These hip young things have seen the light. There are no surprises for the demographic Volkswagen is aiming the new Polo at. Here’s the first proper commercial for the new Polo, which launches this week in Germany, and has attracted over 24,000 advance orders.
2009 Volkswagen Polo: ‘Neon’ TV commercial
June 29th, 2009Donate, Don’t Dump!
June 28th, 2009I’m a keen advocate of charity shops, and largely donate any unwanted clothes to the outlets in town. Regularly taking in piles of unwanted items can be good for the soul, and also benefit the donation charity in question, and so I’ve been watching the BBC’s Mary Queen of Charity Shops with great interest.
[Warning: the following post contains spoilers for Mary Queen of Charity Shops.]
Printing World reunion
June 25th, 2009
It’s funny how you work somewhere for a considerable amount of time, but actually don’t know that many people. It’s funnier how you don’t realise this until much later, but that’s what I found out last Thursday. The Shy and Retiring Party Planners (you know who you are) arranged a get together in central London for former Printing World staff members to celebrate 130 years of the UK’s premier print title.
The respected UK printing trade and graphic arts industry title earned a good reputation for itself throughout its century plus 30 years, and reported on the great, good, and not so good from the world of the presses. It was largely owned by one company, CMP Information through its incarnations, and started life when the owning firm was known as Benn’s, becoming Miller Freeman, ending up as the CMP of today.
A summer of strawberries
June 23rd, 2009
We don’t know what we’ve done right this year. The strawberry plot we planted two years ago seemed all but dead. We had a handful last year, but nothing much to speak off, and only a few more the year before. We’ve since read that it can take two years for strawberry plants to get established in the garden, and it appears that fact is right.
Sophiething to do at the weekend…
June 19th, 2009
Download this. Yes, I know I’ve blogged about this recently, but if you’re a lover of pop, there’s currently nothing finer. Released physically on Monday, click on the smiley picture of Miss E-B above for the cut-price version of the Freemasons Ft Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer), or here for the full to bursting 9-track iTunes package. If you still need convincing, take a look at the video.