In Scotland we have an expression that bids bonjour to clement weather. (To put this into context that can mean anything in excess of 17 degrees Celsius.) ‘Taps aff’, means ‘tops off’ and is reserved exclusively for the pasty abdomened males of the species. It, literally, requires the participants to take off their top layer […]
Pele, Muller, Cruyff, Charlton, Beckenbaur. They may be the stuff of legend, and general knowledge quizzes, but ask Pete or Iain about Hulk, Messi, Ozil, Neymar, Klose, Benzema or Fetfatzidis and you’d be met with a stare as blank as the cheque you’d need to write to get them up to speed on the world’s […]
Anyone who lives in the Capital (and especially their taxi drivers) will tell of the seven plus years of misery inflicted on the general populace as the tramworks literally held up Edinburgh. So when the trams started running on 31 May, I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. Would the pains […]
Back in the day Pete was in the team that named RBS’s hole in the wall Cashline service. In Scotland, at least, this became the Hoover of, err, Cashlines. Gold Bier, Hubbub, 20-20 Opticians, Squareye, Amicus, Lemon Squeezy, ID Recruitment, BrandBox and the breathtakingly original Chalmer’s Cottages (named after its parent company Chalmers) were all […]
You might be surprised to learn that 60 Watt has some MAMIL tendencies (Middle Aged Men In Lycra); not all of us, mind you. As Britain’s least desirable fashion movement has grown in momentum over the past few years at least one of our rotund team has squeezed disgracefully into his XXL Spandex and […]
Working hard all week as we do, come the weekend you’re ready to relax. A few chores, a bit of DIY (yeah, right) entertaining on Saturday evening and then, along comes Sunday. A whole day of nothing to do stretching ahead of you, with the big question hanging over us…“Where shall we go today?” […]
John Denholm and 60 Watt go back a long way. All the way to the start of the Leith Agency. And to Hall Advertising before that (remember them?) All these years later we’re honoured to count John and now his talented wife Nikki among our clients. Their eponymous marketing recruitment business […]
At 60 Watt we have a bit of a track record working on police investigation software brands having, for many years, helped Altia Solutions to reach a fairly lofty position in this marketplace, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that we’ve picked up a new brief in this rather specialist sector. Clue, for […]
We love words with a passion. We love this poem. Hope you do too. so you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do […]
Like many of you clients and friends of a certain age, I have a student son who plays the guitar. However, mine writes all his own songs. He has a series of concert tours under his belt (The World Tour of Crail and Yellae Deuks Festival being two notable recent examples). He insists on using […]