A New Butterfly
OK...I am a bit obsessed with these things, but it is cool that they actually show up, and visit my garden. Pretty neat pictures too in my opinion.
You can see the others here
You can see the others here
Back to the future-or-Never burn a bridge
In 1969, just before Cindy was born, I joined JWT in Cape Town. I gave up my company car and we bough a second hand LH Drive VW with a half a clutch. I remember borrowing the JWT Ford Escort station wagon to take Mom to the Booth Memorial hospital and again to fetch Cindy and Mom. When I applied for the job, Asst A/E on exciting Pepsi, I was rejected for lack of experience. But they said I could work on the boring Old Mutual Insurance account which had given JWT 90 days notice, and if they kept it they would keep me. Young and foolish, I took the job and the risk. We kept OM and they gave me all the booze business at Sedgwick, which was bought later by SFW, Stellenbosch Farmer's Winery. 6 months later they fired the Pepsi guy and gave me his Account Executive job handling Pepsi which was based in JHB. Within a year they transferred me to JWT as a senior Account Executive. There they gave me the Beecham new business assignment which I had begun working on in CT. We got the Beecham a...
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