About the blue milk cartons: Russia “Milk products hold more than 22% of russian FMCG market but dairy branding has stuck in recent years. Competition is high and it’s hard to stand out on the shelf. Brand Milgrad by Bryansk Dairy Factory is known as the first trade mark which brings happiness. Marketing team came up with the idea how the product can pierce the consumer’s heart. We decided to create something really cute and kind. The blue cat travels across the packaging of different dairy products. It stares with interest, plays with a string, spies and skips a beat with expectation. The illustration starts from one side of the packaging and continues on the other, so it’s possible to interact with it straight from the supermarket’s shelf layout. Although Brunhilda kitty was the main muse for our art director, Vera Zvereva, every cat lover can recognize the creature’s ways through the illustration story.”

I moved from the city to a very small town (250 people!) in a rural county. Each little town had a ”social’ column in the weekly newspaper. Or maybe it was a weekly column in the daily paper. We rented a house and directly across the street was our town’s column reporter. We didn’t know anyone in town, but our friends from elsewhere visited frequently on weekends. The INSTANT our friends would pull out of the driveway, she would be on the phone wanting to know who visited, from where, what we did! I tried to discourage her because there was no one reading that column who would know us or care about our social life. She was relentless. After living pretty anonymously in a large city, the invasion of privacy was disturbing. We also shared a party phone line with her. I was SO happy to move!

Lars I cringed too. I'm picturing an ejector seat with a parachute. In order not to worry. DH rides a dirt bike.. imagination is the only way I sometimes get through.

Looks like you held on too tightly to the necessary outflow, june - best if you rose to meet the requirement. o j