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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
"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…