
Oompah. Oompah. This is where all your clever 26ers get to talk about the interesting stuff your writing. This month we bring you Rob’s town-twinny things, Helen’s PRICEY theatre, Alan’s motorcycling diaries and Paul’s Antarctic death …more

Oompah. Oompah. This is where all your clever 26ers get to talk about the interesting stuff your writing. This month we bring you Rob’s town-twinny things, Helen’s PRICEY theatre, Alan’s motorcycling diaries and Paul’s Antarctic death …more
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Tuesday, 24.01.2012

Oompah. Oompah. This is the place where all the clever people at 26 get to talk about the interesting stuff they’re doing. This month we bring you rabbit food, a Scottish exhibition and not any old nativity. …more
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Friday, 25.11.2011

For the last few years, 26 member, Rishi Dastidar has been doing something a little quixotic. Nearly every time that he updates his status in Facebook, he’s also been recording those thoughts in a notebook. Now, working with designer Matt Busher, those status updates have been turned into postcards. And a thousand of them will …more
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Sunday, 25.09.2011

Fiona Thompson doesn’t have a yellow pencil, but she did win an International Naturist Federation press prize for an article on British nudist camps. She’s a board member of 26 and runs her own writing consultancy business www.wordspring.co.uk. Follow her @wordspring_uk The word ‘Pimp’ gets my attention, next to a picture of a man with …more
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Sunday, 25.09.2011

“Julia Buendia Allone was proud of her name, even though it made people uncomfortable. People said there was no more difficult name in the world. How do you pronounce it? I don’t mind, said Julia, it’s up to you. But people still wanted to know. They shied away from calling her ‘Alone’ although that was …more
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Sunday, 25.09.2011
As we mentioned last month, 26 member Roger Horberry has new ebook out that delves into that most mysterious of subjects, the meaning of life with lessons from Shinto, Richard Dawkins, Sikhism and HRH Prince Philip to name a few. If you’ve ever wondered why we’re here and what it’s all for then now’s your …more
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Sunday, 25.09.2011
26 member, Mike Reed is cycling 230-odd miles from Sheffield to Box Hill in Surrey to raise money for The Brigitte Trust, a local charity that employs trained volunteers to offer emotional and practical support for those facing life-threatening illness like cancer or motor neurone disease. Everything from a lift to the hospital to simply …more
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Sunday, 25.09.2011

The 26/D&AD Archive Dive is a series of articles by 26 members celebrating the best work from the D&AD awards archives. Today, C is for Cog by Sue Evans What to choose? Should I stir things up, court controversy? A lot of interesting work, agencies and clients begin with the letter C in the D&AD …more
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Monday, 25.07.2011

To have swallowed a Crocodile Would make anybody smile But to swallow a Caramel Wafer Is safer. 25 years ago, then Poet Laureate Ted Hughes was tucking into a Tunnocks bar when he decided to open the wrapper and write a poem on it. The poem, now on display in the University of St Andrews, …more
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Sunday, 24.07.2011

Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain by Barbara Strauch, Penguin, £9.99 This book is for everyone who walks downstairs, then has to go back upstairs to remind themselves why they went downstairs in the first place. It reassuringly describes new research into neuroscience, explaining that absent-mindedness of middle age develops at the same time as …more
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Sunday, 24.07.2011


