You know what, to hell with the last past. As has been noted, no one reads blogs anymore which means I can write what the hell I like. So I'll rephrase what I said in the previous post. There won't be much planning and thinky stuff for a while. Just stuff. Like noodlings with Instagram:…

In the next 13 days I will be moving house (if the stars align and my halfwit buyers pull their fingers out), plus presenting something important that's taking a lot of work (in the abscence of the account director). All before the arrival the long awaited second baby and the two weeks re-learning what sleep…

An hour to kill while we wait for Daddy's car to be fixed. So we took a bus ride into town and back. The monotonous, spartan journey you can't wait to end, transformed into an adventure- lorries, more buses, tractors, funny looking people on the pavement, what fun. 'Oh loooooooooooooooook! Der bus, der bus, der…

Next time you feel a little agrieved at working late or clients being, well, clients, watch a bit of this and remind youself how lucky you are. Here's a bit of last nights 'Poor Kids', a documentary on child poverty in the UK. I dare you to watch it.   And yes, I know this…

I wasn't really interested in the Royal Wedding last week (but grateful for the day off we all got) and, despite received wisdom, I wasn't alone.  I did find something interesting in what the hysteria means though. The British don't have a national 'day'. There's no Fourth of July, or Queens Day like the Dutch. For…

You may have noticed I'm appreciative, on the whole, about the things account handlers do. Not least because I was a distinctly below average one myself.   Like most brilliantly reliable things, you only really miss them when they're gone. The account director I work with is off on paternity leave for two weeks and…

  Since one or two people interested in School of the Web project might be coming here for the first time, I thought it might be worth pointing to some older 'planning basics' posts. It struck me that they were posted when the aspiring and junior planners who might have found them useful are now…

 Last minute trip to SIngapore. Sorry, see you next week

..the Strokes new song is a corker. http://www.youtube.com/e/OwxcQvB_vcQ   This will mean nothing to you unless you were around when this came out, http://www.youtube.com/e/jrmtySpO3Fs   amidst the glut of bubblegum pop, irrelevant hip hop and shoegazing stadium rock that seemed to so dominate back then.