I THINK I'm right in saying that the entries for the Roses creative advertising have just closed for this year.

I also hope that if any of my crew are reading this we remember to book a table.

I'd like to go, if only to see if there is any hope of a decent creative scene here in the north west.

Last year it was rubbish.

A lovely tarted up night in the Hilton which to a newbie like me was exciting enough and lots of new people to meet but the work was depressing.

I'm looking for some work that actually provokes a reaction.

Preferably something done by an imbalanced loon with a Mac, one who has driven his or her account handler mad for weeks and then landed genius right there in front of them.

I often wonder why this city settles for creative mediocrity when there's so much rock and roll in it's veins.

Maybe the suits crush the life out of it or encourage their clients that OK will do.

Maybe it's this insistence that 'hardworking' stuff means no imagination, I don't know.

Hell, a gorilla playing the drums was last year's favourite. Bet that didn't come from a Venn diagram of chocolate eaters, it came from people understanding people and some truly lateral thinking.

Youthful exuberence, risk taking, failure, open mindedness, these are some of the things that we need.

As my boss said to me the other day "life's short, but it's also wide".

What do you think? HAve your say