The ON button Up at six to get into work early. Managed to locate the Peter Kenny ON button and worked in a highly-focused burst for an hour and a half. Doing what seemed like a day's work. Then at the official start of the day a client meeting to discuss how to pin down the exact copy tone for a particular brand. I jumped up at some point and made with the mind maps. Amazing how simple stuff like pinning down the target audience, and getting them to imagine who the author of the letter is, can make people's hair stream out behind them as if the were standing in a wind tunnel of inspiration. Then I tucked into the wraps and sandwiches. And sneaking out from the working lunch for ten minutes I spoke to briefly to Sophie, who sounded very stressed. We talked for ten minutes, she cried a little, and then said she felt loads better. After work went to Waterloo to meet Bob and his very nice colleague Maria who is a lawyer and was born in Jamaica. We had a very fun evening chatting,...
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Happiness is an oversized teabag Jetlag, a cold, and dodgy leg kept me indoors all weekend. Dislocated physically, but feel very cheerful. Really nice to be at home and to spend time listening to the radio, generally cleaning and tidying, uploading photos from Japan and watching football on TV. Not to mention eating odd things at odd times with my bizarre eating irons. Had a nice long chat to mum, and otherwise kept the lowest of profiles apart from speaking at length to my lovely new cyberfriend Sarah in Tampa. Before I left Japan Hiroko gave me a few green tea onsen baths. I tried one and it contained a large teabag which made the water go quite green. Bobbed about in this for some time, deeply grateful that Mr Suzuki wasn't squeezed in next to me waving his arms around.
Mr Suzuki takes us into the mountains After making a dozen or so calls in the last two days to confirm details, Mr Suzuki came to collect us today in his luxurious car. He proudly showed us the onboard sat nav and the computer which he can bark instructions at. He only has to say "it's cold" and the car starts to warm itself up for him. It also has cameras which show you outside the car, especially useful when reverse parking. The computer screen predicts where your car will go too. Knowing nothing about cars I found this impressive. A long drive calling initially at Mr Suzuki`s house. He is the president of a successful plastic modelling kit company. Pressed for space it seems even quite wealthy Japanese live in modest spaces. We met his wife again briefly. There is some ambiguity in Mr S`s life between his "classmate" who he clearly adores, and his wife who apparently rules him with a rod of iron. He is about 60 and is very kind and unbelievably eager to pleas...