Another blatant plug for our lovely clients in Harrogate.
We’ve helped Yorkshire Tea to launch a little site about all tea matters. You’ll find it at www.bestteainbritain.co.uk.
At the site you can tell Yorkshire Tea whether you think their tea is the best tea in Britain.  Or you can tell them that you prefer another brand.  That’s up to you. 
And the first 500 people who visit the site every day can request a free sample box of Yorkshire Tea to try.

Stick them underwater.

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We don’t know who John is.

What we do know is:
He’s in Japan.
He might work for O&M.
He has some professional interest with Muller Rice.
He supports Liverpool FC.
He read a recent post by Jonathan Rigby.
He referred to him as “a git with a blog and a camera”.

Just for any future reference, John, Jonathan doesn’t actually own a camera.

This kind of thing must happen all the time.  Anyone got a picture of the Man Utd 2007 FA Cup Winners tour bus?

I was overtaken by more bananas, supermen, scooby doo’s and caterpillars than ever before.
That’s it.  No more biscuits.

Caution: this post contains the words “wee”, “poo” and “big jobs”. If you are offended by such terms, please do not read on.

Around five or so years ago some friends of ours invested in a dual flush system for their new toilet. I’d never seen one before, so after my first visit I asked them about it. They told me that if every toilet in the UK had a dual flush system, it would save the equivalent of six reservoirs of water every year. Now, I’ve only ever seen one reservoir in real life – the Avon Dam in Devon – but I’d imagine six reservoirs to be quite a lot bigger than that.

Ever since that first water-conserving flush at my friend’s house, my aim in life became to one day own a dual flush system. In terms of successful living, it ranked right up there with an integrated ice machine in your fridge as a sign that you’ve really made it. It’s only my humble opinion, but once you’ve got an ice maker in your fridge, a dual flush toilet and a small forest in your back garden to offset your carbon footprint, then you can die a happy chappy.

But then a couple of years ago something odd happened. Suddenly everyone had a dual flush system, but the problem was every toilet had its own slant on which was the wee button, and which was the poo button. Is the big button for “big jobs” or is it the button you push more often, ie for wee? Then there are some that have a little button in the middle of the big button, which someone told me you push together for a wee.

So now I’ve got no clue what to do. I’m confused and I’ve almost given up caring about those six reservoirs. If there is anyone out there who works in the toilet industry, please could you set up some sort of governing body to make dual flush systems universal and avoid confusion. Much like VHS vs Betamax, or BlueRay vs HD DVD, surely one system would eventually win. And I can relax when I go to the lav, without fear of pushing the big flush for a small wee.

Shelley brought Ollie in to say hello.

Lots of cooing ensued.  Ollie is gorgeous.

Ali demonstrated true loyalty to her client by showing equal interest in the performance of the Silver Cross S4

Jim is back from Australia and he now looks like the lead singer from Embrace.

As the new Muller website says, "Muller Rice is tasty, healthy and satisfying.  And with less than 3% fat, it’s the perfect snack".  Clearly the crew handing them out to Manchester commuters this morning couldn’t agree more.  Here they are heartily tucking into their bacon barms instead.

Over the last few weeks I have been increasingly aware of an odd head tilting action I have been doing repeatedly whilst working on screen. I have absolutely no explanation for doing this, but have noticed that every other designer in the studio seems to be doing the exact same motion.

After a bit of research I found absolutely nothing useful, apart from a small report detailing how some small rabbits apparently suffer from a disease in which their head are permanently on a jaunty angle.

So, if anyone has any idea why we do it, or what it actually does? It would be interesting to hear. For now, here are some of my guesses.

(i) The tilt action causes a small rush of blood to the creative (colour & shape) side of the brain giving the individual a little boost of creative flare. This is not permanent so a back and forth action is required to sustain the creative turbo.

(ii) The turning of the head gives us an interesting a new angle to view the work which some how gives the designer a second personality in which to view the work from a slightly more critical angle.

Anymore?

-Nice Chris