I am, it would be fair to say, a stickler for manners. I can’t stand it when people are (unintentionally) rude, or (my bête noire) when children have bad manners. I think this is why other parents (usually one’s whose offspring are dancing round some poor, unfortunate houseguest, as they wave a finger recently extracted [...]
Archive for August, 2008
“Need” and “Would Like”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Huge Breasted Yet Irritating Account Direcotor, manners on August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Wrong Side Of The Bed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Sliding Doors", Boris Johnson, Drunk, Wife, Wrong Side of the Bed on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love the saying “I got out of the wrong side of the bed”: it’s one of those phrases that has an almost cartoon-like quality, the suggestion that the sort of day one will have is arbitrary (but inevitable) in its direction, and all that it hinges on is which side of the bed one [...]
I, Ben Kingsley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Kingsley, Drunk, Good Friend in PR, Wife on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although, apparently that should be “Sir Ben Kingsley”, as the pompous twat insists on being addressed… But that’s beside the point, the point is that last night, I turned INTO Ben Kingsley; not the lovable, stick-carrying incarnation of Gandhi, but the maniacal, expletive-shouting lunatic who makes such a worrying impression in “Sexy Beast”. Good Friend [...]
The Past Is A Foreign Country…
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDMbyr4pxw I mean: “What?”
New York’s Never Been Better
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Acclaimed Photographer Friend, Family, New York, Sister, The London on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is Acclaimed Photographer Friend’s view of the weather in New York at the moment. Wife and I are off there next weekend, and so were keen to understand just how relevant the mutterings of “100% humidity” proved to be – and it sounds like we’re going to be in for the kind of weather [...]
Have I Told You About The Menstrual Blood?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Devil Wears Prada", Advertising, Egomania, Menstrual Blood, PA to Famously Unpleasant Chairman on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, purely by coincidence, I bumped into PA to Famously Unpleasant Chairman and we went for a drink. It was always viewed as evidence of her professionalism (and, let’s be honest masochism) that she had worked with this man for eight years in a number of different agencies: but it was also widely assumed [...]
American Diva Planning Friend Comes Up Trumps
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged America, American Diva Planning Friend, Golf Umbrellas on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is American Diva Friend’s “build” on the Golf Umbrellas’ issue – one that has preoccupied me much of late. I think she has done VERY WELL:- Golf umbrellas spring forth from New York City. Where no one actually plays golf. (Too much walking around). NYC (and all of America, for that matter) is the [...]
Landing Cafe Vagina in AMET
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Cafe Vagina on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Exciting news on Cafe Vagina: it looks like the franchise could go global, and that more and more regions are crying out for the unique perspective on vaginally-themed coffee and refreshments that Cafe Vagina offers to today’s jaded consumer. Any franchise is going to have difficulty in flexing its core offering to suit the pressing [...]
Murderous Thoughts – and a Proposal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Circe, Golf Umbrellas, Jordan, Murdering people who carry golf umbrellas - a proposal, Prometheus, Sisyphus on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s mid August: the height of Summer, and here I am in this great country which (uniquely) has a cycle called “The Season” – outdoor events from The Chelsea Flower Show to Wimbledon, Henley and Ascot whereat the great and the good gather (and from which Jordan is refused entry – not, it transpires for [...]
Catching Crabs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crabs, Family, Wife on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wife and I have been indulging in a little bit too much Marple, Wodehouse etc. That’s the only explanation for why the entire family went to Church this morning, dressed as though we had stepped from the pages of a novel wherein exhortations to “Stop being such an utter beast!”, and “I say, why don’t [...]
