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Marketing Society Star Awards on Friday night. We did really rather well (oh how arrogant) with a couple of golds, seven silver awards and five bronzes between us and our tangible cousins.

Our esteemed Scottish Government client - for whom most of the above awards were collected - won Marketing Team of the Year which was very well-deserved.

IRN-BRU’s storming Can Clan event last autumn carried away one of the above silvers which was equally well-deserved.

But far and away highlight of the night was our very own Planning Director and my personal master, Mr Amers, winning Agency Star of the Year. Here he is looking modest. Though he hardly needs to.

I’m just looking through some online qual research that the fine guys and girls at face have engineered and moderated for us.

The qual was conducted with the Young. And I’m looking through various blog posts and wondering why now and again, they feature a capital D for no particular reason at the end of a sentence.

And then I look again at one particular cap D and I realise to my ageing horror that it’s a : D

Specifically:

Reminds me of when i was a kid

How to make yourself feel old.

I’m not sure that it’s strictly in the spirit of this blogging lark to blow one’s own trumpet but here goes.

The image is a framegrab from David Reviews, the advertising review site.

It shows the average review score for all of Leith’s featured commercials in 2006. We’re currently averaging 70% which, at the time of writing, is the highest score of any UK agency. You’ll need to click on the thumbnail to read the list properly, but it’s pretty tough competition.

This blog will probably act like a Queen’s Award for Industry and be the kiss of death for our future reviews.

What I could see from my kitchen window this morning. Looking over the Firth of Forth towards Leith.

For anyone reading this in London, that thing filling the frame is called a “view” and the horizontal line in the background is called the “horizon”.