San G

Friday, 13 June 2008

San Gimignano. Lovely! I have the good fortune to have to go to Italy for a couple of days soon. It's Milan, not San G (where I was 4 years ago this week), but it is Italy. Such are the hardships of my job...



P.S. Talking of Italy, if you have a Senseo machine and like Italian Roast coffee - we have Segafredo pods (Intermezzo and Emozioni) available at Coffeo.co.uk

Originality is hard

Monday, 2 June 2008

A lesson on how hard it is to be original!

Whilst walking back from town at lunchtime with a colleague, it started to rain. Neither of us had umbrellas, but we on the way back we devised a concept for a double umbrella [which on checking, I see has already been done, of course]. We thought up some names - like Dubrella, Dumbrella... We came up with a rectangular version which we figured could be delightfully naughtily called the Rect-umbrella...!!

A quick look on google and... yup, unbelievably - 'Rect-umbrella' done! For sale in the US - of course.