Children in Need^{^} is a huge annual fundraising event and most workplaces take part in this in one way or another. This year, my workplace did a “sweets and biscuits competition” and a “wear your pyjamas in work day”.

As Children in Need was Friday, I spent most of my Thursday evening with Myke, in the kitchen. Making banana and chocolate chip cookies. Yum!

I was very impressed with myself over these cookies; they actually came out looking like the thing they were supposed to be (unlike my omelette attempts – I would have more to show but it seems that I don’t really upload photographs of my culinary disasters very often! But there have also been wet-look cakes, burnt pasta bake and many others!). Also, they were really NOM.

Anyway, so they were my entry into the sweets and biscuit competition and to get them into work to enter into the competition, I had to carry them on the bus. Where I wore this:

Yes, I – Lirae – wore my pyjamas TO work. Not just IN work – TO WORK. In the morning, I had my shower, put clean pyjamas on, put my makeup on and left my house to ride the bus.

As I was waiting for the bus to arrive, I had people practically breaking their necks to look at me, I had people walk past laughing at me – even children – and when the bus arrived, the driver just looked at me and said Well, that’s different!
I could have wet myself laughing at one lady – it was just the expression on her face. The bus was passing a corner and this lady had stopped to cross. She noticed me and her eyes just opened wide in horror and her jaw even dropped a little.

When I had managed to get IN to work, the receptionist just looked at me on the doorstep and asked me if I had actually come to work dressed in my pyjamas. Proudly, I said Yep! and I had a little round of applause.

It was a great day and everyone laughed at me and told me how brave I was for getting on the bus with my pyjamas on and holding my teddy bear^{^}. And my cookies got second place. And I think we raised around £100 in work, so woo!