To: Ann Simmons, Executive Director, Stoney Grove Trust
From: Philip Porkridge, Chief Accountant, Stoney Grove Trust

Dear Ann,

Sorry for the rather formal note, but I have been wanting to ask you about this and Simon keeps walking in on us so I thought an email might be more discreet.

As you know, as best man, it is my duty to arrange the stag night. Or rather, as it has become, a stag event. Simon seems rather keen on making it something special and I must admit feeling a little lost for ideas until I picked up on something he had suggested as an idea for the honeymoon (discarded for that purpose, I think).

The Russian navy, being rather short of funds, has come up with several imaginative ways of making money. One is an ‘adventure holiday,’ a week on a Russian ice breaker deep in the arctic. They fly you in by helicopter and you spend a week on board with the crew. Obviously it’s not your traditional night in the pub but I do believe it would be memorable and I was thinking, as best man, I would join him.

What do you think? Is it too much? It would mean Simon being away for about ten days but we could do it a couple of weeks before the wedding so that he’d be back in time. Please let me know your feelings on this. The company that organises it also does a rather jolly six days in Istanbul so maybe that would be easier.

Yours truly,

Philip (Porkridge)

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