Have you been to the party? The Palace Tea Party, Been to the party, The Palace Tea Party? With apologies to the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, no we haven’t, we were NFI’d again…
In fact, my esteemed editor was so indignant that he wasn’t among the FOUR THOUSAND advertising, arts and media guests at this week’s Creative Industries Buckingham Palace Garden Party hosted by King Charles, he even asked “Don’t they know who we are?”
To which the whole office had to point out: “Yep, they know exactly who we are, that’s why we weren’t invited!”
Tracy Emin? Lenny Henry? Ridley Scott? Alex West? Vernon Kay? Tess Daly? Louis Theroux? Maya Jama? A load of adland people? Bah.
Who needs to glad-hand it with the King, the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Gloucester when you can have your own Decision Marketing Team Summer Garden Party round at Great Dixter (aka McKelvey’s stunning garden).
Now my boss may be many things but he certainly knows his Sneezeworts (Achillea ptarmica) from his Shaggy Soldiers (Galinsoga quadriradiata), never mind his Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Polygonum orientale) from his Bleeding Hearts (Lamprocapnos spectabilis), while it is claimed his Sausage Tree (Kigelia Africana) is one of the finest specimens on the South Coast (that’s what he reckons anyway).
Then again, he has to do something with his time while we toil away day and night to keep you all at the forefront of the glorious world of data-driven marketing.
Oh how we laughed and cried and laughed some more as the Pimms flowed (all that fruit is great for Slimming World, you know) before we raided the wine cellar for the red, the white, the pink and the bubbly. Finally, we ended up scraping the barrel, quite literally, as the remaining keg of Foxy Over A Barrel was drained to the last drop.
This is where things start to go slightly hazy, although apparently the cucumber sandwiches didn’t make it out of the kitchen as Roxy had stuffed the lot; I’m told she’s a sucker for a large Cucurbitaceae.
Still, we all survived to tell the tale. Same time next week, anyone?
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