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by 55 North
PUPPY LOVE
Further proof that the world is going to hell in a hand-cart comes with the news that greetings card company Dotty About Paper has created a range of Valentine’s Day cards for dogs after seeing a more than 200% increase in searches since the start of the year.
With around three million dogs bought during the pandemic, the business clearly thinks there’s a market for such nonsense.
As does Steven Stone Jewellers, which is punting a range of pendants and charms so that besotted owners can step out with their pooch wearing matching bling.
If this floats your boat, you’re an idiot. But you know what they say about a fool and his money: the necklace (nine carat yellow gold tastefully adorned with five 2mm lab-grown gemstones) and matching dog tag shown above will set you back a cool £999.
Suddenly, the though of spending two quid on a card doesn’t seem so bad after all.
Flushed with success
News has reached The Week in Retail of a patented toilet brush alternative that “could save tens of billions of litres of water”. A bold claim, and one we felt needed a closer (but not too close) look.
The delightfully-titled Shiffter is a hand-held jet wash which lets you clean your toilet using a jet of water rather than a brush.
Inventor Kam Mistry says: “As it’s used straight after you go, it does away with need to put on the rubber gloves and scrub with a toilet brush for the weekly clean.”
Hold on. You don’t need to be a regular viewer of Downton Abbey to know that it’s considered good form to deploy the toilet brush on an “as needed” basis and not just let a week’s worth of skid marks pile up.
And how something you fill from the tap saves water is anyone’s guess. When was the last time anyonew topped up the tank on a toilet brush?
