I’m gonna hold my hands up and admit that not every light bulb I own is energy efficient. In fact some of them are probably downright wasteful but that’s cos they’re either pretty or they’re fit for purpose, being compatible with dimmer switches where energy efficient lights are not. But back to pretty, or at least decorative. So far the choice of green bulbs has been limited to three styles: dull, uninspiring and plain wrong.

But now they’ve been ‘Hulgerised’.

Only prototypes for the moment, Hulger are looking for a manufacturer to help bring some joy to the green light bulb lover with what they’re calling the Plumen Project. While I suspect we’d be more likely to see these sold somewhere the likes of Habitat it would be great to think somewhere more high street like Tesco or Woolworths could get behind them.

From our friends in Japan comes Donya - a denim skirt for people who want to have a more furtive relationship with their mouse. Really, I just made that up. I have no idea what the marketing blurb says, but there’s no need, I think you get the idea. Besides, no words I can think of would make this product in any way anything other than wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Spotted in Vauxhall, a place I have mixed emotions about having spent six years working at D&AD who are based there. Loved the work, couldn’t say goodbye to the location fast enough. This block of flats always seemed to sum it up for me, but on a recent trip I was amused to see that the local takeaway has added a new edge to the name of the building. While amusing, it only highlighted my urgency to get on the next bus out. Sorry Vauxhall, but six years was enough. It needs to get a whole lot tastier before I could be wooed back.

For the longest time the spam emails I’ve been getting have had all the imagination of a mosquito. Just now though I got one from Methuselah in Burkina Faso which made me smile so I’m sharing it.

Why do I like it? Well, it’s been a while since someone tried to sell me something other than an extension to private parts I am not in possession of. And the lure of gold is a temptation as ancient as the gods.

Which reminds me, Methuselah was the oldest man in the Bible you know. 969 years old apparently when he died. Guess he’s always been a fibber.

Some girls are fools for love, some crumple at the sight of a branch of Hotel Chocolat. I can’t resist a well-turned heel. Seven months pregnant or not, these saucy offerings from Nicholas Kirkwood are pure Puss ‘n Bootieliciousness and high up on the Christmas wish list. Santa can find them here.

Paul Arden has a new book out - God Explained in a Taxi Ride - so I popped into our local book shop to buy a copy. First stop, New Releases. Nope. New Paperbacks then, a sub-section of New Releases. Surely it isn’t a hardback (New Paperback’s twin sub-section)…no not there either. Books for Christmas perhaps? Staff Picks? Non-fiction. Gotta be in non-fiction. Hmm. The nook that houses Advertising, Design and Photography - perhaps they put it in there? No. A last, desperate rush to the no man’s land between Language and Religion. Nothing. Right then. To the counter.

Excuse me, where do you keep the Paul Arden books?

The what?

Books by Paul Arden…y’know, the guy who wrote It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be? He has a new book out this week and I can’t find it.

Oh yeah. That book about taxi drivers. It’s upstairs in Books for Under a Tenner.

I hadn’t seen Books for Under a Tenner before. Full of funny-for-a-day gift ideas for those difficult family members, no doubt, but it made my heart sink. Almost the whole of the ground floor is categorised in this way. 3 for 2. Half Price Bestsellers (are they best sellers because they’re half price? Or are they overstocked best sellers from Oprah and Richard & Judy book lists of yesteryear?) It wasn’t there anyway. Who’d have thought a book about taxi drivers would be so popular? Perhaps I’m wrong and they’re right. Maybe people like to buy their books by the £ but it makes you think - where exactly do you file Paul Arden?