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We are chuffed to bits with today’s piece in the Telegraph. Check out the full article online here.

Introducing Betty, Earl and Joyce the brains behind Wonga.com!

The campaign launched on Saturday 9^th June and features the elderly trio (known as the Wongies) who demonstrate the ease of using Wonga.com.

The campaign shows that Wonga.com offers a simple and straight-forward  application process, which has an upfront and transparent approach to costs and gives its customers complete flexibility and control – including being able to pay back early.

We are really excited to be working with Wonga.com as they are an innovative company that is offering a fresh alternative to the world of credit and lending.

The second in the series features the trio demonstrating the ease of using the online ’sliders’ to choose how much you wish to borrow and for how long. Go Earl!

The Space Shuttle just launched for the final time. Both an amazing and sad event. We watched it live from the Nasa website at Albion HQ.

However at the same time The Sagan Series posted a new video to commemorate the history of the shuttle and space travel. If you haven’t watched or read up about The Sagan Series and its maker Reid Gower, do so now. Beautiful, poignant and simple. Facebook. YouTube. There are a number of episodes. Below is the End of an Era Space Shuttle Film.

Welcome those of you who, out of curiosity, have clicked the blog button or merely stumbled onto these pages expecting poignant insights into the world of marketing. Or some… Ha… Ha… crazy pictures of us doing crazy stuff like bake sales or something. You’ll get neither! Just a moan, and you’ll be grateful.

I hate dreams.

Yeah, I said it.

Not the “when I grow up…” or “one day I’ll…” or “I’m starting a business making spoons” sort of dreams. The night-time dreams, REM marlarky.

Let’s also not confuse dreams with imagination. Cos I love imagining. Pretending. Playing. Thinking crazy things up. I’d be in the wrong job if I didn’t. Dreams are a different confusing mind-beast.

Maybe it’s because I’ve never been one who has seen something in a dream and gone – “Yes, that’s it”. No flying flaming pies of wisdom for me.

I know what you’re dying to say:

“But like Aaron in like dreams you can like fly and stuff”

And I would retort:

“But then I’d wake up and find out I couldn’t fly and be pissed off. And stop saying “like”, you sound idiotic”.

I’d rather imagine myself flying while awake, then be taken in by such an elaborate deceit.

Y’see, I wake from dreams pissed off at people cos their dream counterpart cheated on me. I wake up feeling sad when a nice adventure isn’t true. Or I wake up more knackered cos of some mental dream spent running from monsters/zombies/aliens. Or having dream-spent a whole day stressed at a job that I haven’t done in years with people I hate, only to realise I’m gonna be late cos I’d left my purple tie at home and there are no buses coming. Or episodic dreams, where you know this has happened before, but you still need to go through the motions of leading that army to the beach to fight lobsters, with the vague hope you might move the story on. Can’t I just have some peace for one night?

And don’t get me started on the whole “they were my friend but not”, “It was my house but upside-down” or the “I just got ready for work didn’t I?” genre of dreams.

I suppose it’s because in a dream everything feels real, even lucid dreaming still leaves a bad taste in my brain. For me it’s not a question of controlling dreams, more that I’d have to. It all takes energy and effort which basically goes toward nothing. Other than messing with me. It doesn’t feel like rest. Which is what sleeping is for right?

Note to Subconcious: To be fair I could do without it.

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UPDATE: I wrote this at 1.30am just before going to bed. I woke up annoyed at my wife for a dream-something she didn’t actually do, and I scowled at her for 5 minutes. Fact.

UPDATE 2: My lawyers are suggesting that I state that in no way do the previous opinions as thus stated in this blography internet letter represent the opinions of other members of Albion and their subsequent love or necessity for dreams. Or any organisation that sells dreams, dream-like holidays or deliciously dreamy products for eating whose business we may want.

Albion’s superhero team of 6 have left the agency and begun their three peaks journey, which will see them climb three of the tallest mountains in Britain in under 24 hours. I would like to say that this is after months of gruelling, dedicated training but for the most part, this is totally untrue. But that’s why this makes this expedition more of a feat than most.

Apart from a couple of half-hearted lunchtimes spent ‘stair running’ (one of which was about two months ago), the only training Andrew and Jack had put in was walking to “the big Tesco’s” for their lunch. And since Nick only realised yesterday that the day of reckoning had quietly crept up, I’m fairly sure he hadn’t been nailing the cross-trainer anytime lately either.

It’s not just their day jobs that have been getting in the way of training, though. Each hiker has been gathering an enormous, and ever-growing, list of equipment. A list of equipment that would put any sane minded folk off. Blister plasters, hydration salts, painkillers, head torches (yes, they’ll be climbing in the dark, too), waterproofs, spare waterproofs, spare spare waterproofs…the list is probably getting longer as I type.

So, needless to say, everyone here is extremely impressed. Especially for giving up their spare time, on a weekend, for an exceptionally worthy cause. Jason, Nick, Rowan, Amy, Andrew and Jack will deservedly wear their Albion super capes as they conquer each summit and we look forward to giving them a hero’s welcome when they return, however battered and bruised that may be.

You can watch their progress on the Feeling Peaky blog and if you fancy supporting with a bit of cash (it’s for a great cause) then check out our Just Giving page.