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Hula Hooping

Holly writes:

On Tuesday The Cole Building held our first Hula Hoop lesson with the lovely Anna Drury.

Most of us hadn't hooped since we were little but we all gave it a go and were performing tricks by the end.

Once we had perfected twirling the hoop around our waist (which took a while!). We moved onto spinning whist twirling, looping around our arms and even jumping through the hoop!

Everyone had fun and were requesting their own customized hoops by the end of the session, looks like this class will be a regular.

Here is a video showing Anna perform, whilst we try and look as effortless as her:

an oldie but goodie: 9 ways to improve an ad

It occurs to me that some of our younger readers may never have seen this classic and very funny exposition of how to 'improve' a piece of advertising, demonstrated via a series of amendments to the classic and brilliantly simple 'think small' VW ad.

It's not all that easy to find this online so I thought I'd share it here.

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