Last night, well early this morning actually, I found myself in a parallel universe. It was a strange world frequented by a small number of virtual strangers who simply passed each other by. To my knowledge these individuals neither spoke nor even acknowledged each other's presence, that is apart from two.

These two were drawn together by a strange twist of fate and they began to exchange views on the wonderful world of modern innovations. They partook of refreshing beverages and discussed plastic carrier bags. Yes that's right - plastic carrier bags!

Somewhere in time and space between waking and sleeping the so called intelligent species of the Rubychoo and La_spice exchanged ideas and tips about the invention of the "Plastic Bag Holder" The full transcript of that intellectual discussion can be seen (in the comments section) here. Thank you MissyMouse for providing the common ground for this meeting of great minds!

The outcome of this virtual summit (reached after coffee and ginger biscuits) was that the preferred and probably cheapest method of storing plastic carrier bags (other than simply ramming them inside each other or in a drawer) was the upright tissue box one described below. To reduce the cost we agreed that the sticky back plastic was going over the top.

Posh folk might disagree but they probably don't used plastic bags anyway.