A long time ago, in our pre-family days, when both Wife and I were working in advertising, she was due to get up early (4.30 a.m. early) for a shoot in Ibiza. The trouble was, the night before, she went out with her best friend: Sarcastic Six Footer. Sarcastic Six Footer is not only Wife’s [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Packing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Holiday, Ickworth, Packing, Wife on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An Update on Snow White
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eldest Son, Snow White, Tom Tom, Wife on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part of my job (a large part of my job, in fact) is identifying and boring people senseless about archetypes and cross-cultural stories that can be identified and pressed into the service of brands. So I have spent a lot of the year to date talking about myths of dragon-slaying, archetypes of The Hero and [...]
Are Dwarves Just Wrong?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 40, Best Friend, Birthday, Birthday Party, Dwarves, Wife on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Best Friend has decided that we need to start planning my fortieth birthday party NOW. She is giving herself roughly eighteen months to get it done, which I think is going to be ample as really, my idea of a good party is family and friends all in a warm space wherein we can hear [...]
When Planners Get Together – “I Don’t Know…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, American Diva Planning Friend, Design, Mitchell and Webb, Open Plan, Planners on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a great Mitchell and Webb sketch, wherein they play an author and an editor, with the latter giving endless recommendations to the former, and then withdrawing them with the coda of “…not that, obviously. YOU’RE the creative one.” After minutes of this, the author is left aware that he is being asked to do [...]
Enthusiasm for Elitism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Elitism, G.K.Chesterton, George Steiner, Hanif Kureishi, Ideas, Shakespeare, Work on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The G.K.Chesterton experiment continues – and I am enjoying it – but I became aware not that long after my first steps into Lake Chesterton, that I would want something else to complement its cool, lapping and soothing waters: that “something” has turned out to be George Steiner. Steiner is a long-term hero of mine, [...]
The Open Plan Experiment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Office Moves on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Times are `ard. Even in the well-heeled regions of Chelsea, where my office is, there is less of a spring in the step of the Tod-loafered bankers and Louboutin-shod lunchers: fear is in the air. In reaction to this, Agency has decided to let the lease on one of the floors we rent expire, with [...]
Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Love on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If there’s love, anything is possible. If there isn’t, nothing is possible.
