Can't get enough of this song at the moment...Sugababes - "About A Girl".
Ahhh the Sugababes...no original members but they keep the tunes coming.
There's only one Sugababe in my eyes...the beautiful Heidi, the other two can jog on, oh yes, you heard me!
Monday 23 November 2009
Video WOW of the week!
Sunday 22 November 2009
What to do?
So been thinking about something very important...
Do I stay loyal to blackberry or do I go to the dark side and get an I-phone? Both available on Orange, both free and both in my opinion pretty fab! I need some help!
vs
Do I stay loyal to blackberry or do I go to the dark side and get an I-phone? Both available on Orange, both free and both in my opinion pretty fab! I need some help!
vs
Saturday 21 November 2009
What a load of Angel Delight...
Isn't life funny? It's true what they say about fashion being cyclical...it's becoming more and more evident in these times of "recessional" hardship that we like to go back to a time when things were good and things felt better.
For example ladies and gentlemen take Angel Delight...no really, stay with me...recently I read that Angel Delight sales had risen considerably since entering this current dark period. People connected this light whippy all be it VERY sugary dessert with good times, it's been around since the 60's and its kept it's place on our high street shelves ever since. It's not expensive, it's easy to make and tastes damn good.
Marks and Spencer celebrated their 100 year birthday recently, they went back to their roots and played upon the penny bazarr format which made their name famous way way back many years ago. They knew people needed a distraction, they knew people wanted mega cheap things and above all they knew that with their sales dipping they needed to do something quick to drum up a frenzy - thousands of people bought stuff they didn't really need in those few days.
Similarly, I don't know if you've noticed but the increase in vintage TV adverts that have been dug out of the archives and are gracing our screens again? Ones I've seen so far are Milky Way and Toys R'us....amazing! It took me straight back to my childhood, which to be fair wasn't that long ago, I still consider myself a young 25 year old, but it worked.
It makes you wonder what else will be due back an entry on our British High streets? hmmm...Maybe Tab Clear (where did that go?) the taste of cola with no colour, genius! stand alone Woolworths pick and mix stores? Now there's an idea!
Sing along now everyone...The red car and the blue car had a race....
For example ladies and gentlemen take Angel Delight...no really, stay with me...recently I read that Angel Delight sales had risen considerably since entering this current dark period. People connected this light whippy all be it VERY sugary dessert with good times, it's been around since the 60's and its kept it's place on our high street shelves ever since. It's not expensive, it's easy to make and tastes damn good.
Marks and Spencer celebrated their 100 year birthday recently, they went back to their roots and played upon the penny bazarr format which made their name famous way way back many years ago. They knew people needed a distraction, they knew people wanted mega cheap things and above all they knew that with their sales dipping they needed to do something quick to drum up a frenzy - thousands of people bought stuff they didn't really need in those few days.
Similarly, I don't know if you've noticed but the increase in vintage TV adverts that have been dug out of the archives and are gracing our screens again? Ones I've seen so far are Milky Way and Toys R'us....amazing! It took me straight back to my childhood, which to be fair wasn't that long ago, I still consider myself a young 25 year old, but it worked.
It makes you wonder what else will be due back an entry on our British High streets? hmmm...Maybe Tab Clear (where did that go?) the taste of cola with no colour, genius! stand alone Woolworths pick and mix stores? Now there's an idea!
Sing along now everyone...The red car and the blue car had a race....
Sunday 15 November 2009
Video WOW of the week!
Tim has booked us tickets to go and see the new James Cameron movie Avatar at the Imax Cinema....so excited! Released 18th December...looks brilliant!
He's making a list and checking it twice.
It's that time again...each week we are seeing more and more contestants being thrown off of Strictly and X-factor, this can mean only one thing...Christmas is nearly upon us.
As ever my Dad started shopping mega early again and asked for a Christmas list, here goes (in no particular order) :
1) Black Passport cover
2) I-tunes vouchers (gotta love a download).
3) Starbucks branded metal tumbler.
4) Black Business Card holder (to store my business cards).
5) Complete series of Absolutely Fabulous DVD
6) Latest Series of Spooks DVD
7) Bear Bricks
8) Hong Kong Guide Book
9) Black Manhattan Portage Wallet
10) Black Manhattan Portage Vinyl Messenger Bag
11) Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mummy DS game
That's where I am so far.
Ho Ho Ho!
As ever my Dad started shopping mega early again and asked for a Christmas list, here goes (in no particular order) :
1) Black Passport cover
2) I-tunes vouchers (gotta love a download).
3) Starbucks branded metal tumbler.
4) Black Business Card holder (to store my business cards).
5) Complete series of Absolutely Fabulous DVD
6) Latest Series of Spooks DVD
7) Bear Bricks
8) Hong Kong Guide Book
9) Black Manhattan Portage Wallet
10) Black Manhattan Portage Vinyl Messenger Bag
11) Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mummy DS game
That's where I am so far.
Ho Ho Ho!
Saturday 14 November 2009
Sorry I've not been in touch, I've been away in Hong Kong.
I got back in the early hours of this morning, I've managed to get a little bit of a sleep, I've unpacked and put some washing round, a watched washing machine never washes, so I thought I'd pop to Starbucks, my reason two-fold...firstly I need to re-Londonise, secondly think I'll be thankful for the caffeine this afternoon.
I'm sat here with my Vanilla Late, relaxed, chilled. I thought I would blog about my time in the Far East...are you sitting comfortably?...then I will begin.
I flew out last Saturday, a late 11 something or other flight from Terminal 5. 13 hours later I arrived in Hong Kong. I imagined it to be busy, full of neon lights, tall buildings and really noisy...I was right on all four accounts, one thing I didn't expect was the heat, really warm! I don't know why but I figured that the temperature would be quite close to London - my geography is pretty crap and so I'm not surprised I got it wrong. The other thing that I wasn't expecting was the huge mountains on the horizon.
The hotel we were staying is was beautiful, the Langham Place in Mongkok (oh what a funny name), I was on the 19th floor (there were 43 floors) the room had a pretty impressive view over the city...in true HK style the room was pretty technical, a video tour of my room showing me how everything works and a phone that was way too technical to use.
We had a couple of hours before dinner and so my designer David and I went to the "ladies market", no idea why it's called that. I've never seen so many people scurrying around, I've lived in London and New York but this was something else! The market was selling all sorts of "designer" clobber, that Chanel watch you wanted? Yours for $300 HKD, that Prada bag? Just $500HKD, sound expensive? Think again, $100HKD equated to around 8 quid! My favourite was definitely the "Authentic" Ralph Lauren polo shirts for $30HKD, yes ladies and gentlemen, roll up, roll up, yours for just £2.50.
Later that evening we went for an authentic Chinese meal, OK, I lie, we ended up in an Indian. I learnt very quickly that the buildings are multi-purpose in the city, with such a huge population in a relatively small space it's hardly surprising. Going up in the lift the doors open on each floor, one floor seems to be residential flats, up again, offices, up again, a restaurant , up again a shopping mall. After the meal (which was yummy) we went for a Chinese massage, well I think it was Chinese? I guess I assumed really. After that I retired to bed, I'd like to say the massage relaxed me, it didn't...the guy was brutal, that combined with an Indian meal and jet lag resulted in a sleepless night.
Down to business - the rest of the week was used meeting suppliers and briefing in AW10 product. No free time for me. On work trips you tend to either be in your hotel, in a cab, in an office or in a restaurant (in work mode). I always knew this one was going to be a busy trip, briefing in products like outerwear take some time. I'm hoping to get some more me-time when I go back in May, saying that I've already had two invites to China to see some factories.
Hong Kong was very different to London however surprisingly also very Western. The roads had very English names and pretty much everyone spoke English. The food on the other hand, very Eastern! Being a vegetarian I knew this was going to be a challenge, I've walked down China Town in London several times and found the sight of ducks, pigs and animals I didn't even know you could eat hanging in the windows slightly hard to stomach, saying that I'm also a dab hand at using chop sticks and a fan of Dim-sum so knew I wouldn't go hungry.
It's about half 12 here in London, so in theory my body thinks it's 7.30 in the evening, I'm not feeling tired yet - my trusty Vanilla Latte may well have saved the day. Oh great it's raining! Heavy, cold winter rain..hmmm could be time for another bevvy.
I got back in the early hours of this morning, I've managed to get a little bit of a sleep, I've unpacked and put some washing round, a watched washing machine never washes, so I thought I'd pop to Starbucks, my reason two-fold...firstly I need to re-Londonise, secondly think I'll be thankful for the caffeine this afternoon.
I'm sat here with my Vanilla Late, relaxed, chilled. I thought I would blog about my time in the Far East...are you sitting comfortably?...then I will begin.
I flew out last Saturday, a late 11 something or other flight from Terminal 5. 13 hours later I arrived in Hong Kong. I imagined it to be busy, full of neon lights, tall buildings and really noisy...I was right on all four accounts, one thing I didn't expect was the heat, really warm! I don't know why but I figured that the temperature would be quite close to London - my geography is pretty crap and so I'm not surprised I got it wrong. The other thing that I wasn't expecting was the huge mountains on the horizon.
The hotel we were staying is was beautiful, the Langham Place in Mongkok (oh what a funny name), I was on the 19th floor (there were 43 floors) the room had a pretty impressive view over the city...in true HK style the room was pretty technical, a video tour of my room showing me how everything works and a phone that was way too technical to use.
We had a couple of hours before dinner and so my designer David and I went to the "ladies market", no idea why it's called that. I've never seen so many people scurrying around, I've lived in London and New York but this was something else! The market was selling all sorts of "designer" clobber, that Chanel watch you wanted? Yours for $300 HKD, that Prada bag? Just $500HKD, sound expensive? Think again, $100HKD equated to around 8 quid! My favourite was definitely the "Authentic" Ralph Lauren polo shirts for $30HKD, yes ladies and gentlemen, roll up, roll up, yours for just £2.50.
Later that evening we went for an authentic Chinese meal, OK, I lie, we ended up in an Indian. I learnt very quickly that the buildings are multi-purpose in the city, with such a huge population in a relatively small space it's hardly surprising. Going up in the lift the doors open on each floor, one floor seems to be residential flats, up again, offices, up again, a restaurant , up again a shopping mall. After the meal (which was yummy) we went for a Chinese massage, well I think it was Chinese? I guess I assumed really. After that I retired to bed, I'd like to say the massage relaxed me, it didn't...the guy was brutal, that combined with an Indian meal and jet lag resulted in a sleepless night.
Down to business - the rest of the week was used meeting suppliers and briefing in AW10 product. No free time for me. On work trips you tend to either be in your hotel, in a cab, in an office or in a restaurant (in work mode). I always knew this one was going to be a busy trip, briefing in products like outerwear take some time. I'm hoping to get some more me-time when I go back in May, saying that I've already had two invites to China to see some factories.
Hong Kong was very different to London however surprisingly also very Western. The roads had very English names and pretty much everyone spoke English. The food on the other hand, very Eastern! Being a vegetarian I knew this was going to be a challenge, I've walked down China Town in London several times and found the sight of ducks, pigs and animals I didn't even know you could eat hanging in the windows slightly hard to stomach, saying that I'm also a dab hand at using chop sticks and a fan of Dim-sum so knew I wouldn't go hungry.
It's about half 12 here in London, so in theory my body thinks it's 7.30 in the evening, I'm not feeling tired yet - my trusty Vanilla Latte may well have saved the day. Oh great it's raining! Heavy, cold winter rain..hmmm could be time for another bevvy.
Monday 2 November 2009
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Video WOW of the Week!
Love her, love the song but what a crap video!! 1,2,3, doobey, doobey dee dee.
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