Cor, It's a scorcher!

Now I love the sun as much as the next man (i'm a woman) but will admit to being extreamly stereotypically 'British' about it and complaining that it is freezing and the minute its warm complaining that it's too hot!

So in an attempt to try and soothe the pain that is working indoors when it is gloriously sunny outside (I've decided to equate it to being like a dog locked in a car on a sunny day staring longingly out of the windows), we've bought ice lollies for our floor and had picnic's.

If you've been here you will know about our garden where we like to sit and have a cheeky BBQ but most are unaware of our other outside area's. So armed with purchases from yonder Tesco's and even further yonder Sainsburys a merry band of men and women climbed the stone steps to join the kensington Olympia skyline and feast on a large pink picnic blanket (actually yoga mats but i'm using my creative licence here).

Happy birthday to.......US!

Today we are 12, My how time doth fly.

I'm sure for captain Dave Buonaguidi it seems like only yesterday that he started to build our Karma ship and now we sail far and wide on the K group sea's (I don't often use maritime references but someone is playing soft melodic music on my floor so I have been lulled into a lovely nautical haze...)

In true Karma fashion the only way to mark such a landmark is a mountainous amount of delicious food.

45 pizza's and 15 portions of garlic bread have been chewed, swallowed and are slowly being digested by the inhabitants of 31 Vernon street. We will all be going to the local public house later for a well earned toast to our 12 years of existence, Hip Hip.......

Under construction

Some of us went down to view the new offices (currently under construction). It really is a building site right now, hence the hi-vis vests. Kat of course was put in a special 'fire warden' fluro-orange number. We'll report back with photos when it's looking more like a workspace.

Bigger than Our Heads

Reading the blog today I have noticed a common theme.

Our Gemma (I'm neither northern nor Celia Black but the turn of phrase seems strangely fitting) is very lovely and proportionally accurate but we have noticed recently that many things are bigger than her head. You may have seen on recent posts, cheese can be bigger than her head (there are two separate cheeses - no photoshopping here) but we have now noticed chocolate items also fit into this category.

Now I'm not saying these events are worthy of 2012 Olympic gold medal wins or Guinness world record attempts but they are definitely worth documenting, so I see this as my misson.

I will endeavor to blog as many "bigger than our heads" occurrences I come across, preferably with a Gemma head attached to them but if not I suppose my old noggin will have to do.... watch this space!

More massive cheese

Just when we thought we couldn't get more obsessed with food at Karma Towers ... along comes the cheddar the size of Gemma's head. Soon to feature in an upcoming TV spot. Needless to say it lasted for around an hour on barmarama before it was gorged.

Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2012

We've just about recovered from the celebrations, having been awarded 11th place in the Sunday Times Best Companies (small companies with under 250 staff). We even received the special award for Wellbeing, the judges were clearly impressed by our passion for ping pong!

Klifford Hits SXSW

Lovely Jolene has headed out to SXSW this week with Klifford, the agency buddha. Catch their exploits on twitter at @klifford1

They spent last night at a Lego hackathon round at a Google developer's house. As you do.

Have fun Klifford!

Monday Morning Glory

Mondays are often so, well BLAH really.
But not here. Not here at RamaCharma Towers.
To get everyone in the right mood for a cracking week, the powers that be (mainly Sue in Kreadive)has decided that we'll kick off each week with a nice little Monday 9.30am agency sing song.
Now I do hope to be able to get video evidence of one of these, but for the mean time you'll need to satisfy your interest with a Boney M video and use your imagination to conjure up the image or us lot banging out RA RA RASPUTIN at the top of our voices with not a single blushed face. Well, maybe a couple

The way to a Karmaraman's heart......

Karmarama are a pretty spritely bunch. For those of you who have met us, often there is some kind of treat hanging around the office be it homemade, from the local Tesco's or brought back from holiday (if you've not met us this happens pretty much all the time). But today was a day very close to my heart.

Today was not only Meat Friday but it will also now be named "The day we were given cheese bigger than our heads" (this will not be entered into the Guiness book of records, nor will it feature on wikipedia - but believe me no Karmaraman will ever forget it).

Now I know what you're thinking - surely this is creative license being used to elaborate on a rather large piece of cheese, well we don't lie about cheese here (that would be a cruel thing to do) so Gemma's head is proof of our truthfulness!

I would like to point out now that no large mounds of cheese or heads were damaged in the creation of this photo, but bellies are definitely full and warm with the dairy goodness that topped off another top notch meat friday. Three cheers all round!

Lost: eyebrows

A certain someone is going to kill me for putting this on the blog, but it's too good not to share. After an equipment malfuntion he accidentally shaved his eyebrows off. Asking for kind treatment from the karma krew they responded ....

Vince

Spotted outside Karma towers today. Vince!!

Happy Christmas everyone!

We're celebrating the festive season around Barmarama today, with chestnuts roasting on the BBQ. A big thanks to Wayne and his little boy Oliver for making these beautiful Christmas biscuits. We particularly like the cornflake cake 'wreaths' with green food colouring and red berries made of marzipan. Genius. Have a good Christmas everyone! See you in 2012 x

Christmas Party 2011

The fancy dress theme this year was 'Dave's Ark'.

44 pairs of animals, plus Dave as Noah.

I'll say no more.

Tignes time

Perfect weather, tonnes of snow and sunshine in The Alps. A perfect weekend for the Karmarama ski trip. Happy days! Had to feel a bit sorry for the beginner group ending up on a red run though - took them 1.5hrs to get back down.

Ping Pong 24 kicks off!

And so it begins.

Following a tremendous effort last year, Dave is yet again raising money for the lovely Age UK. Last year it was 2000 brussels sprouts for £2000. This year it will be 24 hours of ping pong, even more money and (hopefully) a colon which is still in tact.

One hour in and we are almost past the £700 mark. Please donate, sponsor, watch online and tell your friends.

http://pingpong24.com/

Remember: Work hard, be nice to people, play ping pong.

Christmas Jumpers - Day 1

It's officially that time of year. Time to bring out the knitwear folks.

Karma Ping Pong Open 2011

Last night the kream of Karmarama pongers gathered to play for the coveted Bling Pong Trophy. With some of the slickest ping pong moves we've ever seen, Shirwen took home the trophy for the second year running, in a hard-fought final against Nuria - our first ever female finalist and the queen of the killer backhand. Thanks to Toby for providing the sounds and to Raimanda for laying on sausage rolls and cold beer. Pongtastic.

Mariachi Madness

So it was the lovely Joe De Souza's 50th Birthday last week. I know, he doesn't look it does he? Well to celebrate this rare event, a suitably fitting Mariachi band came and performed at Barmarama. Looks like they're having more fun that he is ...

Artarama!

The latest do-gooding venture at Karmarama was our Artarama night in which our simple aim was to look at some lovely art, bid on some lovely art, and raise a lot of money for some lovely charities.

In the end we had over 45 pieces, a cracking turnout and raised just under 12k for Age Uk and The White Ribbon Alliance. Not bad eh?! Special thanks to Mr Jamie Wylie and Ms Amy Leach who tirelessly sourced all the wonderful pieces, which included an original Rankin! Auctioneered by Dave, the night included lots of booze, lots of fun and Stuart Finlayson being auctioned off in a crochet gimp suit.

Until next year folks.

The hottest October since Octobers began

It has been a scorcher of a week, which can usually only mean one thing. Short shorts. And who better to model the classic short short than our very own Jamie Wylie?

Enjoy.