A right pair of Mo Bros…

Movember seems to have scarred those who took part – but it was the worth the mental ill-health, sideways glances and brazen ridicule as we raised over £1,000 for Movember’s charities.

Below are our resident Mo Bros Dave, Max, Bob and Will at the end of the long and arduous journey to Mo-dom.

Kieran seen here to the right, despite being away on paternity leave for the latter half of the month also bravely soldiered on with his Movember efforts despite worries of how it would affect his youngest son’s first memories.

Indeed, one of the itpr Mo Bros has managed to escape the psychiatrist’s couch long enough to conjure up a blog on his harrowing experiences…

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Dave Beesley, Account Manager (second from the left)

No Mo, No problems!

Movember is over and with it brought lots of celebration, relief, cleanly-shaven faces and most importantly, a flurry of activity on the sponsorship front. We have achieved our target of beating the £1,000 mark. This is an amazing effort and a big thanks to all those who sponsored the itpr Mo Bro team and supported such a great cause.

Special thanks also needs to go out to our respective wives/girlfriends who have had to endure the itpr MoBros having Irritable Mos Syndrome and having to put up with the strange looks whenever we ventured out into public. Or perhaps that was something that just happened to me?

The competition for best Mo in the office was intense to say the least with our MoBro Team Captain, Max, taking an early lead sporting a very impressive Mo within the first week! But I was quietly confident at that point that my Mo would take shape soon enough… wouldn’t it?

It was safe to say that we all entered Movember with high spirits and each prepared to do our bit to raise sponsorship.

But the month of Movember wasn’t without incident. Scandals included the involvement of ‘Just for Mo’ hair colouring by one of the MoBros, and the growth of a surprisingly ginger Mo by one team member. However one of the biggest scandals in my eyes was my final result after a month of growth. It was quite simply pathetic!

After a month of growth, I had a Mo for which Gary Neville would be justified to mock me. But surely that was the point, to do something that would create a reaction and encourage people to donate funds – mainly out of sympathy for my poor attempt.

In the absence of Gary Neville, the rest of the office (and some of my so called ‘friends’) took up the reins and provided adequate mocking. Questions such as ‘Do you not have to grow a moustache to part in Movember?’ and ‘What is THAT?!’ are some of the friendlier comments I received.

But I think that the lowest part of Movember for me was when a former colleague thought that the face mash of me and our Client Services Director Kieran was actually my REAL FACE!

So it is with a mingled sense of relief and disappointment that Movember is over. I think I can safely say I will think long and hard about growing a Mo again, unless between now and Movember 2012 I can get my hands on some ‘Miracle-grow’ for facial hair

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