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Crayola thermos flask at Urban Outfitters House

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As playground nostalgia goes, there’s no brand more synonymous with childhood than Crayola. Everyone knew the joys of a new box and the pains of using up your black on the outlines.

Urban Outfitters have brought back the classic design in an altogether more practical form with this Crayola Thermos Flask. Just in time for the festival season, the flask is available in four bright colours and at 23cm tall is pretty sizeable.

Practical and stylish for only £8 each, which might just be cheap enough to indulge in a full set.

Find out more from the Urban Outfitters website

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Alessi Gnam Bread Bin

Al_gnam_white_detailWe’ve featured a couple of bread bins in the past, but where those examples were more 1950s or shabby chic in their style, the Alessi Gnam Bread Bin has clearly been influenced by the space-age design favoured in the 1960s.

Designed by Stefano Giovannoni and Elisa Gargan, it is available in black, blue, or perhaps the most obvious retro choices, white or orange. Unlike traditional bread bins, its size and shape make it best suited to storing rustic oval or continental style loaves.

It costs just under £34 and can be ordered from the Beth Stevens website.

Categories / Food and Drink

Retro Football Print Hip Flask

230473279The football season may have just drawn to a dramatic close, but before you know it will be starting up again.  At which point, football fans may be thankful for this Retro Football Print Hip Flask.

The 6oz hip flask is printed with nostalgic image of players and cuttings taken from Football Monthly magazine.  It costs £20 from John Lewis.

For those who prefer a hot beverage at the game, there is also a matching flask for £15.

Categories / Food and Drink, Toys and Games

Battleship Napkins

BattleshipsBarnaby Barford & Andre Klauser have produced a small collection of products inspired by simple childhood games. You’ve probably already seen the Solitaire Olive Dish which lots of shops seem to be selling, but I’ve only just discovered their Battleship Napkins.

The game Battleship involves trying to locate and sink your opponent’s battleship using grid references, but if you’ve forgotten how to play it, these napkins have the rules printed on one side.

They are available from Thorsten Van Elten for £9.50 for a pack of 100, which should give you plenty of practice.

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Culinary Quirks Seeds

CulinaryquirksA combination of environmental, health and financial concerns has ensured that growing your own vegetables is enjoying quite a revival. If you fancy yourself as Tom or Barbara Good from “The Good Life”, you could take your first steps towards self-sufficiency with these Culinary Quirks Seeds from Labour and Wait.

These aren’t just any variety of vegetable seeds though, these are heritage varieties, each with a quirky name. The selection includes: Asparus Pea, Jersey Tree Cabbage, Yellow Pear Tomato, White Belgian Carrot, Lazy Housewife Bean, Drunken Woman Lettuce and Crystal Lemon Cucumber.

A box containing seven seed packs costs £15.50 from Labour and Wait.

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After Opal Fruits – the Marathon bar set to return

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Mars has already brought back Opal Fruits in the UK – and now it looks like it will ditch the name Snickers and bring back the Marathon too.

Mars ditched the Marathon name in 1990 in the UK, opting for the more global Snickers name instead. But according to a report in The Grocer magazine, Mars has recently re-registered the Marathon brand as a trademark in the UK – with the likely intention of bringing it back for some seriously positive publicity – like Cadbury received after it re-introduced the Wispa.

However, Mars is playing it cagey, claiming there were "no immediate plans" for another retro re-brand just yet. Which probably means it’ll be here later this year.

Mars website