friday nonsense

Sammy Stephens, the man behind Flea Market Montgomery, is back with a little more magic. What a guy.

If you find yourself in a disco situation this weekend, perhaps you should give it a bit of Flea Market.

punctures made easy

Yesterday, Fordy taught me how to fix a puncture properly and enlightened me as to how far puncture repair kits have advanced since I last got someone else to fix my bike.

No more glue, funny little rubber circles or scrubby bits of chalk.

Just a postage stamp sized patch that you peel off and stick over the offending hole.

Small enough to fit in your pocket yet strong enough to stop that air escaping from your tyres.

Magic stuff.

getting in contact

It's Friday. It's random video time. Let us introduce you to the fine art of contact juggling.

Flabbergasting is a very under used word these days but I'm going to use it here...

Flabbergasting.

innocent smoothies help you read faster

We've just come across this blog post by a clever guy called Michael who specialises in speed reading and accelerated learning techniques. He's really good at it and could probably read this whole page from top to bottom in a just a few seconds. Like that bit in The Matrix.

Anyway he came across one of our labels (above), where we mixed all the letters up but you can still kind of read it, and thought it was interesting so has broken the science behind it down a bit. Tnakhs for yuor knid wrods Mcehail.

keeping it local

Round the corner from where we work, The Thatched House pub has a lovely little thing going on.

Everyday, they write up a different street name in the local area on their blackboard and if you can prove you live on that street, you get a free drink on the house.

Simple as that.

It's a small but charming way of making people feel part of a community and a great excuse to get to know the neighbours and have a bit of a knees up.

guerilla knitting

I went to visit Meera in Stockholm at the weekend.

Along with lots of excellent coffee shops, impressive kitchenware and an archipelago of astounding beauty, Stockholm also has rather a lot of knitting graffiti.

Apparently, artists knit onto whichever lampost, doorknob or car aerial takes their fancy and refuse to be moved along until they've completed the row they're working on.

No one is quite sure just how many Swedish guerilla knitters are out there but they're doing a cracking job, brightening up the streets, making people smile and keeping chilly lamp posts nice and toasty.

friday came early this week

We'd usually post a clip of this calibre on a Friday, but we couldn't wait.

the jar is back

Stu found the jar again this morning after it mysteriously disappeared.

    

Apparently, it's leftover flower water.

No one is actually laying claim to it though.

dubious jar

Found this loitering on a desk this morning.

Not quite sure what to make of it

world's narrowest traffic light

One at a time please.