The gents toilet is not somewhere that has been overwhelmed by technological advances in recent years – the urinal, sink, cubicle combo is difficult to improve on – they can be well designed, but never really advanced…its just plumbing after all.
Now, super techno wizard James Dyson storms into the bathroom (er…) with some innovation in the ablutions area. They have installed these wicked devices in the gents (and I assume the ladies) at the fantastic Malmaison in Liverpool (my chosen hotel when visiting the banks of the Mersey).
You just pop your hands in the slot at the top – and then slowly withdraw. ‘Blades’ of air (hence the ‘Airblade’ name) sort of ‘scrape’ the water from your hands, leaving them virtually dry (most hand dryers are useless for this, unless you stand for about 4 minutes and are willing to get a chillblain).
The Airblades make a fearsome noise, like a couple of jet engines torching your hands – but boy, you leave the lav feeling clean (until you touch the door handle to leave).
With technology like this, maybe more blokes will wash their hands properly!
I don’t rock ‘the suit’ very much – I’m lucky that I can get away with jeans at work, and a polo shirt…but miraculously I do own a couple of suits. I’ve also promised myself a new suit when I get down to my target weight – maybe an armani or something slinky to befit my future figure…its a reward for the end of my quest.
If there was one thing that could persuade me – its combining the stylish with the geekish…and Marks and Spencer are right on the money with this new beauty – a single breasted, pin-stripe suit, with BUILT IN ipod controls.
So when you see sweaty, spotty little urchins on the tube fiddling with their lapels – you’ll know that they are just skipping through the dull tracks on on the Ibiza Hits 2007 CD.
Everyone’s a winner baby…
My first weigh-day – I set my goal to lose 40kilos by the time I hit 40 exactly two weeks ago today. I’ve mostly stuck to a diet (nothing crazy, just healthy food and less rubbish) – and I’ve been working out regularly. I’m please that I’ve actually shown some difference.
Only 35.9 more to go, but if I can reach 10% of my target in 2 weeks…I reckon I can do this! Big thanks for all the support and encouragement so far!
The most interesting thing – is that even with the small amount I’e done so far, I feel motivated, energised each day and able to get more done with my life – I suppose dropping off 4 bags of sugar from your load – makes you move faster.
Big Brother 8 is barely a week old, and despite the fact its crammed full of cackling, bitchy girls, it has so far taken the same line as the previous events. Tears about hair straightners, cooking duties and who said what to who – introducing a single bloke into 11 women has predictably generated enough bitching to start a minor global conflict, and so it goes - those are the rules of BB, and this years group are no exception.
Also just as predictably (bearing in mind the storm in the celebrity version this year) – we’ve had our first forced removal from the house, when one of the 11 dizzy bints (Emily) said something racist and Channel 4 protected themselves (much like they should have done a few months back. Anyway – we’re down to 10 girlies already!
Only 12 more weeks to go people…
Not sure how to take that – but I think its kinda cool…
Picture taken on my birthday on Saturday – from this date, I have two years to lose my 40 kilos – a picture on this date on 2009 will be very different.
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