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March’s Archive T-shirt of the Month is ‘Breathe’

By bike, by board, by foot and by yourself.
Get out there and find your diversion.
Look for some solitude.
And breathe it in…

Inhale, exhale.

Available in Sinatra Junior for men & Banana for women.

Green Oil UK Limited is a family run company based in Bromley in Kent. From product ingredients, to the bottle deposit scheme, to the recycled boxes used for wholesale orders, being green is central to all we do.

Green Oil has won awards for performance from the cycling world. Green Oil UK Limited, the company behind Green Oil won a Bromley Environment Award and was recently short listed for innovation in the BikeBiz Awards 2008.

Our cheesy slogan used to be ‘destroy limits, not nature!’. The slogan referred to destroying your limits of skill, stamina and speed, yet without damaging the environment with nasty toxic chain lube. However, this wasn’t inclusive of people who just wanted to ride to the shops.

Our new slogan isn’t calling for a military coup, so don’t worry. The revolution we all need to join, is one of making the world environmentally sustainable. Within this, we need to use bicycles more, and embrace the ‘revolution’ of all those cogs.

If people continue to use toxic chain lube indefinitely, future generations will have more pollution to clear up, aquatic life will suffer and cancer will spread. PFOA, a byproduct of Teflon, the ingredient used in many chain lubricants was classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a ‘likely human carcinogen’ in 2005.

If companies continue to use deforestation paper, and generally operate for short-term profit at the expense of the environment, the future will not be good for us, or for future generations.

We at Green Oil UK buy back our bottles, use sustainably sourced ingredients, and use recycled paper in the office. Our packaging is easily recyclable. For example, the plastic labels now used are the same type of plastic as the bottle, making recycling more efficient and reducing label contamination in the recycling stream.

End dependence on pollution join the revolution!

Simon Nash the founder of Green Oil, will be joining us on Tuesday 23rd March from 7:15pm onwards to give a talk on the company, how it all began and where it is going. He will also be giving demonstrations and a workshop on how to get the best from all the Green Oil products.

If you would like to come down and have a listen, a free beer or innocent smoothie and maybe get your hands a bit dirty, then email us at carnabyst@howies.co.uk or ring us on 0207 287 2345 and reserve your ticket!

Heads up.

We’ve just uploaded some fruity new t-shirt colours for you..

All of our Spring designs in spangly new colourways.

Some blue, some red and even a bit of purple for the gents,
also a red, a blue and a delicious banana yellow for the ladies.

No fruit hats though sorry…

To accompany the current exhibition here at the Carnaby store we have a limited run of Jessie Ford women’s tees on sale.

Get yourself down to the store to check ‘em out…but if you would like to buy one and you don’t have the opportunity to make it down, we can offer a mail order service.  You can call us on 0207 287 2345

Available for Men Here and Women Here

UPDATE: If you have an opinion on this issue, you can make your voice heard over here on the BBC’s Strategy Review survey.

We just got some exclusive t shirts printed (nice one tidy) to go with our SKETCH STANCE staircase gallery if you like the look of them then give us a ring at Carnaby Street 0207 287 2345 or come in and grab one quick smart as we only have a few, i’m wearin mine as i type.

£25.00 a pop.

Don’t sleep!

http://sketchstance.blogspot.com/

Good news for you lovely Bristolians, we are coming to hold one of our legendary sample sales later this week.

Naomi is out in the back warehouse right now getting the clothes sorted out and packed up.

Once that’s done and we fix a small windscreen wiper problem, Simon will be driving the big black van down to the Bristol shop on Thursday.

There will be the usual collection of great end of line items along with a few amazing one-off samples (some in odd colours) that we never put into production, some otherwise brilliant stuff with dodgy buttons and plenty of other t-shirts and things at bargain prices.

Definitely worth a look if you’re in the area.

The sale will be held upstairs in the shop – here’s the address and opening times -

howies
62 Queens Road
Bristol
BS8 1RE
(map here)

Opening times:

Thursday  18th – 4pm til 8pm
Friday 19th – 9.30am – 6pm
Saturday 20th – 9.30am – 6pm
Sunday 21st – 11am – 5 pm

Bring a bag, ’cause as usual, we wont have any.

Hope to see you there.

After the success of the Unicycle auction last week, which raised £70 for the Haiti disaster, Emma has brought in a banjo which she has had cluttering her loft for a while.

It is surplus to requirements, so Emma thought she might as well let us auction it off as well. Again all proceeds will go to Haiti.

This is a brand new, never used banjo, and it’s quite a good one. Bidding starts at £100.

Here are some more details (if you want any other photos or details, let us know)-

Stagg 5-string Bluegrass deluxe banjo.

• 5-string Bluegrass Banjo Deluxe w/ metal pot
• Resonator: Mahogany
• Pot: all-cast metal alloy
• Bracket hooks: 30 (flat type)
• Top head: 11″ REMO(tm) White Coated
• Bridge: 5-string Maple + Ebony
• Tailpiece: Nickel-plated Brass
• Machine heads: 4 x Open-gear on headstock + High Gear ratio 5th peg on neck, w/ pearloid knobs
• Armrest: nickel-plated Brass
• Neck: Nato set neck, 660 mm (26 in.)
• Fingerboard: Rosewood, 22 frets
• Position markers: Pearloid “clover” inlays
• Resonator & Neck binding: Ivoroid cream
• Finish: Highgloss.

Someone out there must want this! If not you, maybe you know someone?

Let bidding commence!

All we’ll say is keep an eye out for the Spring catalogue.

If you check the back of our catalogues you’ll find a list of all the talented people that have contributed to our t-shirt collection. One name that keeps cropping up is Andy J Miller. The first tee he designed for us was ‘Work to Live’ back in the Spring 09 catalogue. Since then he’s consistently pulled out the goods and produced some great tees for us, including ‘Books is Power’. He’s a great illustrator and a splendid chap to work with.

Here’s an interview he’s just done for Sticks & Stones Magazine.

And click here to see more of his work.