The day began as any other for Paul the Octopus after his World Cup fame. Paul was now used to getting papped several times between emerging from his hole underneath the marine tank bridge ornament when he would glide past the bubbling treasure chest and over to the bobbing diver to chow down on his breakfast of crustacea.

Paul the Octopus predicts energy savings!

At once, the hand of German marine biologist, Hans Jorgenbergen plucked him from his tank and plunged him into the shallow laboratory observation tank. Paul now came to think of this as “the office” and himself as an eight-armed Nostradamus and resigned himself to yet another day’s work of predictions. What was it to be today? X Factor winners, the winner at Ascot or whether there may be Life elsewhere in the universe…he hadn’t yet been told.

Next came a series of green, magnificently-branded cards all adorned with energy saving products from T5 high bay lighting to rainwater harvesting tanks all fluttering around the observation tank like confetti.

The voice came. “Paul, which product here will save a customer the most energy?” For once Paul was stumped. He had never seen anything with such staggering energy savings before and all with such a quick return on investment that it was impossible to choose which product was best. Never before in Paul’s career had a decision been so hard to make. Paul decided to grasp as many of the cards as he could and held them all aloft out of his tank with all eight of his tentacles.

The voice came again. “No, just pick one Paul…you naughty Octopus!”

The decision was declared null and Paul was returned to his home underneath the ornamental bridge and the experiment was disbanded.

The truth of the story was…Paul was once again correct!

Let the Blogging commence...

Hello and welcome to the brand new BIS blog. Please have a browse on here for all current events that are going on in our life, it could be that; we have found a new and wonderful discovery in the world of energy efficient products; it might be that one of our lovely members of staff has won the annual and prestigious internal fantasy football tournament and want’s to tell the world: we really aren’t sure yet what we will put on here, but it should all be pretty interesting…

If you’ve found us through our newly developed, though still evolving, website then there will be an opportunity on here to tell us what you think? It has been designed by a lovely Cardiff-based creative agency called Stazikerjones who have worked pretty hard trying to get our brand (chicken) and website (egg) to both develop and hatch simultaneously…no mean feat I’m sure they will attest! More about those guys later…

So, that’s our first post. Full of promise and zest but as we’re pretty new to Blogging we may take a little time to become fluent but at least it is assured that things can only get better…[watch this space]