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Final polish Knockdown mattresses Management at Bensons Beds have been spending too much time online it seems. After seeing footage of US college students playing mattress dominoes, they decided to try to set a world record. Staff and friends gathered at the company’s Midlands/ South-West warehouse in Tewkesbury, setting up and knocking down 41 mattresses. The last man standing ended up on a conveyor belt with his mattress, tucked under a duvet and loaded on to a delivery van. Simon Williams, Bensons marketing manager says the Guinness Book of Records doesn’t have an official mattress domino record and he is hopeful ‘The Tewksbury 41’ will be recognised. If you haven’t seen the
footage, search for Mattress Dominoes World Record on Youtube.
Home delivery As a carpet fitter, Matthew Anstey is used to being on his hands and knees dealing with sticky situations. But he never expected to deliver his daughter Bethany on the floor. Anstey’s fiancée Katrina Roberts was hoping to give birth in a Bristol hospital, but was sent home after a false alarm. Once back home she had a bath and labour started. ‘From the moment Katrina came out of the bath it was a bit worrying. When we tried to get her downstairs I was worried she wouldn’t make it and then she collapsed on the floor and said the baby was coming. I’m a carpet fitter, I don’t deliver babies,’ he says.
Bensons Beds staff play mattress dominoes
Drink up: Thirsty visitors to the Manchester Furniture Show raised £350 for the FTBA, after show organisers Theresa Raymond and Laraine Janes (pictured with Charles Kerrigan, FTBA chief executive) added 10p to the price of teas, coffees and soft drinks sold at Manchester Central throughout the event. Sealy win: Steve Freeman, Sealy UK md (centre), collects the Sleepmasters Supply Partner of the Year award from Mark Cort, Sleepmasters buyer and Peter Roberts, Sleepmasters marketing and merchandise director.
Fitting witch
Early Christmas
There are those for whom carpet fitting isn’t enough. Among the people who auditioned for the job as the Wookey Hole witch was Bridget Vallance, 45, from Dorset, who described herself as a transsexual woman looking for a new role after running a carpet fitting business, The Guardian reports. In the end the job went to an estate agent. If you want to make any links between the two roles, that’s up to you.
It seems the festive season started on 10 August as that’s when Selfridges opened its Christmas shop in London. It usually opens at the end of August, but this year the store’s love of the festive period knew no bounds. ‘It gets earlier and earlier every year. This year there are a lot of tourists in London because of the situation with sterling, which means sales to tourists are up this year,’ says a spokesman. At this rate Easter eggs will be on sale next week.
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