You may notice I have posted this a week before I usually do - IYSWIM
This will allow some of you extra time to come up with an excuse - since the meeting is in the run up to Xmas weekend, all excuses containing any of the following words or phrases will be automatically disqualified and analysed at the meeting in a jocular manner
(unless the excuse happens to contain all these words)
Xmas, Office, Party, Ice, Snow, Cold, Shopping, Wife/Husband, Knees, Balding Tourances, Work, Hair, Wednesday, Ill, Hangover, Buying a Suit, Sick, Late Shift, Underpants, Lost Keys