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 [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Happy Birthday. Let’s Go To Hospital
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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 [...]
A Sad Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New York, Sister on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 6th April, 2007 My sister leaves today to go to New York for two years. Her husband’s job is taking him there for a while, and as their beautiful son is only two at the moment, the timing is perfect: they’ll return just as he needs to go to school. Had a similar opportunity [...]
Chocolate Shovelling Maniacs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Easter, Easter Bunny, Egg Hunt on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 8th April, 2007 Cleansed from the Confessional, and after a Mass at which the children were freakishly well behaved, Wife and I set out about the business of the day: seeing how much chocolate it was possible to get through without being sick. Wife showed strong early promise, her size 8 frame being stuffed [...]
The Binliner full of Yoghurt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fat, Stephen Fry on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, 12th April 2007 The magnificent Stephen Fry once wrote that he decided to go on a diet when he felt that his body had begun to resemble “a bin liner filled with yoghurt”. I’m not there yet: but there’s certainly a few too many Mullers in the Waitrose bag – so on Tuesday (after [...]
