Days are just flying by at the moment.
By Patrickmurrayecom · September 29, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
Days are just flying by at the moment.
I’ll be back home soon apparently.
Kept myself busy so far and I’m sure you’ll recognise some great folks here!
Had a brilliant dinner on Saturday with
Christopher J. Brook
Ben Meyer
Andrew Banks
Michael Godsiff
We laughed a lot and discussed the virtues of some UK celebrities and their level of fame. Deciding the two most famous people in UK folklore between us.
Of course they were incredibly niche and it was very funny and silly to explore 😂😅
Then met the team again on Sunday for baseball…. Baseball isn’t good, pass it on.
May have had a super early night and gone to bed at 6pm.
Woke up today and had one of my favourite days of the 2 weeks I’ve been here!
Met my mate Rob Hutchinson for a gym session followed by some breakfast. He’s way stronger than me, so politely worked out away from me in the strong corner… Class
Then jumped Wes Maynard as he was taking a photo of his super call speaker lanyard and accompanying badge - very cool! Then also got to see the super cool (and muscular) Ethan Kitching
Registered for the event with Callie Lonsdale and had a class walk and lunch… she did judge me when I got a 0% beer though 😂😅 a very fun chat as always! We’ve known eachother about 5 years and met twice, both time this year, both times in the US.
Then went to meet the wonderful leadership team Kwontified - Elaine Kwon, Jordan Taylor, Corey D. Brown 🦬 and Priyanka Shah - I knew none of these fantastic people this time last year and now consider them all great friends and - on my non drinking day - only Elaine could make me do a drink and that one drink be a shot of tequila 😂😅. Honoured to be able to work with great folks.
Went to the welcome reception for a bit and bumped into more fantastic people Neha Bhuchar, Martin Zerrudo, Nicholas Titmus, Nico Batista!
Then off the Xnurta’s happy hour for a couple of glorious virgin spicy margz and diet cokes and loads of mini burgers - I did also get to meet a mix of old and new faces of some super lovely people Melis Kip, Georgina Spence, Tanja Weber, Tim Nedden, Ali S., Leon Rymer, Wilson Kaznoski, Kaanchi Gupta and Frazer Locke - great to see and meet you all!
A huge congrats to my faves and friends at Xnurta for yet ANOTHER award win and it was awesome to be able to see them celebrate in style!
Nice one Kashif, Joon, Luis Pedro Martinez - MBA, Ben, Priya, Marcus, David Liggins II et al 😍😘
So a busy day of seeing amazing people - and one shot of tequila to see me through it all.
Up early for run club tomorrow apparently - yeh yeh, we’ll see.
Want to be in a selfie with me tomorrow?!
You don’t?! Oh ok then 😭
Love Pat 😘😘😘