A much needed day to get to get to grips with lots of stuff flying around at the moment. The next few weeks will be a bit busy, it’s good to take some time out and really think, as opposed to do. Can’t resists a quick nod towards last night’sfun in Manchester: Tinnies on the…

Some interesting stuff on pretesting here. I warn you though, it’s Millward Brown. They may not be popular in some circles, but how do you know you’re right if you never listen to another view. With that in mind, I watched The Great Global Warming Swindle last night. I believed that humans were affecting the…

The ever wise Scamp is setting us all straight on the directors issue. Some useful comments already, go look and say what you think. This kind of thing makes me love blogging even more, you don’t get away with being wrong, or saying something in the wrong way for very long, and plenty of people…

Rob Campbell moonlighting in Harry Potter film shock..

On the subject of chatting about random stuff, it’s the late night planning non-coffee morning in Manchester this Thursday. Looking forward to seeing the people I know and meeting those I don’t. Simon’s heroically organised us and we’ll be in Trof, on Thomas Street, just down the road from Blu from around 7.30pm. Be nice…

I think that a big part of being a decent planner (and person) is being someone who others like throwing ideas around with – and not caring who thought of it. Stu said something really interesting today about passing things on. Loosely about not just buying something for the way it looks, or even how…

The M62 is just a motorway, one that’s usually rammed with traffic too. When you’re crawling along imaptiently, it’s easy to forget that it’s one of the crowning achievements of British construction. The height, and the weather made it quite a challenge – the terrain certainly looked like hard work yesterday. It’s not very Northern…

On my first TV shoot, as a young account exec (with hair!)I was told that my job was to keep the client the client away from the director at all costs. Any queries absolutely had to go through the producer. It said a fair bit about highly strung directors as far as I was concerned,…

I was bothered at the Sun failing to cover the IPCC report. Then the other night I asked some car buyers, within the Sun’s demographic, about driving issues. No surprise that congestion was number one, but emmisions came second. But not a single one gave a fig about global warming – what mattered was ‘unfair…

I worked on a pitch late last year where we did absolutely nothing wrong apart from asking a fair price for our work (Yorkhsire prices) and not being in London. I’ve just seen the work they’re going with. With no trace of sour grapes, not a jot of bias, it’s dreadful, 100% wrong for the…