Our head office is consolidating in London (having been split previously between London and New York). This means that people are coming over from New York to London. This means that I am moving office again. This will be the sixth move in under two years, back to the office that I first sat in when [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Move No. 6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Moving Office on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Davies – Fuckpig
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Davies on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Davies is a man whose continued success BAFFLES me. While his early work may have been good, surely one would have to be insane to count his dramatisations of “Sense and Sensibility”, “The Line of Beauty” and now “Brideshead Revisited” as anything but atrocious travesties by a man whose reputation grows as his powers [...]
Flikr Saves The Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flikr, Photography, Wife on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wife has been having a fairly torrid time with her photography of late. There have been quite a few highs: her Private View was absolutely brilliant, for a start. These are not just the words of a proud husband (although there is a fair bit of that), but an objective reaction to her work. In [...]
One Name, Two Women, Two Approaches
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birthday Presents, Cake, Daughter, Scarves, Tea Set on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was Round Two of The Twins’ birthday celebrations: a run that looks set to compare favourably with “The Mousetrap” in terms of enduring popularity (at least as far as Youngest Son and Daughter are concerned). There was cake – in fact, there were two cakes, as Wife had convinced herself that none of the [...]
Saying “Yes”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Planners, Planning, Yes on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two new Planners have joined my team – and the difference that their arrival has made has been staggering. It isn’t so much the workload that I notice (I have got used to, and then got good at, getting through an awful lot in very little time), it is the difference that it makes to [...]
The Return of Travesty Of All Things Gay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bette Midler, Travesty of All Things Gay on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Travesty of All Things Gay returns to the agency on Monday. I am fully expecting a full solar eclipse and the bodies of the dead to rise from the ground and walk again, at the very least. For three blissful weeks, he has been on holiday (or “vacation” as he cringe-makingly calls it), a Gayfest [...]
Serendipity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Good Friend in PR, Serendipity, Stephen Fry, Wise Monkey Planner on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Odd. I wrote Best Friend an e-mail, and as I pressed “Send”, my mobile rang: it was her. I was thinking to myself “I wonder how Good Friend in PR is getting on?”, and as the thought pinged into my mind, so an e-mail from him pinged into my Inbox. I ran into Wise Monkey [...]
Fifth Time Lucky
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fiona Shaw, Office Moves on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m moving office. Nothing odd there, you might think: these things happen, it’s inevitable that you’ll move offices a couple of times in a job, especially when your Head Office is moving from New York to London, and things need to be re-designed. I accept that: what is a little suprising is the fact that [...]
Fun and Vomiting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Good Friend in PR, Sanly's Law, Walking Vagina on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good Friend in PR has been over here for a couple of days, and in flagrant opposition to Sanly’s Law, we managed to meet up on Friday for a late lunch, which gave way to drinks and thence to tea. Tea, because in between bidding adieu after lunch (so that I could hurry home and [...]
Arguing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Argument, Counselling, Hugh Grant on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wife and I have had a humdinger of an argument. I’m glad we did, because we’ve both been pretty unhappy recently, and so it was good to get it out and acknowledged that there was a problem. Not an insurmountable one, but one actually brought on by (the relationship counsellor’s favourite) “lack of communication”. That [...]
