Africa that is. I first met Ian Franks at art college in 1979.

After a year of heavy drinking and a sprinkling of creative effort, I decided to apply to Manchester and Franks decided to join me as we attempted to blag our way onto the country's only advertising degree course.

Amazingly we were both accepted and so, for the following three years we kept on drinking heavily and continued to supplement it with a sprinkling of creative effort.

This beautiful, if liver damaging friendship, finally only came to an end when he moved to Jo'burg. But of course, in this online, facebook,twitter-tastic world we live in I know what he's up to night and day, I just don't have the hangovers to cope with anymore.

At the moment he's writing a very interesting adman's blog called
fullmetalwriter. Check it out. His latest post is about watching ads ... whilst in a pub. What a surprise.