Hi Everyone and welcome to the February newsletter from The Lavender Pillow in Mevagissey.
We hope you are all well and are sticking to your new years resolutions...... well mabe not..... We had a cuuning plan for our new year resolutions this year. Given that these resolutions are guaranteed to to fall by the wayside by the middle of January, we made a resolution to eat, drink and smoke too much and avoid any form of exercise. We thought that if things went according to plan we would be slim, fit, and healthy by the end of January...... nice plan....... However I think that this is going to be the first new years resolution in history to be kept to for a whole year.
And what happened to the January newsletter we hear you say....... Well Bazz has been a very busy boy for the past month and just didn't get any free time to do one. If you want to know what has been keeping Bazz so busy, it's this.
Never mind the Pan Pipes. This is Bazz Cooper
Yes you did read it right......... February marks the release of Bazz's new CD packed full of relaxing, inspiring and uplifting instrumental music. This hauntingly beautiful CD is ideal for relaxation, meditation or sheer listening pleasure. (Did I miss any of the New age buzz words there...) Inspired by the unfolding of the seasons here in the magickal landscape of Cornwall. Unlike most other New age Cds, it doesn't have a little sticker on the front saying it sounds like Enya or Pink Floyd (probably because it doesn't sound like them at all). And yes that is Rose on the cover. And yes it will be available from varoius new age music outlets! But if you buy it from us you get it at the reduced price of only £9.99 and if you ask nicely, you may even get a signed copy. We have included a couple of snippets from the CD on the website (one on the
home page
As usual we have lots of stuff for you to look at on the what's new pages
http://www.lavenderpillow.co.uk/Whats_new.html
or if you want to check out the whole site go to
www.lavenderpillow.co.uk
Only two pages of new stuff this month but we have been visiting various trade fairs in our time off and have ordered mountains of new things ready for the summer so keep your eye open for the what's pages in the next few months.
We have also added a new page on the site for all you newsletter addicts.
We have also been very busy dealing with huge amounts of mail order, so, many thanks to all of you who have been using our mail order service. We appreciate you custom and your support, it does help keep the wolf from our door during these quiet winter months. We did have a major boost to to our mail order sales just before christmas as we appeared in The Daily Mail....! They did a full page spread on a lady who is an interior decorator who specialises in the Bohemian Chic style. At the bottom of the page they had a “where to get the Boho Chic look” section and there we were, The Lavender Pillow with our phone number! Well erm....... we were as surprised as you are....... we thought we were a Goth shop but it seems we are now a Boho Chic Boutique. But don't panic, we won't be putting our prices up.
So moving swiftly on to the Bazz rant section...... you would have thought that after missing out on the January newsletter, Bazz would have two months worth of pent up existential angst and would be just waiting for an opportunity to vent his swollen spleen, but to be honest after a month of recording and mixing a chilled out new age music album, he hasn't got a good rant left in him......... probably............ maybe................. well other than the product naming thing that is............. oh go on then................ you know you want to...............
Is it just us, or have you noticed how most new product recently have really crap names................. Cilit Bang, Cif, Kaboom, The Ford Ka, The Nintendo Wii, need I go on. Where do do they find these product names.... and wherever they find them, why don't they just leave them there. We assume the problem is that there have been millions of products released over the years and their names have all been registered as trade marks so they can never be used again. This implies that there must be a place you can go where they have the lists of registered brand names to see if a name has been used before. HMMM... interesting job........ We have this vision of a man from cadbury's visiting this place to sort a name for their new chocolate bar...... “Well Mr Cadbury, I have checked out all the registered brand names in the chocolate bar department and there are only three possible names left.... Your chocolate bar will have to be called either The Smeg bar, The Spitoonicle bar, or The Warty Old Tadger Bar. I'm sorry but everthing else has been taken.” Skoda took a novel approach a few years back. They took words with sexual connotations and changed a letter or two..... The Skoda Felecia and the Skoda Fabia for example. We are eagerly awaiting the launch of the Skoda Pollock and the Skoda Benis...... Some other companies have tried a similar approach but got it sadly wrong...... does anyone remember the brand of tampons called Femtex? Given where you have to put them, making them sound like a brand of explosives was possibly not the wisest choice. Other companies take the easy way out and call their products The BMW 635 Csi or the Toshiba TDVD3072-1/r-53.9x when the The “Toshiba DVD Dream Machine De Luxe” would have been slightly more poetic and attractive. There is obviously a need in the manufacturing industry for a professional product naming consultant, so we are here to fill that particular niche. If you are about the launch a new product on the market, just give us a call and we will come up with the perfect name for you. Just bear in mind that we tend to go for a graphic and honestly descriptive approach with these things. So don't be suprised if we suggest that your product be called something like the Lada Cheapbutcrap. Or the Skoda Bucketabolts. Or even the Rover Juslykajag. OOOPs! I can already hear all the Skoda drivers grumbling and saying “it's made by the the same people who make VWs you know” ...... It's funny you never hear VW drivers say “t's made by the same people who make Skoda's you know”. And as for the Rover 75 drivers..... It may look just like a Jag but at least you can still get parts for a Jag.... ha! As for Lada drivers, they tend to keep pretty quiet about such things..... So that's half our customers offended already
On to more serious matters…. Have you ever fancied having a cast of your face done? Or even your whole body? Pregnant ladies can have a cast of their bump done (or if any of you blokes are proud of your huge beer belly), why not have it preserved for posterity. If you are interested in such things you need to talk to Andre and the nice people at All Hand Made
as they are setting up a series of life casting classes here in Cornwall to teach you how to do it. Sounds like great fun. You can contact Andre for more details via his website.
www.andremasters.co.uk
Then there is the bit you are all bored with reading but we have to put in to avoid being accused of sending out spam…… We only put people on our Emailing list who have expressed an interest in our products or who have left their email address on our guest book. If at anytime you wish to be removed from our Emailing list just reply to this email with the words “I'm a boring fart with no sense of humour and I have no time to be dealing with this sort of balderdash and piffle as I consider it to be just stuff and nonsense” in the subject field and we will not bother you again. OOOPs! There go all the Daily Mail Readers then.
And that's about it for February folks. Bazz does promise he will work up a good head of steam in preparation for the March rant section.
So until next month
Bright Blessings to you all from
Bazz & Rose
The Lavender Pillow
