So Tuesday saw us pitching up to Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh in our dry-cleaned finery for the 2007 IPA Effectiveness Awards.
A brief chat with Hamish Pringle (during which I mostly babbled nonsense as I'm easily star-struck) revealed that they deliberately chose Scotland as the venue for this year's awards as the IPA are trying hard to raise the profile of the organisation within this (apparently soon to be independent) land.
Being UK-wide meant that the venue was full of unfamiliar faces, sadly unlike the ad awards a couple of weeks ago which has a feeling closer to a giant and extended family wedding. But the venue was impressive and the tea was tasty.
And far more important than all of this, we won an award. We put together a campaign a couple of years ago for the Scottish Executive / Government, designed to encourage the public in areas particularly affected by the problems associated with drug dealing, to come forward to the police (via Crimestoppers) with any intelligence about dealers local to them.
And for telling this story, we collected a fine silver award at Tuesday's ceremony. Mr Marsham, our esteemed MD, and master of the planning department, David Amers, were largely responsible for the creation of the case study. I scurried around fact-finding. So seized the excuse to dart up behind them onto the stage when the award was announced.
There's a terrible photo of us all clutching the award and looking slightly uncomfortable on the IPA website. I shan't give you the link.