Eiljert Gabbles On

I haven’t written of Fearless Leader recently. I have been working intensively with Travesty of All Things Gay, and so she has been somewhat in the background (which is not her natural habitat).

I’m beginning to feel a bit sorry for her. Everything that needs sorting out (from Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director’s housing allowance to the hotel we’re having our next conference in in Shanghai) seems to end up on her plate. I suppose that this all goes with the territory (and she’s been at the agency for twenty eight years, twenty five of them working on The Client), but what makes it all so moving (to use a slightly overblown word) is that she is so uncomplaining about it all. Unsurprising to hear that her favourite character in literature is Elinor Dashwood…