VERY, VERY GOOD PRESENT IDEA!

Has anyone seen the TV advert for the online retailer ‘Very’ (fronted by Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby), that has the intention of solving all your Christmas gift dilemmas?

It shows an inept male trying to wrap up a stuffed seagull which naturally triggers a ‘bad gift alert’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0sSXqbgbw

Well....now then....I have to say that if someone wants to go to the trouble (and expense) of finding me a lovely stuffed seagull, I will be very chuffed indeed. Replacing it with some horrible, mass produced, generic piece of tat would not make me chuffed.

As my wife pointed out in her ‘film-nerd’-attention-to-detail way, Ms Cotton appears to have a stuffed Polar bear in her ‘good gift’ headquarters. Surely this must be a mixed message or some sort of plot discontinuity – perhaps I’m reading too much into this?

Anyway, someone has just bought Henry, our beautiful stuffed Canada goose from the shop, so at least our customers have taste, style and a sense of the unexpected.

p.s. we do still have a stuffed seagull for sale at Nest, as well as loads of other unique gift opportunities! Buy quickly before Fearne and Holly dispatch a team to have them removed!