In between global economic meltdown, a royal wedding, the Arab spring and Kim Kardashian’s marriage there’s been plenty happening in 2011. So has it left you breathless, tired out and not in a Christmas mood? Or are you positively bursting at the seams for some Yuletide fun? Checking across our office it’s clear that people are falling into two distinct camps, one that is positively cheery and the other completely humbug.

This got us thinking about how the year had left people feeling about Christmas. As always these days, Twitter is a great place to look for immediate opinions on subjects. And with that we’ve decided to do away with a Christmas card - instead, this season we’re using Twitter to help people spread Christmas joy or humbug, dependent on their mood.

We’ve created a microsite, which acts as a pinboard for people’s tweets that are hashtagged #traxmas or #trahumbug. The tweets are then converted into hashtag snowflakes and dependent on how cheerful or miserable the messages are the scene changes. At the last check it was 74% cheery so things are looking quite rosy for Christmas at the moment.

One thing is for certain, regardless of the final result it’s generated a lot of interest and delivers an engaging way of presenting and recording the mood on Twitter. If you’d like to add your opinion to the scene visit http://traxmas.realadventure.co.uk today and add your Tweet!

…is The Rong Answer.

Sean, Shelley, Simon, Monica, Cheryl, Pete, Janey & Chris left the charms of Georgian Bath yesterday afternoon and drove up to London, knowing we would face the combined might of the rest of the Creston Group. There were 29 teams in all, with 6 just from TMW. DLKW even had one from their creative department.

But when it came to winning teams, there could be only one, and that team was from The Real Adventure…

We gracefully and humbly accepted our trophy, and only fleetingly paused to acknowledge the LOSERS in the other teams, before battling through monsoon-like downpours all the way down the M4, arriving back in Bath tired but jubilant, ready to share our glory with the rest of the agency.

You won't find this award in any other agency

And in case you fancy your chances against us, try this for size:
Which city hosted the Equestrian Events for the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games (hint: there were quarantine issues, it wasn’t Melbourne)…

Be amazed at what Macintosh can do!…