Penny Black's Insurance Week - 1/8 August 2013
One of Penny’s favourite things about her beloved insurance business is that it lends itself to people doing some very silly things – so she was thrilled this week when a mobile insurance website sent over its top 10 strange locations where lost handsets have been recovered.
The insides of fridges, flowerbeds, and hamster cages figured highly. Penny’s favourite? The builder who left his mobile behind after a job having built it into a wall. One is just relieved there were no reports of surgeons making the same mistake.
Meanwhile, Penny is no stranger to the downward-facing dog, but she could not disguise her awe at the physical contortions on show when she went to see Limbo at the Southbank Centre with Axa this week. Penny watched open-mouthed as the scantily clad members of the alternative circus troupe danced, sang and hung twenty feet from the ground with nothing but a few well-developed leg muscles between them and oblivion. The atmosphere was infectious, and Penny was not the only spectator inspired – the Axa team were last seen scouring London vendors for leotards, a trapeze and some tap shoes.
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