At the end of May I helped my former employer by being an extra in a new TV commercial. Can you spot me? Can you spot me twice?
Election night special
Separated at birth…
11,000-day anniversary
I’ve known my friend Birgit for 11,000 days today. That’s 30 years and about six weeks. I really ought to have bought her something – lilies or pearls for a 30th anniversary. Maybe if we meet over the summer… will have to get a job first though…
Unrequited love
Oh, now there’s only one kind of love that lasts. That’s unrequited love. It stays with you forever.
Woody Allen
Garden gate
Had to take this shot when I went round my mum’s earlier today – a frost-covered spider’s web on her front gate.
Happy birthday, Pooh
A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.
Eeyore
And
It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Happy birthday, Winnie-the-Pooh.
Then and now
I was fortunate to have a ‘golden ticket’ to tonight’s Leeds Trinity University 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner, and took the opportunity to have this photo taken, recreating one I did a little over 27 years ago at the Going Down Ball in Harrogate, 1989. Still got it.
Chartership announced
CIPR finally admits to the world that I’m a Chartered PR Practitioner. A month after the event. Maybe they’re embarrassed?
Crikey. Fellowship!
Somewhat delighted – and still a bit surprised, though I have been keeping the news secret for a few weeks – to have been made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Full story on the CIPR web site.
Many thanks to Paul Amourdedieu, Stefan Casey and Rebecca Benn for the nomination; and to the many people Paul tells me he rounded up to get testimony from; and to the people who have emailed, texted or tweeted congratulations today.
I promise to only use my new-found powers to annoy.
I’d like to thank…
Close, but no banana.
Eight spots available on the Open List, I came… ninth. A ridiculously close ninth too, thanks to the voting system used.
Oh well, there’s always 2016. You can see the results on the CIPR web site, as well as the full election report.