The science of uni-ball
We've got a another cool video to share with you today, this time from the Mitsubishi Pencil Company, makers of the uni-ball pen range. It shows how their uni-ball Super…
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On your seats, get set, schnell!
Beautiful women, jeroboams of champagne and racy action. No, we're not talking about Christmas parties, we're talking about the Second German Office Chair Racing Championships! Staged in Bad Koenig-Zell, the…
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A meditation on box files
I love filing . I actually love it. Apparently I love it so much, I'm sick. (I was diagnosed by colleagues. I think I need a second opinion.) Anyway, I…
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Please don’t ask for credit because a smack in the mouth often offends
The present economic environment is not conducive to lending to small businesses (SMEs) says the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). The Department for Business, Innovation and…
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Which stapler is for me?
Buying office products can be a bit of a minefield ; they can often be very similar, but have their own niche uses and subtle differences. Staplers are no exception,…
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The Credit Crunch Crisis Budget
Well what an important budget! Too important not to mention. You know, the one where Oh My Darling (OMD) gives us the hard love that is needed to save us…
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Locked Filing Cabinets
When I was a child, my parents had a home office, a mysterious room that my brother and I weren't supposed to go into into. Of course, as typically curious,…
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Lies, damned lies and statistics?
Earlier this week a news item in the Telegraph said that the government had given away £177.8m in loan guarantees in the year to 31 March, under the Enterprise Finance…
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Staple faire
For all of us who have had to do THOSE jobs in an office - the filing, the printing, the mailing and the dreaded stapling together of documents – we…
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How do you keep yours?
Sitting on my desk, right now, is: A now empty can of diet coke and... 4 pack of Post-it Note Page Markers A pack of Neon Rainbow sticky notes A…
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The beauty of Post-its
It’s one of those simple things that makes you think “Surely I could have invented it” - The Post-it note. A little piece of paper with an adhesive back. So…
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The Romance of Stationery
Stationery - Noun writing materials, such as paper, envelopes, and pens USAGE: Avoid confusion with stationary. Definition from The Free Dictionary Our website certainly has an abundance of paper, envelopes and pens,…
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Stuffing envelopes and mailing CDs
Imagine a young lad straight out of school looking for his first job – well, not so long ago, that was me. One of my first jobs was quality checking…
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Kitting out the home office
In the current economic climate (man, I hate that phrase) more and more people are deciding to set up their offices at home. The advantages are pretty clear: no more…
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Green thoughts and greenbacks
The Carbon Trust says it is offering 'as close to free money as a business can get' to help small and medium size businesses (SMEs) cut their energy costs and…
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The clock that thinks it’s a whiteboard
The problem with whiteboards is they don't tell the time. The problem with clocks is that you can't make notes on 'em. Until, as Jeremy Clarkson might say, now. How…
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The mystery of touch typing
Maybe it’s just me (yes, it’s just me) but after more than 20 years using a keyboard all day, every day, I still can’t touch type. While I’m not the…
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Pen licences and pride
It was a big day, not to mention achievement, in Year 4 when my handwriting earned enough gold stars to be awarded a pen licence. A pen licence you ask.…
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The power of plugs and chargers
There have been a couple of interesting developments in the world of portable power recently. (Exciting, I know.) First, many of the major mobile phone manufacturers, after discussion with the…
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The trusty calculator…
My colleague has a calculator on his desk. It’s got 30 odd buttons and does things like add, subtract, divide, multiply and it even has a percentage button! So that…
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Toning up your photocopier
Girls copying their bums on photocopiers are the stuff of TV ads, but spare a thought for the poor photocopier. As many small businesses (SMEs) know, printers and photocopiers can…
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It can only be Wimbledon…at work!
Now that’s great if you’ve got time on your hands, but most of us are slugging it out at work, catching a look on iPlayer (during our lunch hour of…
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SMEs and supply chains
Napoleon is supposed to have said that an army marches on its stomach. Or perhaps it was Frederick the Great, but whoever made the remark, they got one thing right.…
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Please select a payment method
This morning I paid my rent by a BACS transfer, bought some Xbox games from eBay with Paypal, topped up my mobile credit and Oyster card and booked tickets to…
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If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right
In every office, there's a prankster – a good thing, too. Every office needs a bit of fun; it's part of a healthy office . A practical joke can turn…
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BA’s flying by the seat of their pants – would you work for free?
The most recently published unemployment statistics indicate that in the past three months someone has lost their job every 30 seconds in the UK. That makes for pretty dismal reading…
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For the love of Magic Wipes
I love office stuff, in fact I know a whole two rooms full of people that love office stuff, but I have a friend who LOVES office stuff. So much…
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Lost Bic Atlantis
Losing a treasured stationery item is always hard, be it a pen, pencil, ruler or stapler. You spend hours hunting, wondering and obsessing over where it could have got to,…
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Literally – A++ Sticky Note Magic!
Because we're geeky about our office products and because we love checking out all of the interesting ways that stationery products can be used, we've seen a lot of different…
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You got mail…
"Back in the day" when I was just a fledgling Eurofficer, before our trusty cherry made its début, I was given the responsible (yet rather tedious) task of opening the…
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