About 24 hours ago I got an email from Sydney, with these two pictures.
The writer was the spiv in the white suit, my old partner, Glenmore Trenear-Harvey. The other two old geezers are a pair of ornaments of the Direct Marketing scene in Oz – Ian Kennedy and Eddy Boas.
They were all reminiscing about people they and I knew well.
As Glenmore put it, “From Bill Jayme to Sam Josefowitz, mammoths of direct marketing were de-iced and re-examined by three old codgers as they slurped delicious Australian ‘champagne’ at the Odyssey Wine Bar, at the Rocks, in Sydney last evening.
Eddy Boas, Ian Kennedy and me had a nostalgia rush as we chortled our way through the pantheons of international direct marketers we’ve been privileged to have known.
What titans; what rogues and scallywags; visionaries, snake-oil salesmen; comedians, kind, generous people, dumbasses and long-time friends.
You were part of it and would have added more anecdotes to savour.”
And what was I doing when I received the email? Revising some copy.
Some mistake, surely.
But are they still working and earning, Drayton? There is lots of past tense in that message.
you`ve not done too badly, you old codger!!