Thanks to Famous Rob and Michael Pollit I’m doing a bit more digging before going with Sky Broadband. I’m tensing up already as I contemplate the automated phone setups and call centres. So I’ll call NTL first because I read last week that they’ve spent millions and training staff and improving customer service. There’s such…

I really liked a positioning for a cable/broadband company I’ve seen in press a few times. It was all about going the extra mile, which is a bit generic, but expressing it as ‘If you can you should’ makes it brilliant for me. I thought it was Cable and Wireless. So far so good. But…

You finish work,it’s one of those perfect car journeys with no hold ups, every traffic light is on your side. You’re two minutes away from the swimming pool, already you’re thinking about diving in and forgetting the day. You turn the corner and it’s gridlock. You sit there for another half hour and seethe silently.

I was watching Tristan and Isolde last night. An okay film about Dark Ages English tribes at war with each other instead of uniting against the ruling Irish. While I’ll have to check my history books for the veracity of the plot line (isn’t the real legend something to do with King Arthur of Excalibur…

Stu’s been threatening to start a blog but I can’t persuade him to make the leap. In the meantime he’s decided to see if he can run 10K in 40 minutes, looks like he’s been influenced by my grasping at youth swim challenge.

I was in London on Monday for that pitch (No time to catch up with any London bloggers I’m afraid). Thankfully it went fine and we’re through to the final stage. We didn’t do finished executions, we showed them their voice, what they should feel like. It worked a treat. There wasn’t a traditional creative…

The annoying thing about writers is the way they make it look so easy, curse them. You’ll need no introduction to Scamp of course, but if you can bear witnessing someone else making it look like a doddle, have a look at find One Woman Running’s blog here. She hasn’t won a D&AD yet but…

Very busy today, so a fuller report on last night’s planning together will have to wait. It was fun and here’s some questions to ponder in the meantime: 1. Should Famous Rob’s weakness for  Cointreau preclude him getting that job? 2. What did James mean when likened himself, Rob and I to Ricky Gervais, Stephen…

Fitting garb when talking about creative work