Through regular bulletins from the management here in the IT regarding construction work on our splendid new printing facility at CityWest, a glaring omission has been uncovered: there is no mini-golf course. Surely they must realise that this has become almost a basic installation in large office premises across Europe and the US?
My information comes from "The Architects' Journal", no less. Among other things, it claims that chief executives have much to learn from Tiger Woods. And it highlights how employee morale and motivation was raised at the World Office Golf Olympics (how did that slip by us?), by hitting golf balls into lifts. Indeed computer programmers wouldn't be seen without their favourite club to hand.
The proposition "Do we need a Play Ethic?" was thrashed out recently at some length at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, where an eager audience was composed of "super-sporty, twentysomething dot-commers, market-orientated culturati."
Work should be play, they were told, because play is culture. Which should delight culturally-challenged golfers everywhere.
Golfer to club secretary: "A bottle of whiskey dropped out of my bag somewhere on the back nine. Has anything been handed in?" Club secretary: "Only the chap who played after you, sir."
