So on Saturday I found myself in Bangkok speaking at a conference infront of a bunch of corporate lawyers [don’t ask] …Anyway, as much as it was like pulling teeth – there was one good thing that came out of it – I got to meet Charles Frith.
[Who was in Bangkok, not the conference]
I have been trying to meet Charles for bloody ages and on more than one occasion we have been incredibly close to pulling it off only to have other issues step in and bugger it up – but this time we got to make it happen and in Somerset Maughm’s favourite hangout, the Mandarin Oriental hotel, no less!
[Bit ironic given we talked about socialism the whole time, ha!]
To be honest I didn’t recognise him at first because he had blond hair and wasn’t dressed like Starsky & Hutch’s “Huggy Bear” … but it was an incredibly brilliant 2 hours. At least for me, ha.
Like the time I met Age and Dodds – I had to remind myself I’d never actually met him before – because it seemed like we were old friends just catching up after a couple of days of not seeing eachother.
As some of you may remember, we’ve been doing some work with the G boys about how technology is impacting friendship and conversation … and as much as there seems to be some quite negative – and facinating – effects of ‘digital relationships’ [of which I’ll be writing about in the near future] – there’s also a huge amount of benefits of which meeting Age, Dodds and now Charles are but three.
So thank you Charles – you made my weekend and I hope to see you again very soon.
PS: I didn’t kiss him Lauren, but I gave him a huuuuuge hug!
PPS: I’ll write a proper review of PSFK this week – bit mental and want to really think about it rather than have horror images of my speech flood my brain, ha!