Future bathroom?

If you live in an apartment or older home, your bathroom is probably hurting for space. A sink, a shower stall, and a toilet in your bathroom leave but a few extra square feet to turn around.

You could enlarge the bathroom at the expense of reducing your bedroom? Or...

I know! Get a vertical bathroom! The new Vertebrae^®, by Paul Hernon of Design Odyssey Ltd, was made to let you do more with less space (but watch your money).

This stylish aluminum sculpture of seven stacked modules that rotate from the center "spinal column," has every basic item you need in a bathroom, plus it leaves you some room to bend down to touch your toes without hitting your head on the way up.

With a toilet, sink and two shower modules (one for children), the Vertebrae gives most of the space in your bathroom right back to you. And the Vertebrae even provides some storage space for shower, bath, shaving, and cosmetic products right along the column. Cleaning supplies and your favorite toilet paper... in the cupboards under the toilet seat. Really smart design!

The Vertebrae fits into any room that the plumbing goes to. It can be installed in a corner of a room or in the center, but corner installation will limit the pivoting ability of the Vertebrae modules to 100 degree rotation, whereas center placement of the Vertebrae will allow up to 200 degrees of rotation - better for use by two persons at a time.

(New) England Fall

As I left the house on my way to work this morning, I would have been excused for mistaking my street for one in Boston. Overnight, the leaves on the trees in Park Avenue N13 began to change colour. Set against a crystal blue Autumn sky, this was a photo opportunity not to be missed.

The photographs were taken on my LG Viewty.

Groovy football shirts: No.3 1970s Admiral

Long before Soccer Sports and Sports Direct devalued quality sports brands like Ellesse, Robe di Kappa and Diadora with their "stack them high, sell them cheap" policy, a British football kit manufacturer called Admiral, single-handedly created the market of desirable football shirts. Hard to believe that, considering how "cheap" Admiral is considered now. But at the time, Admiral was the Chanel of football kit design.

Before the 1970s, football shirts were plain cotton tshirts in your teams colours. However, by the end of the decade, teams sponsored by Admiral were adorned with branding on sleeves, shorts and even socks never seen before.

Teams such as England, Tottenham, Manchester United, Leeds and West Ham had eleven catwalk models on the pitch, wearing peacock suits.

Below are some of kit advertising which decorated my bedroom wall.

Pump up the volume

For all you recycling buffs out there, here's a nifty solution to unwanted CDs. Turn them into free weights.

All together now.. Let's get physical, physical...

Lost in translation

Whilst drinking a cup of coffee in the departure terminal of Majorca's Palma Airport last week, I came across the unfortunately branded serviettes in a dispenser. Now, if I was in the toilet in need of an ars-wipe then I would have I have commended the Ronseal brand approach.

By the way, the coffee did taste shit!