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ORCHID TURNS OVER A NEW LEAF
 The fifty pence orchid I've been trying to save has sprouted a new leaf. So I must be doing something right. Even if I overwatered it a few weeks ago. Labels: formby, matthew watson, orchid, plants
Posted by Matthew Watson on Wednesday, 27 February 2008.
The assessment day in London went fairly well. We were placed into small groups and given a client to create a pitch for. As the day progressed we were given updates and had to rework our pitch to accommodate them. I had lots of great, creative ideas but since public speaking isn't my strongest point I'm not too sure how I did. During the day we all had a quick interview with one of the staff, which I quite enjoyed. I talked about all the things I got up to at Concept Communications last summer and the PR campaign I put together for Mogul Magazine. We were also set the task of writing a press release in thirty minutes and creating a small list of media to send it to. Annoyingly I completely forgot to make the media list, but I was quite proud of my press release so hopefully that will even things out. I find out if I'm through to the final interview round sometime during the next two weeks. Unfortunately the final interview is scheduled for the day I fly to Nice. So if I'm lucky enough to get an interview I will have to cancel or modify my holiday dates. Labels: concept pr, formby, hotwire, job interview, london, matthew watson, mogul magazine. public relations, nice, public relations, work experience
Posted by Matthew Watson on Sunday, 24 February 2008.
This blog and the rest of my website have today moved to a lovely new home at http://www.m-p-w.co.uk There have been a few design changes, which I hope you like. Let me know if you think anything needs changing. Labels: blog, formby, matthew watson, website
Posted by Matthew Watson on Wednesday, 20 February 2008.
Posted by Matthew Watson on Sunday, 17 February 2008.
As part of my group's PR campaign for the Opus Project we decided to create a website, mailing list and blog. Today I launched a basic version of the website to get things started. For those of you that don't know, the Opus Project is an iniative by the University of Huddersfield to promote creative works and designs by current and former students. Labels: blog, blogging, formby, huddersfield, mailing list, matthew watson, opus project, public relations, university, website
Posted by Matthew Watson on Saturday, 16 February 2008.
 Following a phone interview, I have been invited to an assessment day in a little over a weeks time. I've booked my room at the travelodge on London City Road and my train tickets there and back. Sorted. Labels: formby, job interview, london, london city road, matthew watson, travelodge
Posted by Matthew Watson on Wednesday, 13 February 2008.
Posted by Matthew Watson on Tuesday, 12 February 2008.
 Whilst doing some research for my business pitch for 'Oh My Cod' I discovered Lyncroft Farm in Ormskirk. Lyncroft Farm is a local farm, just six miles away from Formby, supplying locally produced organic foods. They run an organic veg box scheme with prices ranging from £10 for a small box containing seven vegetable crops to £18 for a family box containing seven vegetable crops, five fruit crops and twelve organic eggs. Free-range of course! I think that's exceptionally good value, especially when you consider that organic food contains more vitamins and minerals than non-organic food and is more environmentally friendly to boot. Not to mention the much reduced food miles compared to supermarket produce that has more often than not had something of a world tour. Labels: box scheme, business pitch, environment, food miles, formby, free range chicken, free range eggs, lyncroft farm, matthew watson, oh my cod, organic, organic food, ormskirk, supermarkets
Posted by Matthew Watson on Saturday, 9 February 2008.
 In a move to avoid eating broiler chicken I bought a packet of Sainsbury's Crispy Beef with Chilli instead of sweet and sour chicken, which I would normally pick to celebrate Chinese New Year with. To my horror I discovered that the beef's coating contains pasteurised egg, from battery farmed hens no doubt. It seems that no matter how hard you try it is all but impossible to avoid eating battery farmed eggs or broiler chicken.
To add insult to injury and article in The Independent exposed the new £1.99 chicken launched by Tesco today.. The same day that research by Bristol University discovered that 27% of broiler chickens have walking problems by the time they reach 40 days old or slaughter weight. Since there are 800 million broiler chickens in the UK that means that 216 million are in pain. What's really shocking is that that's just the figure for the UK, the worldwide figure must be much higher.
It makes me wish I'd read the ingredients on my chinese supper more in depth. Labels: battery farming, bristol university, broiler chicken, chinese new year, formby, free range chicken, matthew watson, supermarkets, tesco, the independent
Posted by Matthew Watson on Wednesday, 6 February 2008.
 The media ball is now looking likelier than ever after a meeting today. We decided what we want to do and how we're going to go about promoting the event. We now have a facebook group and the lovely poster, which I designed earlier. I'm quite proud of it, in fact I'm that proud I'm going to put it in my portfolio. I've also discovered Skiddle, which is a great website that allows you to sell tickets to your own events online. The only hitch it that they charge the customer a 10% booking fee, but that's not uncommon. Have you experience any website's like Skiddle or better? I'd love to hear. Labels: facebook, formby, galpharm stadium, huddersfield, matthew watson, media ball, poster, tv head, university
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Posted by Matthew Watson on Friday, 1 February 2008.
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