Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    What a Week That Was!
    Unavailable
    What a Week That Was!
    Unavailable
    What a Week That Was!
    Ebook9 pages6 minutes

    What a Week That Was!

    By Brian Parker

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    What a Week That Was! by Brian Parker takes us back to the heady days of the 1980s advertising executive - long lunches, gossip, back-stabbing and ... a little bit of work here and there.

    Step back in time as Parker the Storyteller entertains us with a week in the life of someone who will remind those of a certain age and profession how working life USED to be!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoshPit Publishing
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9780987319746
    Unavailable
    What a Week That Was!
    Author

    Brian Parker

    Brian Parker finished school, then immediately went out to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to become a tea planter. In 1970 he joined the advertising department of the London Evening Standard. Three years later, with wife Ruth and their three children, he emigrated to Australia, joining News Ltd. After three years working on suburban newspapers, he joined The Australian, before forming his own media services company. Despite spending the majority of his working life in the tea industry and the media, Brian has also worked as a fur porter (a long time ago when people actually wore fur!), an office cleaner, a barman and a door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman. As he says - all great sources of material! Brian and Ruth moved to the Blue Mountains, NSW, in 2002 and have lived there ever since. They have three children and four grandchildren.

    Read more from Brian Parker

    Related to What a Week That Was!

    Related ebooks

    Humor & Satire For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Bird’s Words

      Jan 17, 2022

      Bird’s Words
      3 min read

    • Article

      Letterbocks

      Apr 14, 2022

      letters@viz.co.uk □ “OUR HOUSE, in the middle of the street,” sang popular North London ska band Madness in the eighties. But I can’t imagine they were particularly popular with local residents if they had a house blocking the middle of the road. If

      9 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Sep 22, 2021

      Readers’ Letters
      5 min read

    • Article

      Martin Amis

      Dec 22, 2023

      Martin Amis
      1 min read

    • Article

      Taking a Prattfall

      Aug 21, 2022

      Taking a Prattfall
      3 min read

    • Article

      Steve Martin

      Mar 1, 2024

      Steve Martin
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Letter from New York

      Dec 10, 2019

      A Letter from New York
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Reason

      Apr 25, 2020

      The Reason
      4 min read

    • Article

      Newspaper Girl

      May 30, 2023

      I'll never forget the summer of 1953. That's when I took over my sister Carol's paper route. The route had been handed down to Carol four years earlier by my oldest sister, Suzanne. At first, I looked forward to the task. But my interest in and desir

      4 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Apr 1, 2022

      A SLIGHT MOMENT of imposter syndrome as I, your woman about town, remember that my idea of “town” is the habitation of 11,000 people near to the village where I grew up. Town, to me, is the place where the shops close at lunchtime on market day, rath

      3 min read

    • Article

      Dear Editor…

      Aug 13, 2020

      LAST September, sitting upside a hedgerow in the dawn sunshine, our Senior MFH ran an idea past me. “I really enjoyed your last column,” she opened. This is usually the point at which I exit a conversation swiftly, avoiding face-to-face discussion ab

      3 min read

    • Article

      LeTteRbocks

      Aug 6, 2020

      Viz Comic, P.O. Box 841 Whitley Bay, NE26 9EQ letters@viz.co.uk E-mail letters@viz.co.uk ⃞ OUR RECENT pizza order was delivered by a bloke in an Audi TT. Who knew there was that much profit to be made selling bread discs with tomato sauce and cheese

      11 min read

    • Article

      From Italy to Ireland…

      Mar 12, 2021

      From Italy to Ireland…
      4 min read

    • Article

      WIN, LOSE, or DRAW

      Mar 25, 2022

      WIN, LOSE, or DRAW
      4 min read

    • Article

      Last Orders

      Jul 28, 2021

      Last Orders
      5 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Apr 3, 2024

      SIR: In 2016, my book A History of Magazine Design was published by that great oldie of a museum, the V&A. On page 15, there is a cover of the Weekly Illustrated Annual from 1937 (see picture). There were various candidates for ‘The Man Behind the Ca

      4 min read

    • Article

      The honour’s ALL MINE!

      May 14, 2023

      Musings from our favourite Kiwi funnywoman On a wet Friday afternoon last October, entirely out of the blue, an email arrived in my inbox from the Honours Unit at Parliament. At least, that’s where it said it was from – my first assumption was that i

      2 min read

    • Article

      LeTtERbOCKs

      Mar 7, 2024

      letters@viz.co.uk | toptips@viz.co.uk Your correspondence to VIZ editor HAMPTON DOUBLEDAY I HAVE never once seen an advertising campaign encouraging people to eat radishes, and yet there they are on every supermarket shelf in the country, just quietl

      10 min read

    • Article

      Letter Bocks

      Feb 3, 2022

      Viz Comic, P.O. Box 841 Whitley Bay, NE26 9EQ letters@viz.co.uk ⁕ PAGE 3 girl Samantha Fox’s song Touch Me (I Want Your Body) is nonsense. “Touch me, touch me. I wanna feel your body” she sings. Well, if she wants to feel a body, she should be the to

      13 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Jul 28, 2022

      Woman About Town
      5 min read

    Reviews for What a Week That Was!

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words