Mark Boulton

Like Jeremy, I’m such a blogwhore. 

And, like Jeremy, I was con­tac­ted a while ago by the nice people at Sumo, ask­ing if I wanted an Omni in exchange for a blog post. 

Yes, like I said, I’m a blog­whore too. 

When I was a kid, my brother and I had bean­bags to sit on when we watched tv, or played with lego. We would use them as islands, ships, weapons, dens. Many hours went by try­ing to find the most com­fort­able, or dam­aging, bean­bag con­fig­ur­a­tion for the par­tic­u­lar task at hand: 

The Egg

There was the ‘egg’, as demon­strated by pos­i­tion five on the Omni page. This was great for gen­eral TV watch­ing, provid­ing good sup­port. The down­side is, it’s dif­fi­cult to get up out of. As Emma said, ‘you don’t want to sit down on this when you’re pregnant’. 

The Pan­cake

So called because it’s flat. This con­fig­ur­a­tion provided per­fect cush­ion­ing for many, many hours of lego assemblage. It also doubled up as a nice bed, or land­ing plat­form for the death-defying jump from the 5^th step on the stairs. 

The Ball

Pick the bean­bag up, let all the filling fall to the bot­tom, spin the bag until you have a nice handle with a tight, heavy ball at the bot­tom. The per­fect club­bing weapon.

There were prob­ably more, but those three were the favourites. 

So, when the Omni arrived, all these memor­ies quickly came flood­ing back. Sadly, it’s too big for the The Ball (and yes, I did try). 

I opted for a lime green bag (as you can see, I’m a sucker for lime green). The first thing that struck me was the scale of these things — they’re enorm­ous. Alys quite likes it too, although is some­what dwarfed. They’re made out of this tough-as-nails nylon (so would be per­fect for The Ball if they weren’t so large). 

Emma and I decided in the end that it was just a little too large for our house. So, it’s now provid­ing ample seat­ing pro­vi­sion for the Mark Boulton Design library.