A video camera opposite our building has been installed so that we can view the construction of our roof top extension, live.

Personally I feel that our MD Neil Chrsitie has set it up to keep an eye on the builders and to record how many tea breaks are taken!!!!!

Stuart Smith writes:

What’s the collective noun for planners? A procrastination of planners, perhaps? Thoughts appreciated.

Anyway, the planning directors from each W+K office met in Mumbai last week, to discuss and research all things Nike, Starbucks, Nokia and planneresque.

So here we see Nick (Shanghai new boy), DJ Dave (Amsterdam), Sudeep (Portland) and Stuart (London):

Sadly, Leslie (New York) and Toru (Tokyo) had last minute clienty things that ruled them out of the trip.

We were there at the same time as Jade Goody, on her definitely-not-for-PR charity trip to India (no cameras please… oh go on then, just a quick one).

And we just missed Liz Hurley’s understated nuptuals (lots of cameras please… if you’re from Hello).

From an advertising point of view, Mumbai is billboard city:

A businessman in a suit saving a football, then scoring a goal (the company saves for you, and scores for you, you see).

It’s also an insanely cricket mad place. DJ Dave wasn’t a bad player in his day:

Though that day was 12th June 1985.