Enlivened only by a bit of sporadic sparring with Good Friend in PR, I have spent the last six hours manually transferring my old blog (“Gabbler”) from its iWeb home to the new, shinier, but shittier named surroundings of WordPress, where I shall publish as Eiljert – and a shiny apple to the thousands of [...]
Archive for May 5th, 2008
Tired Is Not The Word
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How Do You Follow An Owl?
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Sunday, 24th March 2007 It’s my own fault for having been so brilliantly imaginative in the first place. For our Wedding Anniversary (7 years), I bought Wife a Victorian sculpture of an owl for the garden of our new house. Nothing as magnificent as the huge thing in the picture above: it’s perhaps two feet [...]
A Bone Collector Moment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Bone Collector", "The History Boys", Alan Bennett, Taxis on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that I am convinced that every cab driver, in any foreign country, is intent not on delivering me to my hotel; but is, instead, determined to drive me to a patch of wasteland, fillet me and turn me into the basis of an elaborate shrubbery? There’s a passage in Alan Bennett’s brilliant [...]
Happy Birthday. Let’s Go To Hospital
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No sooner had the last shred of wrapping paper been torn from the last DVD (“Pan’s Labyrinth” – my wife is very keen on Spanish Cinema…) than our youngest son was found to have a temperature of 39 and a family excursion to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was being planned with all the energy that [...]
Italian Men and Red Trousers
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Friday, 30th March 2007 It would be untrue to say that I was unconcerned by it – what I don’t know is whether or not I am over-reacting. After all, how many examples of any one abnormality constitutes an epidemic? But FIVE Italians in brick-red cotton chinos in the course of one day in Milan [...]
Let’s have a Tired Off!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Passive Aggressive, Tired on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 30th March 2007 What a week… The children have been ill, which has meant Wife has had no sleep, and then I got ill, so I had no sleep, so I got grumpy and exhausted, so here we are on Friday – ready to collapse. The real down-side of this kind of thing (the [...]
Television – The Majesty Thereof
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birthday Party, Television on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 1st April 2007 Wife went to a birthday party today. At our time of life (as Old Friend At Work remarked), that means “a children’s birthday party”, complete with attendant falling-over, jelly and dressing-up, rather than the more obvious adult allure of Champagne and music from ten years ago in a recently renovated kitchen [...]
How DARE She?
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Monday, 2nd April 2007 Oh the thrill of irrational hatred! Old Friend At Work was reeling off reasons for her bottomless hatred for a colleague (someone whom she is forced to work with fairly closely), and having run through a number of true, inarguable and well-founded reasons why this person must die, followed up with [...]
Quick, Where’s the Pretensiometer?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chekhov, Hamlet, National Theatre, Theatre Critic on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, 2nd April 2007 I’m concerned. Not over-concerned, but worried that I may have been reading too many books on Archetypes and Classical Mythology, and not enough The Sun, because, as I read about a forthcoming production of a Chekhov play (can’t honestly remember which one…) in the ‘paper, which included the airy “In Russian”, [...]
Solitary Planner
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, American Diva Planner, Planner, Planning on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 6th April 2007 The long week ends. My Favourite Client asked me to focus on one brand in particular, recently and I presented a proposed strategy on Wednesday which went better than I ever expected – as in the work that we do off the back of it now will be immeasurably better. Clips [...]
