I'm not sure anyone can really have a favourite song, not really. Maybe a top 10, although I struggle to even narrow down my top 10 albums. This however is my favourite at the moment.    The video is pretty close to the released audio version. There are many reasons I like this track. Some…

So yesterday I swam in a lake. After pining for swimming in water and finding a pool not, I don't know, visceral enough, I decided to engage in the open water swimming sub-culture.  And it really is some sort of secret society, or at least the Leeds version is. A Facebook group you need to…

I became  became a planner after failing in client services. I was always late and got the invoices wrong, just about surviving thanks to Writing briefs, annoying creative people with common sense, that type of thing. Thankfully someone told me I was a really bad suit but had the makings of a planner. How this turned…

I'm the clumsiest person you'll ever (or probably never) come across. To the point where if I meet someone new and it involves a beverage, I'll warn them they're likely to have it accidentally thrown all over them sooner rather than later.  Be warned.  Yet, when I get in the water, everything works. It's like…

The fast food industry prioritises speed, convenience and price over flavour. This is fine, this makes money. This is really easy to compete with though, if you're prepared to put the work in, for the right people.  With flavour. Like the cafe I work near. Coffee made from outstanding beans, brewed with love. Tea served…

You may or may not know I love tea. Made properly, in the pot. Three minutes brewing as a minimum. I've often thought it's little rituals that get you through the day, this is one of mine. I also think you can tell a lot about the person through the little things. Same goes for…

I was interested in what my better half would think about the Gillette masculinity work.   This stuff hits a nerve with us, because our beloved nine year son is already trying to figure out his place in a world where the messages he's beginning to take in are at best, well, mixed. Her response…

Rob has something to say about organisations and managers that systematically knock people down rather than build them up. You should read it.  Many of us have been there and survived to tell the tale, but the scars can run deep.  

I've always been a big believer in the importance of real insight fueling work. It's not that fashionable any more, but thankfully some people still agree.  To be clear, I don't mean 'consumer insight', you know, the stating of the obvious dressed up as revelation, the kind of thing that comes out of focus groups…

People that have been reading this blog for a while (which won't be many), will be familiar with my love of tea. That sacred beverage is still the first things to pass my lips on a morning and one of my favourite things in the word, it's warm hug, but as I've gotten more and…