Well, it's the end of another working year & this one seems to have flown by!
From all of us here at Gemini we'd like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has read our blog & for all the great feedback we have received. We hope you have enjoyed reading it, and continue to throughout 2008...
All that remains is to say have a lovely Christmas & we wish you all the best for 2008
See you then!!
Dianne, Helen, Emma & Ruth
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Carbon Christmas
Apparently, a carbon footprint equivalent to 6,000 car journeys around the world will be produced by the UK tucking into Christmas dinner.
Researchers have calculated the production, processing and transportation costs of the festive ingredients. It's claimed the UK's love of the traditional turkey dinner will generate 51,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Really? Do we need to know this? I'm already recycling all my rubbish, using public transport and switching off every light and standby button in my house. Please let me enjoy my Christmas dinner!!!
Helen
Researchers have calculated the production, processing and transportation costs of the festive ingredients. It's claimed the UK's love of the traditional turkey dinner will generate 51,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Really? Do we need to know this? I'm already recycling all my rubbish, using public transport and switching off every light and standby button in my house. Please let me enjoy my Christmas dinner!!!
Helen
Friday, 7 December 2007
‘Office girl flu’: I don’t think so!
I was surprised to read that according to a new survey man flu is out and ‘office girl flu’ is in.
Apparently two thirds of men will not let a cold keep them off work compared with only half of women.
Bizarre excuses for absence include: ‘Watford got relegated and I couldn’t face work.’ Others that reached the top 10 were: ‘My cat is depressed’, ‘My hamster died’, ‘A bird pooed on my head’, ‘I’m having a bad hair day’, ‘My dog caught fire’, ‘I have to go to the first day of the Next sale’, ‘I can’t my find false teeth’, ‘My brain hurts’ and ‘I was cooking my breakfast in the microwave and it exploded’.
What’s even more shocking is that the guiltiest culprits were found to be women aged 24 to 28 working in travel, hospitality and PR, with Brighton and Nottingham as the wimpiest cities!
Now falling perfectly into the category of this apparent new ‘master skiver’, I whole heartedly disagree with these generalisations. I have never, and I’m sure I can speak for the other girls in the office here, rung in work to say sorry I can’t come into today I can’t find my false teeth, they exploded in the microwave at the Next sale!!
Emma
Apparently two thirds of men will not let a cold keep them off work compared with only half of women.
Bizarre excuses for absence include: ‘Watford got relegated and I couldn’t face work.’ Others that reached the top 10 were: ‘My cat is depressed’, ‘My hamster died’, ‘A bird pooed on my head’, ‘I’m having a bad hair day’, ‘My dog caught fire’, ‘I have to go to the first day of the Next sale’, ‘I can’t my find false teeth’, ‘My brain hurts’ and ‘I was cooking my breakfast in the microwave and it exploded’.
What’s even more shocking is that the guiltiest culprits were found to be women aged 24 to 28 working in travel, hospitality and PR, with Brighton and Nottingham as the wimpiest cities!
Now falling perfectly into the category of this apparent new ‘master skiver’, I whole heartedly disagree with these generalisations. I have never, and I’m sure I can speak for the other girls in the office here, rung in work to say sorry I can’t come into today I can’t find my false teeth, they exploded in the microwave at the Next sale!!
Emma
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Let there be lights
Christmas is almost upon us – but you wouldn’t know it if you drove up Maid Marian Way, where the Gemini PR offices are located.
Back in the summer the road was praised by The Commission for Architect and the Built Environment as a leading example of how to transform “a soulless highway into a lively city street.” And yet the City Council has not put up one single Christmas decoration along the road.
Surely a main arterial route in the city that reportedly has 33,000 vehicles driving up it each day, let alone the large numbers of pedestrians that walk along it, merits some festive treatment.
Dianne
Back in the summer the road was praised by The Commission for Architect and the Built Environment as a leading example of how to transform “a soulless highway into a lively city street.” And yet the City Council has not put up one single Christmas decoration along the road.
Surely a main arterial route in the city that reportedly has 33,000 vehicles driving up it each day, let alone the large numbers of pedestrians that walk along it, merits some festive treatment.
Dianne
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