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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wife’
Living Your Values
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, IKEA, John Lewis, Tesco, Wife on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Making an Exhibition of Oneself
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bryan Robson, Julian Mitchell, Photography, Wife on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first time I remember uttering that phrase was (appropriately enough) on stage. I was in a production of Julian Mitchell’s play “Another Country”, a fictionalised account of the schooldays of the spy, Guy Burgess. In a scene that is pivotal to the play (and mysteriously left out of the execrable film), the schoolboys are [...]
“I am Hairy and I am Scary…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daughter, Family, Hairy and Scary, Wife on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Being the middle-class parents that we are, Wife and I are very enthusiastic about encouraging certain things (watching National Geographic TV, rather than a drip-feed of Cartoon Network; saying “Please” and “Thank You”, rather than, say, “Fucking Hell”, which was Eldest Son’s latest, entirely innocent offering: as evidenced by his unsettling request: “Could I fucking [...]
Offski Pops
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Duet for One", Family, Henry Goodman, Juliet Stevenson, Madame de Sade, Me As A Protestant, Mishima, Shakespeare, The Bridge Project, Wife on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Holiday! Is there a better feeling? Wife and I and the children leave for France tomorrow, to spend half-term recovering from a non-stop schedule of shoots (in her case) and too many conversations of the “Is it “Intelligence” or “Wisdom”?” variety in my case. I am also looking to recover from the draining effects [...]
