1. It was recently end of term, and so the children’s classwork was all returned to us in their book bags. One of the year’s projects had been “When I grow up…” and Youngest Son had played fairly true to type with “I want to be a vet and look after sharks”. His twin sister [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Some Mixed News
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ambition, Chiswick, Daughter, Ironing, Love, Marriage, School, Youngest Son on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living Your Values
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, IKEA, John Lewis, Tesco, Wife on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fear not: I am not in Catholic evangelist mode, and preparing to offer a treatise on camels, eyes of needles, birds of the field and so on – no: this is a diversion on the subject of retail brands, as related by Wife. She has used three very different stores recently: IKEA, Tesco and John [...]
Not India. Just Not India.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, China, Family, India, Planning, Travesty of All Things Gay, Wife on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was talking to Matey Planner, about how things were going at work. Having spent the first half hour of what was meant to be a friendly and relaxed discussion over a coffee sounding off over the terrible experiences with Travesty of All Things Gay and various other wounds, we turned to things that I [...]
I Make Peace With The Bamboo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bamboo, Garden Joy, Garden Rage on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You wouldn’t fucking BELIEVE it, would you? After the lengths that I went to to cleanse our garden of the horrors of Bamboo (including digging a trench so deep and wide that Wife actually accused me of having joined a Somme re-enactment society), the shitting stuff has returned! Much like that other plant that we seem [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Bridge to Terabithia", "Roman Holiday", Daughter, Wife on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was a point, relatively early on in my courtship of Wife that we were watching “Roman Holiday”, the story of how a Princess visiting Rome (Audrey Hepburn at her most transcendent) is able to go incognito and enjoy life as it is lived by the passionate, animated and cliched folks of Rome’s lower orders, [...]
Mummy Pig
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Swine Flu, Wife on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wife has got Swine Flu. Hot on the heels of Eldest Son’s recovery, she has hit the buffers and gone down hill very quickly, spending the weekend in bed and unable to eat anything (or at least, to keep anything down) for the last four days. Like Eldest Son, she is now on Tamiflu, and [...]
I Think I Preferred Gandalf
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, Exhausted Creative Director, Gandalf, Jordan, Wife on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fuck me, but I have seen some shit ideas in my time. In my line of work, it’s inevitable - but some that stand out were an idea for a brand of Bitter which consisted of a procession through the streets of Derby, led by a chimp with the followers of the town marching behind [...]
Playing a Blinder
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What do you do if you want to go to the sold out Martin Parr talk at the South Bank Centre? If you are Wife, you discover that there ARE Disabled tickets available, and start scouring the charity shops of West London for wheelchairs, leg braces, white sticks and patient Labradors. After some consideration (and [...]
This Little Piggy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Family, Swine Flu, Tamiflu, Wife on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eldest Son has got Swine Flu. He appeared crying, boiling hot and complaining of a terrible headache and awful cough in the middle of the night on Monday. Wife `phoned the Doctor and was told that there was no point testing him as the results would take two weeks to come through, by which point [...]
A Dramatic Experience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chiswick, Drinking Nemesis, Photography, Wife on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, as expected, Wife’s Private View was phenomenal – her work stood head and shoulders above that of the others who were exhibiting in the same gallery (although it is fair to say that “Fat Film” – a series of photographs wherein the iconic stars of modern masterpieces, in their most famous poses are replaced [...]
