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[oursin]

OMG spam from Fortnum and Mason!

I don't think I've ever ordered anything from them online, so how I am on their list I know not - can it be that a shop which has been going for 300 years is investing in lists of email addresses? Woe, Woe, Infamy!

(I was actually shocked! shocked! when I was in Piccadilly for a meeting last week and popped in to replenish my supply of Aromatherapy Associates products to discover that they no longer stock these. What is the world coming to, we ask.)

Apparently it is National Stationery Week.

(Let us pause for a moment to consider the irony of promoting this via email...)

I can see that they have probably long been in the business of providing tastefully bound visitors' books (I am not sure about that eau-de-nil, though) to hostesses, but I note a certain regrettable turn towards the twee:
Quirky pug notebook
Fortnum & Mason Snowglobe - a snip at £50.

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