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Good Bye Bureau Direct
Good Bye Bureau Direct
Gloomy news. In yesterday’s newsletter Bureau Direct announced that they ceased trading after 23 years.
It is sad to see them go ((despite them messing up an order I placed and being not that good at trying to get it right)). Their websitedoesn’t currently mention that they stopped trading, but since the newsletter explicitly stated it trading I am not sure whether any orders placed now will be…
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Okay but Bureau Direct emails and their stationary get me in such a good mood
The beauty of nice things
The beauty of nice things
I have a stationery fetish, I love really good stationery and sometime last year I discovered the wonderful Bureau Direct . This is possibly fatal for my bank balance. But they have a wonderful range of high quality (not necessarily expensive) stationery and amazing customer service. Their weekly newsletter is something I look forward to each week – how many eshots get that response? I am always…
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The stationery thing
At the start of each academic year, usually when I have known them for a week or so, I make this confession to my students. I say to them: ‘I have the stationery thing.’
The point of telling them is not confession for its own sake, but to make the very serious point, hidden in plain view in the form of a personal anecdote, that if we do not note down that which amazes and inspires each day we…
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