Most of us were rather wasted otherwise engaged by this point in the evening, and so cannot remember the actual content, but its deliverance in a wonderful Irish accent was good enough. Mike reckons it was probably along the lines of  “Well, hello dere Ted…”

Afterwards the party continued at various locales around Cambridge. Team members demonstrated some excellent initiative and climbing ability (or, in the case of Lucy and Kento, sliding-in-between-bars ability) when faced with numerous locked gates, and the enjoyment lasted well into the night. The promise of some black-tie clubbing at Fez was unhappily quashed when we arrived too late, and instead went back to Quinby’s room where Barnwell demonstrated some very questionable salsa.