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While trawling the vintage shops of Shoreditch I uncovered the key trends for autumn/winter 2012. Read on and discover what you need to wear in the coming months if you wish to retain credibility amongst your fashion  forward  friends and colleagues. Prison orange colour blocking Kim Kardashion has taken a break from being a dirty slut from a family of fame hungry whores. The memory of a sex video has long since been replaced instead by hundreds of images of her posing like a greased up oversexed baby seal. I digress... Remember her (deceased) lawyer father who famously defended OJ Simpson for that double murder. The racism defence was born and America lost 100 years of civil advancements in the blink of one jury verdict; a proud day. This last detail is being cleverly subverted by Kim when she decided to make prison orange a la mode. She's a fashion genius subverting her family connections to the darkest side of American celebrity by wearing the brig

Enjoy the latest collection of tubestranger snaps all done with instagram and the iPhone. In this batch we start with a guest entry by my friend Fay Williams - get in touch if you have a picture that you think should be featured in tubestranger IV. Posted with Blogsy

Just walking along the other day I spotted a grimy old wooden pallet and then... inspiration struck. I was going to turn it into a distressed coffee table.  Here's the process from sawing to sanding and painting in a series of moody Instagram pictures... These tables can retail for £500 to £995 click here to see an example of some overpriced crap and then scroll down to see how I wore my fingers to the bone making one with a soul. If you want one yourself, try... www.londonpalletcompany.com Enjoy After a Trip to B&Q we were ready to go Firstly we cut it down to size ...then sanded it a little smoother Four cut offs for the wheels had to be sanded too ...and then nailed to the pallet. With the four cut offs in place it was time to... ...paint. We chose a grey stain and then sanded to distress. Finally we attached the wheels and tested they held. ...they did And it

Recently my customer service experiences have been the worst of my entire life. I have been left with my blood boiling, teeth grinding and murder in my eyes. Offenders included the Royal Mail, London Underground, Tesco, Automat, Royal Greenwich Council, South Eastern Trains, M&S, Santander and serial fuck-up BT. Rather than bore you with each complaint in turn I preferred to write about where I think it all went wrong and how we can get good service back. Good customer service is not exclusively served by dead-eyed, smiling Americans in Disney-esque uniforms. It is not something false, over-the-top or designed to illicit gratuities. It has been a method of adding value to a customers interactions with a business. These failing individuals are the faces of the business and when they mishandle our requests they damage the reputation of the company. Good service creates the illusion that a company cares and bad service shows the reality of a company that doesn't. I t