I read the other day the news that after 41 years, Pentagram is moving from Needham Road and off to sunny Islington and good luck to them in The Old Sorting House. It sounds terrific.

But as a one time 20+years veteran of West London life at the other end of the A4206 (or as we called it, Bishops Bridge Road) it did make me mournful for a different time in our creative lives. Pentagram actually designed our offices at Boase Massimi Pollitt, and it was a terrific piece of work - I've added in a few pictures I've pinched from the BMP alumnus Facebook page so you can see the work they did, and for a while (and this will make fellow BMPers chuckle as the remember windows falling out of frames into the street as the mice hollowed out the sills), we looked like the Aesthetes of advertising.

It seemed somehow appropriate that in Adland, with Bates Dorland over the road and Abbot Mead Vickers over the bridge called it Paddington, while the design community were very much ensconced in Notting Hill, (where we ventured for lunch in the Wine Gallery, or Julie's or Leith's on special occasions)(like a Friday). A touch of the "why isn't is David Trott and Dave Abbott" model, if you will, Advertising vs. Design. Marked by which end of the D&AD annual you turned to first.

And a trip down to the Pentagram offices was always a treat. I think it was an old dairy, with boxes for horses turned into offices and even a ramp to walk the ponies up to the first floor stables. But I may have imagined that. Or been told a tall tale.

So having spend 2 decades working in a Pentagram designed space, running up and down the double helix spiral staircase, and enjoying the glory of ashtrays that matched the decor (2 per meeting room plus a spare on the coffee table) - I'm sad to see them leave.

But just for selfish, time passing type reasons.

Good luck everyone with the move.