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kim is fifty

Kim

We had a surprise celebration in the agency this evening for ancient and venerable Exec Creative Director Kim Papworth, who just turned fifty. We gave him a lovely chair that is as old as him. Because he likes chairs.

Nice cake

Kim's partner Tony paid tribute to 'the nicest man you'll ever meet in advertising' and we had a 'NICE' birthday cake. (Insert obligatory joke about huge number of candles constituting fire risk here.)

Candles

Kim attempts to blow out raging inferno.

Kim drinking 

Thinks: ""if only I hadn't teamed up with bloody Davidson all those years ago, just think what I could have achieved".

Does this milestone mean we can now officially stop being thought of as a trendy 'yoof' agency?

the stirk has storked part 2*

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.

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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.

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