Some surprise guests drop into the Bryan xmas doo!

Tell us What you'd have LOVED for Christmas

Follow the link and win some champers....http://oakleywilkinsonbryanltd.cmail4.com/T/ViewEmail/y/C32C023C6A8D5195

New F1 Driver from OWB

Blooming Liz

The lady of copy is getting ready to poppy....Lizzie and bump with 10 weeks to go. Love from the team.

3 Old Tigers from the archive of OWB...

Three old-stagers of the dark recesses of the front row, none other than Darren Garforth, Dorian "Nobby" West and Graham Rowntree enjoy biting into BIG MAMMA all those years and rebrands ago outside Bella in Leicester....ahh jumpers for goalposts, rushback fullback the memories....

The office 'cock'roach

At last we found out what the annoying bug in the office was....Norm!

Scariest Dad Award

It was a great honour to be voted by all of the assembled sweaty and screaming kids to be the scariest Dad at this years Halloween...beating off Dracula (with a sharp stick) a couple of Werewolves, a few Mummys - my strange spidery-stitched-up-bleeding-face-Becks-drinking-Ghoul took the Award!

Buddha's Boozy Rum Cake leaves OWB sloshed....

Lovely Sammie (daughter of the Laird of Ludlow otherwise known as the Buddha) joins OWB for a couple of days work experience and delivers homemade Ginger and RUM cake...definitely heavy on the Rum its fantastic and so is Sammie as she gets to grip with her first live brief (making coffee to go with the cake!) So remember if you want to do Work Experience bring alcohol laden cake!

The Brains of Britain

What can we say out of over 300 teams across 7 regions with some of the worlds finest financial, legal and professional services brains OWB finished 2nd Regionally and 3rd Nationally in the LDC Charity Quiz - with former egghead Norm, physicist Stupot, Music afficiando DJ Joneseyboy, former Welsh Netball triallist Issy, ex-driving instructor Shari and Staffordshire junior indoor bowls Champion Wilko..we had the perfect balance of brains and brawn and outwit the best in the business.

Collecting our award Shari Bryan stumbled to the microphone commented "I love this Country, lets build a better world...could I get a glass of wine..."

In seriousness immense funds were raised regionally for Birmingham Childrens Hospital http://www.bch.org.uk/ if you're reading this Blog post do donate.

Stu passes test on 42nd attempt..

Stu kangaroos down Floodgate Street and scrapes to a stop outside OWB Towers...the mean machines has passed his test and the keys to the City are his...VROOOOOOOOOOM

New Brand, New Season, New Shorts and Shirts

The new OWB brand once again adorns the hallowed places on Walsall RFC's shirts and shorts, and we're off to a good start to the season with a 66 plus win on Saturday. There will be no entry for our day out at Celtic Manor - it will never be mentioned due to rain (we're not bitter)

"I should have changed that stupid lock..."

"I should have thrown away the key,
if I'd have known for just one minute
I'd be locked in here after a wee.."

Shari is rescued by "Super-Steve the Shrewsbury Town fan" after being stuck in the loo. She still managed to fire out briefs (oo..er Ed!) to the design team from behind lock and key, theres commitment to the job (by...Ed, hee hee)

We love Pete's Cake....

We love Shari's Dads cake, it is quite wonderful. Here is a finished piece of foil, devoid of Cake. Pete give generously and give more Cake. Go to welovepetegoddenscake.com

Get 'Orf moi LAND....

New MINI campaign for the launch of the eagerly awaited Countryman, EXCLUSIVELY out this weekend at Rybrook Mini...

2010 Judging Panel Assignment

Had a fabulous day with Aspire4U, the Birmingham based Youth Training Community Interest Group, the team invited me to help Judge the marketing campaigns devised by the teams to market:

TALENT 2010 - Aspire4U's 5th Talent Event covering music, dance, fashion, comedy and more....

and

The NYAM Project - an exploration of Jamaican Heritage and consumption of Jamaican Food.

The campaign concepts were fantastic, both teams did live presentations covering the target audience, the strategy, the tactics and the results. Well done thanks for the invitation and I will be watching the outputs......

IN Preparation for TOTAL WIPEOUT Norm piles on the pounds...

India wows the OWB team with her entry into the 'Worlds Biggest Cookie Contest'!!
Unfortunately it couldn't be entered - because we ate it!
Sorry India - you'll just have to make some more....

Shaz takes POLE

IN a major Midlands Karting Event last night our own Emerson Fitipaldi beat 52 blokes to win and get the fastest lap. "its all about GRIP" commented Shari "I like to take it HARD and FAST and then when the engine is really THROBBING I put my foot down and really go for it".
Shari has long been a top driver (pictured here in What Car magazine as female Rally Driver of the Year), she is never happier than ASTRIDE a PULSATING engine....

Find our more about our Motor Racing Pedigree by visiting Nick Leason Racing http://www.nickleason.co.uk - we are working with Nick to develop commercial sponsorship and brand marketing initiatives. CAll Andy or Shari to talk about opportunities for your business.

New Mettis Aerospace Film produced for Farnborough 2010

Shaz Scoops Silverware at Capita Symonds Golf Day

A Book full of highly useful information...

Dress Down Thursday

Norm "Infinity and beyond" Normski casually kicking back with another superhero thinking up a new world-dominating campaign

Pre-season kicks off at mighty Delves Road....and a new signing

...Bobby my nephew will be crashing through tackles and kickin-ass this season (in the mini's). Exciting seaqson ahead for Walsall with new first team signings and steely determination. Keep you posted.

And in other World Cup News

My World Cup draw crashes out like England and Joneseyboy decides to follow Scotland next time around....

BELLA WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN shot on location...

in Changing Room 1 at Walsall RFC! http://www.thatsbella.co.uk/

Thank you to ALL our sponsors

Whilst the tour rages onwards and is now approaching Edinburgh, Shari and I completed our leg on Thursday and send a REALLY BIG thank you to all of you who sponsored us for the Birmingham Children's Hospital Appeal, further photos and news will follow.

In the meantime rest-assured, at OWB we value health and safety. The latest range of crash protection headgear based on the mullett, specialist exhaust fume moustaches and superhero pants were essential items for the Tour De LDC www.ldclessordinary.co.uk.

The Tour is NOW and the exclusive shirt is modelled here

Although we thought it was tomorrow, its not its Thursday!! We're ready to ride like the wind, the Peugeot Camargue is oiled and purring, the water bottles have some very special energy-giving and smile-inducing secret formula alcotonic super-juice and the weather looks foul.

Remember this is for Birmingham Childrens Hospital so any final support would be most welcome at https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/owb

Cracking Night at Villa Park

What a great night, meeting and sharing stories with Fellow '42under42' winners at Villa Park. met some truly outstanding individuals, great fun and part of an exclusive club. May thanks to all the sponsors and the team from Insider Magazine for making it a very special night all round.

Stupot obtains the keys to the City

Pictures speak ONE THOUSAND words...Stu celebrates the BIG Twenty One. he will be chugging down 21 pints of snakebite in the Forge at lunchtime, what a treat.

From Zombies to Sustainability hear it all at FFT

Fantastic Forum for Tomorrow http://www.fbe-org.co.uk breakfast this morning, Lorna (new Chair) drove a Pecha-Kucha http://www.pecha-kucha.org/ session, where fast-paced presentations on topics of choice are delivered - Jo, Building Services Design, did a cracker on her love of Zombies, Ben and Rachel gave a tip top overview on Turley Associates and Lorna told us how she got into blogging and social media for BPN. Wow! It was super fast-paced, fun, highly engaging and judging from the reaction by everyone afterwards went down a storm. Well played Lorna - here's to making Forum for Tomorrow West Midlands the best there is....

Some things never change...

Some things never change...whilst Issy has grown into a lovely lady (only occassionally wearing her pigtails) Andy still insists on coming into the office in his cap and totally inappropriate shorts!

Halbie Wins Massive Trophy!

Steve "Halbie" halbert, Walsall RFC scoops the impressive OWB specially manufactured "Top Rated Player Award 2010" trophy. Manufactured from precious titanusium the trophy was presented to Halb at the end-of-season dinner at Fortress Delves Road.

A consistent performer, regular man-of-the-match and definite pin-up boy in Changing Room Number 1 Halbie was unavailable for comment.

New Team Member goes to first client Meeting

Norms Big Weekend in Paris...he did take the missus really

April 14th
Arrive in Paris, usual Paris stuff...Louvre, Notre Dame, Arc Du Triomphe..... Almost attacked by ravenous, rabid french dog (CIMG1239.jpg)

April 15th
More paris stuff... Eiffel tower, Pompidou Centre, Sacre Soeur Cathedral and a slap up meal of fois gras and goose guts.

April 16th
Flights home cancelled, no eurostar, no coaches...flights rebooked for Monday 19th....rest of day spent cycling round Paris in typical tourist fashion. Sadly, poor back brakes don’t allow for skids

April 18th
Flights for 19th cancelled...spent 5 hours in Gare Du Nord train station to book tickets to Calais. Lent old American woman my phone to ring her family....phone returned, covered in sweat.

April 19th
Day of leisure...breakfast of 6 pain au chocolade under Eiffel tower, more loutish bicycle based behaviour

April 20th
Train from Paris to Calais with 1 hour stop in the middle of nowhere....arrive at Calais, jump in a taxi to the port to join a long queue for ferry tickets. Finally get tickets, for the Cargo ferry (expecting to have to hold a chicken on crossing). Arrive in Dover, coach to London to stop over at girlfriend’s dads.

April 21st
Coach from London, taxi to the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield. Arrive home 5 days late and a bucket full of euros worse off.

Girls just wanna have fun!

Celebrations for Shari's 40th continue at pace (well about 4mph on a narrow boat!!) Now into her 5th week of parties, forthcoming events will go well into June - if she can keep going!

Ray Mears you ain't

Me and Damo making a beach braii. I think the sipping of bucks fizz ruined the macho image somewhat.

NORM live on Eggheads!

1800hrs - Normski Captains the Eggheads competitors on BBC2, a proud moment for family, colleagues and friends.

1806hrs - friends, family and colleagues begin to delete all reference to Norm seeing an all-time score embarrassment on the horizon.....

Well played Norm!