We were recently invited to the McNaughton Review in Gleneagles. Previous years had seen the review take place in Marbella, Venice and Monte Carlo, but 2008 saw us fly to Scotland on the same weekend that the UK was due its biggest storms in twenty years. Yes, it was wet, and yes, England lost to Scotland in the rugby, but no, it didn’t stop us having a good time. Activities laid on by McNaughton included clay pigeon shooting, and scurry driving, which I imagined as some sort of 4×4 scrambling. When I was told it involved horses, I figured it was something like the chariot scene from Ben Hur. As the clip below shows, I wasn’t disappointed.

That’s me, top speed. Think my horse was called fudge or spodge or puzzle or something. As Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax once said, you’ve should try everything once except incest and Morris dancing. (Although Arnie should have probably added suicide to that list.) Anyway, it was a successful weekend, crowned by not only winning the Direct Mail/ Promotional category for Chavs & Scallies, but also joint overall winners of the Design section.

Thanks to everyone who helped organise it – Tony, Phil, Mick, and apologies that it’s taken 2 weeks to post about it. Hope to see you all again next year. Somewhere hot would be nice.