Jacksons pay attention to branding detail.
The store is branded with a dark green background to its main name sign above the mannequinned window displays and below the large lettering that eponymously announces ‘Jacksons corner’ . The text on its custom plastic bags and the piece de resistance is the wonderful font used to announce Jacksons on the green marble entrance way.
I swooned.
I am easily pleased
Since leaving my parents’ home in the early 1980’s I’ve hankered after a classic wool dressing gown bordered with coloured-chord. Over the years I’ve compromised with fluffy-cotton dressing gowns, Kimonos and stylish smoking jackets. Finally, the exceptional Jackson’s summer sale delivered the real thing. Extra-large mens’ was the smallest size available. The shop assistant said that they had ordered the ‘Lloyd Attree and Smith’ (Gentlemans outfitters since 1857) dressing gowns based on regular requests from customers. Unfortunately, when the dressing gowns arrived the customers were not prepared to pay the full retail price.
Jacksons will not be restocking these Lloyd Attree and Smith 100% wool dressing gowns.
Much to the mature, mens department, shop assistant’s amusement I tried-on the XL dressing gown. It did not trail on the floor though I will have to roll the sleeves up by about 6 inches to keep them out of my breakfast.
I treated myself to the warm stylish, oversized, high quality gown and a couple of white hankerchiefs in readiness for the impending onset of winter… …it really is a wonderful experience in the early dawn, wrapped in wool beneath the dew-covered conservatory with a hot mug of tea.
How the Wendy House got deflowered:
I took a small star provided within famfamfam’s free mini icon set, then used Microsoft’s Digital Image suite to
Then, while playfully browsing the Wordpress codex ‘plug-ins’, I discovered favatars, comvatars, and gravatars.
…..ooo00OOO00oooo…
The rest of the fun-filled friday night was spent foisting a favatar on you. A favatar is the little picture that shows up next to a website name in the browser’s faviourites list and before the http bit in the browsers address line. To commit this dastardly crime I used:
Cat-discombobulating-bouncing ensued when the little star revealed itself in my IE7.0 address bar and Tab. Before Friday I knew the experience of a favicon but not what it was called or how to set-one up for my site.
Sometimes I even suprise myself by how easily I am pleased
Hoorah!
Bored Now
Originally uploaded by Pete Ashton.
sat above the driver of an 11c bus, with your feet on the sill, heaven! I’m easily pleased
- sounds pleasing…
- smells fresh…
- tastes delicious…
- feels invigorating… …internally and externally…
- looks luminous…
Like this:
This single girl is easily pleased, temporarily, with an Imperial pint.
Before it got out of the bag.
Potential fiancee “the loss adjusters who were due to appraise the damage to my car are running an hour late so we’ll have to reschedule“
Wendy “Have you got time now? Can we do this over the phone?”
Potential fiancee “yes sure” (I do sooo love the sound of ‘YES’! He puts me on speaker phone)
Wendy: “…(unpublishable talk about my job)…”
Potential fiancee “..(Rabid typing and witty comments. Keeps his loss adjuster waiting 15mins to wrap-up call with me)…” Later that morning I send promised documents to potential fiancee who replies telling me what you already know, that I ROCK! and providing lots of little juicy promises to make my work life easier.
I could have married him on the spot.
Company harrassment policy made me think twice about announcing the offer. I’ll keep it on hold until I’ve worked out if he’s a player
Wendy Easily-pleased
