11.40am Since you asked, here's a bit more information on James Taylor's helmet, from Tom Milsom of Ayrtek. "We have supplied a fair few county pros and international players with helmets this year due to an increased awareness of injuries within the game. We are a UK based company (in Bristol) that has innovated the cricket helmet design to make it safer, stronger and lighter. The helmets that the professionals are wearing are made from carbon fibre and Kevlar and feature our unique liner that is inflated and deflated via the buttons you see on the rear of the helmets. With a new range due for launch in September were experiencing an increased demand for the product." We've been sent cake and gin of late, but it'd probably be pushing it to ask for a helmet for my nephew, wouldn't it. But generally we have no dignity here on the OBO, so feel free to send absolutely anything in and we will contrive to publicise it.
11.52am "Those Ayrtek lids look pretty nice," says Harry Tuttle. "Get some office freebies, Rob. Promise to give them away in a competition, but then 'forget', leave them in a cupboard for a few months and then snaffle them out in a rucksack."