Somebody kill me now! I feel quite strange having agreed with the Daily Mail.

This week the Daily Mail has been running a “Banish the Bags” campaign. Now, that’s something I kinda agree with. Yes, sometimes I forget my reusable bag when I go out, but hey, that’s my fault.

However, it bloody typical of the tabloid media (and as far as I’m concerned, the Daily Mail is a tabloid), they’ve decided to take the credit for M&S deciding to stop giving away bags for free.
Uhh, no Daily Mail. M&S had already been trialling this in some parts of the country for a month now (certainly in Bath), and they’ve decided to go national with it (hurrahh!!). This has got NOTHING to do with your campaign.

Chicken shortages

Despite what the supermarkets were saying, it does indeed look like that the Chicken Out and Channel 4 TV shows have had an effect on our buying habits.

This was reported (on the front page no less) by the Independant here and here.

Well, that was well planned

I’m sorry, but I did chuckle at the naivety of this chap.
The basic aim was walk from Bristol to India, without money, relying on the goodwill of people. OK, sounds a bit crazy, but an interesting challenge, but I’m sure plenty of people would be willing to help him…

BUT, he forgot one big factor. Language.

But, because he could not speak French, people thought he was free-loading or an asylum seeker.

You would have thought he would have planned for that??!!??

He now plans to walk around the coast of Britain instead, learning French as he goes, so he can try again next year.

OK, so then, in a year’s time, you head of for France… get some nice people to help, you carry on your merry way and then… shit, I’ve now arrived in Germany/Italy/Switzerland and I can’t speak German/Italian!
This could take some time!