With the clank of ghostly chains and the screams of forgotten souls still fresh in our ears from Halloween, I have just been looking back at some scary photos given to me by two of our staff.
Danielle and Arina, who work in our Croydon office, have been taking part in the annual World Zombie Day, for the last 5 years. I don’t think they need much encouragement to dress up and they certainly have made a lot of effort – I barely recognised them.
The real joy of World Zombie Day is that, along with the dressing up, making friends and getting yourself covered in fake blood, the event is also in aid of a very worthwhile charity – St Mungo’s Broadway.
St. Mungo’s Broadway is a charity dedicated to helping people who have found themselves homeless. It aims to support, challenge and inspire people and enable them to live full lives. It is ironic that an event which inspires so many people to walk the streets of London, helps an organisation which helps to get people off the streets – but perhaps now I think about it, it isn’t so very ironic.
In an even greater twist of fate, St. Mungo’s Broadway also happens to be a long-standing client of Cleankill’s – although perhaps when we are looking at the undead, we should not be talking about fate.
Looking at the photographs, it certainly seemed like a gruesome spectacle with Zombies of every variety stumbling along the streets of London – from Waterloo Station, to Leicester Square and then by Piccadilly Line to Holloway Road. Those commuters on the underground must have found it terrifying to be surrounded by so many Zombies.
I just want to take this opportunity to say well done to Danielle and Arina - not only were your costumes superb, it is also great to see you taking part in such a great, if different, event.
Having looked at the pictures, however, I can say - this is one infestation I am glad Cleankill don’t have to deal with and the next day everyone seemed to have returned to normal and was back at work in the office - I would say fresh-faced, but I’m not sure it was only blood they were drinking.