The Foamy Gnome is on the roam!...

Here it is the second Rowntrees RANDOM video below, following the adventures of a ‘foamy gnome’, Random’s special pink sweet. As is the case with Random’s, most of the time you have no idea what is going on, which is half the appeal. Also, if anyone is following the Facebook group you may find this even more confusing than the video’s:  ‘Hi ice creams! I am a teapot flower feeling monkey bike! I like Randoms, they are very squidgy chess piece. Bye post boxes!’….um, ok?  So the story starts with the Foamy Gnome who...

Oldest Jeans Ever...

With a fondness for antiques that goes way back, the British have a fetish for all things old, and it runs a lot deeper than we thought in this country that considers Queen Victoria’s old undies a national treasure.  Recently, a survey by the Lakeside Shopping Center in Essex, England showed us that two million Britons have held on to jeans for forty or more years, some longer.  Good thing that’s not the norm, or else the entire country would be saturated with patchwork bell-bottoms that reeked of patchouli. The average pair of jeans is six years old...