Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend has bought me some ART. In fact, she’s bought me a sculpture. With the sole exception of my three-foot tall bust of William Shakespeare (said by some uncharitable souls to bear a striking resemblance to the comedian, Bill Bailey), I don’t have any other statue joy, so it’s doubly welcome. It’s the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Madrid’
Marmalade Frenzy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Daughter, Family, God Daughter, John Cusack, Madrid, Making Marmalade, Marmalade, Penelope Cruz, Richmond, Seville Oranges, Stoke Newington, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms, Tom Hardy, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On the weekends when I don’t have my children, and if I’m not bound for Madrid (where Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend) is temporarily based, I prefer to be busy (busy as in “bordering on the “Up phase of a manic-depressive” “), and so I have been looking at ways of doing something that I can devote [...]
A Different Kind of Jet Setting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Long Distance Relationship, Madrid, Peter Greenaway, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve never had a long-distance relationship. At University, one early romance was nearly cut short by the (seemingly) insuperable barrier of a fifteen minute walk between my college and that of the woman who was the object of my hot and sleepless nineteen year-old passion. I tended to get round the problem by moving her [...]
Waking Up Surrounded by Pringles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planning, Drunk, Evenings Out in Madrid, Fiona Shaw, Madrid, Old Friend at Work, Planners, Pringles, The Gathering, The Smallest Media Planner in the World on January 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Madrid with work – the first trip since the whole, sad divorce thing. I had been worried that it was going to be awful – and in some ways, it was (the reality of being away from everyone, and the fact that that will be a reality [...]
Madrid. Again.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Frenchman Who Wants To Be Spanish, Madrid, Planning on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday sees a big presentation to a big Client. However, in about one hour, I am off to Madrid (where we are holding the meeting, on the grounds that the agency there is a real-life, honest to God palace, and tends to silence people) to start writing the fucking thing. Frenchman Who Wants To Be [...]
“Dirt Cheap Zara and Doughnuts.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Madrid, So Gallic It's A Joke on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 14th July 2007 I’m going to Madrid – and I’m very excited. Originally, I was going at the end of the week, but (given that these things always change and the fact that Impossibly Gallic Account Guy seems to think I am blessed with the gift of telepathy) this plan has changed more than [...]
My Imminent Death in Madrid
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Death Wish, Egypt, Madrid on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 14th July 2007 Other than the inevitability of my being kidnapped and stabbed by the driver from the airport to the hotel a la “Bone Collector”, I have decided that I am going to be murdered (a second time) in Madrid. It is going to happen in a park, around 8.30pm, after I am [...]
Madrid
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Madrid on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, 19th July 2007 1. A beautiful city: a joy to walk through, largely because of the wide, tree-lined avenues that run between the cars. 2. The women: bit of a let-down. 3. Red trousers have also made it over here, but they are worn in the English way, by men over 50 with equally [...]
