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Gardening Woes
It is well known amongst my friends and family that, to date, the only thing that I’ve been able to grow with any real success has been weeds. Actually I am putting myself down unnecessarily here, not...
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School Fun (Or Not!)
I love my son’s school. I thought it best to clear this up right from the beginning because this post is not a poke at his school in particular; this is my, and I would guess many parents’, concern...
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Halloween – Fun or Fakery?
It is October now and of course this means that certain things occur. There’s the obligatory trip to the shoe shop for warm boots, wellies, and a top up of gloves, hats and scarves. There is conker...
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Help Me Clean Up My Act
As you may already know I have moved recently. My new home has more rooms, higher ceilings, great features and of course takes a lot more time to keep clean and tidy. One never knows when Lord Dodo...
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Remember Remember the Fifth of November
Seeing as we are on a bit of a roll with seasonal events at the moment I thought I use this week’s post to discuss Guy Fawkes Night with you all. Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night as it is … Continue...
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Treasured Seasonal Treats
At the risk of stating the obvious, it’s November now and, up here in North Yorkshire, we have not only had our first hard frosts but even some snow. I think it is safe to say that the likelihood of …...
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Dodo Pad 2013 – The Independent’s Top Choice
Imagine the surprise over at Dodo Towers last week when the Independent’s 10 Best Diaries feature hit the stands and the 2013 Dodo Pad was in prime position at No. 1! Of course once the whooping,...
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Open Day at Dodo Towers in Aid of Cornwall Hospice Care
Every year Dodo Pad HQ delights in flinging open the doors to let the public into its stationery packed rooms. While the thought of chatting with fellow stationery lovers is good enough reason in...
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The Floating Saint
One of the things that I adore about my Dodo Pad (other than the fact that it keeps me from suffocating under a pile of post-it notes or sobbing over missed deadlines and appointments) are the quirky...
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When a little kindness reaps enormous pleasure
We are pretty good at Dodo Towers at getting the right product in the right package to the right customer – we get very few returns and even fewer complaints. Which is a big relief to Big Bird Lord...
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The Mother’s Day Anti-Gift Guide
We didn’t really need to put ‘Mothering Sunday’ in our Dodo Pad to tell you that this Sunday is a Mum’s special day, did we? Surely the violent explosions of pink in every shop and the excessive...
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That was the National Stationery Week that was!
Sorry we didn’t blog last week, we were on tour… No, not with Lord Dodo’s heavy metal band the Wailing Dodo’s (one for another blog, I’m sure *hemhem*), but to celebrate National Stationery Week at the...
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Desk delight for wilting workstations
Dodo doodlers, splendid scribblers, joyful jotters and noble note-takers behold! The Dodo Jotter has landed! Our brand-spanking new, generously sized A3 desk pad has been lovingly designed to alleviate...
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Dodo Pad still holds the crown as King of the Diaries!
It’s hard to believe it’s been 50 years since the first ever Dodo Pad hatched back in 1966. Yes, other important events took place that year too – England won the World Cup, Harold Wilson’s Labour...
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ICYMI*: How the Power of Words has shaped history over centuries
The written word has saved lives, preserved traditions, given generations an insight into moments in time and ultimately helped to shape the world we live in and the values which we live by. The way in...
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Not just a diary: 10 alternative uses for your Dodo Pad
As diaries go, the Dodo Pad is pretty damn cool. Even if we say so ourselves. But did Sir John Verney realise that he'd created a pretty nifty gadget for other day-to-day stuff that quite frankly means...
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Me, myself and I…Oh, and the rest of the world
There was a time not so long ago when people kept their daily rants, moans, info on their latest weird crushes and philosophical thoughts on life to themselves and their diaries. Then a little thing...
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Dodo Pad – the future: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Dodo Pad is transforming the way we do business to secure our future after seeing our profits hit heavily by increasing High Street retail demands and huge online discounts that have been out of our...
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A Dodo Pad diary – Your Constant Companion
Long term users of our quirky Dodo Pad have laid their lives bare and spoken of their love affair with it as part of celebrations to mark our milestone 50th anniversary. A mother keeping the memory of...
View Article📢 📢 HELP!… the Dodo Pad is destined for extinction!!!
I’m Rebecca Jay, Managing Director of Dodo Pad. This, by a long mile, is the hardest and the saddest blog post I have ever had to write in all my years at the ‘helm’ of Dodo Pad. And in case … Continue...
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