I find the world galloping past me like a very fast galloping thing.You get kinda bogged down at times by what seems important but in actual fact, isn’t. Things such as celeb gossip, career progression, other people’s opinions of you, whether your friends are socially acceptable, what clothes the media tells you that you should wear, what music and films are considered ‘in’, are all frankly a total irrelevance. There are far more pressing matters that humanity as a whole should address.

Such as, what sauce goes best on bacon: brown or barbecue? Who’d win in a punch-up between Rambo and Mr T? What superpowers would you have, given a choice? These are the questions that preoccupy us. To be or not to be, my arse.

People have to start to focus on what really matters to them, not what other people think. I frankly found it refreshing a couple of weeks ago when I turned up at Curly Towers and found that Adam still doesn’t wear shoes to work. Here I am stuck in a button-down, working-for-the-man environment, trying to maintain a sense of individuality by only dressing in black and growing a beard, while a few minutes drive away in the general direction of ‘over there’ is a true slice of nonconformity. Need some truly independent funky design doing? They’re your guys (and girl).

You can also engage in long-winded conversations about where you would go given your own personal Millennium Falcon and Wookiee co-pilot, atomic-powered mythical horned horses or the relative merits of penguins versus monkeys (Pingu for the win!). Just don’t expect them to know what Jordan’s up to these days.

Meanwhile, if anyone wants me I’ll be on the Kessel run.

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Hello. Are you boy, or you a girl? Excellent you got this far.

This badly written post is actually a vacancy type of posting. We would love to hear from you if are rather techy in the world of development, some bullet points follow immediately…

  • Ruler of PHP
  • Magician of mySQL
  • Knowledge of wordpress

Other lovely bits

  • General knowing of what is going on with the world of tech
  • Bit of an eye for design would be nice
  • Odd sense of humour

If you’d like to get in touch, please do! – do us an email info@curlykale.net

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Howdy,

Now as promised I have a business related post, think it might be my first but anyway here goes!

Upon the sunday of last, my partner wanted to get a new mobile phone so we headed into Preston town in search of a phone. Now I’m usually not keen about going into phone shops. They are huge shops with not much in them and have sales people ready to jump on you when you walk in. The last time I was in one I was very blunt and had none of this ‘up sell’, I left with exactly what I wanted and nothing extra. Perhaps this just means I don’t really have many experiences of being in mobile phone shops and yet to have a good experience of one, therefore I need to hold my judgement.

So we approached the phone shop and started to browse the lovely shiny new phones on display and a gentleman came over and asked if he could help. To which my partner replied, “yes”. Then the gentleman, called Dave, proceeded to ask various questions about what type of phone he wanted and demonstrated the phones. Now right from the start Dave was great, he was calm, he was friendly (without wanting to be your next best friend!), he was non pushy (big plus!) and very helpful.

I won’t bore you with all the details, although the pricing list was very reasonable, but I have to say it was a very relaxed and easy service from the phone shop. At curlykale we like to provide this type of service to people who pop by and see us. Giving them the information they require without the pushy pushy sales.

Nice, friendly and untrendy :)

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Howdy blog fans,

Once again another post and another post not about design.

Now cast your mind back to a few blog posts back. Do you remember the post I mentioned when I was once a snooker pocket? Well after searching the internet trying to find evidence of this I have finally found it!

Now some of the more observant among us may of seen the arrow labelled ‘me’. You would be happy to know that yes, that is me (Matt)

If your wondering why I was dressed a snooker pocket, it is because I took part in the preston guild in 1992. With the Preston guild 2012 only around the corner it brought back memories from when I was only 9! This year I will be dragging my sister to go and watch the trade parade as I hear some of my former work colleges might be taking part.

Back to the design and I promise my next blog post to be either design or business related in some way :)

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As part of our new trendy phone system, I’ve installed a phone in the kitchen at home. Our phone number can now simply not be answered! If it does happen to be 11 at night and you would like a chat about a website, feel free to give us a bell – I may not be at my best brainpower wise but will do my very best to help you out!

Should we advertise a special number to get through directly to the kitchen? Would love to hear your thoughts!

Have a lovely weekend, you’ve all worked so hard.

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The time has come. Our dear old £9 Argos phone has seen over 2 years of service, only the design lords know how many hours the poor chap has clocked up.

After talking to lots of scary business chaps in suits, we decided on a lovely little company to help us out with a trendy new phone system. Our old number will still work for a little while whilst we shift over to our new number…. 01772 972 742

We now have 3 lines and lots of scary buttons, so if we are on the phone nattering to somebody, you should just get moved on to another phone :-)

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Hi there blog fans, remember me?

It seems every time Im posting something here Im also rambling on about how busy it has been, this time is no exception, gosh it seems so long ago that we started this blog and most of the postings were about toast (see here!)

I’m caught between worlds of thought about what a blog should be and want I think people want to see.


Being design lads and lasses we should be blogging of design trends, the latest fonts, interesting uses of colour, a nice bit of typography that we found whilst out and about, a curious T, a hilariously bright new red.

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I do love a good graph!

I know it is terribly untrendy of me but I like my stats and my graphs. Of course I’m not interested in the boring ones like oil prices or sticks,(meant stocks but sticks sound like fun) although done correctly they can be fun to look at also. We some times have the stats on the wall from google and its very interesting watching it live, numbers going up and down and such all very good fun. Facts are always easier to understand when given to us in a format we can engage with.

If you have ever heard of the google panda update well to help me with this post here is the panda explained in what its called ‘infographic thingy’. Give it a clicky to make it bigger therefore easier to read :)

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If you do live in this fine city of Preston you may know a thing or two about the ‘Preston Guild’.

If you don’t know it well here is a quick summary. Preston guild is a celebration that happens every 20 years and the people of Preston celebrate the awarding of the right to hold a merchant guild (right to sell goods) in the town. It is the only place in the UK to celebrate this and is said to be the only one of its kind in the world.

As most of the curlykale staff aren’t from Preston they were a bit confused about the whole event but I was born here so have first hand knowledge. Going back 20 years, I was 9 (makes me very old) and I took part in the school concert on the park. Each school preformed different things highlighting Preston. My cousin was a house and I was a snooker pocket. Yes I was dressed in brown fabric, held my arms up and joined the other three lads who made up the rest of the pocket.

Here is an image of snooker pocket to refresh your brain of what a snooker pocket looks like. snooker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People from my school make up a giant snooker table,with cue, and played out a few shots, all very slowly might I add. Sadly I was not part of one of the pockets that saw any action but was happy to be part of it. I also remember it being very muddy and rainy. My parents took me to see the parades in town but I don’t remember much if anything from those, just plenty of walking. Apparently the street I live on now came first for best street party several ‘Guilds’ ago.

As it is another ‘Guild’ year all this is happening again and I look forward to some fun fireworks later on this year. However I will not be dressing up as a snooker pocket this time.

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