Archive for 'Mischief'

Josie was obsessed with the idea that global warming was killing the penguins (all the penguins) so we definitely had to prank her. I wrote a newspaper article, the intention was to distribute it to local and national papers…but the campaign never really got off the ground! The trick was to get the style and [...]

Marble run fun

11Feb06

As a kid I dreamed of having a train set around my whole house that would deliver things from room to room, just like in Wallace and Grommit, but failing that I wanted some kind of marble run. Well it turns out I’m not alone; Iain has always wanted to build a marble run too. [...]

What do you do with 1000 paperclips you’ve ‘acquired’? Well, any sane person makes a paperclip chain. An insane person makes a giant paperclip chain and loops it around their entire house. When we came across a motherload of paperclips the other week we took the insane persons approach. There’s now a 1000 paperclip long [...]

Question: What’s weirder than a walnut in a balloon? You’re right, that is a strange question but it’s exactly what Iain asked me a couple of weeks ago. He needed a birthday present for his brother and it had to be better than a walnut in a balloon (that’s what he got last year). Answer: [...]