If I find the effing toe-rag who broke in to my car and stole my laptop I'll effing kill them. Arse.

Just spent a great day with Colart, a customer of ours in Le Mans, France. They're a customer in France, the meeting was in Harrow. The conference room had a fantastic display of artists materials anyone who knows Windsor & Newton would recognise. I drooled over them all day. Colart own a lot of very recognisable brands and value their history highly (just seeing the wood panelled museum in their reception area reminds you they've been around a long time), yet they are really working hard to modernise their business model. Very refreshing, a really clear idea of what the Colart of the future should look like. A great meeting that I left with a smile on my face. Not least because I was given a fantastic watercolour paint set as a parting gift! I will have to let my artistic tendencies loose now!

Following on from my theory that the souvenirs sold in an airport will always be the best indicator of where you are in the world, I now wonder if you can reconstruct the worlds famous landmarks purely from the same source. First in the series is the Mannekin Pis, pride of Belgium. I'll have a large one please...

Not easy to capture the action with a Blackberry.

First time we've had all the fmily around for ages so we descended like locusts on the Bengal Spice. Superb. The boys are full of funny stories from their hols. Good times.