Festive Pods

'Tis the season to be jolly and to decorate your pods if you're in our Pembroke office obviously as these photos show.

Adline held a competition to see who could pimp their pod the best. First place went to Roy Thomas and his team for their"New York, New York!", which included real falling snow and moving vehicles.

Internet Support were runners-up with their 'Gingerbread House', complete with Chocolate Reindeer, ChupaChups lollies and a roof tiled with giant Cookies.

Separated at birth...

This sent in by an anonymous source I'm surprised that we didn't spot it before!

Stuart Fowler (IRT)




Jez Quigly (ex-Corrie)

Brownbook meets Blog Legend

No not me sadly, but Robert Scoble, who is on of the 'Top 10 Bloggers in the World'.

Dave and Mark from Brownbook recently picked him up from Heathrow and gave him a lift to London, repaying him for the favour when he had done a similar thing for them in San Fransisco two years ago.

They wanted to talk to him about Brownbook, but he went one step further and suggested that he should do a video interview instead.

Here's some links to the same video clip:


http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/05/will-paying-the-crowd-be-new-business-model/

http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer/286131-crowd-sourced-business-listings

http://friendfeed.com/e/e424d829-c3f9-44f3-8e0e-73671d5e2ea5/Crowd-sourced-business-listings-http-www-kyte-tv/

Binny meets Boorman; Rob meets babes!

Binny and Rob recently attended the Carole Nash NEC Bike Show, on a mission to source new clients and contacts.

Rob reports: "Binny was mixing with the celebrities the Hairy Bikers and Charlie Boorman, she also had time to try a few of the new bikes on show.

"Rob H's concentration was mostly focused on building new relationships, it was job and someone had to do it but don’t tell the Wife!" (Ed. OK Rob your secret is safe with us...and the billions of other people who use the Internet!)

Who's nicked the fairy?

This was sent in from Kerry Rolls in the Chichester boats office. Looks like someone has an issue with their choice of decoration on top of their tree...

From: Kelly Barnes Sent: 03 December 2008 09:21To: Boatshop24; Stephen Sumner Subject: Where's our fairy?

Dear All,

It is a grave day indeed when our tree fairy is kidnapped and held for ransom. I discovered the attached note when I was putting a freshly cleaned and dried teaspoon back into the cutlery drawer this morning.

I would like to make clear that we do not respond to this kind of blackmail and we will not be depositing any sort of ransom payment. However we would like to appeal to the kidnapper(s) to return her safe and sound back to the tree. If he/she/they do this then we will not look back through our CCTV footage of the office and will not punish said kidnapper(s).

Kind regards,
Big Brother

And here's the ransom note...

Pembroke's Santas battle for sales

Pembroke's display team recently held a 'Santa Battle' sales day for the Pembroke edition.

They generated a highly respectable £2000 across the day.

Pictured is the team, all of whom entered well and truly into the 'Christmas spirit'...