lagos to bounds green

hi, everyone,

im back in london and staying with james for the weekend. caught up with sue again on thursday night and my ole mate si last night, was very good fun. warmed the cockles of my heart to see that even on the other side of the world we have still been laughing at the same things... we just got battered and watched some curb your enthusiasm and the episode of south park where chef gets killed off... so harsh, so funny. damn i love those guys.

im going for a 'meeting' about a two-month contract in amsterdam on tuesday. i think im a shoe-in cause of my lady at the job agency who has basically pitched me (and i think only me) to this company called gilde. the deal is that gilde want a native english speaker to copywrite the text for their new website... i thought it sounded easy enough, so i agreed to get over there ASAP 'cause they want me to start right away. BUT... check out the job brief below, and if anyone has ANY idea what this company actually does, please email me. im serious. Please.

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As I mentioned, we’re looking for a copywriter to start working on our new website as soon as possible. We’re in discussion with a few people locally but are keen to have a native English speaker do the work. We’ve been working with a design company (Design Bridge) on the templates, UI etc and are now ready to start filling them in. Our current website is dreadful, but does give you an overview of who we are and what we do: www.gilde.nl . As you will see, we are a private equity organization that is divided into 4 (3 really) types of investment entities: (IT), Buy-Out, Bio-Tech and Participations. Although we share the same offices, backoffice and name, we are in essence different organizations each with our own story and team. So the site is made up of 3-4 sites within one overriding Gilde site.

Our headquarters are in Utrecht in the Netherlands and the idea would be for the copywriter to spend some time with us at the beginning of the project to get a full briefing but then it would be up to her/him where to do the writing – obviously, there’d be frequent contact through email/phone etc and if necessary, further face-to-face meetings.

Two key requirements we have are:
1) to start as soon as possible to meet our deadline of new website live by end of August
2) that the person is available to work in one stretch from when he/she would start (so that we don’t get bogged down because of holidays)
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so yeah, im gonna go for it, the dates are perfect for me and i get to work from home. and earning some euros will come in very handy indeed for my next adventures.

alrighty, that's it, i gotta go do some research now on this company/industry/Dutch business practice... i'll leave you with some more pics of portugal. hope everybody's good and keeping each other warm.