When I was a teenager I spent three weeks of my final year in secondary school at a work placement in a local printing company. Don’t ask me why I ended up there. I had never expressed an interest in the finer points of printing in any of the chats with the careers officer but perhaps (on reflection) she probably thought the printing company was my town’s closest answer to Microsoft (where I actually wanted to spent my time!!) … it was a fairly large company I suppose.

Anyway, the three weeks spent setting up large machines, cleaning large machines, watching large machines and sweeping up after large machines didn’t really make me a printing fan. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t harbour any major deep-rooted (lie down on the couch and tell me about it) hatred for the process either, I just regarded it as a process. And quite a boring one at that.

Recently however, I have started using moo.com. Moo is a new kind of printing company which tries to inject a slice of creativity and fun into the whole printing process. Moo.com allows ordinary people (like you and me) to get creative with printing on a relatively small and inexpensive scale. What makes moo.com special is that it Integrates with a lot of the current social networking sites such as Facebook and Flickr, making it really easy to get your creative efforts into print.

Since discovering moo.com, I have found myself trying to find new ways to use the service they provide. Their packaging is superb and they are moving in the right environmentally-friendly direction. Why not give them a go. Printing has just got funky!

Well here it is…my first post…I have had this blog sitting here for a while now and have been looking at it thinking…mmm…what should I write? Anyway, the time has come to stop shilly shallying (as my gran used to say) and just start.

I thought I’d start by pointing you in the direction of a new website I have just found. It is called “a good place for a cup of tea and a think.” This site sort of encompasses everything I like about the internet as it provides us with useful information on the aforementioned subject in a very easily accessible, understated way.

None of your flashy graphics here, just down to earth, honest information about places where you can get a decent cuppa and be left alone to ponder the deep things of life. Why don’t you have a look? Although the site may contain places that you can’t physically get to for a cup of tea, the very essence of this site challenges the modern convention for faceless coffee shops and shows us that the ordinary things of life can be celebrated!