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Monthly Archives: January 2007

You Shouldn’t Laugh

Apparently, a third of the Pay and Display machines in Lewes, East Sussex have been destroyed in vigilante attacks by industrial-sized firework wielding locals.  Direct action with an "ooooooooh, aaaaaaah, wooooooooow" attached. Nice.

Zubbles

Thanks to Stan for pointing out another dead cert for top Xmas pressie 2007 – coloured bubbles.   Quite how the colour gets into the bubbles and then disappears is a mystery. Maybe Zubbles would make a good ad for Sony … Continue reading

Anti Valentines Day

This one is for a project we’re working on.  We thought we’d throw the internal email out to blogworld to see if you’ve got any suggestions. Anybody got any ideas on what kind of things should happen at an Anti-Valentine’s … Continue reading

Hot Chocolate

It’s approximately 6 degrees in Manchester.  In Melbourne its exactly 41 degrees.  We know this because along with a LOVE book, we sent Stan a bar of chocolate.  The book made it in one piece, the chocolate didn’t. Posted by … Continue reading

Fort Dunlop

If you’re a regular traveller on the M6, you’ll know Fort Dunlop, the Grade A listed old Dunlop Tyre factory between Junctions 5 and 6 in Birmingham.  Nothing happened with this derelict old building for as long as we can … Continue reading

Hush!

Radio is often seen as the poor relation of the media world – not as glamourous as cinema, not as high profile as TV, not as proud as press. But done properly it can be an absolute joy – and … Continue reading

Xmas Best-Seller 2007

We’re probably a bit late discovering the brilliant indexed blog by Jessica Hagy, but just in case we’re not the last to pick up on it, go and take a look.  Here are a couple of our favourites.

Sony Cyber-shot DCS-N2

We’ve bought some new cameras after losing all of the old ones during the LOVE Xmas Magical Mystery tour.Here’s the first picture – some LOVEsters looking at some proofs for a Playstation 3 job.  (Yes, we occassionally do some work, … Continue reading

Freaky Toys

Dan’s ‘robot chimp head’ post reminded us to write a short piece asking if anyone has actually seen the "breathing dog and cat" toys in action. (a fine performance from Dan in the new Innocent ad, by the way)  We’d … Continue reading