Fire and firewater....

A rather wonderful team night out, started beautifully at Teppanyaki, ended terribly with a hideous bucketload of foul tasting shots and hangovers....

Norms goes down hard....

The Warrington Whippet, Normski, did some great work for charity mate playing in the blistering heat of south London to raise £121,349 – a new Football Marathon record for http://tackleafrica.org/football-marathon/final-standings/

63 courageous teams battled hard to play 788 games over 12 hours.

"it was hell out there" commented Norm "it was a game of two halves, we kept our heads down and worked the ball through the middle, the side and over the top. The Guv was hard on us and would only let us have 10 pints of bitter the whole day"

See pictured Norm provides a foot-based leaning device to the Green Team.

"Nice one Norm" G. Lineker, Arseanall
"well played meester" D. Maradonna-kebab, Hartlepool FC
"in the box" A. Cole, Spearmint

The BMW ECO-CHALLENGE...its on....

The ECO challenge begins...we’ve been set the task by Rybrook BMW over the course of this week to drive the brand new 320d ED, hot off the production line, we’ve got 2.5 days each at the helm....and have to get the most efficient figures to win the coveted RYBROOK CHALLENGE FUEL EFFICIENCY trophy, chequebook and pen......

The tax benefits for drivers of this impressive new model are outstanding (unless you live in Monaco or the Isle of Man or down the back of the sofa...) producing only 109 g/km of CO2 means that the 320d EfficientDynamics Saloon falls into the 13% Benefit-in-Kind band for company car drivers. And when combined with Vehicle Excise Duty of only £20 per year and impressive fuel consumption of 68.9 mpg, the running costs for this new model are truly staggering......

So day 1 car collected by Former TOP GEAR Female Rally Car Champion 1997 Shaz "skidpan" Bryan..who will be recording her fuel economy on twitter @owb_shari

Creating Brand Logic

Fleetlogic are the leaders in providing fixed costs, accident management and fleet management for commercial fleets the length and breadth of the UK. Our 2011 branding campaign in key industry title Motor Transport and support for the Motor Transport Awards, Fleetlogic as a key sponsor, brought together in a fun and eye-catching manner timely illogical happenings alongside the brand. The results have been excellent with increased brand recognition and new wins for the business

Shari joining the mile high club on Friday - actually 2.5 miles to be exact and coming back towards earth at a mind blowing 160mph....! So for anyone who hates flying - I would recommend jumping out the aircraft instead - it's the only way to go. So keep your clothes on and join the alternative mile high club for the ultimate adrenalin blast!

Cake for Work

Yes, it is official as part of "Start Up Britain" and to encourage the wider acceptance of work based learning we are now offering week long work experience for those who bake cake. Jess (see pictured with her amazing triple decker chocolate, cream, malteser and marshmallow extravaganza) is coming to an end of her week. She has been fabulous, a great asset to the team, has got thoroughly stuck in including brainstorms on new marketing campaigns, research for global fruit growers, working with the design team and sourcing images of penguins!

"Our cake based approach to entrepreneurship is adding value to the UK's GDP" commented a chocolate mouth surrounded head of cake marking at OWB, Stu Williams "we noticed that the introduction of the 'cakeometer' shows that Jess is leading with Vicky W (July 2009) coming in second...albeit Sammie's rum cake was alcohol fuelled..."