Steve Pellatt
A Mars a Day.........
Luke Jerram's Mars at Exeter Cathedral
Well this will be my last post for 2-3 weeks as I'm heading up to Northumberland for a week and then further north to Glencoe. Hope I can catch up a bit on comments and replies...where does the time go. Thanks a lot for your patience with me.
This portrait shot allowed be to get more floor/ceiling in. The visitor spoke to one of the clergy for ages so there was no way i could time blend them out and actually thought they worked being off centre and giving some sense of scale.
Following on from the David Bowie connection my mind jumped to a certain black, gold and red chocolate bar. Did you know that the ‘Mars Bar’ is over 90 years old? It was first made in Slough by Forrest Mars in 1932, with the three main ingredients being chocolate, nougat and caramel. The recipe was reportedly based on the Milky Way’ chocolate bar which I never would have known without Google!
Anyone like me who grew-up in the UK during the 1960s-80s will most definitely remember the Mars Bar adverts with the catchy jingle "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play", which made its first appearance in 1959. Eating one every day is most definitely not a healthy option, but back then, advertisers could get away with saying just about anything! The slogan was used in dozens of their adverts, and was last shown in 1995. However, in 2008, a new Mars advert featuring bell-ringing monks featured the slogan "Work, rest, play" but not the jingle. Instead, the song "Jump Around" by House of Pain was used…ughhh.
I can’t remember the last time I had a full sized mars bar (well post Covid I guess they downsized them anyway!! I do have some if they appear in one of those tubs of mini-sized chocolate bars. What I do appreciate though is that the Chocolate Police have left the name of the ‘Mars bar’ alone. I refuse to name that flavoured bar anything other than ‘Marathon’ and those fruity sweets will always be Opal Fruits to me. Anything else would be like taking away my childhood!!!
© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
A Mars a Day.........
Luke Jerram's Mars at Exeter Cathedral
Well this will be my last post for 2-3 weeks as I'm heading up to Northumberland for a week and then further north to Glencoe. Hope I can catch up a bit on comments and replies...where does the time go. Thanks a lot for your patience with me.
This portrait shot allowed be to get more floor/ceiling in. The visitor spoke to one of the clergy for ages so there was no way i could time blend them out and actually thought they worked being off centre and giving some sense of scale.
Following on from the David Bowie connection my mind jumped to a certain black, gold and red chocolate bar. Did you know that the ‘Mars Bar’ is over 90 years old? It was first made in Slough by Forrest Mars in 1932, with the three main ingredients being chocolate, nougat and caramel. The recipe was reportedly based on the Milky Way’ chocolate bar which I never would have known without Google!
Anyone like me who grew-up in the UK during the 1960s-80s will most definitely remember the Mars Bar adverts with the catchy jingle "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play", which made its first appearance in 1959. Eating one every day is most definitely not a healthy option, but back then, advertisers could get away with saying just about anything! The slogan was used in dozens of their adverts, and was last shown in 1995. However, in 2008, a new Mars advert featuring bell-ringing monks featured the slogan "Work, rest, play" but not the jingle. Instead, the song "Jump Around" by House of Pain was used…ughhh.
I can’t remember the last time I had a full sized mars bar (well post Covid I guess they downsized them anyway!! I do have some if they appear in one of those tubs of mini-sized chocolate bars. What I do appreciate though is that the Chocolate Police have left the name of the ‘Mars bar’ alone. I refuse to name that flavoured bar anything other than ‘Marathon’ and those fruity sweets will always be Opal Fruits to me. Anything else would be like taking away my childhood!!!
© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.