House Of Spoons

2011-08-18T00:47:00.000-07:00

This Saturday

MILL ROAD ROCKS!

This Saturday outside Mickey Flynns the Mill Road Society are holding an event at 12 - 2pm to protest against the plan to close down Micky Flynn's and replace it with yet another chain store. It's only ten minutes walk to the existing Sainsbury's, even closer to Asda. If you want to keep Mill Road Independent please come along - support our local independent traders and say NO to Sainsbury.

Pool match Sainsbury v Independents - stall - music - snacks and games!

Get into new things for spring!

2011-05-15T06:25:00.000-07:00

All kitted out for the summer yet? Looking for some fresh t-shirts for your summer holiday? Something a little different from the same old same old on the high street? Without paying through the nose? In these times every penny counts and everyone one is looking for a bargain. Well from the 17 May through 31 May you can get 5 short-sleeve tops for the price of only 4 from the House of Spoons T-Shirt shop. This includes t-shirts, polos and others from our collection for men, women, kids & babies. Just use the the voucher code MAY2011 at the checkout and get out there into the sunshine.

If you want to check out all the t-shirt designs House of Spoons have available you can see them all here. If you would rather just check out all the shirts you can see them here.

Plus don't forget if you are looking for something truely unique you can always design your own shirt here, pick a personal message, add to one of our designs or upload your own picture!

You're a big man, but you're out of shape...

2011-05-02T05:30:00.000-07:00

It's the fortieth anniversary of Get Carter this year. Originally hitting our screens in 1971 it's one of Michael Caine's finest hours. Extremely dark, cynical and tackling a bunch of subjects that were fairly shocking for it's time, it has come to be regarded as a classic.

I can't imagine these days you would be taken very seriously if you pitched the idea of a bunch of Geordie gangsters being terrified by a cockney who wears a coat, ahh simpler times. Still if you've seen the remake starring Sylvester Stallone you will already be able to believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of.

If you fancy celebrating it's fortieth anniversary and grabbing a little slice of retro cool for yourself check out these new shirts on the House Of Spoons. Taking one of the movies most memorable lines as its inspiration, here's hoping this is another classic that will be with you for forty years...

If you have never seen the movie then do yourself a favour and get along to Amazon and order yourself a copy of the movie now!

100 Thing That Make Cambridge What It Is...

2010-12-21T05:34:00.000-08:00

So this month's explorer magazine is not only their Christmas issue but also the 100th edition they have published. Explorer is a freebie lifestyle magazine for Cambridge and the surrounding area, the usual kind of fluff, but distinguished from similar competitors by the fact they usually have nice high quality arty photos of the local area. As a 100th edition special they have put together a list of 100 things that make Cambridge what it is, a fairly daring undertaking on any ones part as no matter how you slice it you are probably going to wind someone up. Not such a good move when you're livelihood is based on other people advertising with you.

The magazine is usually well worth a browse through and has filled many idle moments for me as I have sat waiting in one the city's many watering holes for friends to arrive. The "one hundred things that make Cambridge" list however is a slightly baffling, surreal, idiosyncratic and amusing collections. I can only assume they were trying so hard to find things that wouldn't fall too strongly either side of the town V's gown divide that they found themselves walking some kind of weird alternate twilight tightrope Cambridge that lives between the two.

Anyway number one in their list of things in no particular order is "cows" not the first thing I would imagine that springs to mind for many people when they think of this ancient university town. I shouldn't be so hard though as you work your way through the rest of the list all of our favourites get a mention from Mill Road to Mitchams Corner. I particularly liked #64 "Cambridge eccentrics - There’s a lot of them about. And they’re probably mostly Nobel-prize winning physicists or something...". I suspect there may well be more "or somethings" than nobel prize winners, though with the city's ratio of mad scientists and absent minded professors you do get fairly good value on the nobel prize winner front. Still you can't help but wish they had grasped whimsy with both hands and embraced a few more of the off kilter things that make life around here so great, but it is the season of good will, so to all you somethings out there, enjoy everything Cambridge has to offer this happy inoffensive non-denominational capitalist winter solstice gift giving holiday and have a great new year.

Mill Road Photo Book

2010-12-05T04:19:00.000-08:00

Here's a little something we spotted this week for all you lovers of Mill Road. Local photographer Daisy Zoll has just started selling her new photo book which beautifully captures life at the heart of one of Cambridge's busiest and most diverse areas. Mill Road is an extraordinary diverse street on which it is possible to drink Arabic coffee or fine wines; where you can worship in a Mosque, a Hindu shrine or a Baptist church; where you can eat pâté or fish and chips, tom yum or chicken tikka lababda; where you can stock up on herbs and spices from aam to zedoary, shop for free range eggs or lamb chops, fresh ciabatta or coconut milk; where you can buy the most up-to-date computer or widget, cookware or musical instrument; purchase an antique chair or a vintage hat; have your hair or your nails styled; do your banking or get personal counselling; select a good book and get your eyes tested so you can read it. Until the 1970's you could even have a bath there!

So if you are looking for something a little unusual for your Cambridge loving friends and family this Christmas check it out. Nothing beats local things for local people....

Looking For Something Different This Christmas?

2010-12-02T10:49:00.000-08:00

Yes it's that time of year again, it is almot time to celebrate happy inoffensive non-denominational capitalist winter solstice gift giving day! Looking for something a little different for somone from Cambridge then check out our new shirts. The ideal something different for that certain special somone who you have no idea what to buy!

Firstly celebrate the unspoken pact of Romsey that can never be broken, if you were there you may discuss the events, but if you were not there, you get nothing. What happens over the bridge, stays over the bridge.

Then straight from one of Cambridge's most elite and exclusive seats of learning, let them know where they can get a real education with the classic Arbury University shirt.

And finally a Retro styled Romsey Town star shirt.

Have yourself a merry little time!

Mill Road Winter Fair 2010

2010-12-02T10:42:00.000-08:00

It's that time of year again this saturday the 3rd of December is the annual Mill Road Winter Fair. They close a chunk of the road and a bit of Cambridge becomes pedestrianised and filled with arty and crafty fun.

To quote the official site:

"Mill Road Winter Fair is the essence of Mill Road distilled into a single day. Over 100 of the shops, cafés and restaurants open their doors and offer unusual dishes from their cultures, things which they might not usually ser...ve here in England. Talented local people from all over the world emerge from their homes with arts and crafts, performances, food, entertainments and a warm welcome in a day of general celebration."

Dr. Strangepunt or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Touts

2010-07-01T14:16:00.000-07:00

ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Rob Ellis MODEL: Liana

So according to our friends at the Cambridge Evening News the punt wars are back on but this year serious weaponry is being deployed. Those crafty punt pushers have deployed the most deadly weapon known to man and only gone and dropped the lady bomb.

As we stand on the brink of punt armegeddon, it's ten to doomsday, they're moving fast... heads up! Mind those boaters. No time to sleep, it's Def Con XX chromosome .

Some might think that in a university town as cosmopolitan and sophisticated as Cambridge sending pretty young belles in boaters down to the quayside to ply their wares might be seen as a little crass, mamas don't let your babies grow up to be punt touts, but many would say there is a long tradition of the daughters of the river god luring the unwary to the water with their enchanting music and voices.

Others may think however that as the old saying goes the female of the species is far deadlier than the male, if they want war they may just be about to get......

You Maniacs! You did it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Lets get cheesy!

2010-01-27T12:35:00.000-08:00

If you have checked out our blog before you might have noticed our tastes run to the cheesy, in fact we love the cheese! So it was very nice to get a name check recently on a blog that loves cheese just as much as we do, a blog overflowing with cheese facts, fun and photos, makes me hungry just reading it!

So a big thank you to to the cheese lovers at the Cheese Sheet, check it out when you get a chance:

It's been a while

2010-01-27T12:16:00.000-08:00

Howdy All, everything has been a hectic whirl around here, time flies by and before you know it six months has passed without us updating you on what is going on in our shirty world.

Well as you will hopefully have noticed we have not been wasting our time, if you check out the House of Spoons shirt site you will see lots of tasty new shirts have been added to the collection.

First thanks to the wonders of modern science you can now take part in the most thrilling sport to walk the earth since the Jurassic period, the thrills, the spills, the occassional small animal eaten whole, nothing matches the excitement of dinosaur Rodeo, tell the world you love it with our new Jurassic County rodeo shirt:

You like "electro"? Does it make you sexy? Well snap out of your 'jazz trance' and check what we have for you. Whether it's four to the floor or funky old school, if an 808 gets you hot and bothered then this is the shirt for all you Electro Sexuals:

Think they are tasty? Well stay tuned there are more on their way very shortly... Tune in tomorrow — same shirt-time, same shirt-channel!

Recognition for Local Historian!

2009-07-21T03:26:00.000-07:00

Here at Cambridge T-Shirts Allan Brigham is a bit of a hero to us, so it's nice to see him being recognised by Cambridge University this week with the award of an honoury Master of Arts degree!

Honoury degrees usually upset me, what with a real degree these days costing students three years of their life and up to £20,000 by the time tuition fees and living costs are taken into account, it seems particularly offensive to devalue this by awarding some reality TV star a degree just for having a perma tan and half a personality. You get so used to reading about universities awarding honoury qualifications to people who don't particularly seem to deserve any kind of honour that to see someone being honoured who actually knows what he is talking about, contributes to the local community and seems to be a genuinely nice bloke deserves celebrating!

You can read more at the Cambridge Evening news site here and the BBC actually has some footage of an interview with Allen here.

If you have never been on one of Allan's tours then we would thoroughly recommend it. You can find out more here.

If you are too lazy to actually get out of the house then you can also order the book Bringing it all back home half of which was written by Allan and provides some fascinating insights into how the Romsey area of the city developed.

Go on help celebrate a local hero!

Sub-Urban 3

2009-07-01T00:44:00.001-07:00

This Saturday the 4th July sees the Sub-Urban 3 Art Show opening at CB1 Café, Mill Rd, Cambridge. This event hosted by Blight Society promises a graffiti garden party complete with tea and cake, featuring work painted by some of the UKs young up-and-coming graffiti and street artists. This graffiti garden party will also include an exhibition of prints and canvas work by Maya, the Cambridge stencil artist behind the Mill Road landmark depiction of the crucified Christ at St Phillips Church, joined by Snik, Site, Pahnl, Tom McDougall, Irony, Stagger, Mishmash, Opticnerve, eyesaw, Monky Arty Prints, Dell and Schlomo among others.

The show held in co-operation with Cambridge Open Art Space sounds like it shouldn't be missed if you are a fan of contempary urban and street art. For more details check out the Blight Society website here. What could be better than strong coffee, sweet cake and some tasty art at CB1 (apparently the oldest internet cafe in the world).

Punt Wars II - The Sequal

2009-06-22T13:44:00.000-07:00

As the coverage of the "Punt Wars" continues in the national press, it's gets harder to work out what the truth of the story is. Are the independents the "good guys" or cowboys of the river? Is our modern age of health and safety strangling free enterprise or stopping the river Cam become the water bound grid locked equivalent of what has already happened to the local roads? Should we care about independents and independence?

It's hard not to find yourself asking what does independent and independence mean? Freedom? Freedom of personal choice, action and expression? John Stark the American general who fought in the War of Independence is generally credited with coining the phrase "Live free or die". Since then it has not only become the state motto of New Hampshire and but also for everyone from rednecks from the deep south to PG-13 Bruce Willis, the Vancouver punks D.O.A and Unix user groups.

With a bit of digging around it turns out that General John may himself have been a little free in borrowing the phrase from aa speech made by Camille Desmoulins titled "Better to Die than not Live Free" delivered early in the French Revolution. In fact the first Convention of the Delegates of the Scottish Friends of the People in Edinburgh on 11-13 December 1792 used the phrase "live free or die" and referred to it as a "French oath.

Still you get the feeling that what counted for all these people was not the precise origin or form of the words being used but the sentiment they were trying to express.

You can interpret his words as a battle cry or as a statement of the reality of our lives.

Do you believe others have the right or competency to choose where you live, what clothes you wear or even where you punt?

You can live as free men, but, if you choose not to, your society will die. If you don't exercise your freedom of expression when you have the chance you may find it is too late. So seize your freedom, get out on the water, raise your flag and Punt Free or Die Trying!

Punt Wars.....

2009-06-18T04:08:00.000-07:00

If you believe the Daily Mail Cambridge is in the grip of "Punt Wars" as "rival touts sink boats, threaten each other with knives and left one tourist with a broken hip".

Now I know there have been allegations of strange happenings and suggestions that the some punters in town were exploiting their size to muscle out the competition..... How much of this is actually true? It's hard to tell.

As a believer in free markets I personally find it a little strange that it appears the local authorities seem to be fighting against the entrepreneurial efforts of local small businesses and trying to push the independents off the river. From the outside it would appear local policy is being used to force the independents to operate in increasingly dangerous ways and then punish them for doing so when they are trying to make a living.

The whole thing seemed to get slightly oppressive and scary when it got to the stage where the authorities appeared to be using "anti-terror" laws to spy on the independents. Are these "independent punters" really so dangerous that we need to use anti-terror laws to monitor them? What next detention without trial for being in possession of an unlicensed straw boater? Men in balaclavas making midnight raids on punting seditionaries found to be browsing for recipes for how to mix "Pimms" on the Internet? Waterboarding for using the water? Not very Cambridge, in fact from the outside it appears draconian, heavy handed and frankly just not cricket old chap.

Still while I may support the right of the independents to make a living without the threat of extraordinary rendition to Haverhill by the council there is one thing that drives me up the wall as a city resident and that is the damn "punt pimps".

I actually have nothing against these guys in particular
so the faces have been changed to protect the innocent...

These pushy touts desperate to sell tickets to tourists for punting on the Cam constantly harass anyone trying to peacefully negotiate their way through the middle of the City in the summertime. They are supposedly trying to persuade tourists to take a trip up the river, but as I got harassed for the fifth time as I tried to walk across the bridge over the river, a bag of shopping in each hand and a large packet of toilet rolls under my arm I did wonder exactly what you have to do to get these apparently myopic menaces to mellow out as I meander past the Mill Pond and the Quayside....

So drum roll please as Cambridge T-Shirts proudly presents our latest production, hope it makes your life a little better...... remember the old saying..... a T-Shirt a day keeps the punt pimps away....

Wordle Me Up!

2009-06-18T03:42:00.000-07:00

If you have not encountered Wordle yet it is a very cool internet toy that generates word clouds from either a list of words or a RSS feed, a RSS feed like the one from this blog, who would have thought there could have been something so beautiful hiding in our random ramblings? If you want to try it out for yourself you can check out Wordle here...

Gwydir Street Party 2009 - Sat 27th June

2009-06-18T01:23:00.000-07:00

The Gwydir Street Party is an annual community festival that takes place on Gwydir Street and Milford Street in the heart of Cambridge, UK.

The Street Party is a family event which includes children's activities, live music, street performers, 2nd hand stalls, food & drink + much more...

The aim of the event is to bring the local community together and to help raise money for various local charities. This years chosen charities are Friends Of Mill Road Cemetery, Arthur Rank, Cherry Trees & St Matthews Playgroup.

This years event will be on SATURDAY 27th JUNE 2009

You can find the Gwydir Street web site here and the Facebook group for the event here.

Depending who you listen to Gwydir Street in Cambridge is named for Baroness Gwydir, who owned the land of this area just before the area was redeveloped, it's translation seems a little muddled meaning either "Field of Blood" or "Sloping Street", given that it rises from the Upper Gwydir St end to the Mill Rd end by as much as 12 ft (almost a Cambridge mountain) I think I like the second one better....

If you want to show your Gwydir Streeet pride you can check out Cambridge T-Shirts Gwydir Street T-Shirt here.....

Town Not Gown? Gown Not Town?

2009-05-21T01:35:00.000-07:00

So it's the 36th Cambridge beer festival this week, the oldest continuously running beer festival in the country and the second largest beer festival outside London. A festival of beards, tankards, cheese, pork pies, morris dancing and last but not least murky pints of old head stomper, badger botherer, stoat fancier and whatever other whimsical names have been attached to the alcoholic weapons of head destruction they have on offer this year.

Although I'm a lager man at heart I always like to head down for a spot of people watching, some quality cheese and and a few pints of worryingly strong continental "biers".

Every year the festival has an theme, this years is Town and Gown a subject close to our hearts at Cambridge T-Shirts. They have carrried this motif to the beer glasses.. The gown one shows the character drinking beer with a mortarboard, playing cricket and rugby, and with a spade. The locals one shows the mascot drinking beer. Is this a metaphor for student life? Who knows?

Anyway while we are on this subject it seems like an appropriate opportunity to recomend you abotu a couple of our choice local T-Shirts:

For those of you of a Town persuasion we have this lovely little beauty where you can proudly declare your allegiance to Town Not Gown.

For those of you on the other side of Reality Checkpoint we proudly present this other tasty T-Shirty morsal allowing you to proudly tell people you are Gown Not Town

Top Selling Cambridge T-Shirts

2008-11-27T12:55:00.000-08:00

At Christmas all right thinking peoples thoughts turn to the Top of the Pops, the hits of the year, the very toppermost of the poppermost if you will. An event as much a fundamental part of the quintessential Yuletide experience as receiving unwanted presents, over eating, watching the great escape and falling asleep in front of the queen's speech after perhaps just one too many sherries before dinner.

Unfortunately we don't have the budget to bring you a televised Christmas countdown of the years biggest hits presented by our dream team of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, with their special guest Pete Doherty, his hat at a jaunty angle as he incoherently burbles his way through Mull of Kintyre and dribbles down his own chin.

So in it's place we are proud to present the Cambridge T-Shirts Christmas top five count down, a seasonal chart of the most popular shirts we sell:

Number 5.

In with a bullet at number 5 a cheeky homage to the the 70's with the look that is all the rage on the throbbing metropolitan streets of Cambridge's fashion quarter. Sought after from Great Eastern Street to Brookfields, Romsey Girl, the only label to be seen wearing as you try to dodge the scary drunk bloke hanging around the bus stop at the far end of Mill Road. If you've got it, flaunt it! If it's clean wear it!

Number 4.

Exotic, enigmatic, intoxicating, but surprisingly easy to spell, Cherry Hinton is a not just for Christmas, it is a perennial favourite. A visit there is as magical as winning the lottery or finding something that still looks vaguely edible in the vegetable draw at the bottom of an otherwise barren student refrigerator. You know when you have hit the jackpot, so do not be afraid to share it with the world.

Number 3.

Impossible to avoid as you travel around Cambridge, the king sized "My Day in the City" adverts that encrust our local transport are nuggets of arsepirational 'lifestyle' ordure that are celebrated throughout Cambridge for their nauseating, shallow, tacky and intelligence insulting content. Our Day in The City T-Shirts on the other hand are actually quite popular as they let you choose the words and get your own back with something that is actually relevant to your life!

Number 2.

Cambridge is cycle city, the flatness of the fens, the gridlocked traffic, the students on a budget and the environmentally aware all combine to give a higher than normal percentage of pedal powered people. I assume it's them who are buying this shirt... otherwise it means there's a fairly weird set of cycle wannabes out there... still I guess it would not be the strangest thing on the internet.

Number 1.

Still at number one the Reality checkpoint shirt is an all time favourite on the site. So popular in fact we made a couple of different versions like this one and this one, which are deeply, deeply unpopular. This makes them feel sad and lonely, like a puppy abandoned on boxing day, how could you, it's heartless! Don't let the poor lonely T-Shirts go without care and affection for another Christmas get yourself over to the Cambridge T-Shirts web site and give them a loving and caring home.

The only way is up Castle Hill....

2008-11-16T12:05:00.000-08:00

Cambridge, for those of you unfamiliar with local geography, is flat, like pancake flat, flatest, flatmost, flatfull in fact. This is great for cycling and I'm sure part of what makes Cambridge such a cycle city. Once in a while though you can have enough flat and start to crave lumpiness, bumpiness and all things upwards pointing. Pretty much your only choice for what passes for a vertiginous ascent in these parts is the Castle Hill. It's called Castle hill because it used to have a Castle on it, though these days you would be hard pressed to really notice any crenellated evidence to prove it.

In Anglo Saxon times there was apparently a settlement on Castle Hill. As the high ground around these parts you could see anyone coming from miles away and then do whatever Castley things were on your mind, shout insults, throw stuff, you know.

When the Normans turned up around 1068 they built their own castle there, apparently if you go North in a straight line there is no higher ground until you reach the North pole! Though how anyone knows this stuff you do have to wonder, every time I watch that Tony Robinson and his time team I'm torn between thinking it's pretty cool and the fact they could tell me anything and thanks to my pitiful lack of knowledge I wouldn't be able to disagree. You could tell me the King of Sandwich build a magnificent bready castle from loaves, cheese and ham to protect the magical celery forest and, while I may think you are talking toilet, I would actually be fairly hard pressed to disagree on any kind of factual basis.

When I get right down to it there are only three facts I can quote with relative certainty:

1) There is a hill.
2) There is no Castle.
3) It is called Castle Hill.

Still several historically accurate and vital facts short of a prize winning round on Mastermind I tend to think. Though possibly enough riveting facts to get me a guest spot on breakfast television.

Which is quite shameful, a all time low to match Cambridge's all time high. In celebration of reaching not only the very literal peak of Cambridge but also this metaphorical peak of ignorance join us at Cambridge T-Shirts with this special T-Shirt to celebrate our conquest of these great heights.

Go on reach for the stars!

I love the smell of Milton in the morning....

2008-11-16T02:02:00.000-08:00

Smell that? You smell that?
What?
Milton, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
I love the smell of Milton in the morning.

I was cycling to the stinkiest place in town and I didn't even know it yet. Minutes away and fractions of miles up a river that snaked through the city like a main circuit cable - plugged straight into Milton.....

As I sedately pedalled my way up to the North side of the city this week through the wafting malodorous mist that marks the boundaries of that part of town on a bad day the horror stuck me... Milton sits on the North side of Cambridge, slap bang in the center of an olfactory perfect storm.

To one side the Cambridge sewage works to the other the land fill site, on a bad day the stench can be truly nose wateringly staggering. Now it's not like the people who live there are not trying to do something about it, but dear god, the horror... the horror... I wish I had words, man. I wish I had words.

The Early Bird catches the Christmas savings..

2008-11-09T05:00:00.000-08:00

December is rolling nearer and our thoughts turn to traditionally the least financially prudent of all holidays, the birthday of the little baby Jesus and the requisite presents it's traditional to buy for your nearest, dearest and relatedest.

So as the financial weather worsens, the credit is crunching under foot and with only 6 Weeks until Christmas anyone who orders from the Cambridge T-Shirts website from the 1st to the 20th of November can save 15% on all purchases. All you have to do is to enter the discount voucher code:

"EARLYSHOPPING"

while in the shopping basket. The usual terms and conditions apply this offer cannot be combined with other discounts, it doesn't guarantee that too many mince pies won't make you sick and it doesn't mean that just because you buy people one of our cool t-shirts you are not going to get a custom knitted nose warmer in return from your mad Auntie Maude. It may not be guaranteed to improve your chances under the mistletoe, but take a chance, buy them something different this year, remember not only can you can pick one our designs you can also design your own and make sure your present is one of a kind!

Just think the more you spend the more you will be saving.... and if you save enough you might even be able to buy yourself something you actually want this year... and a merry bah humbug to you all!

The Cambridge Dark Arts......

2008-11-02T01:50:00.000-07:00

Imagine my suprise on reading a survey by Varsity which reveals that 49% per cent of Cambridge students in their own words have committed "some form of plagiaristic act" whilst at the University and they are not just talking about the derth of new material in recent years footlights reviews! Boom, Boom! I thank you!

"Sometimes when I am really fed up, I Google the essay title, copy everything onto a blank word document and jiggle the order a bit" a Cambridge student explains in the article that I have copied directly and jiggled about a bit.

It would appear the University is full of cheaters! The most shocking discovery for me was that the department with the highest percentage of cheaters was Law with 62% of them admitting to breaking the university rules! 62%! Sixty-two! SIXTY TWO PERCENT! That means there are actually 38% of lawyers who are honest! Or alternatively not confident enough of their own ability to believe they could get away with it......

Still, every cloud has a silver lining and while this sounds like particularly bad news for Cambridge University, it sounds like great news for Cambridge T-Shirts! If the statistics are right this means there is a much larger market for our cheery pirate of academia T-Shirts than we previously thought.... that is assuming they don't just copy them....

Look out honey, cause I'm using technology....

2008-10-22T02:21:00.000-07:00

Those of you who subscribe to this blog may remember us talking about new print technology back in July. The people who print the shirts for the Cambridge T-Shirts site are introducing something called Digital Direct which allows printing straight onto shirts.

This allows us to put more colour and detail onto the shirt while still giving you a hard wearing and long lasting design.

Unfortunately the technology is currently still being tested so we can't put it in the main shop yet, but we have just taken delivery of a sample shirt printed to test the colours and print quality and we got sooooo excited we thought we would share.

So here are some pictures of the first sample for your perusal, check out the lovely crispy colours on a fresh October day in Cambridge :)

If you can't wait to get you hands on some Cambridge based produce you can always check out the Cambridge T-Shirts site and see what products and designs we have available right now.

A fresh dose of reality...

2008-10-22T01:35:00.000-07:00

We last featured a Reality Checkpoint T-Shirt from Cambridge T-Shirts on this blog back in May. Since then it has become one one of the best selling designs on the site.

Reality Checkpoint is the name given to a large lamp-post in the middle of Cambridge, England. The name comes from an unofficial inscription which has been painted on it since the early 1970s. It is also believed to be the oldest electrical lamp-post in Cambridge.

Marking the mid-point between town and gown the Reality Checkpoint stands proud in the middle of Parker's Piece. It's been a Cambridge landmark since the early 1970s. The name comes from an unofficial inscription which first painted on the lamp post (allegedly) by students from CCAT (now Anglia Ruskin University) under the guidance of one of their teachers.

It has been repeatedly re-painted since then in response to removal by the council or obliteration by graffiti. For the first half of 1998 the lamp-post carried an unofficial plaque bearing its name.

Whether it really marks the boundary between the 'reality bubble' and the 'real world' or just because it forms a useful landmark for drunk, befuddled or fog bound, whether it is a beacon for the bewildered because anyone walking whilst not tuned in to "reality" will likely collide with the lamp-post, it does not matter which side you are on, it is the only light for hundreds of yards and makes me smile every time I pass on my way home!

If you know which side of the Reality Checkpoint you are you can check out the full range of Reality Checkpoint T-Shirts on the Cambridge T-Shirts site here.

One for the Histon village people...

2008-09-22T11:30:00.001-07:00

Say this very, very quietly but I have friends in Histon, as wikipedia describes it "the farmstead of the young warriors", though I think I like the alternate meaning of the name, the "landing place", better, makes it sound all close encounters of the third kind.....

So how do I end up spending time in the village? Easy, that's where the job that pays my way is based, right next to the last outpost of Nadia's before you hit the fens....

So by popular request, in tribute to the home of the jam factory, here are some brand spanky new Histon T-shirts. Show some love for the northside of the city and check out these shiny new glad rags.

And remember you can always design your own at the Cambridge T-Shirts website!

Free Shipping 16th to the 30th of September

2008-09-22T10:56:00.000-07:00

Until the 30th of September, Cambridge T-Shirts is offering free shipping on all orders, yes all orders, crikey! All you need to do is simply enter the following code during the order

SHIPFORFREE

and we will send the order with free shipping. You can check out our products here and remember you can always design your own Cambridge t-shirts here.

Now on to the usual legal yada-yada offer ends September the 30th, you can only use one voucher per order. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Never eat more than you can lift. Never hit a man with glasses. Use your fist. Just because it's toxic doesn't mean it's not tasty. The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working. You need only two tools for life. WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape. And last but not least two rules for life: (1) Don't tell people everything you know. (2) ....

Licensed to Eel

2008-08-12T11:23:00.000-07:00

It's now exactly 20 years since the release of the seminal folk rap album "Licensed to Eel" from Norfolk's infamous "Eastie Boys".

The joke of "Licensed to Eel's" cover--that the Easties could crash their tractor into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin'-- serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1988 admirers thought might be over after the one-time-only shock of this full-length debut.

"License to Eel" is rural, obnoxious, and sometimes offensive by today's PC standards, but if you can take it with a grain of salt, it's also fun to listen to, it was the first rap album all about beet farming, whittling, and disrespecting the Archers.

Even after all this time the songs haven't dated that much and are still influencing the music of today. Yes the Easties may have calmed down over the years but it's always nice to take a trip back to the 'Good Ole Days' when they shook the world and taught it how to party!

So bang it on turn up the volume and revisit those classic tracks "Rhymin & Peelin", "Slow And Lowestoft", "Time To Get Eel", "Slow Ride (stuck behind a caravan)" and of course the classic "No Sleep Till King's Lynn". Every song the grooves, the samples, perfect.

Cambridge T-Shirts is now celebrating this anniversary with a re-issue of the classic "No Sleep Till King's Lynn" shirt, show your love and check it out here.

Back To School Bonus....

2008-08-11T23:47:00.000-07:00

Until the 25th of August, we are offering free shipping on all orders which contain at least one children's or baby product. All you need to do is simply enter the following code during the order

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and we will send the order with free shipping. You can check out our kids products here and remember you can always design your own kids Cambridge t-shirts here.

Now on to the usual legal yada-yada offer ends August the 25th, you can only use one voucher per order. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Never play cards with a man named after a river. The wheels on the bus go round and round. Never give yourself a haircut after three margaritas. It's a small world after all. Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones. Nobody ever makes cup-a-soup in a bowl. The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity. Thank you very much.

2008-07-30T09:56:00.000-07:00

Trumpington is a village set in the heart of rural England. Once the main town in the county of Trumpingtonshire, it is now effectively a suburb, within the boundaries, and only a short bus-ride away from, Cambridgewick Green. It's located on the south-west side of the city and borders Chigley Hinton to the east and Grantchester to the west.

The Trumpington Market Square is like many other market squares, with numerous shops, a handsome Gothic Town Hall and an assorted collection of shops and houses; but one feature is unique - the town hall has a clock tower, telling the time, steadily, sensibly; never too quickly, never too slowly; telling the time for Trumpington.

Every morning, the people of Trumpington take in their milk, open their shops and set out their wares. They do this with one eye on the town hall clock, and one ear too, for they know that dead on the hour a slight rumble from the recesses of the tower will announce that free entertainment is about to begin. With a loud clonk the two doors on either side of the clock face slide open. To the regular rhythm of a gay mechanical tune, the gilt figures of Sir Roger de Trumpington, and Lady der Trump emerge and solemnly strike the hour on a bell. Not until the automatons have returned to the tower and the doors have shut do the trumpspeople resume their activities.

In the rather nice park is a bandstand, and it is at this bandstand that the Trumpington fire brigade band play, while the people from Trumpington and nearby areas listen and watch, though this does sometimes clash with the six o'clock dance at Chigley Hinton.

The Fire Brigade are perhaps Trumpington's most-recognised feature, their Fire Engine is the most modern, sleekly-lined, gadget-filled vehicle it is possible to buy. It is Trumpington's pride and joy. The fire-bell regularly shatters the peace of the countryside. The great doors swing open and the six stalwart firemen slide down the pole.

The obsessive compulsive Trumpington Fire Brigade roll-call has become famous locally: "Pugh! Pugh! Barney McGrew! Cuthbert! Dibble! Grubb!" They are continually being called out to attend some emergency or other (in many cases to resolve fairly trivial matters); but to their annoyance, rarely an actual fire. (One reason for this may be that both fire and water would be difficult to animate.) However, this doesn't stop the Fire Brigade absent-mindedly getting out their fire hose and receiving a rebuke ("No no! Not the hose! Remember what the judge warned you about!").

The fact that there hasn't been a fire for 30 years is, of course, rather a pity, but there are many things one can do with a modern, sleekly-lined, gadget-filled fire engine, and since the fire brigade also have to work second jobs as the Town Band to make ends meet, time never drags in Trumpington.

Stop dreaming of the quiet life cos it's one we'll never know.....

2008-07-17T11:58:00.000-07:00

A Town Called Malice was and still is the one for me that started it all. I wanted to start dancing and never stop, but more importantly I wanted to be him, I wanted to make that noise, the bumping, pumping, insistent, infectious bass line that underlined the whole thing, the engine room that dragged the song forward by the scruff of its neck. Together with the poignant lyrics it seemed that, in just 2:55, it offered that rarest of things to anybody left with the imagination to hear it, namely things don’t have to be shit if you want them to change. I worshipped at its bass altar.

It was only as I got older, mellower and my musical tastes started to broaden that I realised that the very bass gods I worshipped might have gods of their own. All roads lead to James...... The ultra-catchy bass line was in fact pretty heavily influenced by "I'm ready for love" by Martha and the Vandellas. Check it out.

Yet even when I realised that perhaps after all nothing is new, even when I realised he was singing about Woking, this still warms my heart every time I hear it, join me and worship.

Waiting For The Big One...

2008-07-14T00:17:00.000-07:00

So you may look at the current designs on the Cambridge T-Shirts site and wonder why they are not a little more 'fancy', you may rightly assume my limited artistic abilities have something to do with this, but wait.... let me play me geeky get out of jail card!

Our current printing technology uses plot printingwhich gives great quality hard wearing results, but limits us to pretty simple designs. There are all sorts of rules that have to be followed to get designs to print using this technology, you can't use more than three colours, no element of the design can be less than 1.5mm, etc, etc, etc... painful in other words, but a change is about to come! None of our existing designs are going to vanish and we will keep using the existing technology because it gives some really cool results, but very shortly we are going to start using some cool new technology called " Digital Direct".

With digital direct, no transfer material is needed anymore, which looks better and makes the shirt more comfortable to wear. It's basically a mighty big ink jet printer you stick a whole T-Shirt in at a time.

This means we can get a whole order of magnitude more fancy in our designs and that some of the things we have been promising will shortly start to appear. Just as a taster check this one out for the River Cam Surf Punting Club...

And if you can't wait you can checking out the current range of local things for local people right here.

TANSTAAFL...

2008-07-08T12:38:00.000-07:00

"To get one thing that we like, we usually have to give up another thing that we like. Making decisions requires trading off one goal against another."

TANSTAAFL means that a person or a society cannot get something for nothing. Even if something appears to be free, there is always a cost to the person or to society as a whole even though that cost may be hidden or distributed. For example, you may get complimentary food at a bar during "happy hour," but the bar owner bears the expense of your meal and will attempt to recover that expense somehow. Some goods may be nearly free, such as fruit picked in the wilderness, but usually some cost such as labor or the loss of food for local wildlife is incurred.

So roll up, it's cheap postage promotion time. It's pretty simple from today to July the 17th just use the special secret magic code "SUMMERSUNPOSTAGEFUN" and you don't have to pay any P&P when you order from the Cambridge T-Shirts shop. Not a lot more to it than that, pretty simple.... or is it.... are you paranoid.... or are they out to get you?

For those about to detune.... we salute you!

2008-07-04T10:23:00.000-07:00

Many people can play Guitar, but very few can play heavy and fast! You have to play fast to be a good Guitar player, people who disagree with this are people who can't play fast themselves! Have you ever heard someone who can really shred say that they don't like playing fast? No, because everybody knows that if you can play fast, more people are going to like you more.

Since the dawn of rock when the first ancient Persian plectrum performer plugged his kithara into the first hand carved marshall amp guitarists have craved heaviness and speed and tried everything to achieve this, patches, pumps, strange mechanical devices, spending 18 hours a day locked in a room practicing, even heading down to the crossroads to sell their soul to the devil himself.

Tantalisingly existing at the very edges of music and legality there has been the legend of Dropped-D, what the speed, skill-level, intensity and purity of formula one is to your average driver, Dropped-D is for your average guitarist.

So how can you unlock this mystery? Traditionally this art has taken years of solitary study to achieve mastery combining the physical skills of a highly trained martial artist with esoteric musical knowledge.

Trying to explain the difference between drop-D and normal guitar to a non-musician is like trying to explain to your special cousin from Norfolk why they should get the short bus home and not accept a lift home with a drunken Richard Hammond in his brightly painted, puppy filled, fun time ice-cream dragster.

First you must train your hands through hours of repetitive drilling and meditating to master "the bird", one of the most difficult techniques for any normal musician to conquer, even I lack the verbal acuity and elegance to reduce it to a simple form you borderline moronic musical mortals will understand without patronising you , it is best represented via a picture illustrating it's raw power. A power that you are unlikely to every fully comprehend.

We then must move on to the theory that underlies this dark art. A normal guitar is tuned to E, the ancient secrets of Drop D change this in subtle and mysterious ways, with years of practice this can then be combined with the"bird" to unlock EXTREME TECHNIQUE, the deeper, fuller, faster sound that all guitarist secretly crave.

So how can you a mere mortal get a glimpse of the power and the glory currently only attained by the guitar gods? Well thanks to the gaming geniuses at Cracktivision™ harnessing the bleeding edge console potency of the CantPlayStation™ even you mere mortals can now experience the ecstasy of becoming a Drop-D Hero.

With it's patent pending single button controller, a revolutionary new system to get you very real results in very little time, nothing comes close to matching the thrill of Drop-D, now even you can play along with your favourite anthems from Drop-D masters such as Nickelback, Linkin Park, Creed, Nickelback and some more Nickelback. Only power chords, one finger drop D power chords, these are the best and most difficult chords to play, now you can play them at every opportunity! Just put your fat finger across the stings and, wow, a power chord. Slide it up and down and you've got a song! Seriously, you could step on this drop D beauty and it would sound good!

Of course wherever there is beauty and truth you will find jealousy and envy, the envious who say Drop D power chords, easy song structures, no solos, it's for morons, well if you are one of those myopic melody loving fools then maybe what you are looking for is something simpler to suit your addled tastes, we suggest you try something a little easier for you to understand, maybe try putting a t-shirt on instead.

Start your engines......

2008-06-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

Just mentioning "Mitchams Corner" is enough to prick up the ears of any racing enthusiast. The annual 24 hour urban rally is famous as one of the most mythical races in the world. It unusually takes place on open public roads, with no official timing or prizes for reaching check points first. In fact, with very little point to its very existence, it is by definition one of the last pure sporting events, held solely out of sheer boredom and obviously for the tremendous honour of taking part.

Since 1923 famous manufacturers such as Diashatzu, Toyboata, Volks Wankin, Peugoat, Renfault, Porch, BlandRover, Mercedes Bends, Mitsabitchi and Laguar have taken part and contributed to writing the Mitchams Corner legend. A legend founded on an egalitarian belief that no competitor willing or unwilling should be excluded and unique in allowing both the unwary motorist and cyclist to unwittingly take part.

This exceptional circuit (one of the shortest in the world) bathes in an aura created by the most renowned manufacturers and the greatest drivers in motor sport.

The 24 Hours feels like it lasts a whole week, starting with scrutineering, the peering the prodding, poking and disapproving, followed by practice, then on and on to the penultimate drivers' parade through the centre of Mitchams Corner. Then comes the magic of the race, which continues all through the night.

During the rally, some participants have been fined for speeding and other traffic offences by the police as they passed through, cars have been confiscated and in 2007 the rally was cancelled after the contestants decided they really couldn't be bothered and parked up at the Portland for the night.

It's a breathtaking event, low performance cars thundering down the straight at well under 30 mph, spectators gripped by the suspect nature of this human and technical challenge... experienced drivers pushing back the limits of tedium...

Let yourself be wrapped up, carried away, guided and seduced... Endurance IS Mitchams Corner...

My Day In The City, It's Not Very Pretty

2008-06-25T12:11:00.000-07:00

Now don't get me wrong I love adverts, British advertising at it's best can be funny and thought provoking while still trying to persuade you that the answer to your woes is to spark up a cheap cigar and that the opposite sex will genuinely find you more attractive if you smell like a professional footballer or his anorexic wife. Unfortunately the local buses in Cambridge are adorned with some of the most nauseating, shallow, tacky and intelligence insulting adverts I have seen in a long time. It would not be so bad if they were monuments to local heroes like the inventors of DNA or Disco Kenny, but it seems that making it entertain us, say something about us or to us is obviously below the advertising geniuses behind this campaign.

With a blandly smooth picture that's at least six foot in height (if local rumours are to be believed these were bought on the cheap on a computer disc of clip art!) these nuggets of arsepirational 'lifestyle' ordure encrust our council sponsored local transport in a desperate attempt to pimp the notion that it's not just losers who get the bus. These larger than life, emetically hip and upbeat profiles of the smug bourgeoisie leer down down at the gridlocked traffic as they vainly try to impress you with their narcissistic boasts of going to improbable places while doing unlikely things, like some nightmare blind date with some kind of satanic accountant who tries to steal your very soul whilst simultaneously attempting to get into your pants and explain the intricacies of triple entry bookkeeping. They seem to miss the point that I, like a substantial proportion of other local people aching to jump the green band wagon, only embrace the 'citilife' when there's not a lot of other choice. It's not aspirational it's the transport of last resort, but it shouldn't be this way! When I was a student 'ooop north' the local council sunk vast wheelbarrows of folding wedge into the local public transport infrastructure and it was a funky bus lane a go-go wonderland of affordable magic carpets that would whisk you from one side of the city with no mess, no fuss, just a council funded bus. Cambridge by contrast appears to have one of the most enthusiastically half arsed public transport policies I have ever encountered, bus lanes start, then mysteriously end just as they get to a congested piece of road, they get narrower, wider, mingle with cycle lanes and have their surfaces decorated in increasingly lurid shades or orange, you can only assume they form some part of some ritualistic message to the old gods that only makes sense from outer space.

It would be laughable if you had not actually had to stand repeatedly on the outskirts of the city for an hour and a half as the the horizontal rain whips in off the fens and in to any exposed opening in your clothing and body, waiting for the bus that might just arrive in time to get you back to work for tomorrow.

There can be nothing more dispiriting than watching eight consecutive, brightly liveried, mobile billboards trundle past on their way to neverland, or at least never to return land.

As the greatest poet of our generation said "It says nothing to me about my life" and it's about time it did, so why not tell people exactly what it has really been like by wrapping your self in one of these beauties, your shirt, your words, your real day in the city!

Ahoy Shifty Mates!

2008-06-25T11:22:00.001-07:00

Well Plagiarims seems t' be havin' hit th' news again recently, in th' academic world, plagiarism by students be a very serious offense that can result in punishments such as a whippin' or hangin' fer cases in which a student commits severe plagiarism (e.g., submittin' a copied article as his or th' lass' own work). Plagiarism be a defined as robbery committed in th' library, or sometimes on th' internet, without a commission from a sovereign nation (plagiarism wi' sovereign commission be research, an' distinct from plagiarism). Plagiarism against famous authors remains a significant issue (wi' estimated worldwide losses o' US $13 t' $16 billion per term), particularly in th' colleges between th' Oxford an' Cambridge Campuses, off th' coast o' journalism, an' also in th' Straits o' political speech writin', which be used by o'er 50,000 commercial reporters a year. A recent surge in plagiarism off th' coast o' journalism spurred a multi-national effort led by th' British Government t' patrol th' waters near fleet street t' combat plagiarism. While books popular an' successful authors be still assailed by plagiarists, th' Royal Navy an' th' U.S. Coast Guard be havin' nearly eradicated plagiarism in U.S. waters an' in th' Caribbean Sea.

Yet still fer many plagiarim has a magic, glamour an' romance. This romaticised image o' th' plagiarsit possessin' parrot, peg leg, hook, cutlass, bicorne hat, skull an' cross-bones, fearsome copyin' skills, a learned intolerance fer absolute captainliness, an' a disdain fer th' copystarboard laws they b'lieve be havin' abandoned them be strong in th' public imagination. So lets raise th' Jolly Copyer an' before we keel haul th' plank show our support fer th' buccanneers o' academia wi' a new T-Shirt, Ya lily livered scallywags!

This other Cambridge

2008-06-23T23:40:00.000-07:00

So a while ago I got name checked on a local web-site We're All Neighbours, not entirely in a positive way mind, it was part of a thread on "Why is Cambridge Shite", my t-shirt site was held up as an example of the "pretension.... and overly inflated ego..." of the city as a whole, which was pretty funny. Of course the beauty of other peoples pop-psychology analysis of you is that they might just be right, doing anything in public, and the Internet is pretty public, does require a certain amount of raging ego!

Anyway it got me belly button gazing for at least five minutes and trying to justify me to my head, and that is obviously where blogging closes the circle given that it's main purpose as far as I can see is to allow geeks like me to whinge about how the world is so very, very cruel to them and how they are going down the bottom of the garden to eat worms....

So why did I start the Cambridge T-Shirts site? Well I had been churning out t-shirts in a variety of guises for a while, mainly for my own amusment/ego, most of the stuff on sale said "nothing to me about My life" and the more obsessed I became with shirt design the more I started to notice the Cambridge shirts. The visitor to Cambridge could be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion from the visible evidence that the only thing in Cambridge is the University. They would not be entirely wrong, to a large extent the town has and is defined by the University, yet at the same time the students are only 20% of the population, outside the reality Bubble there is another 80% of the town who sometimes seem to not exist... except they do because they are the people I work with, live with, play with and drink with. The same people who post on Internet bulletin boards asking why Cambridge is so shite?

This antipathy that sometimes bubbles up between the 80/20 divide is no new thing, you can even go on tours within cambridge to discover the "Town not gown", it's even been around long enough that even wikipedia has a page on it, which makes it fact with a capital Fac.

Anyway as ever on to where this blog always ends up, trying to flog you some brightly coloured and mildly entertaining coverage for the top half of your body. In the spirit of equal opportunity we present something for both the 20 and the 80.

Until next time, ego a go-go!

Busted!

2008-06-18T07:45:00.000-07:00

"The macho elite Cambridge University Top Don school for advanced fellows and tutors was established to select the best Academics and develop, refine and teach them tactics and techniques The Academics selected to attend are considered to be the best of the best.... I feel the need..... The need for tweed...."

Or at least that's how the advertising fluff on the Cambridge T-Shirts web site used to read..... until I got an email reading:

"We're concerned that there is a possibility your designs are copyright protected by a third party."

Which, ignoring the initial human urge to disagree, you can see their point... especially as that was pretty much the whole motivation behind the T-Shirt, the very idea that there might theoretically be an "elite Cambridge University Top Don school" made me giggle. Plus lets be honest with the seeming constant academic one-upmanship and even wikipedia recognising the concept of the Superdon, it didn't even seem that far fetched.

Still I have no particular desire to be banged up for copyright crimes so I guess it's back to the drawing board, rest assured the top don will re-appear, if for no other reason than the design for the back of the T-shirt is just too good to waste....

What Cambridge Needs Is A Monorail

2008-06-17T23:58:00.001-07:00

Everyone who lives in Cambridge knows it is is approaching gridlock. The council is busy wasting our money on the misguided bus, a classic example of group think, to provide an impractical service that won't solve the problem, it's dangerous with a potential to have spectacular collisions with cars, bicycles, and pedestrians, it will be hideously expensive and won't actually make anything better! It's too little too late.

Monorails have evolved over time to become an incredibly safe and efficient transportation choice used all over the world. A 12.8 km monorail opened in Naha, Japan in 2003 with 15 stations. There is also a 27 km, 29 station monorail line currently under construction in Jakarta, Indonesia!

Monorails NEED to be incorporated into a regional transport system. Anyone with any idea of creating transportation that "Really served" the community can see what an essential role a monorail would play, 100,000s of commuters could be moved daily at rapid speed and to all the local areas. Over time more lines could be added

Every right thinking person knows what the the real answer is! Elevated rail is inherently cheaper than tunnels and safer than the alternatives, obviously commuters will benefit from a choice of leaving their cars and riding a monorail, the fiscal logic is so compelling, yet resisted by the powers-that-be, SOMEONE has to be making money off the more expensive alternative. Who?

Drum Roll Please....

2008-06-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

Yes celebration and cake all round or something.... we have a new site.... a splinter site if you will.... full of Cambridgy goodness and local things for local people, you want niche product you've got it!

There are currently t-shirts for Arbury, Cherry-Hinton, Coleridge, Cottenham, Market, Newnham, Petersfield and Romsey with more coming soon!

Unique designs from in and around Cambridge City in the UK, you won't find these T-Shirts anywhere else! We only use quality brand name products and all printing is done using a special plotting technique that gives a very high quality durable print where the colours don't fade. Whereverer possible we offer organic and fair trade versions of our products. Is that hard enough sell for you? Don't make us beg come check it out!

The Romsey Triangle

2008-05-13T12:04:00.000-07:00

The Romsey Triangle has long been full of mysteries. The vast three sided segment of Cambridge in the UK, bordered by Abbey, Petersfield and Coleridge has had many names.

However it didn't acquire its most famous nickname until 1964, when my uncle Dave went out for a few pints only to awake a full 48 hours later with all of his money missing and his trousers gone without a trace. No natural explanation could be found.

Is it an area where the normal laws of physics simply don't apply? Could, under the surface, lie an ancient and mythical city? Are alien forces at work? Might it just be all one giant hoax or is a government cover-up in operation? Limbo of the Lost. The Twilight Zone. The Hoodoo Town. The Devil's Triangle. The answer is still a secret only known to the Romsey Triangle.

Oooohhhh Matron!

2008-05-13T00:03:00.000-07:00

I walked into a bar recently and ordered a double entendre... so the bartender gave me one.... sorry, old joke I know, but being force fed a diet of Benny Hill and Carry On films as I was growing up in the UK I thought pretty much that was how the whole world worked. I am still left with a lingering, childish and fairly puerile love of cheap innuendo. Celebrating this refusal to grow up I present you with Melons, a wonderful category of fruit encompassing watermelons, cantaloupes, and cheap innuendo.... mmmm melons are great.......

So while I'm busy lowering your standards let me introduce another new design. Dirty Sexy Money is an American television series which I have to admit I only first noticed because it had Donald Sutherland in it. I've had a deep heterosexual man love for him ever since I saw Kelly's Heroes. As far as I'm concerned he can do no wrong. Anyway back off the tangent, back to the shirts. This one is for the Mum's who still have it. So if you have got it, go ahead, get the shirt, here's your chance to flaunt it.

And if you have got it... well got ideas for anything you would like to see on a t-shirt, leave a comment on our blog and we will see what we can do!

Welcome to Reality Checkpoint!

2008-05-08T05:11:00.000-07:00

So new product at last, a real local shirt for local people! Marking the mid-point between town and gown the Reality Checkpoint stands proud in the middle of Parker's Piece. It's been a Cambridge landmark since the early 1970s. The name comes from an unofficial inscription which first painted on the lamp post (allegedly) by students from CCAT (now Anglia Ruskin University) under the guidance of one of their teachers.

Whether it really marks the boundary between the 'reality bubble' and the 'real world' or just because it forms a useful landmark for drunk, befuddled or fog bound, it is the only light for hundreds of yards and makes me smile every time I pass on my way home!

Show it some love and check the new shirts out here.