During the Summer of this year a friend of mine and I agreed to grow moustaches in order to profoundly irritate a very conservative fellow commuter that we both know well.  Time passed and we forgot about it.  However, when I heard about the Movember charity I remembered our idea and thought it would be fun to combine a little mickey-taking with some fund raising.  Originally something I was going to do alone, I mentioned it to some of the Corney & Barrow team and instantly, Team La Tache was born. 15 men of steel amongst the Corney & Barrow teams in London, Scotland, Newmarket and Hong Kong joined the team and, at the time of writing, have raised close to £15,000 that will go to The Institute of Cancer Research and The Prostate Cancer Charity.  A fantastic effort.  We even managed to bully Squadron Leader “Buster” Brett-Smith into growing a moustache for the month.  Tonight, at our Old Broad Street bar, a barber from The Refinery is coming along with razor and foam to remove our facial adornments that have been so carefully grown over the last month.  Special thanks to the rest of the team:  Flight Lieutenants “Spitfire” Seddon,  “Bomber” Bird, “Mungo” Mead, “Pete” Moss, “Happy” Hargrove, “Bob” McRoberts, “Libido” Sabido, “Cuppa” Lupton, “Paddy” Ireland, “Masher” Marus, “Leaky” Fountain of the RAF, Oberleutnant “Ingwer” Muller from the Luftwaffe and Lieutenant “Scratcher” Tickle from the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment.  And of course, the biggest thanks of all go to our very generous sponsors around the globe.  Now I must go and find the McChairman who has promised much and delivered little so far – he said to come and find him after lunch but I gather he is not coming back.  Long pockets, short arms! 

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