Dave's latest 'all-time favourite songs' playlist

Final arrears - Mull Historical Society
Teenage Winter - Saint Etienne
LDN - Lily Allen
The morning of our lives - Jonathan Richman
Another sunny day - Belle and Sebastian
Love see no colour - The Farm
Nothing lasts forever - Echo and the Bunnymen
Terry - Kirsty Maccoll
Small World - Roddy Frame
Side Streets - Saint Etienne

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Dave in The Pod.

Why brilliant card ideas aren't always brilliant

One of my favourite new range ideas came to me in the middle of the night, and excited me so much I got out of bed and started working on it at 4 am. It was for a range which would make us famous and I felt proud yet humble.

It was called " In My World", and would be a surreal exploration of a disturbed mind's revenge fantasies. A daring, original yet thoroughly commercial range of cards which would turn the trade upside down.

I immediately got our favourite illustrator onto it, and before long images of men with baboon's arses, airborne fat people and melting cellphones were flying into my inbox. We did mock-ups of the cards and proudly showed them to everyone we knew.

No-one liked them. And when we sat back to take a closer look at them, neither did we. We quietly put them aside and got on with other things.

" In my World" was never been spoken of again. Until now.