I love this ad for Frontline Flea & Tick spray for dogs in a shopping mall (in Australia, I think). Made me laugh out loud when I saw it for the first time. I wonder how many members of the public we’re oblivious to the success of the ad as they innocently went about there business. A big idea in a big space. What’s not to like.

Could the once mighty two Scottish banks be pulling their resources during the credit crunch. I did a quick double take last week as I passed these 2 billboards on sunny Leith Walk. Both had very similar colour palettes, very similar typefaces and were advertising very similar ISA products. (Although the RBOS did have a slightly better rate of 3.5% to BOS’s miserly 3%.) Round one to Gogarburn. It remains to be seen if the advertising for both sides continues to morph into one huge corporate mass, or should that be mush

Only the other night I was looking back thru some old family photos when I stumbled upon two similar shots spaced about 30 years apart. Both involving my dad. The first one is of little ol’ me on the frozen beach at Stonehaven (As you can see, I’ve inherited my dad’s knobbly knees) and the second one is of my son Harris on the frozen beach at Portobello. Both, needless to say, taken at the height of summer. Don’t worry folks, my father doesn’t have a back complaint or severe spinal injury of any kind. Although we tend not to take him down the promenade too much these days just in case.