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I have always wanted to be on the television. I don’t know how, in what form or to what end. But an awareness of there being something of the ridiculous about me has been quite prohibitive.

 
It was therefore fitting that on my very first appearance I should be a hefty 20 lbs larger than my normal self, waddling along in front of the camera at 6 months pregnant looking faultlessly moronic.  


 

 
It is for this reason that my colleague (and bro), Toby – fine figure of a man – is doing all the talking and pointing and generally being very good at television while interviewed about Black.co.uk during the House & Garden Spirit of Summer Fair in London’s Olympia last week.


 

 
I’m not for one minute suggesting that you idle away a Wednesday afternoon on this piece of digital craft but Toby comes across rather well and says much of interest about our company. Failing that, perhaps you’re having a fat day and could use some cheering up in which case a gander at me blobbing along in the background should do the trick.
 

Click this link to view the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJOqpaLtDA

Paris Fashion Week


What ludite took this?

 

That would be me.

In fact it is a still from a video diary that Toby @ Black.co.uk and I made while we were in Paris last Friday for fashion week. We had this idea that we would jump aboard the rich content band wagon and get video-recording.

Except the fatal flaw is that I am inept.  Instead of recording Toby's cutting-edge insights into Parisian fashion in landscape, I did it all in portrait. This means that anyone with even the faintest desire to watch his genious dazzle would have to do so with their heads at 45 degrees. How directional is that?

So what we are left with is this meagre, granular still, bolstered only by the magnificence of Chanel on Rue Cambon behind him; one of the sights I showed him in his education. I also showed him the Water Bar at Collette, took him for Hot White Chocolate at Angelina and at the end of the day showed him La Grande Epicerie de Paris - the best food hall in all the world. Then Steak Frites. Naturellement!

We also found time to do some work but as Absolutely Fabulous Patsy would say, 'I'm not prepared to reveal my vibe, dahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhling'.