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It’s probably not going to solve the worldwide coronavirus problem overnight, but it’s good to see some developments that look as if they will help. In May of this year some of the world’s leading coatings specialists gathered (virtually) at the Royal Society of Chemistry, in collaboration with the British Coatings Federation, to discuss how…
I hope you managed to enjoy some summer holiday, and got back safely. We put a world map on the wall. I gave Mrs. Parvin a dart and said: “Throw this – wherever it lands, that’s where I’m taking you this year.” Yes, we enjoyed our two weeks behind the fridge. But I like to…
If walls could talk! I’ll swear that one of my walls mutters and curses under its breath, and keeps threatening to sue me for negligence. Nobody likes a whinger, so not even the other walls like that one. I just hope it can’t talk english. The remedy of course is a new coat of paint. Unemployed government scientists now think that…
We get unusual requests from time to time. But this was probably the strangest. Someone wanted their room painted with Peanut Butter. We can usually tell when we’re being wound up, but it wasn’t April 1st – and this caller seemed to be completely serious. Yes, he said, he wanted real peanut butter. On the walls and…
Sky-high house prices in London are resulting in a lot more home improvements. And we’re always happy to help. I happened to be looking at some old paint charts and thought it was interesting how much they reflect the times. The 1970’s look very strange – here’s the Dulux catalogue from 1975: And this shows the…
It used to be said of our late Queen that she thought fresh paint was the natural smell of factories and office blocks. That’s just one more thing I have in common with her, as I fill my idle hours with inspections of our workmen’s labours. I even find myself politely asking them “And what…
It’s probably not going to solve the worldwide coronavirus problem overnight, but it’s good to see some developments that look as if they will help. In May of this year some of the world’s leading coatings specialists gathered (virtually) at the Royal Society of Chemistry, in collaboration with the British Coatings Federation, to discuss how…
I hope you managed to enjoy some summer holiday, and got back safely. We put a world map on the wall. I gave Mrs. Parvin a dart and said: “Throw this – wherever it lands, that’s where I’m taking you this year.” Yes, we enjoyed our two weeks behind the fridge. But I like to…
If walls could talk! I’ll swear that one of my walls mutters and curses under its breath, and keeps threatening to sue me for negligence. Nobody likes a whinger, so not even the other walls like that one. I just hope it can’t talk english. The remedy of course is a new coat of paint. Unemployed government scientists now think that…
We get unusual requests from time to time. But this was probably the strangest. Someone wanted their room painted with Peanut Butter. We can usually tell when we’re being wound up, but it wasn’t April 1st – and this caller seemed to be completely serious. Yes, he said, he wanted real peanut butter. On the walls and…
Sky-high house prices in London are resulting in a lot more home improvements. And we’re always happy to help. I happened to be looking at some old paint charts and thought it was interesting how much they reflect the times. The 1970’s look very strange – here’s the Dulux catalogue from 1975: And this shows the…
It used to be said of our late Queen that she thought fresh paint was the natural smell of factories and office blocks. That’s just one more thing I have in common with her, as I fill my idle hours with inspections of our workmen’s labours. I even find myself politely asking them “And what…
It’s probably not going to solve the worldwide coronavirus problem overnight, but it’s good to see some developments that look as if they will help. In May of this year some of the world’s leading coatings specialists gathered (virtually) at the Royal Society of Chemistry, in collaboration with the British Coatings Federation, to discuss how…
I hope you managed to enjoy some summer holiday, and got back safely. We put a world map on the wall. I gave Mrs. Parvin a dart and said: “Throw this – wherever it lands, that’s where I’m taking you this year.” Yes, we enjoyed our two weeks behind the fridge. But I like to…
If walls could talk! I’ll swear that one of my walls mutters and curses under its breath, and keeps threatening to sue me for negligence. Nobody likes a whinger, so not even the other walls like that one. I just hope it can’t talk english. The remedy of course is a new coat of paint. Unemployed government scientists now think that…
We get unusual requests from time to time. But this was probably the strangest. Someone wanted their room painted with Peanut Butter. We can usually tell when we’re being wound up, but it wasn’t April 1st – and this caller seemed to be completely serious. Yes, he said, he wanted real peanut butter. On the walls and…
Sky-high house prices in London are resulting in a lot more home improvements. And we’re always happy to help. I happened to be looking at some old paint charts and thought it was interesting how much they reflect the times. The 1970’s look very strange – here’s the Dulux catalogue from 1975: And this shows the…
It used to be said of our late Queen that she thought fresh paint was the natural smell of factories and office blocks. That’s just one more thing I have in common with her, as I fill my idle hours with inspections of our workmen’s labours. I even find myself politely asking them “And what…