Awayday - Friday afternoon
on Jun 24 in Advertising, Frivolity, Writing tagged by Peter BlackmanThe first in a series. A record of the most memorable corporate awayday I ever went on. Names have been changed, but conversations and events are all one hundred percent genuine.
The hotel room in which I am lying on the bed is large and by any standards, luxurious. I have put the television on and noted with pleasure, the presence of Sky Sports. I am hopeful that the laundry service will be similarly impressive - this is important as I have brought a bin liner full of dirty clothes which I intend to get washed, dried and pressed on the agency bill. The mini bar is not locked – the hotel have mistaken me for a responsible professional again – and I am on my second gin and tonic. All of these things make my happy, yet I remain pinned to the bed by an overwhelming weariness, for I am not here by choice. I am here for a corporate awayday.
World Heritage? No let’s go shopping
on Jun 14 in Advertising, Bristol, Culture, Random tagged by Peter BlackmanYou will be reassured to know that as I type these words I am wearing trousers. Socks, shoes, a t-shirt and underpants too. I am fully clothed. In clothes that I have, in the main, purchased myself. I tell you this so that I might set out my credentials as a modern shopper. I go shopping. With the right companions, locations and circumstances, it can be a pleasurable experience. I find the traditional male knee jerk reaction to shopping tiresome and more often than not, a lie. It’s also hard to try on casual slacks, let alone skinny jeans when your knees jerk uncontrollably at the mention of consumerism.
Run easy. Spell hard.
on Jun 14 in Random tagged by Peter BlackmanClearing out an old hard drive, and I found this. It ran in the programme for the Bristol Half Marathon a couple of years ago.
Running may well be easy. Spelling and grammar are clearly a little bit harder.
Drinking deep from the cup of ‘F**k Off’
on Jun 11 in Advertising, Double Art, Random tagged by Peter BlackmanSorry to say goodbye to a client yesterday. Mr Robert Foster.
Here is the cup he drank deeply from everyday. Too much time on his hands? Maybe. Farewell Mr Foster. Hope to work with you again soon.
Moaning in a Travel Lodge
on Jun 11 in Double Art, Frivolity, Projects tagged by Peter BlackmanNo - not the couple in the next room keeping me up all night with their hot pants.
No - we were on a photographic shoot and had to book a hotel at late notice in Gateshead. The local Travel Lodge was the most convenient for the next day.
How bad could it be?
Bad. So Gavin (the photographer) and I spent the evening boring our friends and family with our constant whines and whinges. The result was this photomontage, put together by the office and mailed around everyone we had kept awake with our moaning.
Three things to note:
1. The rooms don’t look like that.
2. I don’t wear a shirt in bed.
3. Gavin had a (terrible) room all of his own and didn’t, as far as I know, take any pictures of me in bed.
That is all.
Travel Lodge. When in doubt. Don’t.
Tell it how it is
on Jun 04 in Frivolity tagged by Peter BlackmanA lovely friend and occasional professional colleague of The Free Thinker, Giles M Davis, initiated a discussion by e mail this week. Having reviewed the correspondence I thought it was worthy of sharing.
Here is Giles. Holding forth as compere at Ignite Bristol #1
