It's been a while since the Stork last visited W+K towers but it brought a heavy load this weekend. Noah Michael Stirk came in at a sizeable 8lb 13 oz (oof!), courtesy of Andrew and Maggie Stirk.

In other news, our former Planning Director Stuart Smith, now at Google Lab New York, also had a daughter this weekend, named Rosalie Dorothy and another bouncing baby at 8lb 3 oz. We breed them big here.

* I didn't make up this phrase, Stuart did for Andrew's first child. No plagiarism here. No sirree.

Neil C back from sabbatical in the wilderness – Bhutan, Nepal, Ladakh (me with mountains – above). It's good to be home. I was welcomed with a spiritually reawakened workstation environment:

Thanks to Emma and Graeme for looking after the blog in my absence. Here's an example of great outdoor advertising from my travels:

The Bandipur COI open defecation account is locally renowned for ground-breaking work.