I’m going to New York the week after next where I’m going to combine some lecturing on Advertising Planning (something which is filling me with so much dread it is only really now that I am confronting the fact that I am doing it – SHITTING HELL!) with an interview at another agency. It’s a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘New York’
Teaching and Interviewing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, New York, Old Friend at Work on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
John Gabriel Borkman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Happy Days", "Hedda Gabler", Alan Rickman, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw, Ibsen, John Gabriel Borkman, Lindsay Duncan, Medea, New York, Nicholas Hytner, Paul Schofield, Tom Pye, Vanessa Redgrave, Virtual Friend and Theatre Twin on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My first emotion was exhilaration. Virtual Friend and Theatre Twin alerted me to the fact that Fiona Shaw was going to be appearing alongside Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman in Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Borkman”. She is something of a theatre insider and so this knowledge was shared way before it became public knowledge – so [...]
The Disco Break
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Childcare, Disco Break, Family, Jude Law, New York, Talented Photographer, Wife on October 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are some things that I would do almost anything to avoid. Chief amongst these would be seeing “Cyrano de Bergerac” performed by amateurs under the age of 15, trying to learn how to fill in SAP time sheets, or doing my “I think you’ve really found the beginning of something brilliant here” face for [...]
Farewells – One Fond, One Not So Fond
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Account Manager About Whom I Have Changed My Mind, Best Friend, Christmas, Family, New York, Parents, Sister, Travesty of All Things Gay, Wife on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am loathe to use the term “Annus Horribilis” – primarily because I always try to avoid using terms popularised by in-bred, German midget bigots, but also because it has become such a cliche – but, I will be so glad to see the end of this year. With the exception of Sister’s and Best [...]
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 [...]
A Trip To New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New York, Virgin Atlantic on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wife and I have been given carte blanche by my parents to inflict the children on them for a week, so that Wife can find something she has not yet bought, and I can go and see my sister. This enables me to use the free ticket that Virgin Atlantic compensated me with when they [...]
“Is Kate Moss Pregnant?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kate Moss, Moving, New York, Pregnant on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first time that Wife became pregnant, we invited our parents, Sister and Brother in Law around to the house for “drinks” (I daresay some of them had guessed why they had been invited). Apparently, Brother in Law had not guessed. Wife (in an atypically oblique way) made her announcement by asking our guests: “What [...]
A Sad Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New York, Sister on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, 6th April, 2007 My sister leaves today to go to New York for two years. Her husband’s job is taking him there for a while, and as their beautiful son is only two at the moment, the timing is perfect: they’ll return just as he needs to go to school. Had a similar opportunity [...]
Wife. A Tale of Ordinary Madness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Maniac, New York, Shopping, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 26th May 2007 Yes. Yes. The dollar IS weak right now. How does that translate itself into a shopping trip that made me gasp, though? How did phrases such as “Cartier bracelet”, “Cartier rings” (note the plural, please m’lud), Dolce E Gabbana snakeskin heels and “Most of Ralph Lauren” become part (hell, most of) [...]
Doe, A Deer, A Transexual Deer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Acclaimed Photographer, Candis Cayne, New York, The Sound of Music, Wife on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 26th May 2007 Monday night in NYC was fairly special. Not just because we spent it with our great friends Acclaimed Photographer and Syndicated Gossip Columnist (who are just the BEST company imaginable), but because instead of swapping awkward inconsequences with colleagues from around the world over dinner, we went to a gay bar [...]
