There were three of us, scrabbling around a room of the haunted house, looking for pieces of jigsaw when the ghost first appeared.
Team building was how our manager had sold it to us… ‘Get used to working as a team in the morning and then, after lunch, you can implement your new-found knowledge.’
I could think of nothing worse than team building, personally. But then I found out that my colleague Laurence was going, so I jumped at the chance. Perhaps, on this business awayday, he’d actually notice I existed.
I admit I’d had a hand in altering the times on some of the emails I’d been instructed to send round the company. Now three of us would be arriving an hour earlier than expected – me, Laurence and Colin from Accounts.
I’d arrived even earlier, and worried there might not be anyone here. But fortunately, when I rang the bell at the ancient ivy-covered Well House, Valerie appeared. She was obviously part of the scenario, dressed in an old-fashioned maid’s uniform with
