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much more ‘cats with thumbs’ fun

There's some quality stuff to be found on the Facebook page of Bertrum Thumbcat, star of our Cravendale 'Cats with thumbs' campaign. Here's a wee selection:

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Dear Cravendale:
Look: I am very sweet and adorable and cute, and clearly wouldn't dream of trying to steal anyone's milk. And anyone who says I am, or, in fact, am trying to take over the world is very mean.
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That Man gave me lunch. Cat food. He went out. I spiced it up a little. Konnichiwa, my friends. Ah, I love the smell of Sushi in the afternoon.

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I could barely sleep (only managed two hours of nap) thinking about the possibilities of both height and travel a good goat could lend me. I have created what I believe to be a very regal mock-up, in order to impress both communities. I might title it "MY KINGDOM FOR A GOAT" in large letters underneath.

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Got keys cut. Very good service at the ironmongers. Was a bit worried that they wouldn't serve me – but they took credit cards, so that was fine.
Good. These will help. The cat flap is all well and good, but try getting heavy power tools through that thing…

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Thanks to my keys, I have managed to get my impressive new Stihl circular saw outside. Unfortunately, they didn't send the English instruction booklet.
Fortunately, I speak thirteen languages (not including Cat, obviously).
Let's get this show on the road.

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Pause for building work

With the building refurb in full swing and deskless souls wandering round the office, we've decided to use this opportunity to pause the OFF-ON pilot for a few weeks and develop it further.    
                
We're going to work with the feedback we received from our UCL anthropologists and progress the tech side of things, with a plan to relaunch the project next month.
All being well, our ambition is to get the pilot up and running in other W+K offices in the near future.
                
In terms of our progress to date, we're doing pretty well.
Despite an increase of 50 staff over the past year, our electricity consumption is still significantly down. 
Here's a graph plotting our monthly bills during the pilot against monthly bills last year (with kWh up the y axis):

Graph 
Any ideas on ways to develop this are, as always, very welcome.

We'll keep you posted on our progress.

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