Saturday, August 22, 2009

Gift Item of the day

By George! features a symphony of the nation’s most evocative smells in an eminently wearable fragrance. The heart of the fragrance takes a journey through an English seaside garden with salty sea air notes mingling with damp earth, garden mint, carrots and beetroots and freshly cut grass...

The UKTelegraph describes it otherwise:
...a perfume designed to capture the essence of England - which includes the smell of the sea and lawnmower exhaust fumes.

and the article has a new vocabulary word for you: Quango
The term has its origin in a humorous shortening of quasi-NGO, an ostensibly non-governmental organization performing governmental functions, often in receipt of funding or other support from government, [1] while mainstream NGOs mostly get their donations or funds from the public and other organisations that support their cause.

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