Blu-Tack® turned yellow in 2009 – and weren’t we, as a nation, proud!
In scenes unparalleled since the war — when families would spend days decorating their homes to show possible invading hordes that we might be defeated, but still neat and tidy — groups gathered to turn flat yellow strips of pristine, limited-edition Blu-Tack® Yellow into living, growing daffodils.
Well, scratch the “living, growing” bit, but “model daffodils” is accurate enough...
The reason? To prove the nation cares!
We asked people to use their Blu-tack® Yellow to make the head of a lovely daff and send it, or a picture of it to us to turn into a field of daffs to grace the nation.
Each daffodil made represented a donation of 10p to the wonderful Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal, our charity of the year. The money from these was added to thousands more donated by Bostik, Blu-tack’s makers, to give the charity a great start to 2010.
All donations raised from Blu-Tack Yellow sales will help to provide free Marie Curie nursing care for people with cancer and other terminal illnesses in their own home and the charity’s hospices.
More info on this year’s Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal at www.mariecurie.org.uk/daffodil
We also gave special prizes to two lucky modellers — Elaine Turner from Stafford and Margaret Riordan from Uphill – who each won a special treat for two for their, ahem, horticultural expertise..
We got loads of pictures and hundreds of model daffs from you. Several schools got involved, and one cafe even put “Tea & Blu-Tack® Yellow” on the menu, forcing customers to make daffs while they had their cuppas.
Well, maybe not force exactly, but the staff could be pretty persuasive with a bread knife.
You can see a selection of the daffs sent in by clicking the link below.
View the Daffodil Appeal GalleryIn fact we had so many entries we were able to create our own field of yellow daffodils.
The resulting crop of Blu-Tack® daffs was so big that when other nations got wind of it, the news of this daff mountain caused a temporary fall on the Dutch Stock Exchange.
(ED: Or is that just tulips they grow there..? When we make things up we really should get the facts almost right. Darn, has this appeared on the website? It was supposed to be a private memo)
Anyway world recession was averted — a bit — when we decided to plant the daffs, GM crop-llke, under highly-controlled scientific conditions (and contrary to how it looks, NOT just stuck in the ground), at Bostik’s home base in Stafford, thus preventing their release in the wild and the possibility that a dangerous strain of absolutely unkillable daffodils might dominate the world spring blooms market.
We think our field of daffs looks lovely though. What do you think?
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