I’m raising funds for The British Heart Foundation. Not sexy, but worthy. And remember, you may need them yourself one day. (If I’m honest that’s one of the reasons I’m raising money for them…). SO give of your best, ideally in large amounts.

It’s all happening on May 27 when I’m doing the Norwich 100 – a hundred miles, round Norfolk, on my bike. With only ten or so mates to push me up the hills and pay for my tea and cakes.

If you have any spare cash, pop along to my Just Giving page… Here’s the address: www.justgiving.com/Tim-Morgan0
Pass it on!

This weekend is set to be a busy one for several members of the Publicity Works as they are showing work at a local art exhibition wittily entitled Artipasto. This is a taster event expressly for North Norfolk artists participating in the Norfolk and Norwich Open Studies scheme.

Held in the new Atrium at North Walsham High School the exhibition is open on the  5th, 6th and 7th of May from 10am till 4pm. Visitors can not only view original paintings, sculptures, woodwork, ceramics, textiles and jewellery but if they see something they must have, artists will be on hand to arrange the sale.

So some of us did all three exhibitions yesterday (we finished off with a bit of proper culture by seeing Sweeney Todd). Which artist is best? As every rational person knows, the only totally reliable way to establish the truth would be to show which is most popular. We decided the most scientific approach would be to compare the size of the artists’ queues.

The graph illustrates that Hockney wins hands down (he’s red, Freud is brown and Hirst is lime green), with the biggest queue by far. Stats never lie, of course, although to be fair the place where the Hirst queue SHOULD have been just had a sign saying ‘sold out.’ Judging from the rest of his show, we assumed this was a piece of artwork, but I guess it could have been a comment on his artistic ethos. Mind, if it was a statement of fact (about the show, not the ethos) then it may have skewed our stats.

Claire Knight, who does design work for us, recently entered a competition to design a poster for the 2012 Cromer and Sheringham Crab and Lobster Festival.

We’re delighted to say that she won.

Well done Claire.

Recently Fiona and Toni went back in time and met footballing legend, Kevin Keegan.  He wasn’t too chuffed (he may have been upset by Fi’s famous curls) and demanded her head, on a platter. Toni was only too pleased to concur and managed to take a pic, too.  (No Fionas were hurt in the making of this post.  Well, maybe one).

The exhibition may have finished for another 2 years, but for Callum it marks the beginning. Armed with his camera he spent his time at the show filming, and now has the task of  putting together videos for all our lovely Clients. Here is Callum and his sound man Matt captured by Catering Insight on day one at Hotelympia.

Like most PR companies TPW spends a lot of time trying to keep ahead of the game (by the skin of our teeth).  So every now and then it’s nice to reflect that some things have actually got a whole lot simpler.  Like press packs.  The picture shows me back in 2006 – as you can see, I was older, fatter and balder – sorting out the press packs at Hotelympia, the big biennial catering equipment show.

Press packs in 2006: fifty or sixty copies per client, each with a couple of press releases, maybe a CD, an image or two and a brochure or leaflet.  I think we had about eight clients at the Show that year.  A logistical nightmare, lugging them into the show from the car park (usually a half mile or so away), getting the final bits and bobs from the clients, collating them and then dropping them into the press office.

Fast forward to 2012: three cheers for the virtual press office and the press pack on a memory stick.

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‘Friday thing’ – definition a treat or ritual performed in the office or workplace every Friday. Here at TPW HQ we’ve been made aware of different office-based ‘Friday things’, whether it be dress down days, jokes or treats. Today we’ve heard of people having sausage rolls in the office “because it’s Friday”, sending colleagues out on the cake run and “chocolate cake Friday”. We now feel we want to jump on the bandwagon and have a ‘Friday thing’, but what should ours be?  Suggestions please…. I’ve also stumbled across some Friday humour, like these amusing pie-charts and some office jokes and dares – safely filed away in case required at a later date! What’s your Friday thing?