54% of Britons want to live abroad (Institute for Policy Research), but nearly half that do emigrate come home. Maybe some of this is to do with doing before thinking, but doesn’t it show how human desire is a contradictory little monkey? We want what we can’t have and tire of it when we get…

If you do one good thing today, pay it a visit to Give Rob a Job and sign the petition, even better just hire him!  That’s right, no one has given  The Famous Rob Mortimer the planning job he so richly deserves. Rob @ Cynic has lost patience with us all and kindly created the…

…sprinters you could trust. No ‘nutritionists’ in the shadows, no grotesque musculature, just skinny chaps in baggy white outfits (from The Guardian). Still, now they’re getting better at catching cheats, maybe they’re on the way back….

Wannabe Adman’s asking "How can Account Management, Planning and Creative work better together to both develop and sell big communications ideas?" Here’s a fascinating contribution from Life in the Middle. He’s be an interesting client no? My two penneth is largely focused on the interpretation of the brief: "Breaking the question down, i’d say it’s…

Gymns are great for unwinding, but the best bit of training a lot is being able to eat more. This is a good thing since food is my favourite thing in the world, apart from maybe drink, or a good cup of tea. Food is preparation; it’s relaxing and losing yourself in a task, the…

I like it when you stumble accross something new by accident. Isn’t that when you get something really fresh and interesting? To find something you don’t expect,  you have to get lost sometimes, or at least take a different route. I suppose that’s why I’m not too keen on rigid process, since it forces you…

  I was lucky enough to do the APG Briefing for Advertising course a couple of years ago. I’d highly recommend it to anyone since you learn a lot from the tutors (Russell was course leader), also from the other people on the course. I think this is an overlooked benefit of training – working…