Made me laugh.
Each week two of the advertising industry’s finest agencies are pitted against each other and challenged with selling the unsellable.
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Which anti-tourism campaign ad do you think will work better? The Pitch
Today, Big went off with a little friend to Manor Heath Park to do the usual running round in circles, with a bit of making stuff thrown in.
So, I took Small to Castle Hill. If you have been to Huddersfield, you have almost certainly seen it. There is a tower on top, erected for [...]
No idea what the red thing is, but I suspect by now, it is no more.
The two ants were determined to take it home with them….. “Mum, look what we found!”
We are fortunate that we live in between two parks, the larger, Wellholme Park is very crowded during school hols, but is lovely. Today we went to the other park for the first time. When we arrived, there were a bunch of young adolescents cluttering the swings, but they shambled off at the sight of [...]
Calling Geek Crafters: We Want To Interview Joss Whedon and We Need Your Help | Crochet Me
I can’t really believe that
Loads of crafters dont have any idea who Joss Whedon is and have never known his work. We cant just sit around and not seize this speck of an opportunity to try to remedy that.
Can [...]
tomorrow one of my colleagues has the day of work to go to the funeral of a friend, who has died suddenly leaving behind a 4 year old and a 3 month old. No one knows who the father of the 3 month old is, and she will never know her mother now.
I can do [...]
A pair of doctors have said that British parents should have fewer children, because kids cause carbon emissions and climate change. The two medics suggest that choosing to have a third child is the same as buying a patio heater or driving a gas-guzzling car, and that GPs should advise their patients against it.
Writing in [...]
I did attempt to locate Bil and the children, but got no response to text or calls, so when C called up to invite us over to meltham instead, it seemed a good idea. We loaded up with sunsuits, suncream, sunhats and towels and went and sat in the garden, with Pimms and home made [...]
Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, dies
I really hoped he was going to beat all the predictions. If you haven’t gone and watched the whole of The Last Lecture, go and watch it. It’s an hour or so that you won’t regret.
Have I spelt that right? It looks very wrong.
Anyway, this morning I took another trip out to the park. I was amused by the way so many parents ignored our presence when they realised we weren’t parents, avoiding eye contact, stepping away from the item of equipment we were using and so on. I suspect [...]
Small finally allowed us to get his hair shortened, I think it was starting to annoy him, Big hasn’t had her hair cut, but here is a pic anyway. If she doesn’t start brushing her **** hair a bit more frequently, expect to see a pic of her with a short back and sides too.
I can’t remember Friday day – I know that I got up early enough to shove camping stuff into the car, and then I went to work, but I can’t actually remember work apart from continuously looking at my phone to find out whether it was time to go yet.
Tim took the kids out and [...]
Coming to a blog near you….. Jax plans a post later….
(Cue trumpets…) Ta Da
I remember hearing of someone whose dog died performing the same trick on one of those green electricity substation box things.
A MAN died at a busy railway station when he was electrocuted after reportedly urinating on the track, it has emerged.
The 41-year-old Polish tourist was killed at Vauxhall station in London in the early [...]
Worth a link.
The Royal Society has produced this overview of the current state of scientific understanding of climate change to help non-experts better understand some of the debates in this complex area of science.
This is not intended to provide exhaustive answers to every contentious argument that has been put forward by those who seek [...]
It has not been a good couple of days for several of my friends and colleagues, with relatives of friends dying off, colleagues being burgled and all sorts of mayhem. It just doesn’t seem to be an easy time for anyone right now
Nevertheless, children are children and life goes on – there is [...]
It is the small things that do it. Last night I talked to Tim about getting away for the weekend, joining everyone else at FoH for the weekend. I checked with A that it’s OK for me to get away from school about 3.30 on Friday, thus making the whole thing feasible. And then I [...]
Yesterday at school my afternoon was interrupted by the abrupt arrival in the elementary classroom of a bat. A and Big departed the room rapidly even though the creature was crawling rather than flying – A is not good with small beast of flying, crawling or insectoid natures. There is another member of staff there [...]
Today we went to the cemetery to bury Katrin’s ashes. I didn’t take flowers. I didn’t realise I was supposed to take flowers. Everyone else took flowers apart from Bil, who didn’t as he bumped into D and mother in the florist and they were already getting flowers.
Was I supposed to know that I should [...]
