Phew, I’m glad that week is nearly over. If only you lot knew the lengths I have to go to to bring you the word on the street – or should that be gutter? – in this marvellous industry, I’m sure you would be covering me with glory – and I don’t mean the “morning” type either.
Three long nights rubbing shoulders with the good, the bad and the ugly of direct marketing would be enough to turn a lesser girl into a dribbling wreck, but there’s free alcohol to guzzle, and someone’s got to do it.
Mind you, I did manage to slip in at the rear (just by chance my favourite position, too) at the Private Life of Direct Mail presentation. I mean Robert Senior is a lovely bloke and all that but hearing him wax lyrical about junk mail nearly brought my dinner up. The Private Life of Robert Senior would have been a much more interesting presentation…
Then it was off to Lida to hear Nicky “shaven Maven” Bullard and Ian “you don’t fuck with me” Haworth pour forth on the joy of…er, you guessed it, junk mail. It was a quick in and out at that one, too, although not before Mr Lida took me all over his office…
Finally, it was to the lovely PR agency that is Limelight for their Christmas office party in January. And, would you believe it, even Ian “George Clooney” McCawley managed to haul his arse into work (although I hear he’s back at the doctor’s this morning).
Not that everyone who I was looking forward to seeing managed to make it. Those lovely Granby girls were apparently stuck in the snow, although Blackburn must have its own micro-climate as apparently there wasn’t a flake to be found a few miles down the road in Bolton.
Still, the talk of the night was my esteemed editor’s discovery that, after years of thinking he was bog Irish, he is in fact Jewish. Shalom, shalom, as the say in all the finest synagogues. Having spent too much time on Ancestry.co.uk when he should’ve been working, it turns out his great grandmother on his mum’s side went by the name of Mrs Alter.
Funny thing is, he has taken the news rather badly, claiming that if he only he’d known earlier he would’ve been able to join the DM Jewish Mafia years ago, and be much closer with the likes of Marc Nohr and Marc Michaels – and therefore much more successful – instead of causing trouble. Oy vey, oy vey.
Mind you, apparently there’s now a campaign to get him circumcised…and I’m selling tickets. Anyone fancy that?
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