November 2011 Archives

Who'd have thought that Bertie Bassett - our liquorice flavoured friend - could have been an icon for the 2012 Olympics? What do I mean? Well, take a look:

Either the artist must have been eating them at the time, or he's after a few freebies (joke). Either way, he got it right - they're British born and bred. I wonder if we'll start seeing multicoloured stripes and colour blocking on the catwalks again just in time for the games to start...

Take a look at the rest of the newly unveiled Olympics posters here.

They promised us the party of the year, and ladies and gentlemen, boy did they deliver. Who am I talking about? Why, Harvey Nichols of course my darlings - it was their 10th anniversary of being at home in our fair city you see; Who else in Birmingham could pull in Alexandra Burke, Nikki Sanderson, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, 'The Only Way Is Essex's Joey Essex, Cara and Billi, Layla Monoochehri and Danielle Lloyd (who, it just so happens, once upon a time endorsed a wine brand, let us film her in Birmingham, said the wrong thing and caused her PR team to panic - media training my lovelies, media training - we will publish your mistakes remember)?