I've just been sent this by a Kiwi mate of mine...

Willie left the Highlands for the first time in his life to work in London.

His mother phoned him a few weeks later to see how he was.

"It's very strange, Ma", he said, "The man in the flat next door screams and shouts all night and the woman on the other side is continually banging her head against the wall".

"Well you keep yourself to yourself, Willie", says his mother, "Don't get involved".

"No I don't, Ma" says Willie, "I just sit here and play my bagpipes".

I'm over the ditch in Sydney for a few days and just about to have a working breakfast with Chris Tew, SVP Asia Pacific for Mediasurface.

Full on schedule packing in three days Immediacy training, a couple client visits and catching up with an old drinking buddie from Lochcarron before flying back to Auckland from the West Island on Thursday night. Who says you can't burn the candle at both ends?

Greetings from KiwiLand - it's a lovely day here and I've just got back from the local primary school where, like any good Englishman(!), I'm teaching the kids how to play cricket...

How's Glasgow - dreich and windy?