Well, it’s the day after the night that was. What was that night? That was last night – only the night of the Security Excellence Awards 2009, that’s all!
The event was a spectacular success, hosted by none other than British comedy legend, Ronnie Corbett. Ronnie bleeding Corbett, that’s who. You can see him as part of our gallery of winners, right here.
Who were those winners? Why not click on this link to a full list of them, and find out?
And when you’re done with that, have a look at this slideshow of all the glamorous people who lit up the security industry’s night of nights. You won’t regret it.
Then re-live Ronnie’s glory days in this special Security Excellence Awards themed Song About Security. It’s a right old larf, as I believe the expression goes.
The awards also raised over £12,000 for the designated charity, The Bobby Moore Fund for bowel cancer research. Sir Bobby’s widow Stephanie was on hand last night, as was former West Ham star Tony Gale.
Other things: a video of a somewhat inebriated man caught on CCTV. It’s beautiful in its own way.
And a nice person has said very nice things about my blog, The Alarmist, where all these missives go to spend their retirements.
I need a coffee. Bye!
The Alarmist 
Was Ronnie Corbett there? I like him, it’s a shame I must have missed him. My fault, I probably blinked.
Seriously now, at £250 a plate we deserved the sort of performance that Marcus Brigstock gave last year. Marcus B had prepped up a routine about security, was entertaining and engaging, and looked like he’d come to do a gig. It looked like Ronnie C popped in on his way from one gig to another.
The charitable fund raising was a worthy thing to do, I’m a West Ham fan, so I think it’s a particularly special cause; but ……. Brian talked about it, Mrs Moore talked about it, Tony talked about it, and then we had the charity auction – enough already!
It was the Security Excellence Awards and there was more (no pun intended) about the fund raising than there was about our industry, and they talked for far longer than the “Host”. It was disproportionate.
As an event, this year, it missed the mark and failed to deliver good value for money.