Category: life
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Tired and emotional
Today I ran a big race. I’ve run a few races before but nothing as big as this one. 20,000 people all running 10K for charity, and it was just great. Fantastic atmosphere and the thing I really loved about it was that most of the charities represented were smaller ones – the kind that…
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Vive Les Vieux Pets!
I have finally taken the plunge and joined Facebook, swelling the ranks of the old farts trying to get with the programme. Come and be my friend so I can bore you there as well. I shall now be searching out a suitable 80’s throwback group to join.
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Slush Puppy
I’m back. Two weeks without reading or thinking about anything work related and with no exercise has left mind and body the consistency of mush (in a good way).
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Six Billion Others
6 Billion Others is a project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand that has been going since early 2003. It has pretty big ambitions – to draw a portrait of contemporary mankind by asking questions about universal values – what makes us laugh and cry, our families, what gives life meaning. Six directors set off across the globe…
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In with the blue
IPC’s spankingly new building with lots of blue fins on the outside and right behind the Tate Modern (…and from which I now write this)
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Free Alan Johnston
Alan Johnston, BBC correspondent in Gaza, disappeared on his way home from his office in Gaza City on 12 March. There has been no word since. He is thought to have been the only international correspondent still working there, but it is feared that he has been abducted. Intensive efforts to secure his release have…
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Lay a little egg for me
I think I must be the only person who works in advertising who keeps chickens. I was a bit reticent at first but the missus talked me into it and I have to say I’ve really warmed to them. Yesterday, Tinkerbell (the grey one in this pic) laid the biggest egg I have ever seen.…
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Running to stand still
This is me right now (without the chubby cheeks)
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Thought for the day
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” Image courtesy