This sums up the last couple of days for me.

From Animals on the Underground.

London saw the biggest snowfall in 18 years today, and the whole transport infrastructure rolled over and died.

This meant I worked from home (although with no less to get done) and Justine and I made a snowman in my ‘lunchbreak’.

He keeps looking at me.

OK, so there isn’t a single easy answer to what designers and marketers can do which will save the planet, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t helping. I must be getting a piece of junk mail a week from Virgin Media since they put their magical cables down our street.

Other offenders are LoveFilm who constantly persist in harassing me to join even though I am already a member, and British Gas, who have sent us 3 boxes of low energy light bulbs whilst raising our bills at the same time by a staggering amount. Barclays are also so desperate for me to take out a loan with them during a time of economic meltdown, that they send me an envelope full of tripe at least once a month which I promptly tear up and recycle.

Maybe there really is no hope.

Don’t ask me how this happened, it happened. I have come to terms with it now and it’s made me stronger, but it will always be a dark period in my life.

We had good times, we had bad times, we went through a lot. I’d like to think we learned a little about each other along the way.

He had a good innings, of course he’ll never really be dead as long as I remember him…

…if I’m doing some graphic design for you at the moment, there could be some delays involved…

While the great and the good in our neighbourhood are enjoying the refined tennis up the road at Wimbledon and drinking Pimm’s in a relaxed fashion, we’re off to Glastonbury to wade about in mud and eat Pot Noodles. ‘Normal’ service will be resumed next week…

We knocked off work a little early yesterday and went over to Regents Park for a ‘picnic’. I say picnic, but it was basically beer and cocktail sausages. Very chilled out and a nice antidote to the studio which is increasingly frantic of late.

Some of the guys had a kick about, which, being a conscientious objector to football, I declined, but it did remind me of this video which I saw the other day…