Sometimes you come across a gadget that you just have to blog about - while acknowledging it’s got nothing to do with mobile whatsoever!
But how cool is this? You attach it to the cork in a bottle of champagne, (or sparkling wine, if you’re a cheapskate) pop the cork and watch it float down with its own neato parachute.
Sheer genius.
Available from Hawkins Bazaar.
hey, it’s good to mix weird/gizmo things with serious stuff, isn’t it?
yeh, to balance things a little.
Did you have the feeling that the last two weeks were full of work and serious things?
Come to me sweet leisure…
Yes, I agree, otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it
There is a serious point here though in that many people believe that blogs should be tightly focused. Equally, others just blog whatever interests them and assume that their readers will like it too.
Probably a happy balance is the answer!
Russell
I’ll toast to that!
Now speaking seriously Russ, as a serious man, I’m sure that you won’t make it a ‘just for the fun’ kind of blog.
So now and then, It’s very acceptable to ‘take a day off’ from serious and profound blogging in order to relax a little with a glass of champagne.
Champagne cork parachute
The Champichute is a reusable parachute for champagne bottle corks. Just ¬£2.99. From Hawkin’s Bazaar: Half the fun of drinking bubbly is seeing what damage you can do with the exploding cork. Now you can add to the fun by clipping the 9cm Champichute o…
I can report from the front on this! They are also available from Lakeland in the UK. My wife and I were on our way to visit friends for the weekend, armed with a bottle of Champagne for them, and we saw this in Lakeland. Obviously we had to buy one.
Makes opening the bottle slightly awkward, but the result is very satisfying! Not only is it profoundly silly, but also makes popping Champagne corks in the air safe indoors, as the drag slows them before they do any damage!