Thursday was the first Manchester gig for the Northern Planning Summit, which I trust was enjoyed by all. Venue was trof, stylishly spelt with a lower case ‘t’, which is a new bar, and a little up itself. It’s also a tad tricky to get a seat, and near impossible to find seating for ten or twelve, but I think by the end of the night we’d taken over a good corner of the ground floor. Will try harder to find a suitable venue for next visit, whenever that may be.

Usual faces turned up, plus some shiney new ones from Feather Brooksbank. No badges were given out, but I think the Yorkshire Tea goody-bags were appreciated. Sorry to anyone that didn’t get one. Hopefully this has cleared my debt from previous bill-dodging affair in Leeds.

The night reminded me that there really should be a general meet up open to all agencies – one that doesn’t necessarily hinge on planning (not that NPS does – it’s just the name that leans that way) More people, more faces, more talent, more agencies, more ideas, more fun. The only time we tend to get together and meet the other people in our industry is at awards ceremonies, and everyone tends to act like a bit of a knob at those things, myself included. (Note to anyone I might meet at awards dos in the future: I do not think you’re a knob)

I’m not by any means suggesting to organise an Interestingness conference for the north – I wouldn’t’ even try – more that in the two NPSs I’ve been to, it’s occurred to me that there are some very clever people out there, and amazingly enough they don’t all work in my office. I’d like to meet a few more.

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