Archive for September, 2010

Stacey really wanted to get away for her birthday Maybe Paris? she wondered aloud I promised her that I’d sort something out

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Stacey really wanted to get away for her birthday “Maybe Paris?” she wondered aloud I promised her that I’d sort something out. I went to see the film Closer, with its wearying procession of sexual shenanigans between four dislikeable metropolitans. The film shows with tedious accuracy and predictability how sex overrides love at immature [...]

Lots of ideas are starting to take shape

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Lots of ideas are starting to take shape.11.00am – Client approves Toyota campaigns.12pm – Take account team through where we are on scripts. They remain nervous.12.30pm – Have an argument with Joel over NSPCC. He wants to spend more time on brief.1-2pm – Gym3-5pm – NSPCC concepts brainstorming.6-7pm – Review with Kate Stanners (executive [...]

And a site that’s every journalist’s dream: answers

Friday, September 24th, 2010

And a site that’s every journalist’s dream: answers .What’s the best thing about your job? Going to interesting places, meeting interesting people and asking them rude questions. It’s a gossip’s dream.And the worst? Horribly anti-social hours, and never being able to plan ahead. I’ve spent far too long making compromises and expecting the family [...]

The ominous news for Britain is that Roger Federer the world No 1 and Wimbledon champion will return to play for Switzerland in

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

The ominous news for Britain is that Roger Federer, the world No 1 and Wimbledon champion, will return to play for Switzerland in the Davis Cup World Group play-off against them on 23-25 September. The former All Black is serving a 14-match ban for stamping on the head of the Leeds hooker Mark Regan [...]

This has reduced the number of first-time buyers who will pay the

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

This has reduced the number of first-time buyers who will pay the tax, but the threshold is still below the UK average house price. Mortgage lender the Halifax estimates that a property that cost £60,000 in 1993 would now fetch £156,000.Although the Conservative Party has made help for first-time buyers a campaign issue, the [...]

He rode Belmez and King’s Theatre to victory for Sheikh Mohammed and

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

He rode Belmez and King’s Theatre to victory for Sheikh Mohammed, and Montjeu and Galileo for the Coolmore axis.Azamour, a son of Night Shift, was previously a top-level winner over a mile, in the St James’s Palace Stakes, and twice over 10 furlongs, in last year’s Irish Champion Stakes and the Prince of Wales’s [...]

The tension could have been cut with a two-iron and gave the proceedings a Brookline feel

Monday, September 6th, 2010

The tension could have been cut with a two-iron and gave the proceedings a Brookline feel. “We managed to clarify the situation a few weeks later,” said Olazabal yesterday, not sounding altogether clarified. “I was not a happy camper and made it clear.” Probably not quite as clear as the man who handed him this [...]

Is the coach brave enough to experiment under pressure? We shall soon see

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Is the coach brave enough to experiment under pressure? We shall soon see.A trio of aces who could force their way into the England reckoning for this autumn’s internationalsTom VarndellClub: LeicesterAge: 20Position: Left WingVarndell would grace any track and field meet – he has been timed at 10.8sec for the 100 metres – but is [...]

Christie is now the chairman of the Playboy empire and like all his children is loyally supportive of her father

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Christie is now the chairman of the Playboy empire and, like all his children, is loyally supportive of her father.”I worked very, very hard to make marriage to Kimberley work,” Hef says “For eight and a half years I was faithful to her. “Yes, probably about 30.”He is realistic about how an octogenarian can still [...]

John Belstead was never really a politician in the narrow party sense but rather saw himself as a public servant putting duty

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

John Belstead was never really a politician in the narrow party sense but rather saw himself as a public servant putting duty first. He succeeded to the title on his father’s death in 1958.One of his childhood memories was of being presented, together with his older sister Jill, to the then Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, [...]